Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5m
The pristine collection drew bidders worldwide and set Ewbank's most successful sale in more than 30 years, with one master set far above estimate.
- On Wednesday, October 21, 2026, a retired Woking decorator sold a Pokemon card collection at Ewbank's in Send, Surrey, for £1.56m, marking the auction house's most successful sale in 30 years.
- Stored in his attic for 15 years, the 42 sets remained forgotten until the seller sought a valuation after reading a newspaper report about a single card fetching more than £6,000.
- The Legendary Collection Complete Master Set, featuring a near-mint Charizard, fetched £100,000, while head of trading cards James Spooner reported auction staff's "jaws hit the floor" upon inspection.
- Auctioneer Andrew Ewbank, who conducted the sale, told bidders he was "going for a lie down" after the final hammer, as the retiree became a millionaire while retaining one complete set.
- Nostalgia fuels demand for rare trading cards as the franchise celebrates its 30th anniversary, with collectors in their 30s and 40s wielding "bit of disposable income" driving prices to record-breaking levels globally.
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A man had some year old Pokémon cards. When they were auctioned, it was found that they were worth 20 million rupees.
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The auctions of old Pokémon cards continue to surprise the prices of some collections, as shown by the BBC’s story of an English retiree who kept a real fortune at home without knowing it. The protagonist is an old Woking decorator, in Surrey County, who began to take an interest in the Pokémon cards in the late nineties, when his son exchanged them at school. He was struck by those illustrations and began to buy complete collections, some of th…
A collection of Pok mon cards forgotten in the attic for 15 years was sold at auction for about 1.86 million euros. To sell it was a decorator...
A retired decorator from Woking, England, sold for £1.56 million (about R$10.5 million in the current quote) a collection of Pokémon cards that remained stored in the attic of his house for about 15 years. The set was thrown on Wednesday by the Ewbank's auction house in Surrey, and, according to the company, established the most valuable collectible card auction ever held in the UK. The result may also represent a European record, although this …
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