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Originally Posted by Cusick
I came to realize that FatJack had given help on this question with his response back on page 1379 when he pointed to the baseball-birthdays archives at
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%...28C60404F00FB3
Indeed, through the downloads available on that page, I did find many of the images I was seeking. However, a couple of the Topps Vault folders on that page are not as extensive as listed in Rico's inventory. For example, folder BJ only goes as high as 865, and I'm interested in photos 969 and 970. Folder EM rises only to 012, i.e. there are very few photos in that folder. Is there any other source for Topps Vault photos which are listed in Rico's inventory, but not found on the above website? |
You may not be reading the list correctly. Presuming (making a "pre" out of you and me) that you're looking at the same TV ID list that I am (it's Rico's work but uploaded by someone else--I forget who), they run left to right from column one to column 3 on a page, then to the next page, column1-3, etc.
E.G. Folder BJ
DOES only go as high as 865. That's it and that's all there ever was in Folder BJ. 969-970 (Don Ross and Gene Ross) are in Folder B
K. On both the list and in the One Drive rar file, Folder EM goes to 999. Folder E
N only contains 12 images (though they aren't numbered that way) and that is all it ever contained. It's likely the other numbers assigned to EN, which has never been at the Auction Helper site, were assigned to blank backs and the other stuff Topps Vault sells. It's only recently that they've even attempted to separate player images from their other offerings, so you'd get files with 900 items but only 10 or 12 player images. BUT, importantly, in the One Drive file, EN is combined with EP, so there are more images in that file than 12, but only 12 are folder EN.
What you see is what you get. Every image we know about should be in the One Drive files. There may have been some earlier files among the ones that Topps never parked at the Auction Helper site where, as Rico said, photo images were tiny and such lo rez as to be unusable so they weren't saved. OTOH, of the folders parked by TV, Rico went through and identified such images and those were subsequently saved.
I hope I'm not confusing you more but its all there, as far as I can tell. I just think you may be reading the list wrong.