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A retired painter and decorator in Woking, UK found his forgotten Pokémon card collection in the attic and sold it at Ewbank's auction house for £1.56 million ($2.09 million), the auction house's most successful sale in 30 years. A near-mint full binder of the 2002 Legendary Collection set sold for £130,000 ($173,783) against a £15,000–£20,000 estimate, while a complete Skyridge set he originally bought for £300 fetched £97,500 ($130,337). He began collecting in the late '90s when his son traded cards at school and stored the binders in the loft about 15 years ago.

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.