Pawn Stars: All Time Historic Items (6 Amazing Pieces of American History) | History

nice to see you what's up what is it today oh i  brought you in a really amazing piece of american   history if it wasn't for this book we'd probably  all be speaking with english accents today   okay it was printed in philadelphia in 1779.  the book itself is called the regulations for   the order and discipline of the troops of  the united states this was really the first   drill book for the united states army  it taught them how to be soldiers   actually it's pretty amazing i am i keep coming  back to the shop because they have a genuine   interest in books and they pay fair prices  it's hard to find books that are so important   in american history in their original state this  was the american revolution who would have thought   of saving a book when you had to worry about your  life i mean these were a bunch of ragtag soldiers   and they're fighting a professional british army  so in 1777 washington withdrew to valley forge for   the winter encampment and they didn't know what  to do they were losing men they were very unhappy   general washington almost lost his position  as commander in chief so they brought in this   very famous prussian military officer to start  training the american troops baron von steuben so   you're saying this book was written by von steuben  yeah this was really a turning point this allowed   general washington to train his troops showing  them how to use things like bayonets teaching them   in weapons here's really one of the first times  you think of a modern army think of attention   at this word the soldier must be silent stand  firm and steady moving either hand nor foot   yeah he was absolutely amazing with the troops  and basically transformed you know the citizen   farmer soldier into a soldier exactly some people  say that von steuben just showed up one day   looking to get a job others say that he  was recommended by ben franklin himself   either way he whipped the american soldiers  into shape and we kicked some british ass   there's plates at the back of the book which are  quite interesting this actually shows the layout   of the camp okay you know one of the things that  he wanted to implement was where do you put the   quartermaster where do you put the surge in where  do you put the kitchen this wasn't obvious to you   know untrained army cadets very very interesting  do you know if it's the first it did it you know   how many editions there were there were many  additions because it became such an important book   it really became what's called the blue book of  the american army it was issued to all of many of   the soldiers but this is the actual first edition  from 1779 first time it was printed all right so i'm assuming this is the original binding  the paper's right this is all handmade paper   sure i mean it looks rough but it's almost 250  years old i mean my problem is just figuring   out a price yeah i understand completely i'm  looking for 6 500 for it i i don't know if that's   absolutely insane number or a fair number  you've met rebecca before let me let me   get her down here to take a look at it it's a  great number don't even bother calling her sir   that just makes me want to call her even more give  me a few minutes no problem i'm happy he's going   to call rebecca again i mean she really knows  her stuff sometimes she's come in lower than i   would have liked for books in the past uh i could  only cross my fingers you know and hope this time   one of my regulars brought in a book that was used  to train soldiers during the revolutionary war   if it's as important as he says it's going to  be worth a lot of money but i'm not taking his   word for it so rebecca is coming in to tell  me what she thinks you brought me another book   the original field manual from the revolutionary  war by von steuben himself the baron okay   this is a very cool book the baron actually is a  really cool character in himself he he was in the   prussian army under frederick the great so he  had a good amount of experience in one of the   world famous armies so washington  said all right here are 100 men   drill them show me so the baron did and proved  himself the barons regulations was essentially   the manual that standardized everything  dealing with military troops and discipline   washington was a brilliant general but that means  nothing if the soldiers won't follow his orders   so now is this the first edition listen there  were five editions published during the american   revolution alone 1779 uh steiner insist this  is these are the philadelphia publishers   it has uh the plates everything  in place it is a first edition   okay it's miraculous that this book  would survive and i really like it i kind of want it okay i know different books  are graded on condition differently this book   was someone's name scrawled across the  front of it yeah rick here's the thing   a book in the original boards to the  uninitiated often kind of looks trashy   but this is the original binding put on  by the binder robert aitken in 1779. okay   that is exceptional by itself any collector  of americana american revolution they're   going to want this and they're going to want  it bad because you don't see copies okay okay   so i i mean i'd give it a healthy price  i would put the retail up at 18 000. yeah okay i would surprisingly  high more than i expected   it this book completely deserves it  i should have never called you up this thing is incredibly rare it's not  something you run into very often at all   so even for me i handle rare books every day  basis and this is something that i haven't seen   so she said a lot of people really want it very  badly yes the only question is how badly do you   want it so i'll give you the 6 500. well  now that i heard the experts evaluation   i mean i want to be fair to you  and everything what about 12 000. you know how it is i mean the more expensive it  is the longer it sits this is a very important   thing it's a very important book i i know  that just the way rebecca packed it um let me give you 10 grand for it i think  10 grand is fair i'll make it simple   11 right down the line that's  that's a very very fair price   you would be under british taxation if it  wasn't for this book you have to pay 11 for it i'll tell you what next time you're in here with a  book you're going to give me a little better deal   i'll give you 11 grand all right i was definitely  not intending to spend 11 000 on this book but i   have to admit this is beyond cool i might have  to make this a christmas present to myself john what'd i tell you about  the swords not to take your life   not to play with them they're not  toys i know i'm a sensei master ninja   how can i help you i have a 1873 winchester oh  sweet it was from the battle of wounded knee   and i got the documents to prove it really yeah i  mean it's pretty significant in history what's the   battle of wounded knee the battle of wounded knee  are the mass curve wendy because that's basically   what it was it was the winner of 1890. in south  dakota the lakota indians were camped out next to   a river the seventh cavalry was going to disarm  them they went into the camp one of the indians   did not want to give up his gun somewhere a shot  rang out the seventh cavalry started shooting like   crazy basically what they did they started just  massacring everybody um this was the last i think   major conflict with american indians the wounded  d massacre was a huge screw up by the us army most   of the native americans that were killed were not  even armed including women and children and it's   important in history because this was basically  the end of the indian wars which had been going   on since columbus landed here how much you looking  to get out of it i wouldn't take less than 60 000.   whoa i just want my body to look at it i just  want to make sure this was actually from the   battle of wounded knee you have paperwork here i  just want to make sure everything drives correctly   all right yep winchesters were popular with native  americans for the same reasons they were popular   with whites because they were extremely reliable  extremely powerful and it was just a really great   gun and most of these guns they were just traded  for correct well there was even a time when the   united states military actively sought to arm  native americans and they would obviously do   so with tribes that were on good terms with the  government and also some of them were obviously   taken in battle so they native americans had guns  for a long time and the wounded knee massacre was   really kind of the last great event of the  19th century's indian wars a really terrible   moment in the history of the american west the  massacre at wounded knee unfortunately was a   time when attitudes toward native americans  were still quite negative but this was a   moment when things started to shift somewhat  more sympathetically towards native americans   if we can tie it directly to the wounded knee  massacre the seventh cavalry the significance   of the gun increases dramatically it's much more  than your standard 73 carbine well let's take a   look and see what we got here so what we have here  is the unservable ordnance stores basically it's a   19th century excel worksheet i mean it's a sheet  that's telling what they have the serial numbers   the condition and what they were going to do with  it colonel james forsyth he was the commander of   the seventh cavalry so that makes sense uh  january 3 1891. now what's interesting about   that particular day after the battle took place  on december 29th the weather was terrible as a   result of the snowstorm it wasn't until several  days later that the seventh cavalry was able to   go back to the battle site and actively pick up  and collect any weapons that had been discarded   a few of the other names down here whitside he was  a major he was the commander of the first squadron   so most of what we're seeing here matches up i  mean this is the names we should see these are the   dates that we should see so on here it's listing  this gun can you show me that yeah the 631 i think   that's this 631. let's take a look here okay and  then the serial number it's you know it says five   zero four two three we got a winchester 73 carbine  five zero four two three all right so you have   some really good paperwork here so now the one  thing we don't have in any of this is wounded knee   those two words are missing from everything we  have on here but given all of the information   that we have the two individuals the dates on it  i think we can make the assumption that this gun was taken in the aftermath of the wounded  knee massacre okay that's what i wanted to   hear aren't you gonna put a price on it well  i work at a museum i'm not an appraiser so   i'm not gonna put a financial value on here i  was kind of hoping that you'd probably say it   was worth a couple hundred thousand and  then i could say well give me 60 percent   i'm sure you were all right i'm convinced it's  from the massacre wounded knee let's talk about   your price you want way too much you just don't  get that kind of money for a gun unless there is   something very very special and it's associated  with an individual i'd give you like 14 000 bucks   for it oh yeah no maybe if you put this in  auction you will get right around that number   really i got 12 000 into it you have 12 000 under  the gun so what's the lowest number you'll go i'd go 50. obviously we're not going to do any business  um check around like i said i i really am being   completely sincere with you no i i believe  you all right have a nice day thank you very   much this guy is off his rocker if he thinks i  will pay 50 grand for that gun plain and simple   hopefully he checks around town gets a lot  of prices and comes crawling right back to me   what do you have well i have fdr film  footage from 1882 to 1945. okay i don't   think you have enough film footage here for  that that's uh it's almost 60 years of film decided today to come to the porn shop  to try and sell this fdr footage that i   have if it's footage that's never been seen  before i feel the value of it is unlimited   where'd you get this well my husband's cousin  died and that was in his stuff okay and do you   have any idea what's on it we've never  watched the film you could possibly have   a very expensive holy grail type item here this  isn't the first time someone's come in here with   fdr footage we've had it before but we've never  had film that shows something that nobody's seen   before that would be worth a pile of money fdr  was one of the greatest presidents that there was   social security the second world war all behind  the scenes being in a wheelchair because of the   polio he had when he was a kid and to say how  well people like this guy i mean they elected him   four times they actually made a constitutional  amendment that it can't happen anymore this   guy literally could have been king of the united  states if he would have stayed alive long enough   do you mind if i open it up  no you'd go ahead open it up okay i mean is there any relationship to the  white house in your family that you can think of   so i mean theoretically it could be frank doroth  it could be pretty much all we have to go on here   is it says fdr 1882 through 1945. yep that was  his lifespan court if this is unseen footage   of fdr it can be insanely valuable you would have  historians and collectors literally fighting over   it we're dealing with a lot of unknowns here i'm  going to call in a buddy of mine mark hall patton   and we'll set it up and watch a movie together  sound like a date yes it does all right thanks   a lot bring the popcorn thank you marco  my man i've been dealing with artifacts of   many different varieties for 35 years now in  various museums so here's what i called you about   okay this is used to be fdr footage have you ever  seen it do you know what's on it we've seen it no   okay yeah that's regular eight the one thing i  can tell you right now is it is not from 1882   because they didn't invent eight millimeter film  until 1932. okay roosevelt was president from   32 till 1945. so it is quite possible a lot  of people did shoot just home footage of him   but there was also a lot of commercial movies  done because he was so famous and so well known   and it was such an important period in our history  fdr was our first and only four-term president   he came along right at the beginning of the  great depression he also ended up being our   wartime president for world war ii this was a man  who really changed the united states if somebody   happened to be in a place where they could  catch him involved in something fairly unusual   if he was trying to walk for example but he could  only do that when he was leaning on somebody's arm   because he was so crippled from the polio  better yet footage of him in his wheelchair yes   absolutely because he did not want to get filmed  in a wheelchair do you have an eight-millimeter   projector yes i do all right well we can go take  a look at it that's great i like to see what's   on it come on cory let's go watch this i'm really  interested in seeing what they have in store here   because if this is original footage this could be  very interesting could in fact be quite valuable   if it's something that we haven't seen before  this could be very important let's roll it mark   that's fdr all right but yeah  this is not original footage so what it looks like is maybe a mixture of  campaign footage and kind of a story of his life   pretty much all stock commercial footage it's a  biography of him but it's a commercially produced   biography there would have been a number of them  produced it's probably in public hands at this   point what this is is basically just a documentary  this is like what you'd buy on dvd today   i just don't think we're gonna be able to do  anything with it i can understand i was hoping   that it was original you know non-scene footage  but in watching it the quality of the film is   really good so i'm gonna donate it i have a  world war ii leather jacket worn by a real   war hero numerous times shot down fighter pilots  they did not really have a long life expectancy   mm-hmm his plane took 198 bullets six cannon  shots yeah because it is like a miracle to survive   i came down to the pawn shop today to try  to sell my world war ii fighter jacket   i got the jacket from an old roommate i have a  lot of bills to pay i'm hoping to get 10 000 bucks   i'd probably take as low as 4 000. so what do  you know about the pilot who wore this it was   worn by henry heidi copper when i researched  it online found out who the guy was i said   wow this guy was a hero he was captain of  the hellhawks seriously the hellhawks were   famous for stopping the nazis at normandy  yeah they helped soften up the beaches   these guys had to fly low this was the plane  that went over and took out tanks right it   really wasn't that fast but they put a bomber  engine in a fighter plane and then put eight 50   caliber machine guns in it and um these guys would  come across with their eight machine guns going   and just tear the ground up right the hellhawks  were famous for basically being a bunch of bad   asses they were at d-day the battle of the bulge  and they spearheaded the invasion of germany   all right so what do you want to do with  it i'd like to sell it i feel it's worth   ten thousand bucks this is a genuine military  jacket i could see that that's easy to tell on   the back collar actually is u.s navy i'm pretty  sure the hell hawks were u.s army air corps   this could very easily be an army unit  and they just acquired some navy jackets   it's just a little weird to me i know a guy  who will know everything about this jacket   let me have him look at this thing sure  and he will tell me everything about it   sounds great if this genuinely belonged to a hell  hawks pilot it could be worth a lot of money but   i'm almost certain it should be from the us army  not the u.s navy so i have to get this cleared up   there was a group called the hellhogs that  fought at normandy you know they were very active   in the invasion of d-day and all of that these  guys were very successful fighters the hellhawks   were quite involved taking out any of the german  planes that got up into the air trying to take   out any of the german guns that they could a  significant part of the d-day invasion yeah it's got the shearling collar on it this type   of weaving here is world war ii with  the two different types of weaving here   the patch is a world war ii style of patch  jacket itself in terms of being world war ii everything's correct on that in terms  of heidi cooper himself he was in the   hellhawks i did find him listed in  the hellhawks as a member of the unit   the problem is he was not the member of  the hell hawks that fought at normandy the hellhawks is just the nickname for a  group really yeah it isn't the official name   so you also had a marine corps group  that was vmf 213 that were the hell hawks   also in world war ii and haida cooper is somebody  that was in vmf 213 and they were a naval air   group but it is a very nice world war ii fighter  jacket less common than the army fighter jackets   thanks a lot man you're the best not a problem  hope this helps the squadrons get known by the   nicknames but that's not their official name so  you get some confusion when you get an overlap of   the same name and two different units now um  you will not get ten thousand dollars for it   but we do have a world war ii fighter  jacket that i'd be willing to pay like   fifteen hundred dollars for yeah i agree with  you now that i know more ten grand is high but uh   it's got so much history i'd take 4 000  bucks for it it's very interesting the   price doesn't go as much as they were a few  years ago i'll give you 2 000 cash right now 2500 no no i'd go 2 000 not a penny more ah let's make a deal okay all right meet you  right up there i'll write it up thank you i got   to be honest i was a little bummed when mark told  me it was from a different hell hawks but it's   still a cool jacket and i think collectors will  definitely be lining up for something like this okay so what do we got here i have  a letter from john quincy adams   john quincy adams huh 1822 he was secretary  of state then yes and he was president in   1824 well he was elected in 24 and then  there was no inauguration until march   okay because they didn't want  to travel in the wintertime yeah i found in a box of items that i got from  my uncle when my uncle passed away i'd like to   get six thousand dollars for it i would drop down  to five but that'd probably be the least i take   so what is this letter about  this letter actually pertains to   a census that was taken and they included 16 to  18 year old undocumented immigrants that were   here and they had to go back and fix it to the  proper census so basically we have here john   quincy adams being secretary of state sending a  letter to saying you did the census wrong redo it   right okay interesting yeah a letter of signed  by the president the content is so important   right if you had a letter by abraham lincoln  talking about freeing the slaves that is worth   a lot more than abraham lincoln complaining that  his bathroom doesn't work do you understand what   i'm saying yeah the content doesn't matter  so things like this are always scary to me   because it was just common common practice to  have your secretary sign everything for you   you're a busy guy yeah or this was back in  the 1800s the president might have been drunk but the paper looks right the ink looks right  have you checked this out at all i have i've done   some uh background on my own okay the internet i  did match up his signatures and things like that   okay i'm assuming you want to sell it yes  i was looking for six thousand dollars   um this is actually great shape um you're  lucky because this has obviously been under   glass for a very very long time do you mind if  i call someone in no not if it's gonna help us   okay i'm sure it's real too all  right um i'm gonna call him up   okay uh hang out a few minutes maybe  buy something okay got some cool stuff   there's a lot of history behind this guy i mean  he's pretty much groomed to be the president   of the united states at some point in time this  guy really stood out you know okay so is it his   signature did he write the letter and what's it  worth look at a few things first thing i'm going   to do is look at the signature under magnification  i want to look at the ink and i could see this is   using a quill this overlapping on here especially  right in this area you know we know this is living   and what i did bring along today are several  examples it's really flowing it's very beautiful   signature here's one example and we see some  similarities tying in here and what i want to do   on this one especially is look at his last name  and i'm starting to see the same thing over and   over again because that's actually abbreviated and  this makes sense where he would do an abbreviation   to this as well and everything matches up pretty  well here okay from everything i could tell   we're talking about a piece signed by the sixth  president united states which is kind of cool   all right the letter itself you have a lighter ink  you have a darker ink on here and two different   pressures right in this case on here and this  is pretty simple and it's something that you   know i've studied a lot this isn't his writing it  could have been written by a secretary back then   they call it slime by proxy and you think that  just because the differential between the well   i mean there's several factors obviously the ink  but also just the style of writing it's not his so   what's it worth if it was three years later a  handwritten letter by him could go for five to   ten thousand dollars as a sitting president but  this is secretary of state it's a little less   significant stuff like this typically runs  at about sixteen hundred dollars they don't   go for much more than that okay thanks man thanks  good to see you all right thank you yep good luck   thanks thanks john quincy adams is a collectible  autograph you know mostly just for presidential   collectors i mean is he desirable yeah to an  extent but not as much as like abraham lincoln or   george washington okay so if it was written in his  hand we'd have a whole lot of money but we don't   i think the whole thing was written by him all  right just as a discrepancy and the signature   in the letter itself was just the way he signed  things okay well um you know what anna you're   always free to have it checked out by somebody  else all right i'd give you like a thousand bucks yeah for that i think i'm gonna go to keep  it and i'll keep it and stay with my kids or do   something else with it so okay sorry we couldn't  make a deal man thank you it's not his handwriting   you got to be kidding me i'm going to try and  go ahead and legitimize it 100 and see if i can   get some more opinions on it we have a world war  ii german enigma coding machine an enigma these   are amazing i've seen pictures of them i've read  about them i've never actually seen one in person   i mean this thing was responsible for the rise  and the fall of the entire german war machine   where in the world did you get this my father  and i have an enigma museum and we treasure hunt   this thing won't make me understand women will it  that's an enigma during world war ii if a german   commander wanted to send a secret message to his  troops out in the field this is what he used and   the germans thought this machine was completely  unbreakable i'm surprised any of them survived   not many did there are three that i know of  in the united states on display right now one   is at a science museum in chicago one is at the  nsa's crypto museum in washington and one is at   the international spy museum at the end of the war  they would destroy these in the field rather than   let them fall into the hands of the enemy so more  often than not they are in horrendous condition   now this one right here i mean you actually  found it intact no this machine has parts   that have been replaced okay so these are extra  rotors that's a reproduction box with two rotors   okay this thing is so incredibly cool cracking  the enigma code was one of the top projects of   world war ii it took years to do it but in the end  it did save millions of lives i really want this   thing but i've never had one in my shop i need  someone to look at it i'm out of my league here and how much do you want for it 149 300 that's an odd number i think it's a fair  price my big problem is i've seen them sell   for 200 000 i've seen them sell for 30 000  and you look at them they all look the same so i'm gonna call in a friend who knows a  little bit more than i do about these things   and see if he can figure it out all  right hey what's up man good to see you   what do you got uh a mystery wrapped  in a riddle yeah it's an enigma machine   it's pretty cool coolest thing about these  things is that they named it the enigma right   right that is cool if i had a dog that's what  i named him i do have a dog he's an idiot   my name is will willis i'm a former army ranger  and air force para rescue man and i specialize   in military items the hardest part of being in the  military for me was getting a haircut every week   nothing like having a baby slick head for four  years makes you think that hair is kind of nice   it's one of the coolest things that's ever been  in the shop it really is yeah it is it is a really   cool thing and it's really significant when you  talk about being able to encrypt your messages   to your generals and your soldiers you know having  a machine like this that allows you to send those   messages in secret is really a critical thing and  it was critical to us the allied forces to be able   to decipher these messages and when we decrypted  the machines it shortened the war by two years   yeah this is like uber nerd cool it really is  germany's foreign policy was to conquer the world   during world war ii so making them believe  that their messages were encrypted in secret   was critical towards winning that war in a shorter  period of time so which parts were missing when   you found it the warning plate and the rotors okay  do we have matching serial numbers throughout we   do not okay so how many rotors match the machine  itself none okay a serial number wasn't what   drove the process the rotor number was but the  serial number drives price okay all right i know   the price of these things are all over the place  right the most expensive one went for over 200 000   we've got three matched rotors with serial  numbers they don't match the machine itself   the box doesn't have a serial number on it we've  got a recreated box and considering what things   have been selling for that are unrestored with  matching serial numbers i would price this at 70 000 all together well i think my price is fair   yeah because he was asking 149 300 well the  most expensive one that ever sold was for 200   000. that one was in a movie i think the  more fair price is 70 000 for everything well thanks man you got it i think  that sellers get this perception   that like i put in all this work it's  worth way more than what it really is   i'm gonna go with will on this  one i'd give you 50 grand for it i can't do that i mean what is your lowest number 115 000. uh we're way too far off we just are thanks for  coming in thank you all right this really sucks   because the likelihood of another one coming in  my shop is not good but we are over 60 grand apart   and that's way too much ground to even try and  cover but you know what i really did want that thing you

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Published: Fri Jan 15 2021