'Jaws Hit the Floor' at Auction House as Retired Decorator Sells Pokémon Cards for $2 Million

A retired decorator from Woking, UK sold a loft-full of Pokémon cards for £1.56 million (about $2 million) at Ewbank's auction house on Wednesday. One set he bought from a Malaysian eBay seller for £300 fetched £75,000, and the sale was Ewbank's most successful in over 30 years of business. The anonymous retiree said his son began collecting and swapping cards at school in the late 1990s, and never got to touch these particular cards.