just want to make clear.....don't want to offend you in anyway......you are great people....and when I said "get defensive" ....I felt your pain many years ago with scrap... when you pour so much time and energy into collecting something, it is discouraging as a few individuals can ruin or least worsen values and question items because of their stupidity and greed....
years ago that guy pat tried to pass off an overprint bar on an old mill scrap...wonka, jim, tim, and a bunch of other guys busted him....scraps have always been under intense scrutiny since.....with multiple expert opinions on each card.....I would make sure mine were 100 percent before picking up or trading for them....it scared the shit out of all of us.....since then, we have all been on super lookout for anything error/variation or scraps that were questionable......since then , the scraps cooled off due to a niche market and about 25 big collectors getting out of the hobby....
so, I know how it feels.....what I collectied was always under the micro scope(errors, scraps)......I shifted my focus and started with cobbs and always loved the rare backs too.....I still collect scraps, but are very cautious on what I pick up or trade for.....it's easy to differentiate for me now if anything looks scetch..and now I can tell pretty easily....
anyway, I have a lot of other friends/collectors who have huge auto collections....cards....memo...ect....they are not happy about the recent t206 forgeries....just brings back into light how easy it is to forge an auto, and pretty easy to slip by graders....
this has huge implications.....kinda opens the floodgates on the abundance of autoed pieces questionability of "is it really legit?"
these t206 forgeries, unfortunately, are probably just the tip of the ice berg
probably runs ramped in the auto world.....just scary, because I have a few friends who are heavily vested in autos....
sucks.....