Overview
- Teaching assistant Andrew Braund sold three Charizard Pokémon cards at Ewbank's Auctions for £32,800 after finding them in his childhood home in Wimborne.
- A mint-condition Skyridge Charizard Holo achieved £17,000, setting an in-house record for a single Pokémon card at Ewbank's.
- A near-mint copy of the same card sold for £13,000, and a Reverse-Holo version realized £2,800.
- Braund had expected his entire collection to be worth about £500 before a friend's trading card shop identified the three Charizard cards as standouts.
- He plans to pay for his August wedding with the proceeds, in a result Ewbank's links to its five-year push into specialist trading-card sales where condition and provenance drive prices.