Pawn Stars: High Hopes for RARE John Wayne Sword (Season 8) | History

i've got a hero sword here for you a hero sword yes it was used by john wayne in rio grande hey john wayne yeah you're your guy yeah he was a hell of an actor i think they went to the same high school yeah right where did you get it i got it from a prop store called western costume company being a marine corps veteran you know i've got a kind of affinity to military swords and stuff and this was probably a sword that was used in the american cavalry and when the government decided to sell off or get new swords they sold them to the prop stores okay then you got paperwork i got the coa right here all right i probably have seen rio grande i do not remember the plot rick anything john wayne those was classic movies back in the day the plots were almost all the same you know saved a girl etc so you don't remember the plot no i don't i may not remember all the details but rio grande is considered one of the greatest westerns ever made we can prove this sword was in the movie and used by the iconic john wayne it would have all kinds of value i mean i i think it's damn cool i mean this is an american cavalry sword the weird thing is is it's been plated over this isn't the way the calvary would receive it it wasn't gold-plated it was polished brass um they might have done that just to make it shine a little bit more in the movies is there an identifying mark on this thing well what it is is that it came along with this tag written on the sword itself it has this number zero zero one five okay how much you want well um i was thinking at minimum i'd take twelve thousand dollars whoa that much huh i mean when you think america you think john wayne and for him to actually have held it and used it in a classic movie do you mind if i have someone look at this i know somebody who knows everything there is to know about john wayne stuff who are you talking about john wayne son ah okay i met ethan wayne a while back and we've become friends having his dad's stuff come through my shop is a good reason to give him a call he'll be able to tell me yes or no i mean he he's really authority on just about anything about his father uh i'm gonna go get my call sure no problem i have the certificate and i have everything that'll prove that it's a john wayne sword i'm pretty sure that he'll look at the certificate and he'll look at the sword and he'll confirm that it was used by his father uh but either way it's cool to meet him what do you got here supposedly used by your dad a sword from rio grande before my time but cool rio grande is one of the trilogies uh three cavalry films that my father made with john ford directing john ford really responsible for his start as a major player in the movie business john wayne who's a stunt guy first right well he works as a prop man and he did whatever they wanted him to do and he was a physical guy he you know he went to sc in a football scholarship had an injury got lucky enough to get a job as a prop man's assistant and since he was athletic they'd use him for whatever they could use them for is that why you had that special walk for that football injury no i think i think that when he was first put on film he wasn't comfortable about the way he walked and talked and looked to himself so he watched guys like harry carey and yakima connect and he built this sort of on-screen persona you know representing american heroes and the epitome of the american male his films were in the middle east and in india and asia and all these places and and so he represented the united states of america to a large portion of the world before we were so connected you know these things would typically be in a big bin and everybody sort of wore the same thing so it's going to be tough without like specific markings to call this one out as a specific one that he used i think we should start with the certificate of authenticity it comes from western costume company i know that a lot of times they would engrave wcc up by the hilt so i don't see any inscriptions do you know if there's one on there well there's the this number right here and which matches the tag that was sent along with it okay you know we could do this certificate of authenticity is signed by eddie marks who runs the company i know eddie and he's just a phone call away so i think to really get to the bottom of it we call him up and we send him the coa because his signature's on it okay give him a call since ethan actually knows the guy who authenticated the sword i can find out with 100 certainty if it's legit you can't do much better than that hello eddie yes it's ethan hey ethan how are you so i'm sitting here with this sword and scabbard uh supposedly from rio grande and i've sent you the coa ethan after looking through this certificate of authenticity that stamp of seller western costume and my signature it's definitely my signature but that stamp at the bottom was never put on any certificate of authenticity that i actually signed that looks like it came off of the bottom of a contract this was cut and paced by somebody else this document is a piece that obviously someone went through great lanes to put together western costume doesn't have a specific certificate of authenticity especially this one do you know who this cellar was well i thought it was a western costume company so the proof that we have isn't conclusive that it was actually the sword used by my father in the film exactly thanks for your time thanks wow don't shoot the messenger i don't know i'm so devastated you know i have five more swords with the same coa and so i have a feeling that all those swords were also fakes wow forgers will do anything to get one over on a prospective buyer this certificate has the right signature but it's still a fake that's why it always pays off to bring in an expert it's not for me [Music] thanks guys see ya i'm devastated i really am i mean i it's one of my prized possessions now to find out it was a fake you know i'm glad i found out but at the same time i'm really sad you

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Length: 6min 52sec (412 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 11 2020