One of my favorite sections in The Man in the High Castle was the part about historocity. You take a $1 fountain pen, say it once belonged to FDR and now it is

One of my favorite sections in The Man in the High Castle was the part about historocity. You take a $1 fountain pen, say it once belonged to FDR and now it is worth $1000. Whether it did is largely irrelevant to its value. A counterfeit pen perceived as authentic is worth more than an authentic pen perceived as fake, or of unknown provenance.