Popular Culture at Ewbank’s A message from Andrew Ewbank While many auction houses view Popular Culture as an ‘add-on’ to their regular schedule of sales, at Ewbank’s we realised some years ago just how important it would become to fans and collectors. What makes us different is that we set at least as much store by specialist disciplines such as Vintage Posters, Vinyl Records, Movie Memorabilia, Comics and Trading Cards as we do by Fine Art, Jewellery and other antiques. We have pioneered regular sales dedicated to James Bond collectibles, as well as Pokémon Cards, Retro Video Games and wonderful action comics, among others. We have brought in new, young specialists who already have expertise in each of these fields to
develop our sales. And in 2025, we created separate dedicated departments and regular auction schedules for each of these fascinating areas. Proof that this was the right thing to do came in our sales totals for the year – our best results since the company launched in 1990. Popular Culture revenues totalled more than £4 million, representing just over 50% of Ewbank’s sales totals. During this period, the Film / TV Memorabilia department has registered an increase of 86% in sales by value, while for Sporting Memorabilia that has been 391%. Highlights included a £120,000 hammer, single-owner collection of Vinyl Records, and Ewbank’s largest memorabilia auction in November, which featured the sale of the collection of Star Wars items from Greg Dupree, a cameraman on The Empire Strikes Back.
No other auction house in the country can boast the same suite of dedicated departments and auctions, and this has helped the company secure a series of noted single owner collections in these fields. Particular successes have come in areas such as Comic Books. Although this department only launched in April 2024, it enjoyed 140% increase in sales by value in 2025 under the guidance of Thomas Duma, who brought more than 20 years of expertise in this field to bear. With several single owner Comic Book sales in 2025 and the equivalent of a sale every month, we have quickly become one of the leading auction houses in the UK for Comic Books with a hammer total of nearly £450,000 for this past year – a highlight being the Superman ‘This Island Bradman’ Auction, where 47 Lots took almost £50,000. We have the expertise, the capacity, the buyers and the track record. As you will see from the following pages, we also have a high profile among the world’s media, who follow our auctions avidly. We would be delighted to talk to you about your collection. And as you can see opposite, while we take what we do seriously, we like to have fun while we do business. Please see the back page of this booklet for our full contact details. www.ewbankauctions.co.uk
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