..and how many times did Apple themselves have these stickers and similar items provisioned?
What about the varying quality of even the "authentic" ones, if you can call it that.
So, if the company that made stickers for Apple shipped 100,000 to the Cupertino warehouse and shipped 100,000 to Freds Computer Farm in west Texas, are the ones not shipped Cupertino then "fakes" or "reproductions"?
Big freaking deal.
Oh, and yes- I'm a collector, and yes I see this "thread" is "by collectors, for collectors".
Signed, limited series releases, I will argue against their "authenticity" all day, if that's what is being pushed. A copy of said poster that is being offered as a copy? Big deal. This is nothing new in the "collectors" realms. Car swap meets are loaded with ad slicks of the period. Many are separated pages from magazines, many are also really nice duplications, and in some cases re-created from scratch vector graphics.
OTOH, someone trying to hawk a Mona Lisa and claiming it's "authentic", as in "the" Mona Lisa, should probably be arrested. There is only one. Or the idiot that believed him deserves to be parted with their money.
But with these low hanging fruit stickers, there are so many of them it's not like they can be that hard to find. My point of "define fake" is, can you really tell in this case? It's not like the "real" ones are all marked with anything either.