Hi Alan, Jim here. I sympathize with you as I have done basically the same thing but maybe not to the extent of 2,000 autographs.
A couple of things, I'm assuming that you purchased these online and not in person. If so, you didn't have a chance to look through them and get a grasp on all the autographs. Probably made your decision based upon the pictures included with the auction that you could actually see and make out (most likely a few enticing autographs). Of course, there wasn't a listing of all the autographs.
Just like I have done, the harm is self-inflicted.
I could have tried to spend hours upon hours trying to identify all the autographs - almost impossible. What I did was keep the ones that had value, or meaning, and threw the rest away. I also wrote it off as a lesson learned and moved forward.
Regardless, something you might want to consider. Good luck.
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