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minibbcards
Posts: 248
Joined: Dec 2016
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:04 PM | |
I just saw a post on Sports Collectors Digest the Alan "Mr Mint" Rosen has passed away. anyone who got one of the trade magazines from back in the 80s and 90s and later will probably remember the full page ads he used to run and all the great "finds". i always enjoyed hearing about what he found or what people brought him before the days of the internet.
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minibbcards Interested in Comic Cut Panel Cards from X-Men, Captain America, Avengers, Spiderman, etc! Goodwin Champion Museum Collection Relics/Signatures! |
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Megan's pc
Posts: 31
Joined: Oct 2016
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:59 PM | |
I'll always remember him in Tuff Stuff books back from the '90's when I first started out in '98 R.I.P. Mr. Mint
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BigDog13
Posts: 208
Joined: Mar 2015
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:09 PM | |
I'm sorry to hear of his passing. Over the years, I would see him at the big collectible shows in the midwest.
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kollectornet
Posts: 6
Joined: Jan 2013
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:06 PM | |
I got to meet him at a Philly show. I walked up to him just to say hi since he was the richest person I've met up to that time. He spoke but he looked at me like whatever. He was in conversation with another collector as I waited to speak.
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,268
Joined: May 2011
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:10 PM | |
I'm confused I thought Mr. Mint died last year or the year before? Maybe it was some other big name in the collector world. And NO I'm not confusing him with Bob Lemke who passed away a few weeks ago. Looks like 2017 is starting to do to the collector world what 2016 did to the Entertainment world.
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I collect: Baseball, Football, Hockey, Mostly Vintage pre1980, My Homie teams - Washington/Baltimore Teams Senators (Twins, Rangers), Expos/Nationals, Redskins, Capitals, Bullets/Wizards - HOFers - Non-sport (mostly TV shows and movies). My Trade List is very much a work in progress CaptKirk42s Trading Card Blog Curly W Cards Strive For '65 YouTube klandersen42 |
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Dave Sosidka
Posts: 304
Joined: Sep 2011
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| Friday, January 27, 2017 3:54 AM | |
Having lived in New Jersey all my life, there was never a shortage of Al Rosen sightings. I would see him in John Broggi's Highland Park store in the early 1980s before he started setting up at shows and creating his "Mr. Mint" personna.
It's not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I'll just say he was a character who certainly knew how to draw attention to himself.
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avsbruins65
Posts: 2,145
Joined: Sep 2008
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| Friday, January 27, 2017 8:01 AM | |
Always remember seeing his ads showing up in the magazines in the 80's and 90's . Must have been cool to have the money to buy collections that people found. RIP
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Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert, parralle, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc sets produced for Hockey. Been an interesting project. |
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