Pawn Stars: 7 TIMES RICK TOTALLY NERDS OUT!

[Music] sweet let's go find something else to cut up thanks man all right take care rick i said i'd come back with some more intriguing viking items all right come around put them right here moments like these remind me of how much i love my job most people especially here in the united states never get to see a real viking sword in person but laird is willing to let me look at two of them that he has in his collection and to a history nerd like me there's nothing cooler what i've got here for you is some classic viking swords cool we've got one that's classic from the pre-christian era decorated with silver and copper and yellow which it's it's rare for it to survive because a lot of times the vikings when they put their dead into graves they burn them first and they often burn the items with them so silver copper often just melted right off and you're just left with the iron can i yes certainly all right this was a lot of work a lot of skill we're talking what like 800 a.d that one's probably closer to 9.50 okay but still i mean there wasn't a whole lot of technology and most people don't realize how difficult iron is to work with and and what we don't realize is that it took a lot of effort to turn iron into steel so to get the carbon in to make the edge actually hard on this one it's a special item because it's after the conversion of christianity it's around 1050 a.d this sword actually was published in an article that studied the carbon content of steel on a number of swords it was about eight tenths of a percent which we don't think of as high today but back then very very high and this one is actually inscribed and what you can see i'm not going to stab you but uh this one uh has the name nisso and then it's followed by the latin phrase me fekit which simply means nissa made me okay that is definitely cool when you think about a viking sword and what it meant to the owner it was a signal of differentiation and wealth and power within the viking society we could almost think about it today like the difference between you know a gentleman driving a dodge neon and a gentleman driving a mercedes s-class these are pretty damn amazing so you're looking to maybe sell these things i haven't i haven't actually sold a sword from the collection since probably 2006 the prices tend to be pretty high because they don't come up that often they're both something in the 35 000 to 40 000 range okay um it's a great piece of history it really is but out of my league for most of my customers you wouldn't sell me one for like half that [Laughter] i'd love to be able to do that but uh i don't think i could ever replace it i understand you know um hopefully you'll go broke one day though man i'm working on it i'm working on it all right well thanks for showing to me thank you rick good to see you rick's quite a businessman sometime in the future it's always possible that rick could uh pry one out of my hands but uh for now i'm pretty resolute hey rick how you doing how's my favorite book picker at this time i picked a book that i think any businessman would love it's adam smith's the wealth of nations the capitalist manifesto it is i brought a copy of an 18th century edition of adam smith's the wealth of nations it's the most important book of capitalist economics and rick's a businessman so i think he's going to go gaga for it's the first books on economics and the capitalist system what we call a free market economy now they should study this in high school they really should it's basically everything about the creation of wealth like you know basically a man goes in his backyard digs up some dirt takes the iron out of the ground and turns it into a horseshoe so the horseshoe is worth money so you have created wealth out of nothing it basically said let people work hard and do business and everyone will do well and the invisible hand meaning the marketplace will figure out the price structures of everything exactly and actually i knew you'd be interested in the invisible hand so i put a little marker here just where it is he says he intends only in his own gain referring to the person and he is in this and in many other cases led by an invisible hand and it only appears really once in the book but that's the phrase that the book is known for what year was this printed this is a sixth edition of the book it was printed in 1791. uh it's still a nice collectible edition because it's still an 18th century edition have they been rebound uh well i think they retain some of their uh original binding but at some point uh these spines uh have been remade to match the binding covers so the spines are probably 20th century but the covers are much earlier it's a pretty amazing set of books the nerd in me is going like crazy right now how much you want for them well i was going to ask uh uh 2 500 for them um as always i'm going to call in rebecca because she knows a lot more about this stuff than i should show all that stuff all right i'll be right back okay okay sounds good these will look so amazing on my bookshelf at my house the wealth of nations oh the capitalist manifesto that's clever of you did you come up with that i came over all by myself that was all you i tried to bring something this time to make rick excited hey it's about making money that's like my third or fourth favorite thing in the world yeah i don't think i'm showing rick's cars when i say i think he really wants this book you know in some ways adam smith is the darwin of economics you're in this sort of mercantilist economy that's very different driven by these huge powerful states and 1776 you have the declaration of independence and it's the beginning of the industrial revolution things are changing this is an explosion of economic thought and work and it just changed the way we live 1776 the founding fathers were reading this book this was hugely influential on hamilton and in fact madison later uses it to counter some of hamilton's suggested projects so it's kind of great because founding fathers on both sides use it against each other this is essentially the most important work in modern economic thought any edition of wealth of nations published in the 18th century is going to be desired by collectors because that's still the same historical context the same people reading it and being influenced by it and acting based on its principles all right so should we talk about the actual copies here so there's a little bit of foxing yes i learned that from berkeley i'm impressed that's the spots on the pages the spots yes there's foxy on the pages a little bit more than i would like to see frankly it's been rebacked i don't mind the rebacking because it's pretty well done though there are some other issues of edgewear to the binding but you know for what it is among other 18th century copies it's actually rather nice okay so what do you think they're worth this is the type of book that's a total home run in book collecting personally if i had this copy of this book i would be selling it for around 4 800 to 5 000. that's a decent price thanks well thanks so much for that as well so i'll give you your 2500 i i think and i'll tell you it's no secret both of us knew that you really want these i know that i know that it's um you know what i see rick i see that invisible hand now coming in reaching into your wallet a little bit look why don't you give me 28 for them it's less than three grand it's the most important book in in capitalism [Music] it's an 18th century edition and a very nice copy of it 2 800. all right i'll give you 2 700 because you know i want these for myself and that sort of stuck that way but it's more than fair and next next time take care of me i i'm not gonna argue with you for a hundred dollars i think that's fair thanks man i appreciate it rick and i agreed on 2700. i probably could have squeezed him for a little bit more but you know he did boost it a little bit to make me happy can i help you with something hey just trying to find out the authenticity of this meteorites whoa so my dad was a big comic book aficionado okay and so this was gifted to him it's kryptonite i didn't use that word i have a meteorite it's been the family for a while it was a it was a hand-me-down from the friends that i've talked to this is the gift from the gods and i'm hoping he's going to see the true value of this this is very cool meteorites are really really neat i mean you can really nerd out on them nasa is always tracking big asteroids and actually we're really really lucky that we live on earth saturn and jupiter are like giant gravitational magnets that end up sucking up most of the asteroids that come close to earth they weren't there we probably wouldn't exist because we'd be hit by meteorites all the time so it looks meteorite-ish um um let's just say wait like 40-50 pounds yeah yeah you're probably uh pretty close on the mark there it feels pretty authentic they were just so prized by like all the ancient cultures because up until like 150 years ago it was really hard to make steel okay it was a very expensive process but sometimes when they found these rocks it was this incredible kind of iron that was really malleable it held an edge it wasn't brittle it was just everything about this stuff was amazing you could build things that no one else could build ancient cultures literally thought these were gifts from the gods that's what makes it so cool so did you have an idea what you wanted for it i do um 24 000. okay um sounds like a lot of money but these are definitely collectible i don't know exactly how much big iron ones like this go for but i have a friend that can tell us he can test it and do all sorts of stuff like that maybe the really big ones go for big money for sure i'll be right back i'm very confident this is a meteorite but let the expert take a look at it and really tell me the true value of it i think it's going to bring a nice penny what you got today i have what i believe to be a meteorites so this is a piece of iron that's coming into the earth that up to 100 000 miles an hour so at that speed it melts and it forms all these wonderful little depressions and that's why they look the way they do and they get this little crust on it so just based on that looks like a meteorite but my little space gun as red calls it will tell me what we've got here that will prevent you from having children that's what this thing is so stand back radioactive so my guess is this comes from argentina so the biggest fall of meteorites in known history came from a site called campo de cielo and there are 15 20 tons of this material that's on the market so if this is from campo we should see about 90 iron and about 9 nickel so that will tell us where this guy is from so i just point shoot and i have got 89 iron 10 nickel so this is a campo meteorite okay so the spanish found this in about 1570. they think this meteorite hit the earth somewhere between three and five thousand years ago okay so i know meteorites are collectible but what do they go for meteorite of this size should sell for 50 cents a gram give or take joshua do we have a scale around here somewhere i think so let me go check all right oh cool just sit on the ground all right so you look like you're in shape yeah i've been hanging around this long you brought it in here yeah so what does it weigh 19.7 kilograms so you're saying it's worth around 10 grand 10 000 bucks okay thanks man my pleasure okay i'll take my gun and go all right so um i'll give you five grand wow that's considerably lower than what i initially walked in here because you wanted way too much money when you walked in here well obviously i was going off of other you know recommendations with uh i'm at seven you know what i'll give you the seven grand okay just walk over the counter over there we'll do some paperwork and uh i'll get you paid okay thanks well we settled on seven thousand dollars knowing that it is real and my dad's hand me down really was immediate right bring some some level of happiness so i'm i'm okay with seven thousand dollars a wooten desk the king of desks they called it uh yes the supercomputer of deaths from the 1880s yeah the patent date is 1874. and then this side is mailbox they were purpose-built for organizing your stuff and it's so much like the super computer you gotta open it up to see if you have mail i'm at the pawn shop to sell my original wooten desk it was designed by william wooten and this one is dated 1885. this desk came from the great granddaughter of the original owners the price i want for the wooten desk is 14 500 these are amazing when wooten came out with these things it was the first desk that was like business oriented it wasn't like a writing desk at home or something like this you did business with this desk oh these were very professional desks where the world was getting complicated in a gilded age and you know to get organized you needed one of these can i open it up yeah go ahead this is clean this is really nice oh that's great it's in beautiful shape a lot of these got fairly beat up because they were real commercial desks but this one was in the in the single family and descended and it was stayed in very good shape these are all original there's little compartments and there's an alphabetical system and a number system for you know bills or invoices there's the mail slot in the back so when you come in in the morning you could just open this and grab your mail out from here oh you can see it's been a little bit modified but that happens to him every once in a while right apparently he had some sort of paging system put in there or something like that and i'm assuming these right here were most likely for setting his pens in they're inkwells a red one and a black one i i mean i really really do love these things a lot of famous people had these i think three american presidents did queen victoria had one john d rockefeller joseph pulitzer they were really the prestige desk of their era um okay so how much you want for it i want 14 500. i'm in love with this thing 99 sure everything's cool but do you mind if you have someone look at it not at all i don't know if they uh there was different companies making them but right selling them as wootens later on right uh give me a few minutes i'm gonna call somebody just make sure there's no problems but as far as i can tell there's no problem so but give me five minutes all right that's great i have no doubts but that this is an authentic one i'm real happy to have an expert look at it and i hope he backs that up here we go nice you bought one of these new right uh no i did not however they're interesting the guy who invented this william wooten decided he was going to build the best desk out there the king of desks and he came up with this i love these because of all the cubby holes there was a 114 or something cubby holes in it the desk itself is all made out of black walnut now these are faced in probably curly maple much of this was done by hand and this was not cheap in its day so how much were these new i think they started around 700 for the lowest end and then went up to thousands of dollars whoa you know at that point in time that was a horrendous amount of money for a desk and looking at it it doesn't look like it's had too much work done to it this is beautiful so the reason it calls you down here it's a wooten desk right can we close it up and take a look at the label yeah i just want to make sure someone just didn't take a label and stick it on this thing yeah should be letters on this side yes oh yeah so looking at it looking at the label this is a woo this one's just beautiful all right thanks man um i know you'd want to say thank you absolutely this is a beautiful piece thanks for bringing it in the wooten desk for anybody collecting late 19th century furniture this is one of the ultimate pieces that you would have this is a beautiful desk of course if it were me i'd take it home ah so how much you want for it i want fourteen thousand five hundred dollars but you'll take twelve right uh i won't take 12. i think it's a it's a really good piece it's a one family piece the condition's excellent and even the modifications are interesting so amy what's your best price 14 000 even so 13 how about 13-5 you got a deal thank you this thing is absolutely amazing go right over there i'll have some do some paperwork and uh i'll give you some money thank you this is what happens when you get emotional about stuff you pay too much how are you sir oh pretty good great what do we have here this is a telescope that i've had and i'm moving from a house to an apartment now so i thought i'd bring it in and see what you can give me for it all right you could have brought in a picture coming down to the pawn shop today to try to sell my telescope i was hoping to get twelve thousand dollars for it minimum between eight and ten thousand dollars would probably be my lowest score where did you get this thing i got that from the old garage sale do you know much about it not as much as i should if i wanted to keep it okay it's a carl zeiss telescope late 1800s was she the maker of it carl zeiss was a lensmaker he lived in the 1800s he made a lot of advancements in lenses he invented the acrochromatic microscope if you have any idea what that is no i don't it just goes to prove what a nerd i am carl zeiss started making microscopes in the 1840s and quickly became known as making some of the best lenses in the world and when the camera became popular he turned into the industry go-to guy for high quality lenses wow this telescope was manufactured while he was still alive which is pretty amazing i can tell by the way it's marked it says carl zeiss jenna okay after he died they changed the name of the company and they dropped the jetta at the end okay but we have some damage right here the zeiss name is still known for amazing optics the company makes everything from microscopes to camera lenses to high-tech lasers but to have a telescope made by the carl's ice company when carl's ice was still alive that's something special this piece might be a little beat up but it's definitely worth restoring okay so you said you wanted to sell it yes sir all right what were you looking to get out of it 12 000. oh no no 12 000 it's not gonna happen in like almost perfect shape they go for like 2 500. wow okay and this is for perfect shape there's a lot of parts missing i'm thinking more like 800 bucks well nah can you go say 1200 then from i'll tell you i'll go a thousand bucks on it i'm gonna have to have this piece right here machine that's going to cost me a few hundred bucks by itself okay i tell you what i'll take the thousand dollars okay all right thank you very much thanks let's go do some paperwork i settled on a thousand dollars i was kind of thinking about bringing it back home with me but my wife would probably kill me so it's easier just to get rid of it now and accept the money oh we have a hit and miss right on okay it's a genuine hit and miss now i think it was the uh salesman sample because he went from farm to farm to sell these things okay so we got the belt on here do you mind if i take this out because that's a little creepy all right yeah that's just weird my kids have absolutely no appreciation for the wonders and mysteries of hit and miss engines and so i'm going to sell this machine instead of them saying what's this piece of junk it's just a principle of the thing this was like the first gasoline motor that was commercially used they started making these in the late 1890s farmers absolutely love these things because you can get a two and a half horsepower motor that only weighed like 500 pounds the same size steam engine weighed close to a thousand and with those steam engines they took so much fuel and these things were massively efficient and i'm surprised they don't use some of this technology today in cars i agree because once this thing's at speed and then cruising along with these big flywheels all the gas turns off and it just coasts until you need more power really super simple design you have a battery that goes to a coil and it builds up a charge to like 20 000 volts and when this spins around to the right spot right there it goes boom and it goes pop you do know about this yeah yeah it was called a hit and miss because it wasn't like a regular gasoline itch and it goes damn this went pop-up it was controls the rpms that way yeah so um can we fire it up [Music] it only needs to fire to keep it idling right once it got up to speed it would lock in and keep the exhaust valve open and since the exhaust valve was open there was no vacuum to suck fuel in it and then it would just cruise along and coast just i mean this is nerd heaven right here i love this machine it's not every day that you get to see simple machines like this given how far technology has taken us but there's not a whole lot of people that come into a pawn shop looking for a hit and miss engine well i'm telling you you got it running great but i really doubt if it's a salesman sample you can buy this exact same model online right now you're kidding i'm sorry i didn't know that okay okay but do you know how much these completed models cost i haven't seen this idea around 3 500 [Music] [Laughter] that's a brand new one though but it um it has seen some oh but it's it's been road hard and don't tell me it gives a character took the words out of my mouth okay okay i would like to pay a 1500 bucks for it it's far from a new model and i look i need to resell it okay uh you do have overhead i'm aware of that and can we move your like up to 2000 i think we can meet in the middle of like 1750. that's not fair huh i'll tell you what i'll give you 1800 i think that's more than a fair price okay all right if you think it's fair then that's that's it'll be okay okay all right um thanks a lot man um let's go do some paperwork i feel that he was really happy to have it and maybe i priced it too low but i am glad to see that somebody appreciate it got it because i think that's going to go home within you hey how's it going hey there i have a authentic sign dan fouch jersey okay this is the greatest quarterback of all time period and i know there's a million people that argue with me but i really don't care i grew up in san diego [Laughter] [Applause] i picked up this jersey about 10 years ago at a sports memorabilia shop in san diego i think dan thoughts is one of the most underrated quarterbacks in nfl history i'm gonna ask 500 for the jersey i'm not really sure what it's worth maybe a little less we'll see [Music] i grew up right down the street from the stadium he was my idol as a kid i mean he really was me and my friends we weren't the best of kids in the world okay me and my buddy we had a paper route and occasionally for a little extra money we'd stop by the 7-eleven we'd put 50 cents on the machine we'd take all the papers out and set them right there on the sidewalk in front of 7-eleven and we'd sell them for 50 cents a piece and lo and behold dad phelps went away once and bought a newspaper office and uh it was just like the highlight of the year [Laughter] i was i think 13 or 14 years old and he was cool to me and i remember to this day absolutely if he was playing today dan bounce would be one of the best quarterbacks in the league no question this guy threw for over 4 thousand yards three years in a row as far as quarterbacks go i can't think of one that was ever better gosh that is one blobby signature if you didn't know who dan pounce was but you'll be able to read that i know it's real how much you want for it that we can start around 500. um you have to realize i'm telling you of all the jerseys you find out there especially on the internet and a lot of sports shops 90 of them are fake i would like someone to look at it i got a buddy he works right down the street he's got a sports shop let me get him down here real quick he'll look at the signature it's legit we'll talk price okay all right thank you be right back i believe the signature on the jersey is authentic and i welcome him bringing in any expert he may choose to do so rick what's going on man i'm just living the dream looking at like the greatest quarterback there ever was greatest quarterback in history football debatable best quarterback statistically in the late 70s early 80s i'll give you that man i mean there was nobody better than dan faust in that four year span okay this was arguably the best offense ever assembled not to win an nfl championship so you know for a chargers fan you don't really have a lot of historically great things that happen to root for so you're looking at the late 70s early 80s this was the time to be a chargers fan well yeah a lot of my buddies say what's the smallest building in the world that charges hall of fame you gotta understand i mean when dan fouts came to the team they were a losing franchise dan thoughts was the prolific passer of that time on average their offense would put up about 30 points per game which was just unheard of back then when the game usually focused on defense and running i just want to make sure it's legit okay this is what i have here this is from psa's website directly this is an example of a damp out signature so what i'd like to do we'll turn it over we'll compare the two the characteristics of the autograph and i'll let you know what it is okay the signature is really really blobby ah the old paint pen yeah looking at a damn foul signature you just want to focus on a couple of the key characteristics it's a very small compact signature starting with the d and dan all of the signatures i've seen it's a pair of stacked loops with the top loop being significantly larger than the bottom and then the f that's the main thing you want to look at it's a standalone letter and the lower bar in the f is always going to be symmetrical with the cross and the t based on my experience i've seen a lot of damp out signatures out there comparing it with the template this one's easily 100 authentic okay sweet so what do these jerseys go for unless you're from the san diego area grew up watching them there's just not a lot of new collectors out there looking for damn fouls you're looking about 150 bucks here okay all right so 150 bucks yeah so he's one of those guys where if somebody wants one they typically already have one okay well cool man thanks hey you got it man thanks hey good luck to you all right good to meet you if this jersey was game warden we'd be talking completely different numbers you know game issued equipment doesn't come up for auction too often and when it does with a player like dan fouts's career it would go for thousands of dollars well you heard him i i i i disagree but i'll give you 150 bucks that's what it's worth i want it for myself but uh that's what i could give you i mean if i if i can if i can go get another one on the internet for rent 150 i'll just go there i mean this was just in front of me right now and uh just brings back a lot of memory so if you want 150 i'll give you 150. and i never pay people what it's worth yeah just think about it no one's gonna pay anymore i guarantee you i'm gonna have to bring you something else back to okay well bring me something else i mean if it's chargers related i'll pay more i might have something else for you so all right thanks man all right i appreciate it thank you all right 150 bucks sounds like the expert's a broncos fan to me you

Channel: Pawn Stars

Views: 1,767,315

Keywords: pawn, pawn stars, pawn stars episode, pawn stars full episode, the pawn stars, pawn star, pawn stars episodes, pawn stars chumlee, pawn shop, pawnstars, pawn stars old man, pawn stars full episodes, chumlee, Vikings Swords, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Argentinian Meteorite, Wooton Desk, Massive Antique Space Telescope, Hit and Miss Engine, Dan Fouts Signed Jersey, pawn stars compilations, compilations, 7 Times Rick TOTALLY NERDS OUT!

Id: GCDndFXQTU0

Length: 29min 49sec (1789 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 22 2022