Hey everyone,
I figured you guys here might appreciate my recent pickup.
Last Tuesday, I was put into contact with an older man who let me know that he had a ton of old pokemon items.
He listed lots of things, including 1st and 2nd (what he meant was unlimited) edition Pokemon Base sets in a variety of languages.
He also mentioned that there might be sealed packs or boxes, but it had been so long that he had forgotten.
I obviously was very excited to hear all of that, but doubted its legitimacy. We set up a time and date to go over to his storage unit. Upon arriving we pulled out a couple of boxes and lo and behold, there were a stack of sealed WOTC booster boxes. I was in shock. Opened another box to find bags and bags of sorted first edition, pack-pulled non-holos from the various languages. I would have been over the moon to find one booster box, so at this point I was pretty much speechless.
He then explained that there were binders scattered about throughout the other boxes in the storage unit. So I spent the next hour and a half opening boxes and looking for gold… It was an absolute dream. In the end, we ended up agreeing to the price and I loaded an entire car full of boxes and binders. All cards (except for a very small %) in MINT condition. No cards were played with.
I am still trying to get a grasp on everything that was in the collection, but here is a rough list.
2x French 1st Ed. Base booster box
3x Spanish Unlimited Base booster box
1x English Fossil Unlimited Booster box
~25x Starter/Zap/Wildfire/Overgrowth decks in various languages
1x English DEMO pack (omg!!)
3x Vending Machine series 3 complete sheets 1-18
11x 1st Ed. Base Chinese sealed packs
11x Square Cut unlimited base holos mint (Stage Error Blastoise!!)
~50 Jumbo Pikachu cards
2x Pokemon Gum booster boxes sealed
Japanese starter deck with Charizard holo
Complete 1st Ed. Base sets in the following languages: French, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese. Duplicate holos for most cards. Bags and bags full of mint non-holos 1st ed, all languages.
Complete Chinese unlimited with a ton of extra holos
Partial complete Shadowless set, 1st ed Jungle, 1st ed Fossil
Complete English unlimited, JP Jungle/Fossil/Rocket/GymHeroes/Challenge/NeoGenesis/Discovery/Revelation/Destiny (missing shinies)
An absolute mountain of TOPPS cards including…
60x Tekno Chrome mint cards
90x Sparkle Chrome mint cards (Sparkle Charizard!!)
1x Complete set of Topps Chrome Specta
5x Complete sets of Topps Chrome Regular Holo
~20x complete TV Animation Series 1 & 2 Non holo sets
Abunch of sealed Topps TV Animation packs
An assortment of random stuff I don’t even know about, promos, stamps, playing cards, etc.
A full box of Pokemon toys like marble shooters, battle coins, toy skateboards, Burger King gold cards… etc.
There is definitely some I’m forgetting but I will edit as I remember. I will post some pictures to the comments
