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Deep dive research into collectibles, usually focusing on variants and identification techniques.
Three English Base Set holos exist in two different artwork designs inside the same Unlimited print run. The Black Flame Ninetales is the known one. The Black Rays Zapdos and Mewtwo are the same phenomenon and are barely documented anywhere.
We published a report on where Pokémon card prices went over the last year. This post covers where the data came from, how the index is built, and the two corrections we had to make before any of the numbers meant anything. The short version is that the...
Pokémon English Base Set 1st Edition holos are usually treated as a single variation. Among collectors who look closely there are two recognizable groups, informally called "alpha" and "beta", separated by the weight of the 1st Edition stamp and the angle of the halftone dot...
This is a list of well-recognized and obtainable English Pokémon test print cards. This list does not include "one of a kind" prints, matchprints, or make-ready-test unique prints. There are other types...
This is a list of unique English-language Pokémon cards created in Japan, likely by Media Factory, and distributed through promotional events between the years 1998 and 2003. This timeframe of English...
This blog post is a deep-dive into an interesting part of the Pokémon ex-era card generation. There are 16 expansions in this generation. In most of these expansions (exact list below) the common and uncommon rarity cards included multiple serial...
TopVault has a mission to become the most complete database for collectibles with a focus on "full complete" sets with large histories and diverse variations. The Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) is a great example of this type of collectible.
Welcome to the TopVault Tech blog! With this inaugural post, I will begin to go behind the scenes on how TopVault is built. This whole blog series will continue that theme of describing parts of the technology that runs TopVault. The main themes are...
