I’ve just started a blog about Pichu cards (like I’m not obsessed enough…) and figured a good place to start would be with Unlimited E1. I haven’t dug out any conclusive evidence, but I did discover what the winning design for the 2002 colouring contest was:
Let me know what you think!
Amazing explanation. I think your blog should be shared with anyone looking to gain knowledge on the E1 set. It’s such a great source especially with 90% of the info spread across multiple threads and posts
Well done combining the information @pichufan . I’ll try to remember your blog, so it can be add to the Articles/Guides Index when I send an update to PokemonTrader in a couple of months.
Greetz,
Quuador
Incredible. Thanks for putting it all in one place
Add a charmeleon to the list, I’m in love
Nice! I’ve updated my post here and the blog entry to include it. 
eBay shows that @hapycakeoven 's PSA 10 unlimited E1 Pichu sold for $12,500. I reached out to them to ask if the seller paid and they said they did but it was a best offer (not sure why eBay isn’t showing what was paid).
I’m assuming this probably sold for higher than the £2,080 of the raw YJA card, making this the highest individual Pichu card sale of all time thus far.
It sold for $4,000 I’m pretty sure, but definitely a great price!
A former member whose name isn’t allowed to be mentioned on E4 without the mods removing the post now has a PSA 7 Charizard. I spoke with them and they said it wasn’t one of the recent YJA sales, so that makes 9 Charizards I’m now aware of.
For everyone’s protection, here is a censored version of the image they shared on Instagram, which I can’t link to for the reasons mentioned before:
There was also another charmeleon sold, no info from it though, they thought it was an error card.
Do you have a link to it?
Thanks everyone who worked on this guide. Is there any evidence to suggest an Unlimited Chansey was produced?
So far I’d say no, but I’m not 100% confident.
Right now the cards which appear to have surfaced are:
There are claims on the first page of this thread that Mewtwo, Cloyster and Alakazam may also exist in unlimited, but I’ve not seen any proof that those exist and at this point believe that none of those do exist in unlimited (the Cloyster I believe was just a typo on set numbering and should have instead been Charizard (see here)) - but this is why I can’t say with 100% certainty that Chansey doesn’t exist in unlimited.
I’m hoping to keep my blog article as up to date as possible on the counts of cards which are known to have surfaced (but of course this will never be 100% accurate itself due to repeat and private sales): pichu.blog/unlimited-e1#cards-which-have-surfaced.
I think it is safe to think that Unlimited e1 cards do not exist until non-stock photo of specific cards appear. Cards like the e1 deck Blastoise, Venusaur, Charizard, Typhlosion, Meganium technically should exist given that a lot of the cards from the deck had been known to exist in Unlimited but without non-stock photos of them, they are non-existent.
Till today there is no sign of an Unlimited Chansey so you can rest…for now.
@pichufan @chok thanks for your responses!
I’m working on a new Chansey binder and it has non-removable sleeves, so I wanted to know whether to leave a place holder spot or not.
Thinking now, if an Unlimited version surfaces, rearranging all the cards in the binder will be the least of my worries! So I will treat it as non-existent for now, and if a copy appears… We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it :’)
“non-removable sleeves”
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Weird wording on my part. I don’t know the official term – the Ultra Pro ones with a set number of sleeves / binder pages for cards (the main one is 360 cards), not a ring binder where you can remove individual pages of 4 or 9 cards, so rearranging every card if you missed something is a huge PITA.
This is not E1, I think its E4 (skyridge)
An unlimited Cyndaquil (#13) appeared on YJA 2 days ago and is currently at 61,000 JPY (~$574) with 5 days left: page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r426740802.
Today seller “h691965” has listed 3 cards: Cyndaquil (#13), Totodile (#22) and - further evidence that the unlimited Pokémon-e Starter Deck cards had a release linked to at least one of the two outliers - a Pichu: auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/h691965.
As always, the descriptions on these and the individual Cyndaquil reveal absolutely nothing about the origins of these cards.
Assuming these to all be cards which haven’t appeared before, I’ve updated the totals in my unlimited E1 blog post. We’re now on 7 Cyndaquil, 4 Totodile and 17 Pichu cards.
As something mildly interesting, the first seller describes their Cyndaquil as “EDITIONマークなし” (No EDITION mark) whilst the other describes their listings as “1EDITIONマーク無し” (No 1 EDITION mark) - subtle differences, but enough to make searching for either term not match all of the listings without using advanced search queries - as if searching for these wasn’t hard enough. 