# Large auction of complete vintage sets in UK yesterday (21oct) **URL:** \ **Category:** Market\ **Created:** [October 22, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998 "2026-10-22T20:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rainbowgym](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/rainbowgym/32/1063_2.png) [@rainbowgym](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/rainbowgym)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/1 "2026-10-22T20:55:50Z")
Auction in the UK with over 40 vintage mastersets was done. I hardly could believe some prices. [Vintage Mastersets and more](https://www.ewbankauctions.co.uk/Pokemon-A-Decade-of-Masters-1999-2009/2026-10-21?arr=0&box_filter=0&category=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&high_estimate=0&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=0&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&sort_by=&view=bidders#lot-393645) ---
**Author:** ![Gomos](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/gomos/32/37859_2.png) [@Gomos](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Gomos)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/2 "2026-10-22T21:37:13Z")
I read about this auction on the BBC website today. The collections belonged to a retired decorator who collected them 1990s because his son was into Pokemon > **[Retired Woking decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5m](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvp8gy1zwxxwo)** > > He says he found treasure in his attic where the collection had been stored for 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![c0ll3ct0r](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/c0ll3ct0r/32/26306_2.png) [@c0ll3ct0r](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/c0ll3ct0r)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/3 "2026-10-22T22:21:10Z")
🥂 ---
**Author:** ![Beebachu](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/beebachu/32/290803_2.png) [@Beebachu](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Beebachu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/4 "2026-10-22T23:11:06Z")
It was really nice reading it started as something he did with his kid. Then just went wait too hard with. Some seriously cool stuff in that collection. Nice to also see master sets and the odd single too. Makes me feel like maybe not every part of the hobby is completely wrecked. ---
**Author:** ![bk2021](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/bk2021/32/244_2.png) [@bk2021](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/bk2021)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/5 "2026-10-23T04:20:43Z")
They left them in ring binders… Also the interview/article on the BBC is wrong. The story says he bought them off a collector from Malaysia for 300 pounds in the 1990s but most of the sets were released after the 90s. Which also triggers another memory for me…most of us reminiscence about the vintage days but I’m assuming we only got single packs? I knew a kid whose parents bought them entire booster boxes. And because he had so many holos/rares they were kept in binders. I definitely know that he was collecting at least until the e-Series era. I asked about it more than 12 years ago and he said he just gave them away to some kid lol. Malaysia is small, and though I’ve only been truly back for around 5 years, I haven’t seen this kid’s collection pop up anywhere. I don’t think it was this auctioned one though since there don’t seem to be many duplicate holos - unless they were all sold off prior to this lol. ---
**Author:** ![Pokefarmer](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pokefarmer/32/37866_2.png) [@Pokefarmer](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Pokefarmer)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/6 "2026-10-23T14:01:47Z")
I read Malaysia.. Kid with money… Bangsar Shopping Center, the store on the last floor, Every Saturday? Beginning of the 2000s? 😅 I used to know a “rich kid” like this back in the KL days ---
**Author:** ![bk2021](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/bk2021/32/244_2.png) [@bk2021](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/bk2021)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/7 "2026-10-23T15:53:07Z")
Haha I don’t know if we’re talking about the same kid but definitely in that timeframe of early 2000s and probably Bangsar Shopping Center. I don’t know where he opened his cards just remember rows and rows of holos in his many binders lol. The shop used to sell comics as well I think and other TCGs. ---
**Author:** ![Pokefarmer](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pokefarmer/32/37866_2.png) [@Pokefarmer](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Pokefarmer)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/large-auction-of-complete-vintage-sets-in-uk-yesterday-21oct/64998/8 "2026-10-23T18:34:03Z")
Yes, yes! And it was run by a Chinese lady! The world is a small place—I used to hang out there every Saturday to trade cards. I remember when Skyridge was released, one of the ‘older kids’ (he was like 14 or 15) pulled the Crystal Zard in his first pack. He was always lucky… good old times! I can’t believe I met someone here who actually knows this place, haha