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August 12, 2026

Burmese Jones Card Vault

Kaung Ye Marn
Burmese Jones Card Vault

What it is

The Card Vault is my personal trading card collection, turned into a structured online project. Three lanes: Pokémon, One Piece, and sports cards. Not everything I own. The cards that are actually worth showcasing. The name came first. Burmese Jones is a character I had in my head for years: the idea that you can be from Myanmar and still be a collector in the full sense, not just a buyer, but someone who understands the market, the rarity tiers, the condition grading, and the cultural context of what they're holding.

How it works

Cards are catalogued with market reference data and uploaded to this portfolio's Personal Vault page. The selection is deliberate. Featured cards are the ones with a story, whether that's the pull, the set, the art, or the price movement. Cards that do not earn a place in the vault move to the Open Vault, listed in baht at a fixed price or open to offers. The broader social presence is on Facebook and YouTube. The format there is collector-to-collector: unboxings, pulls, market talk, and the occasional deep dive on a specific set.

The tech

The Personal Vault and Open Vault pages on this site run on Supabase for card data and Cloudinary for image hosting. Every card is entered by hand. I tried card lookup APIs early on, but the auto-filled details still needed correcting, and one of the sources went dead mid-build. Typing them in is honestly fine: it means the data reflects exactly what I own, not an external database's version of it.

Related

The free TCG Inventory & Sales Tracker is the spreadsheet behind this collection, and A Card Collection Tracker That Dates Every Price shows two of its cards in use. The filter for what earns a place in the vault is in The Case for Buying Fewer Cards. The collection itself is on the collection page.

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