Whatever happened to these long-time dealers?

[sb1]

Bob, was a great guy. Bought lots of cards from him back in the day. Collectors would certainly be perplexed walking up to his cases in this day and time, with all of his cards, stacked raw and string tied or rubber banded.

[akleinb611]

Bob and his rubber bands were passe even then, but he explained that he rubber-banded his stacks loosely, and he wasn't in the business of selling mint cards anyway. I was an occasional dealer at shows in the Eighties, and with Bob in attendance, along with Alan Rosen, I characterized Rosen as Mr. Mint (obviously), Bob as "Mr. vg to ex," and my humble inventory making me "Mr. fair to good."

[akleinb611]

Steve:

Bob Ragonese was slowly phasing his business out for years. I last saw him at the second Baltimore National, back in 2016. I wouldn't mind seeing him one more time.