Pokémon Base Set 1st Edition — Sealed Art Set of Three Booster Packs (Italian)

An art set of three original Base Set 1st Edition booster packs in the Italian printing, each sealed and each carrying one of the three artwork variants of the set: Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur. Printed in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast, these are packs of 11 cards bearing the official 1st Edition stamp and the Italian-language designation on the wrapper — the first Italian printing of the Pokémon TCG, and the beginning of the game's history in the country.

The art set is a collecting format in its own right: it assembles the three wrappers as a single display object, which is why complete sets in sealed condition are considerably rarer than individual packs. The packs are unweighed, and the seals are original throughout, which matters because the wrapper is now the only reliable evidence of an unopened pack from this era.

Twenty-five years on, Italian 1st Edition Base Set material has moved from a nostalgic reference to a structural scarcity: the print run is closed, the language limits the pool to a single national market, and perfect sealed examples have been absorbed into vaults and long-term collections. An art set of the three starters, sealed and unweighed, is a display-grade entry point into that market and a natural companion to a graded Italian Base Set run.