10 Things You Didn’t Know About Rebecca (Pawn Stars)

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started working at Beaumont rare books in Las Vegas since 2007 and became the manager in 2010 she's been lending her expertise to the Pawn Stars since the show's fourth season and has since appeared in about 60 episodes although she has gained fame from being on the show she constantly tries to draw the attention back to the books and if you still want to find out more about the person behind the rare books then listen up as we reveal 10 secrets you didn't know about Rebecca Romney the Pawn Stars expert has always loved languages in books and was planning on getting her master's degree in Japanese literature Rebecca went to live in Japan to teach English for a year and wanted to start her studies when she returned however she didn't get back to the US and time for the beginning of the semester so she had to change her major to Classical Studies with a minor in philosophy instead after Rebecca came back from Japan she was looking for a job to pay the bills while doing her master's degree since her family lived in Las Vegas she decided to settle there as well and even though Vegas isn't really known for its high culture she found balm on rare books a store specialized in rare and expensive books as well as print memorabilia they are actually collected simply because of their age Rick you brought me in what are you worried about I don't know if this is great conditioner this is really bad condition because it is 1480 she immediately fell in love with the study of rare books although she had to go through extensive training in the beginning Rebecca learned to speak and read in five and a half languages being fluent in English French and Japanese unable to read in ancient Greek Latin and a little bit of ol English our goal is to build collections for people over a period of years and we have many many people who have been collecting with us for 10 and 20 and 30 years of course in addition to that she also had to learn a lot about the study of rare books through hands-on experience since she has to be able to identify different editions of books from all over the globe and from different time periods the rare bucks experts keeps her personal life pretty private and her website her blog and even her public Facebook page are dedicated exclusively to rare books everyone wants it so important it's some of our most intellectually stimulating fascinating people in the history of America and frankly it's a good business decision together Rebecca is only in her mid-30s but has had a pretty impressive career so far and she has already managed a high-end bookstore became a well-known expert on a popular TV show and has even published a book of her own the Pawn Stars book expert actually comes from a family of scientists but has always been more interested in literature and arts she was stated that she used to steal books from her five years older brother but would often rather throw them at things than read them so her parents probably didn't expect her to become one of the best-known book experts where she grew up founded in May 2009 the subreddit for question and answer interactive interviews called AMA has gone on to become one of reddit's most popular communities the ask me anything interviewees range from celebrities to everyday people from several lines of work and Rebecca Romney became one of them and Hamilton's early death by dual was in fact really kind of a shame for American history because he doesn't often get his due on 29th of December 2013 one Reddit user wrote that the book lady from Paul Stars should do it AMA and only one week later the said book lady came to talk with people on reddit after a long chat Rebecca thanked everyone for participating and for all the fun she had and she also shared a thread where a user had posted a story about how he had visited Bowman's rare books and how the girl at the shop had got his physics joke and they had both laughed I mean this is part of a larger 20th century trend which is really important in books it's the whole lieved artiste which is artists books right Rebecca revealed that she had actually been that girl at the shop and that she tells a story to people herself even though not much is known about Rebecca's personal life we do know that she is married to JP Romney which means she is actually related to Mitt Romney by marriage her husband is a history buff and a successful author having written the young adult novel the master in the road as me among others in March 2017 the two also published a book together called printers error irreverent stories from book history the book was well-received and critics recommended it to anyone with an interest in history in a sense of humor in 2015 Rebecca and her husband moved from Las Vegas to Philadelphia where she oversaw the central operations of Beaumont firebugs departments before she left the company just a year later in order to pursue her own projects such as a podcast called a blue cast which she produces with her husband in addition to that and publishing a book together the couple have also collaborated in several other projects including a number of blog and magazine entries so that's right around the mark of what the guy said yes if there's no real difference in price why destroy history an interesting fun fact they revealed and one of them is that in the original printing of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in the drying of uncle Silas he was given an erect penis taken out of his trousers as a joke Twain reacted by immediately having all books recalled and corrected Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular once at his day in fact he is so beloved that there even exists a subculture of people dedicated to studying his life and work which are referred to as real okie ins the most beautiful books ever printed are some of the earliest and this is actually quite a beautiful book with most books age doesn't matter right it doesn't really come as a surprise that Rebecca is a fan of the legendary detective but she is actually a very enthusiastic scholar for everything to do with Sherlock Holmes and even appeared in an episode of the Sherlock Holmes based podcast I hear of Sherlock everywhere where it is always 1895 you love history right yes if you take these etchings out of this book you are destroying a historical artifact the book expert has stated that she knew she would love the series from the moment she read the line I confess that I covered her skull a quote directed at Sherlock Holmes and one of his best-known adventures the Hound of the Baskervilles even the best experts make a mistake once in a while and so did Rebecca Romney on Pawn Stars in the episode cool as Ike of season six she misidentified a printing of crusade in nearby Dwight Eisenhower as the first addition what it actually wasn't it's pretty common in a historical event like this one of the major generals or participants will write a memoir about it but they're not common signed she had been researching another book just before they started filming and had accidentally mixed the two up this might have just lived by a notice if it hadn't been for one viewer who spotted the mistake and immediately sent the book expert an email prompting a Rebecca to take to her blog to rectify her error right away I have the same book in the signed limited edition okay what we're gonna do is look at the two signatures everyone is well aware that not everything we see on TV is what it seems not even in a reality show but Rebecca has really become friends with some of the PAS stars cast members off-camera she has revealed that she and her husband will often meet up for dinner with Craig the gun expert as well as marked the beard of knowledge from the Clark County Museum and his wife this book by itself in this condition I wouldn't hesitate to put it 10,000 in the rare book expert and her husband also double-date with Rick and his wife so it looks like her relationships with the rest of the cast are not all scripted and they genuinely like each other in real life you might expect that dealing with rare books would attract a more sophisticated type of person but a pawnshop in Vegas is still a pawnshop in Vegas and even though they may have priceless and beautiful treasures the people who bring in these rare items often have no clue as to how to keep them intact books this old tend to be really rare and valuable but it's in rough shape and I don't want to take a gamble before I have Rebecca check it out it is not rare that customers bring in artifacts that may have brought them a lot of money had they only managed to keep them in better condition Rebecca has actually interrupted filming at the post our sets to educate people on how to handle the books in order to stop them from letting the books deteriorate to the point where they're no longer salvageable now that's a true bibliophile thank you so much for watching guys and 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Keywords: pawn stars, history channel, rick harrison, chumlee, corey harrison, old man, pawn shop, business, investing

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2018