Just out of curiosity, how does one prove provenance?

I’d think the only way is to be the original owner (ie proof of employment at the company), but even then, given such a hot marketplace it would be super easy to just purchase and resell knockoffs.

> Just out of curiosity, how does one prove provenance?

The same way they do it with art ... research.

But with art there is only one work produced by an artist, or if a series, probably some way to properly id it based on a number of factors.

With say a sweatshirt produced by a third party based on some digital stencil art, do you know for sure the one you're receiving was printed by the company and given to an employee/customer? Literally hundreds, possibly thousands would be in circulation. How would you be able to distinguish that from say something a former employee w/ access to the original art data having it reprinted?