Dan Knoll

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Many old-timers will remember Dan, a great and early collector and dealer of game-used and other material who passed away a few years ago. I just watched the show "Collector's Call" On MeTV and Dan's daughter was on showing his definitive collection of memorabilia from the show "Survivor." I came in late, but apparently Dan had been a contestant on "Survivor" and then amassed his collection, which was assessed by an expert at 2.5 million dollars. Dan was so prominent in the early days of the hobby, often working with another early hobby icon, Dave Bushing, and then pretty much disappeared from the scene as far as I knew. He was a super nice guy who really knew his stuff, and I always wondered what happened to him. I gather he moved out of sports and into other areas of interest, as did Dave, I believe. It blew me away to see a show about him and his collection.