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Posted By: painthistorian

To answer a point that was brought about many times, Mr.Rosen came on the "scene" way after some very key players made the hobby "better" and found tons of material, and were nice!..amongst them, Paul Gallagher who single handedly made the New York shows incredible and is now deceased, but not forgotton.,.. He was key in the early days and came up with a lot of rare material and Barry Halper who started paying real money for real quality items was inspirational to all those that were part of it back in the 70's and early 80's.....add to that a long list of others including Lifson, Mastro, L&R Card Co,Frank Nagy, Rob Bruce, Wayne Varner and so on...., Mr. Rosen has contributed a lot in finding material but the foundations of the hobby were well in place before him...and much great material came way before him and should be acknowledged for posterity.