Pawn Stars: Rick’s RISKY DEAL for FLAWED Pistol (Season 6) | History

how can i help you well what i've got is a late  1700s tap action over under flintlock four-barrel   pistol that's a mouthful yeah it was wasn't it  i came to the pawn shop today to try to sell   my four-barrel pistol my uncle had it and then  he gave it to my father who then gave it to me   i really don't know how much the gun is worth but  i'm hoping that they can shed some light for me   it is neat the reason i think this gun is  so cool is because of all the engraving   that is done on it on the sides here it  says r clark the other side has got london   so it was manufactured in london okay and  i don't know what number 102 means that was   probably the gun makers surreal number he put on  it he might have made a few hundred of these and   this was number 102. i don't know and each barrel  is clearly numbered one two three four well let's   shoot all four barrels at the same time i mean it  could shoot four at a time it was designed though   he'd pull the hammer back which is broken and this  right here should be spring-loaded you can make   it a two-shot pistol when it's like this you only  have the two holes for the barrels exposed okay so   when you shoot it just these top two barrels would  go off and then you could pluck this back down   turn this and now there's that extra  powder you had hidden away in there right   [ __ ] the hammer back and shoot it again  now the bottom two barrels would go off   so it was one of the original multi-shot  guns you actually shoot it twice i got you   for the 1700s this was a pretty high-tech gun  but this is some of my problems with it okay um   you're missing the top half of this bolt  that would normally hold the flat right   and we have the spring is broken there's a  piece of spring steel that holds that down   it's in rough shape what'd you want to do  with it i want to sell it okay and how much   did you want for it i don't know because i don't  know the value of that gun at all you know um i'm thinking it's probably worth  probably five six hundred bucks okay   but it could be a lot more okay i would like to  get an estimate on how much it would be to fix it   to make it actually functional because if it's  functional people are going to want to buy it   it'll make it worth more money right okay  okay so let me call a buddy of mine in here   get a little bit better idea on the gun and  then i'll give you a price okay thank you   even though it's beat up i'm still interested  because it's an unusual and cool old gun jimison   how you doing how's it going corey always good  rick how's thanks what do you got today um an old   four-barrel pistol by some dude named clark well  that's about sums it up the guys usually call me   down here for antique weapons everything for world  war ii prior to that pretty much is what i do   i've been in the antique gun business for about  16 years and i can tell you that you do not see   many of these come up and it is by r clark you  know clark was in business with his son from   1790 to 1820 and because it doesn't say our clark  and son i suspect it means it was probably done   before his son was in the business and right  around that time period uh the english guns   were the best in the world right that's correct  and i would say a day somewhere to 1785 to 1790   you know during the 17th 18th centuries everybody  wanted some kind of weapon you know to defend   themselves with and they wanted something that  would be ready to shoot if they got robbed so   the barrels would have been loaded prior to  putting onto the gun so that they would be   actually ready to shoot four barrel flintlocks  are very rare at the time it was the top type of   gun that was made gave you a backup if you missed  the first one and hopefully keep you from being   robbed it has the maker's name on the side here  and this side has his address on it which is 102   cheap side london so that's not a cereal sir no  no no that's not a serial number it's a matter   of advertising you know if you made a fancy gun  or a really nice gun they would know where to go   okay do you have any idea what that would cost  back in 1780 probably paid three or four pounds   for it back okay back then it was a pound in  england was literally a pound of silver really   that's a lot of money nowadays yeah okay okay  rick what are your concerns about this weapon   what's it worth and it would it be worth it to get  it fixed this gun is obviously seen better days   the upper half of the [ __ ] is missing which  makes it unoperable and it's supposed to be   spring loaded so that when the flint strikes  it it goes back in its original position   so that is an issue i've seen guns like this  in really nice condition go for three to five   thousand dollars in the case but this gun in  the condition it's in i'd say it's worth about 700 to a thousand dollars if you're lucky   and to spend the money to have it rebuilt wouldn't  bring back that money in any form okay well thanks   for coming in man you're the best thanks this gun  did not have collector condition there were parts   missing parts replaced so it's not the kind of gun  a collector would pursue so how much would you be   willing to pay for okay i mean the problem is it's  a non-operable gun it's just not worth fixing it   it's what i originally thought i'd give you 500  bucks for it um but it's it's a pretty gun though   it's a pretty gun but it's also pretty  beat up and i mean it doesn't work 600 what do you think how many old english  guns have we bought over the years and how   many do we have in the case now i don't have any  right now i mean they all sell eventually right   all right 600 bucks deal okay all right  come with me let's do some paperwork   i was hoping i'd get more but  you know 600 i can live with you

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Length: 6min 2sec (362 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021