The word "reproduction" is used throughout our website, and we are occasionally asked what the word means. We are not using it in a technical way. The word is used to indicate that a particular item is not an original, in much the same way that other stores might describe an item as a "reproduction Victorian doorknob" or a "reproduction 1970s concert t-shirt." In both cases, the meaning is that the item is not actually from the mid-19th century or 1970s, respectively. So, when we write that a print is a full-color reproduction, for example, we are making sure that you realize that it is not an original.
We use the term "reproduction" in part because its literal meaning of "make again" is appropriate for many of the items we sell that differ in form from what DeGrazia made. A mug, for example, with one of DeGrazia's images on it is not a copy since he did not make coffee mugs. "Copy" also tends to dredge up memories of school and homework.
Occasionally, people conflate reproduction and forgery. As we noted above, the use of "reproduction" in product descriptions is precisely to avoid that inference. A forgery is an attempt to deceive. In the case of a work of art, the ultimate goal of a forger is to make a copy of the original artwork that is so good that the only difference between the original and the copy is whether the artist created it. Reproductions do not have that intent, and generally would not fool anyone. In addition, the reproductions that we sell usually have the name of the company that produced them somewhere. For plates, it's on the back. For Goebel figurines, it's on the bottom. And so on.