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Originally Posted by dennis_keith
I see a lot of mentions of the photographic images that can be found at the Topps Vault. How is the Topps Vault accessed?
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Vault images for ebay.
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Originally Posted by Rainmaker
These Folder MG sharp images are all on Topps products (No guesswork!); why these images were not watermarked is a puzzle. Does that mean these were acquired from an outside source?
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Watermarked images are "transparencies" (basically a positive negative). The non-watermarked images are hard copy photographs. I suppose the calculation would be that a transparency is the type of source material that can easily be mass produced in 8x10 (or other) images, whereas you can't really blow up a hard copy photo nor mass produce them without some loss of definition. There have been numerous such non-watermarked images throughout the Vault--ranging from B&W (many team issued) Topps used in early issues (either colorized, painted, or as insert photos) to the action photography "polaroids" from '71 forward. Obviously, by the time Bonilla arrived on the scene, photography had advanced considerably from the polaroid days.