Rosen was one of the early pioneers of auctions becoming the preferred way to sell material, especially the top material. Before then you could read trade journals and go to shows and actually buy the stuff you were looking for, as opposed to now simply viewing them in advance of being auctioned. As time went on, Rosen's auctions went from being THE event in the hobby to just another run-in-the-mill auction, a far distance removed from the top AHs. I always regarded that as a certain poetic justice for his crooked ways.
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