Pawn Stars: Sword Pistol | History

it's a sword pistol that I thought you might be interested in purchasing yeah so we have a sword and a little pop gun that's really gonna piss somebody off so today I came in so that I could sell the sword pistol to Rick if I can sell this today we to use the money so that I can help refurbish my antique military truck it's a project I've worked on for quite a while I'm looking to get about $20,000 of the sword pistol it's really really interesting I match asking for it 20 grand okay let me call someone I have a buddy who that will know a thousand times more than I know about this so I'm gonna make a phone call I'll be right back that'd be great in German they call it a Hirsch banger and basically it means it's a sword pistol as you can see it was made to kill wild boar once they were injured so it was strictly for hunting this wasn't a combat type piece royalty landed gentry they go out in the woods they would shoot it boar they'd injure them they catch up to the boar and they would try to stick it with the sword to finish it off but if the boar was still moving they could have the pistol to bring it down as well cuz that particular little teeny pistol looks like we just really pissed anything off yeah well that's why the boar has to be injured first this is late 1600s yeah or early 1700s probably more like it in its day this was about the very nicest Hirsh banger money could buy so what does a super fancy hershberger go for well I would like to know if this could fire if this could fire it would show that it was truly built properly and not just for show if not the value drops quickly okay would it be possible to fire this I think it's absolutely necessary so what caliber is this thing it's close to a 22 it's a little larger than that but I'm gonna actually put in a smaller projectiles since it's so old I want to keep the pressure inside the chamber low okay the pressures too high it'll blow my hand off it's not my hand so because I'm going to lower caliber iPatch the projectile so it takes up the space inside the barrel okay [Music] okay we're ready alright so the idea is that that is an injured wild boar I'm gonna finish it off put it out of its misery so you'd stab it a couple of times in the neck ideally one two three then you'd step away if it still wasn't dead or it started to run away surprise me it worked that was actually a good little explosion for that little gun okay it works it's real what do you think this thing is worth I really like it it's unique it's beautiful it comes from London not from Germany the silver grip with the negative space I mean there's a lot going for it you're not gonna see another one anytime soon the issue is what's the market for it it's very specific it's hunting oriented I think the realistic value in today's market it's about twelve thousand dollars sorry to disappoint all right Rick every black man force even this sort pistol worked it's not the most powerful gun I've ever had but it totally worked it is rare but they're not a ton of collectors out there looking for this so it's a good buy for Rick at the right price well you take for it 12,000 well that would make absolutely no sense to me I'll give you seven I'll go ten fifty there's no money at that I'll go 75 hundred bucks I'd be like it well you're not gonna find another one like it well I know that I'll never find another one exactly like it but I'll find another 500 weird things I can buy and make more money off of give me your top dollar that's it that's it it takes time to self it's a little bit of our code I think I can probably do better at an auction or at and one of the specialty shows fernman if you change your mind give me a call all right now thank you very much for your time I'm okay with not making a deal today because I think if I'd settled today type regret it tomorrow in the end I think I'm gonna make more money on this is worth it just to see Alex almost blow himself up wow this thing is nice this is a casting out this is like one of the Holy Grails of American coins I'll do 95 that's it no I don't think so I think I'm gonna take it home

Channel: Pawn Stars

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Tue May 15 2018