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Topps Vault
After the loss of the MLB contract and the sale to Fanatics, information is harder to come by. But it appears the two full-time staffers who ran the Vault (and I mean they dug up the old stuff, cut up the current uncut sheets, scanned the negatives, posted the auctions, and wrapped the packages) were laid off during the pandemic lockdown and the positions were never filled.
What little is being sold seems to be being done by somebody else in the organization on a part-time basis. They also appear to have abandoned selling anything old. I was last at Topps in January, 2020 and whereas there were clearly thousands of negatives that just disappeared in the various relocations from storage site to storage site, there remained at least 15 full-sized, three-drawer filing cabinets full of them. Certainly somewhere in excess of 250,000 images were still filling a small storage room. What they have planned for them is anybody's guess.
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