Air Balloon

A PSA 10 currently sells for about £42.92, raw the card sits at £9.84 — 4,4× as much. Of 601 copies already graded, 68 % received a 10 and 26 % a 9. Mathematically, submitting returns £38.19 on average, before fees and shipping. Rule of thumb: submit when the value at a realistic grade is at least double the raw value — which is the case here. Centering decides it: an off-centre card will not get a 10. The grade distribution comes from the PSA Population Report; people pre-sort before submitting, so your own hit rate may differ.

Across 19 auctions the median was £6.33, across 67 fixed-price sales £11.80. Fixed price therefore fetched about 86 % more — for this card patience with a set price is the better route.

Half of all sales fell between £9.08 and £13.20, with a median of £11.10. Selling fast lands you nearer the lower end; with patience, good photos and a complete title the upper end is achievable.

The cheapest genuine sales were around £6.91. Offers well below £4.15 are typically fakes, mislabelled cards or a different variant — ask for photos of all four borders and a close-up of the surface.

From real sales: Italian £12.93 (11), English £9.65 (110). Italian fetches about 34 % more.

lastsold uses only real sales — eBay plus auction houses like Goldin & Fanatics — recent sales count more (recency weighting), outliers and fakes are removed. It's not an estimate but actual sold prices, separated by condition, language and grading.