April 15, 1865 New York Herald Reprints

[L Verge]

Rick - years ago, a group of us decided that "authentic" is a word that is mis-used to convince people that they are dealing with the real McCoy, when in essence it means that it has been reproduced to appear as an original. We were getting trapped by claims of authentic clothing. It was actually a commercial gimmick to trick people into buying what they thought were antique pieces.

Some of our linguists might disagree with our interpretation, but so far it has worked for me. Don't trust that "authentic" is the same as "original."