Vaulted Press was born from my lifelong passion for collecting.

Picture me, nine years old, on a 1970s family vacation in the back of our enormous sky- blue Chevy station wagon. Imagination soaring, I’m devouring drugstore digests of early Spiderman, Doctor Strange, and Avengers comics.

In my teens, I grew into a price guide memorizing, treasure-hunting collector. On a later road trip, (comics people will appreciate this), I even purchased a Phantom Lady #17 from a West Virginia antique store. This was an actual piece of comic book history from decades before my birth, a salacious example used in the book Seduction of the Innocent, the very book that led to the creation of the Comics Code, and the end of the Golden Age era.

At 15, I was honored to be offered my first job there, where I learned to nimbly file issues and operate the register in front of the display wall. A comic nerd's dream job.

Coins too. From a young age I caught the bus home from school in front of a respectable coin and stamp shop, and visited them daily, or at least peered through the window. I was captivated by the connection to history, precious metals, the dignified engraving and bas relief — and I built a little coin collection that I treasured.

In my twenties, and for the next thirty years, my collections went by the wayside, but my love of art broadened. After a twenty five year career in graphic and user experience design, I decided to set forth on my own; I created Vaulted Press, merging my grownup skills and youthful passions.

Vaulted Press is an online art gallery where you can purchase high-end custom-framed reproductions of specimens that quicken a collector's pulse and a decorator's eye. No vaults. No slabs.

Thank you for joining me.
Joel