Most of Rogers fakes (99% at least) were peeled off to specific high end collectors and institutions to use as collateral for loans. He was smart enough to know that forums like this and educated collectors would be on to his schemes quickly if he tried to sell modern fakes to the general public. So the good news (if anything that can come from this is good) is that relatively few fakes were leaked into the general collectors stream. Almost all the fakes he sold to the higher end collectors have been identified and are not circulating in the hobby. It is my understanding that the photos he has left (which are not high end items to get excited about) are being sold in one group and will be gone through again to make sure no fakes hit the market. It is likely though that most of this stuff is real and not tainted as it was not processed for sale and was mostly lower end items for his ebay inventory.
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