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this guy came in the shop with a guitar he said  was owned by jimi hendrix if this was actually   owned and played by the legend himself this will  be the coolest guitar ever to walk into my shop   and i will go to great lengths to buy  this guitar i have to this is stupid cool   i mean jimmy's one of jimmy's guitars hendrix  turned the guitar into an extension of his body   every way he moved was altering the sound of  the guitar when you see him dip down real low   he's bending the kids i'm physically bending the  guitar right there's very few guys that can make   their own statement with the guitar anymore  that guys come along like jimi hendrix   and just take it to a completely new place i want  to make sure this is 100 before we start talking   a lot of money yeah you mind if i take a look at  it no man by all means that's why you're awesome   there's a couple things you'd want to look  at the tremolo bar these are usually bent and   angled up he played the guitar upside down he  flattened a lot of these out made him straight   so they probably weren't ramming into his arm  and stuff like that another thing is what they   call ring wear if you're playing the guitar  like this my wedding ring hits the guitar   removes a lot of the paint finish from there if  you look at this guitar the top side of the neck   has a lot of that wear that's from the guitar  being this way now jimmy would have played it   left-handed the article that you guys have sitting  over there they asked a bunch of vintage dealers   to take a look at this guitar with photos and  stuff like that the serial number here l14985 this guitar has actually been documented   no doubt this is definitely one of jimmy's guitars  that's really really cool in my head i think i   know what it's worth but what do you think no  guitar is worth anything unless everything's   working on it in my book plug it in let it  rip let's turn it up loud cannot believe that's a good guitar man so what do you think it's  worth anywhere from 750 uh good auction million all right thanks buddy all right man thank  you yeah thanks again for letting me play   welcome man thanks a lot that felt crazy  to hold one of jimi hendrix's guitars man   you can see why he liked it because it was  a really good balanced nice feeling guitar   at a personal level i absolutely love it  but you have to find the right auction   it has to be advertised in the least amount  of time would be a year most likely right let me give you 450 000. 450. man my thing is  i take all the risk you walk away with cash   for a guitar that could fetch maybe a million  dollars on any day your own guy just told you   that okay but come on 450 grand yeah i'm thinking  7.50 man a lot of commissions and a lot of people   got to get paid to sell this thing right it's the  way the world works okay i'll give you a half a   million this guitar is worth more than that it it  just is if you want the money now i can go 550.   knowing that it could potentially affect a  million dollars at an auction i can't leave   that much money on the table 750 really man that's  that's a bottom dollar i can take for the guitar hey well have a nice day tell me if it goes  to auction i might bid on okay thanks man well six i can't do it man but i'll call you if i change  my mind okay all right he's fired one last bullet   across the boat there with with the 600 000 offer  you know honestly i was starting to kind of get   a little bit more tempted by that but you want to  come to a fair point in selling something of great   value don't be desperate about it and that i am  not a guy came in the shop with an original moby   dick classic comic it's pretty cool but i have no  idea what it's worth so i called paul in to help   me out he brought this moby dick comic in and i  figured you're the guy who could tell me about it   really cool man you could tell it's a  first original edition which is pretty   rare just by the 10 cent if you have a 15  cent or blank it's most likely a reprint   so how collectable is this in the comic book world  well this book actually has a pretty rare variant   on the regular edition on the inside front  cover there is a letter from the editor   the other one is an interior cover that's a  free promo kind of thing that's very rare and   i've seen like two well i didn't look at the  first page so so let's see what it says all right   all right this is the letter to the  editor so this is the regular one   what kind of value would you put on it overall  i mean the colors are great you do have some   damage along the edge the stain here but uh it's  a really nice book really nice copy is it 600 nice   i think it's closer to 550 nice okay well that's  not too far off thanks man you got it having an   original edition complete is really something that  people look out for i think it'll be a good buy   for the shop it might take a little time for that  right person to walk in but i think it'll sell   all right well after hearing everything you have  to say how much are you willing to let it go for   well i know you're gonna need  a little bit of room so 500. i got to take all the risks with  someone handling it and selling in   100 different people looking  at it would you go 350 on it i'd be much happier at 450. i could do  375 but i think that's my limit on it   well all right 375. all right we got a deal um  just meet me right up here at the counter okay   i'm selling on 375 because that does allow  me to get my original purchase price back and   to find a nice wailing book that my dad will  enjoy this is elvis's super fly coat i dig it one of the most iconic pieces of elvis wardrobe  in the collector's market you're saying this was   this belonged to elvis it did here's a picture  of him wearing it awesome cool um it has a fur   cape it doesn't get any better than that he  was known for his um taste in clothing oh i've been here before i'm coming back because  they treated me fairly last time i like making   deals with these guys to me elvis represents  america he's one of the most iconic figures of   the 20th century i mean there's only two people  that could pull off that look and that's elvis   and maybe a pimp this thing's pretty cool  can i try it on i think it might fit you pretty fly for a white guy  where's my money where's my money   take it off i feel super fly that's for sure how much were you looking to get out of it 75  000. okay um do you mind if i have someone look   at this thing i mean it is really cool  i mean it's a massively iconic thing   well who would you like to call in you know who  jimmy bellwood is right yup i sure do knows a   lot about his memorabilia things like that let  me give him a call and we'll go from there okay   they told me they're bringing in jimmy velvet he  is probably the best expert on elvis artifacts   if anybody is gonna know it's original it's  gonna be him i met i was through my english   teacher through your english teacher yeah you  like his tutor or something no are you kidding   i knew i needed the tutor but that's how we met  she informed me that elvis was going to record   a song the following month that she wrote and  that song was our great hotel well i used to own   numerous elvis museums around the country five  total i specialize in anything and everything else   it must have been pretty cool hanging out at  graceland it was always cool you never knew what   was going to happen there you know there was  always something and elvis was very impatient   so you get on the plane you're in the air and he  wants to go get a cheeseburger but he did stuff   like this you never knew so what do you think of  the jacket there's so much fake stuff out there   you pay a big dollar but you got to be very  careful what you buy he had a bunch of these   made all different colors this brown one this  is the one he wore it quite a lot it mostly   uh to the hotels and back from the airplane he  kept us on the plane sure one thing i really   wanted to see is the ic costume label tell me did  you ever see elvis and this and this exact one yes so you think this is the real deal i know it  is okay the other big question what's it worth the fading is gonna cost a little if i was trying to buy this coat i would  love to get it for somewhere between   50 60 55 000 it's a great coat it's more  than a coat it's it's elvis you know all right thanks man thank you seeing that  coat today brought back a lot of memories   i know people who would probably pay 60 000 or  more for it it's just a grand piece of history   so what do you think i should pay for  it chum 40 grand that's about right i mean you know what collectibles have done in  the past few years i mean the price has gone down   it's not come up but the good stuff always remains  high and i mean this is it doesn't get much better   for elvis stuff here forty thousand dollars seems  like a really high figure okay i take it off your   hands i take all the risks and i have to sell it  70 grand i can't do it 40 i mean i'm giving you   my best number right off the bat that's what i can  do the jumpsuits go for hundreds of thousands and   although this is not stage worn this is the next  best thing if it wasn't a good piece i wouldn't be   offering you 40 grand okay i'll go 50. no i'll go  40 grand i'm giving you my best shot i really am you can't do 50. 40 grand all right just for you i'll do 45. i'll  go 40 grand i don't i can't do that i mean 45 you got a deal it's a big investment i  can't take a loss on it though so 45 i'll do it you gonna let it walk over five thousand  dollars rick the deal's not right the deal's   not right dude okay all right man i wish we  could work change your mind give me a call you don't want to do 45 i'll go 40. you got it all right write them up chum sweet  all right i'll meet you right over there let   me put the jacket on first go write them up  go write them up i thought jimmy's appraisal   of 50 to 60 was a little bit low prices now  are a lot higher than they were back then what can i help you with i got this picture  here uh it's from like says 1500's as far   as i'm concerned it's like a scary picture i  mean i wouldn't want to hang this on my wall   i really like it you're a weird individual  for liking this stuff i don't like it   i came to the pawn shop because i  have an old print that i have to sell   if it's any value i'm retired so i could use  the money if i got a couple of grand i'd be   happy if i got more it'd be even nicer where in  the world did you get this well i got it from   my mother it was in the family a lot of years  so i sort of bait on it just thought maybe it   might be worth something yeah believe it or not  you got something really cool here oh really   this is an engraving by albrecht dewer actually  he's a pretty famous artist as a matter of fact   he's really famous i mean he was probably  the greatest engraver of the renaissance   albert door was obsessed with the idea that the  world would end in some kind of apocalypse like   in the bible so most of his work included demons  and satanic creatures 500 years later he is still   influencing gothic artists and even horror movie  directors do you think that this is an original that is his autograph i mean that's  way he did it third state more changes   if you can get one from the 1500s in its  original state it's worth 300 thousand dollars   but this is not 1500 the paper is not  right the paper would be hand laid paper   much differently than this uh-huh this is 1700s  or 1800s paper this thing is definitely worth   some money but i'm not really sure about the  value normally i'd call my buddy brett but   he's busy with a new gallery opening so i'm gonna  have to take a gamble on the price how much do   you want for it a couple thousand dollars is it  worth that maybe it's worth more i don't know   i'll give you my one price and that will  be it i'll give you five grand for it   how about six thousand i'll tell you what  i'll give you 5 500 bucks i believe it's worth   right around seven all right if it's worth seven  how about 6 500. i won't make no money i got   rent i got employees i got overhead i got power  bills oh i got the same thing i take all the risk   and you walk out with cash how about 6  000. you get 5 500 i won't go up anymore all right okay tough negotiators i feel really  good about this buy but i won't know for sure if   the gamble is worth it till i have it appraised  wow albrecht durr i don't get many of those an   albrecht durer etching that was a first impression  done right after the hand carving of the plate   that piece is sold at auction for an excess of  350 000 what year was it pressed i don't know but   i paid a lot of money for it i hope i  did all right well we'll take a look   it's dark the lines are crisp there's obviously  some conditional flaws in the border but the   composition itself is very strong however i  don't think that this is a real early impression   the paper is too thin i don't think it's  indicative of the laid paper that they   were using in the 16th century i also don't  notice in the image much in the way of burr   basically when mr durer was doing the etching he  left little grooves of metal and it would make for   almost an impressionistic look in certain areas  and over time once you get further and further   removed from the first few impressions you lose  the burr so i don't see much in the way of burr   however it's almost certainly from the  original plate you can see the plate marks   the dimensions match up i think it's a very nice  impression circa 17th century and even though it's   not an early impression it's a valuable one i  mean i've seen pieces like this sell at auction anywhere from 20 grand to 50 grand   yeah so i imagine he did pretty well uh i don't  know what you paid for it but i paid 5 500 for it   okay i said it was a gamble when i bought it um  but uh thanks man you did great um you want to put   that in like a nice frame or something i think we  can do something for you yeah something chum can't   break anytime you pay 5 500 for something that's  a sizeable investment but rick knows what he's   doing a little too much so i'm afraid he might not  need an art expert anymore what do we have here a   couple of victorian era stained glass windows that  i inherited from my dad when windows first started   coming into houses stained glass was really  expensive back then so the owners of the house   went on vacation or something they took all the  windows down oh really because they get stolen yes i'm coming down to the pawn shop today to sell  my stained glass windows i don't have a price   in mind because i don't know what they're  worth at my house they're just sitting in a   box and they're not being displayed the way they  really should be do you know anything about them   what i think i have is an example of combination  glass beveled glass stained glass and jewels   now this other window i'm not sure if it's of the  same era or not stained glass is an art form it's   tremendous amount of work to make these things  it really came to be a really great art form   late middle ages for over a thousand years when  most people couldn't read churches put up stained   glass windows that depicted scripture and bible  stories they called them the poor man's bible   what were you thinking about getting out of  them well what would you be willing to offer   i'll give you 400 bucks for both 400 bucks oh  that's kind of low um how about 800 for the pair   how about five it's one of those things that  sits very very long time how about seven   um i'll tell you what i'll go 600 bucks and i  will not go no more than that 600 would be max i   think that 600 is a fair price you got a deal okay  thanks i'm actually very happy that we settled on   six i realize that he's taking all the risk it's  gonna take quite a while to sell these windows   a guy brought in a bunch of star wars action  figures that came out the same year that the movie   was released i don't know anything about star wars  so i called up a buddy of mine to come take a look   you look like the type that had a princess leia  posted on your wall i still do man i still do wow   man these are really nice shape everything looks  really really nice which sets off a lot of red   flags because there's a lot of these figures being  counterfeited nowadays these are the first release   which are the most sought after as far as any of  the star wars stuff goes this is a french card   here which you never see here in the states to  make it worth more or less more desire definitely   okay that's also the vinyl cape wow that's amazing  as far as star wars toys go the holy grail is the   vinyl cape java it's one of the most sought  after star wars figures we just smell these what are you doing sometimes you can smell the  age of them and you can also smell if there's   glue so do they smell real they  do they smell like 1978 to me   what do you think they're worth i mean  your blisters are clean the cards are clean   the money piece definitely is the  jawa i've seen this figure by itself   go anywhere from eight to ten thousand i would  put a conservative estimate on this collection in the nine to twelve thousand dollar range yes  yes all right appreciate it man no problem at any   time see you later news i could reasonably expect  to get somewhere between nine and twelve thousand   dollars um i can see paying you like five man oh  i don't i got to be the one to sell them yeah i   understand that that's not even close you know  i i'm looking for 7 500 you'll turn an instant   profit of a couple thousand dollars without an  effort yeah man but then i take the risk of one   of my guys messing one of these up and well well  then you need to hire another staff member would   you take six for them no now they're gonna  do nothing but growing value for 7 500 you're   still gonna turn a profit of two or three thousand  dollars with no effort i'll give you seven grand why don't we split and say 72.50 i'll give you  seven thousand dollars i mean i'm taking all the   risk here okay i'll do seventh all right wanna  write them up sure i'm pretty happy with seven   thousand dollars but um my dad was a salesman  his whole life i think he'd be saying eric you   should have asked a little bit more what do you  got here i have an elevator model from the 1860s   all right what do we got here you need an  elevator for your house check this thing out   cool this probably was 1860s you know early 1870s  an elevator operator was a profession you're   telling me if someone got paid to stand in the  elevator all day and push buttons back then they   didn't have buttons they had like levers and open  the door sign me up i got a crappy job anyways   i'm coming to the shop today to sell an antique  elevator model i have an antiques business and   my business partner and i found it in belgium i've  been finding elevator models similar to this and   it's been selling for around five thousand so  i was thinking 4 000 it's reasonable it's an   architectural model from the mid-1800s which makes  it really cool elevators back then just sucked   they were usually used in dockyards and building  things like that and the problem was people   on a regular basis saw cable snap and people  would not get in them because they were smart do you know much about this well i do know  that the break was invented by elisha otis and   the patents from 1861. it says eight  persons i think that's french okay   this was probably a french company they had an  elevator system that was competing with otis   but otis had a patent so they had to come up with  their own otis from otis elevators the way he got   people to go in his elevator wasn't the mid-1800s  he would have his elevator bring him up like four   stories and he'd whip out his knife and cut  the cable and you came to a slow nice stop and   nothing would break that's why the otis elevator  was so great because it had these brake shoes   it's their sales model i mean it's  in pretty amazing shape and it works   it does you can actually drop it can i drop it  i don't want to mess it up okay so so imagine   you're in there and the cable breaks it still  works i'm impressed thank you i'm elevated there's a lot of people who collect stuff  like this every one of the construction trades   architects how much you want for  it four thousand i'll give you two you get all the money i take all the risk  you know all right 3 500 no we need to go   to the lower floor uh this is really not a  time to be joking rick we're talking money 2500 i'll go 21 and i shouldn't do that i have to  make money on this thing i might get four grand   out of it but that's that's not an auction there's  auction fees it'll take me a year to get my money   i got to spend money to ship it across the country  somewhere and i've done that already as well   yeah yeah it's 2100 bucks 2200 no no 2100 bucks   okay got it good deal all right thank you writer  up chub whoo i'll meet you right over here all   right thank you don't break it i'm happy that  i was able to sell the antique eliminator model   today i didn't get the 4000 that i was looking  for but 2100 i'll be able to use for my business   a guy brought in a vintage gibson guitar  owned by peggy eames from our gang so i   called my friend jesse come down and help me out  we have a really early gibson potentially a 1938.   wow that's an early early early one well if it's  a 38 it's a super jumbo it's the first year that   they made these and it came to be one of gibson's  most famous guitars everybody has played and   recorded with uh super jumbo neil young lahu so  to have a first year production that's a big deal   the 38 super jumbo is one of the most iconic  sounding guitars there are it was loud it had   a really nice mellow low end to it they even make  a reissue of the 38 the first year because it's   such a significant guitar you mind if i pick it up  and take a look at it uh go ahead all right cool back looks in good shape it's all rosewood  no cracks on the back there's a nice piece   of maple it looks like maybe on the neck  there you got maybe one crack right here   the biggest thing is if there is a number on  the inside of it ink stamped in there um well yeah this is 1938 for sure it's got a d for  the letter and that was only used in 1938.   so all right it's a super jumbo that's super cool  the custom work on it that makes it really cool   who was she peggy eames my mother started out  in the r gang silence and from there she went   into vaudeville when she outgrew our gang that  is awesome our gang was great but she's not   super well known you guys have any other  concerns with the guitar uh no i think he   covered everything except that one big one what's  it worth well without that custom work on it   in this condition this is probably a 40 000  guitar the custom stuff on it takes it into a   different realm so you have a first year guitar  with custom stuff on it this could possibly be   65 maybe even 70 grand for this guitar yeah  okay it's a little lower than i'm anticipating   getting almost double what a  stock one is is is pretty good   yeah thanks for calling me in on this  one this one's rad all right thanks man   you know what 38 this is only the second one of  these i've ever seen in my life it was really cool   to get to hold one in my hands not just looking  at it on the pages of a book an amazing instrument i'll give you 45 000 for the guitar well my intention was that the money would be used  as a down payment on like a getaway cottage call   it peggy's cabin my asking price 75 is really  where i still want to stay on it there's very   few people in the world who have enough money to  spend the stock 1938 guitar you bump that up to   the few guys who buy the custom ones it can  take me years to sell something like this   that's what i can do i mean i will go 000 uh if  you were the n collector is it of interest to you   uh that's just it i'm not the end collector  65 would probably move me on it i'll go 47.   i assume all the risk after  that you know what i mean i i think i'll haul it around a little bit  longer okay if you change your mind i'm here   okay i appreciate that there's a lot more involved  here than money the family heirloom part of it is   real strong maybe during a family gathering  once a year peggy's cabin and it'd be like a   memorial earlier a guy brought in a sword that  he claims was used during the war of 1812.   it definitely looks authentic but i've never seen  a sword from this era so i've got to have someone   come in and check out the condition of it what's  up mark how are you doing well good man so what do   we got old sword thing from probably around the  war of 1812 era very nice you found something   interesting the first thing that we look at on  this is the eagle head on this one's badly dinged   here but the handle here is correct the corrosion  is something that you'll want to deal with   your scabbard is original but in horrendous shape  yes unfortunately overall what you have here is a   model 1805 artillery officer's sword a lot of  people make the mistake of thinking that it was   supposed to be shiny like we normally think of  as sword blades not in this case this one the   blade was actually blued and then it was chased  in gold this one was probably made in france   this particular type of sword was issued from  1805 to 1815 so this would have been an issued   sword for the war of 1812. so is there any  way to tell if it was ever used in battle   there's no way of actually  saying that it was or it wasn't   might have been carried into battle however  it's an artillery sword the artillery   fire cannons they don't lead charges with  their sword how rare would you say it is they're not real common it's one that a sword  collector would come in and say oh yeah i need   that to fill out my run of u.s military  swords all right mark appreciate it man so now that we know a little bit more about it  how much you looking to get out of the sword   well i'd like to get five thousand dollars for  it um if i bought it from you for five thousand   i'd have to try to sell it for seven and seven  thousand dollar sword is just not there i think   we're more about in the 500 range given the age  and the historical value of it i'd like to get   more than that what about uh i mean two thousand  dollars i mean if the sword was in perfect   condition we might have like a two or three  thousand dollar sword here but it's just not pay   a thousand for it and i'm taking the risks there  man i really am i mean it's a piece of history 12.   i'll go 1100 bucks 11.50 all right man deal  all right 11 50. i would have liked to have   seen more but given the condition i'm satisfied  with 11.50 and it's going straight to my wife you

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Length: 31min 24sec (1884 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020