Recently, a guest on the popular TV series Antiques Roadshow brought on something quite different from the types of things folks usually have appraised by the show’s experts: a binder containing all 102 original, base-set Pokémon cards. What makes the segment so interesting is that appraiser Travis Landry takes it very seriously, and enthusiastically walks his audience through a ton of cool facts about just how rare some of these cards are. I was unsure how a video game-related item would be treated on the storied PBS program, but Landry was surprisingly attuned to the nuances of selling these cards.

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