"St Ives: Forgotten Pokemon cards fetch £19K at auction"

Sealed Pokemon card sets left forgotten in two boxes have sold for more more than £19,000 at auction.​The cards were sold by an electrical contractor from St Ives, Cambridgeshire, after he came across them during a house move.​They were sold by Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire.​The two boxes, which were bought for £30 each about 21 years ago, were sold after the owner researched the "bonkers" prices they could fetch.​One, a sealed Pokemon Fossil first edition Booster Box, sold for £10,000.​The other, a sealed Pokemon Neo Discovery Unlimited Booster Box was sold for £9,400.​Speaking before the sale, their owner said: "It is bonkers, I know, but these are the kind of prices Pokemon cards are fetching now."​Both were imported from America and were described by the auction house as extremely rare.​The original owner used to run a toy shop with his wife in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, selling Pokemon cards.​"When the shop closed, I put some of the unsold cards to one side at home, then forgot about them," he said.​"I never imagined they would be worth thousands of pounds today. But there are a lot of serious collectors now and lockdown fuelled the hobby even more."​David Wilson-Turner, head of toys at the auctioneer, said the cards were sold to two separate bidders from the UK, who wished to remain anonymous.​Pokemon cards were made for children to collect. Packs of 11 cards were priced at £2.50 each. They can now sell for £500 or more.​The Pokémon series, created by Japanese tech giant Nintendo along with games developers Game Freak and Creatures, celebrated its 25th anniversary this year.​https://ift.tt/3eNCpQi via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/3kPbw2n