A GRANDAD who nearly threw out some old Pokémon cards that were stored in a cupboard is now hoping they’ll sell at auction for £20,000. The 81-year-old paid £100 for the Pokémon Fourth Print Base S…
A GRANDAD who nearly threw out some old Pokémon cards that were stored in a cupboard is now hoping they’ll sell at auction for £20,000.He snapped up the box of the 102 Japanese trading cards as a spare set after catching 'em all' with his four-year-old granddaughter.
The seller's 50-year-old daughter, a teaching assistant from Chester, said: "The box set for auction sat in a cupboard in my father's house."During the clear out the cards were taken out of the cupboard. There were thousands of them. Many of the cards have been snapped up by private collectors around the UK with others being sold to Pokémon fans in America.The grandfather and his granddaughter started collecting Pokémon cards when she was aged just four.
"It seems crazy a box of cards could be worth so much now. Paying around £100 to £120 per box in 1999 was a lot of money for a working man.The proceeds from the sale will go towards helping the seller's granddaughter, now 28, who is training to be a paramedic at university. David Wilson-Turner, Head of the Toy Department at Hansons, said: "What distinguishes the Pokémon Fourth Print Base Set Booster Box from others, and makes it scarce, is that it was only released in the UK.
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