- Got, probably, one of the
rarest Hollywood documents you've ever had
come in your store. RICK: So first off, who
is Harry Carey if it's not the baseball announcer? Harry Carey was the
first major Hollywood blockbuster in Western films
back in the silent era. About 185 signatures on here. RICK: That is pretty cool. But it sort of
sucks that they're so crammed together like this. Just being a businessman, I'd
like them much more spaced apart so I could cut
the thing to pieces. [laughter] [tearing sounds] MEYER: I'm selling
a rawhide parchment. It was presented to
Hollywood legend Harry Carey and signed by 185
Hollywood legends. I'm asking $16,000. I'd like to sell this
piece because I'd like to buy some items that
I think would be more in line with what I like to collect. Samuel Goldwyn, John
Ford, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Clark Gable,
John Wayne, Mickey Rooney. Ronald Reagan is over here. Names that I'm sure you
grew up with, and names you know up until your adulthood. It does have some
incredible people on it. Judy Garland. MEYER: Cecil B.
DeMille is there. RICK: And everyone
has heard that term, "I'm ready for my
close-up, Mr. DeMillle." I've never heard of
Harry Carey the actor. But apparently, he's got
a lot of famous friends. With 200 autographs, this might
be a new record for the shop. But with this many autographs
comes a lot of concerns. So you want to sell this? Yeah. So how much do you
want to sell this for? MEYER: $16,000. OK. Um. First off, you have some
amazing autographs here. But one of the big
problems you have here is, they're all jumbled together. Generally, when you have a
bunch of autographs together, they make them worth less. You've got some neat stuff here
and some stuff I don't like. And I just don't know how it's
going to affect the price. Give me a few minutes. Let me call someone
and get them down here to take a look at
this thing, just make sure everything's legit,
and help me figure out a price. Sure.
RICK: OK? This guy is asking $16,000. I just don't know. That's why I'm calling in Steve. So Harry Carey, the silent movie
star that I never heard of. [laughter] Well, most of us don't
really know about that stuff. But I do know from entertainment
history, Hollywood history, the guy was in a ton of movies. RICK: And this is signed
by, like, the who's who of Hollywood, 1941.
STEVE GRAD: Yeah. That's actually kind
of a cool piece. Well, most people
know Harry Carey as an obnoxious broadcaster
for the Chicago Cubs. But the other Harry Carey
is a silent screen star-- is actually a guy that
John Wayne modeled a lot of his acting after. Well, let's have a look at it. The first thing I
want to do is just, I want to check out
the ink on here. And I just want to get a better
idea what I'm dealing with. I'm just going to place it over. This is rawhide here
we're dealing with. This area here,
overlapping here. Again up on top. And I'm just going to
keep come along here. And again.
We see it again. And there's no doubt
I'm seeing ink on here. So that's a good
thing-- live ink. The second thing I do
want to start looking at is some of the names
we have on here. The first one I'm going to
start with is Clark Gable. And what I'm looking for
is this nice, beautiful, every letter signature. He formed this big G here. Wasn't a straight-up
cursive capital. And you can see here,
looking at the same thing. Let's look at John
Wayne himself. This signature of
John Wayne, you see he's rolling that O in there. He's doing the same
thing throughout here. So the big question
is, what's it worth? Because you have all
these great signatures. But you have other signatures
written over signatures. STEVE GRAD: Yeah. You'd have to find
that uber Hollywood person that really wants this
type of assemblage together. The ink's great. I really like the
presentation of it all. So based on that, I value this
piece right at about $5,000. RICK: OK.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
- Yep. Take care.
- Thank you. Yep.
Thanks. You know, if Rick ends
up getting this piece, he has to buy it
at the right price. But I think if somebody
came in the shop and saw all those great
names, I think they'd easily be attracted to it. OK, so realistically,
what would you take for it? MEYER: I'm really
close to $16,000 on it. RICK: How much? $16,000. There's just no way I can. I mean, individually, I see it--
maybe. So what's your bottom dollar? I could go-- hearing what he said,
I could go $12,000. Yeah, I'd give
you $3,500 for it. Wow. That's a lot less than what
I'm prepared to consider. I think I'm going
to hold onto it. But I thank you very
much for the opportunity. RICK: OK. There's no way we're going
to be able to make a deal? - I don't think so.
- OK. Well, thanks for bringing it in. - Absolutely.
- Appreciate it. OK.
Thanks. I think to the right
collector, this piece is worth more than my asking price was. This piece is going
to hang on my wall until the right person, who
can appreciate it, comes along.
