Pawn Stars: Top 12 Rare USA Antiques! (All-American Marathon)

today could be a huge day I got a call from a guy who says he has two of the rarest coins ever if these pieces are real this could be a very expensive day Walter yes I am your phone call got me a little excited so this is it that is the half Disney the other is the liver toss this is pretty damn amazing the half Disney could be considered the first American coin yes very rare piece very rare one of the things I don't get about early American coins were Eagles that skinny back then we didn't feed him very much I'm here to sell these two really really rare coins the half Disney and the liver toss I really love collecting the coins but I need to sell a couple of them off so I can buy some other ones at an auction and I'll just hope to make a good deal here this is really really cool the half Disney it was minted in 1792 1792 we just elected George Washington President we finally have a constitution and since we're a country we've got to start making our own currency here but the problem was for the first 50 years of our country the mint never got its act together we had difficulties getting the silver and the gold and everything else like that and I couldn't imagine being a merchant right after the Revolutionary War in this country because if you had any kind of store you took British pounds and French francs and Spanish Reales because there's just always a shortage of American coins but this is the very first one and uh the rumor has it that George Washington basically jacked Martha's silverware to have it made that is the story of no documentation about but that is the story about that you know what I'm gonna stick with the story because I like it you got it okay George Washington look a little gangster yes and this is the libertas Americana this is absolutely great Benjamin Franklin had this Commission in France right yes in 1781 he helped design this to get France to Mint that coin on behalf of the American friendship in France I know the baby is the United States right right and the lion is England of course this lady right here is France that's correct she's protecting the child the United States from England that's super cool and then in 1783 Thomas Jefferson was at Paris he's the one that took these medals back to America and he passed it on to the senators in the congressman it's pretty damn amazing they're all graded by PCGS and NGC so we know they're good how much for the liver toss two hundred thousand for the half Disney I'm looking for six hundred thousand eight hundred thousand dollars for the pair damn um that is a lot of money ah these are two of the most desirable coins for collectors there is and eight hundred thousand dollars might not be a bad price but there's no way I can even consider spending a small fortune on them before I have an expert I trust come in the shop and check them out do you mind if I go make a few phone calls real quick sure I will be right back oh I was pretty excited when you called These are amazing I think one of the really great things is both of these coins are really closely tied with the founding fathers when these 1792 half Disney's are being made Thomas Jefferson actually want 75 dollars worth which is about 1500 of these and he spent these on the way back to Monticello you know it's our first American coinage that's where we make some special very first coins and this one the libertas Americana this is one of my favorite coins because it's so beautiful this is a silver example so they made these in copper silver and they actually made a couple gold but those were lost in the French Revolution the silver coins were much rarer than the copper examples and most of them are not this condition all right so um what do you think they would go for well the 1792 half Disney with the right buyer would probably bring five to six hundred thousand all right and this one the libertas Americana I would say for the right buyer for this piece um two hundred thousand dollars would be about right okay well thanks man okay I hope that helps you good luck thanks yeah if Rick can buy these coins they're very very popular there's a lot of people who love to own them and he would have no trouble selling them so I hope he's able to purchase them okay first off the half Disney um it's pretty damn amazing and I'm sure I'll never hold another one of my hands but if I was to buy it and then I couldn't sell it it would put a financial burden on me so I'm gonna pass on this one right here I'm just gonna let you know that this one I have multiple customers and even if they don't buy it I think I can eventually do something with it so 140 000. 140 140 000 you heard the men you have to make some money I understand this I can see how about 180 . I will give you 150 000. at that price I feel comfortable you couldn't do 160. I will go 150. I think it's more than a fair price it's a deal so sweet I will meet you right over there and we will do some paperwork you take that one I'll take this I'll take this one I'll meet you right over there okay what do these days there's gonna be a coin with my face on it so what do we got here I think there's something in here you're really gonna like to see okay 1963 American made Fender Stratocaster all right to me this is the guitar but there's something very very special about this specific guitar all right this guitar was actually played by Jimi Hendrix that's a big wow factor right there Jimi Hendrix man he's one of the greatest rock and roll Legends of all time when I'm bringing to the table today is not only a piece of Rock and Roll history but it's very well preserved Jimi Hendrix he was an icon this guy did things with a guitar that no one did before he played a strat yeah left-handed guitar is a farm if you between his first guitars were used he couldn't find a left one so he started playing with a right-handed guitar with the strings upside down even when he had money he continued playing guitars that were right hand guitars strung upside down do you mind if I pick it up no absolutely by all means all right this is the Holy Grail he actually held this guitar that you now have in your hands and made wonderful music with it is there any pictures of him playing it on stage or anything or no because he it was exclusively played in the studio this was his really favorite sort of recording Acts I'm gonna set this down [Laughter] and where did you get this it was actually owned by a guy named skip Jarrett there was a studio called Juggy Sound Studio that Jimmy loved to cut in Brooklyn New York skip was the chief engineer at juggie Sound Studio and after they wrapped up all the production on band of gypsies and all that they gave this guitar to skip when he passed away one of my business associates and I acquired a guitar okay this guitar was on banded gypsies yeah he played this guitar on several records he actually played it on nervous breakdown as well okay here's just something that came out this year in this magazine about this specific guitar the guy that wrote this article you know did a lot of extreme diligence plus I have you know letter signed by Jimmy's brother I have seen items where people had letters from the family right right okay and it turned out not to be what they said it was right okay that's the one big thing that scares me how much do you want for the guitar I think this guitar you know from everyone I've talked to I'd be willing to take say 750 000 for it I have a friend who if this thing is real he will know and if not he'll call both wearing it yeah I'm saying all right I'll be right back give me a few minutes okay thanks man I have nothing to hide let's turn the lights on real bright this is an authentic Jimi Hendrix guitar I'm happy to challenge anybody that he wants to bring the table to look at it because he'll authenticate the guitar this is stupid 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 Rolo he's bending the kids physically defending the guitar there's very few guys that can make their own statement with the guitar anymore but 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 you play the guitar upside down you flattened a lot of these out made them 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 finished 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 tar is worth anything unless everything's working on it in my book [Laughter] [Applause] plug it in let it rip let's turn it up loud cannot believe this [Music] um foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] that's a good guitar man so what do you think it's worth anywhere from 750 to good auction million all right thanks buddy all right man thank you 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 risks you walk away with cash for a guitar that could fetch it maybe a million dollars on any day you've got one guy just told you that okay but come on 450 Grand yeah I'm thinking 750 man a lot of commissions and a lot of people got to get paid to sell this stuff right it's just it's the way the world works okay I'll give you 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 at 750 really man that's a that's a bottom dollar I can take for the guitar all right well have a nice day tell me if it goes to auction I might bid on it okay thanks man well [Music] 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 six hundred thousand dollar offer you know honestly I was starting to kind of get a little bit more tempted by that but if 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 I got something to show you my volcanic pistol that's really really cool it's amazing this came in the shop here it's hard to find these things yep [Music] I came down to the pawn shop to sell a volcanic pistol I'm a big collector of firearms I'd like to sell it because I have two boys in college and we sure could use the money I would like to try to get about 10 000 because I feel it's worth between 10 and 12 000. this is a volcanic arms what the hell is that the Forerunner of the Winchester rifle this was the first Lever Action Gun it was built by Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson the 1850s was when they started making these I believe an eight-shot pistol was pretty damn impressive you were talking like a lever action rifle it's throughout the old Shell load the new shell the person that invented the Winchester rifle saw this next thing you know Winchester buys the patent and builds the most popular rifle of the time they used to say the Winchester rifle was the gun that won the West it all started there volcanic arms were started by two guys Daniel Wesson and Horace Smith later they formed Smith and Wesson they made a lot of Innovations and that's why they're still in business today so where did you get it I was at the toastful Oklahoma show I seen this guy walking in the aisle with that I said man I gotta have that they made him an offer and I walked home with it okay that happens in gun shows all the time now the reason it's so collectible is just due to the fact that that it make a lot of them the nice thing about this firearm here is it's never been touched and it has all the original patina on it you know hasn't been polished down to the Brass so it's like original find I mean this is a really nice shape I'm actually really familiar with this gun so I don't need to consult an expert as long as the price is anywhere near reasonable I'm buying so you guys are interested in purchasing it oh yes I'm definitely interested in purchasing it as long as you don't have insane prices in your head I'd like to give maybe 10 10 000 um how about five grand it's not a quick seller uh how about eight grand I think it's a piece that if you have here I think it's actually going to bring people in I'm thinking I'm probably going to get around eight grand for it I'll give you 6 500 bucks for it prices on just about every collectible has gone down about 7 500. um 6 500 bucks I think is more than fair well I got two kids in college so uh I think I'll do that deal okay thank you man all right you want to ride him up son I'm feeling pretty good about the 6500 you know if I would have put the gun in auction I would have waited another three months so I think we did actually pretty well hey how can I help you I got a couple of historic books I thought you might want to look at okay the 1802 edition of The Federalist Papers volumes one and two yes it came in two volumes it's the second edition the guy that's name is in there was the fourth Postmaster General of the United States I was hoping I was going to say like George Washington or something in it to their collection I'm asking eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and we'll put the money towards building a new barn at home if we make a deal today I'm really excited about them they're really neat where did you get these my husband dug them out of the trash and brought them home he dug them out of someone's trash yes wow I'm just sort of like a shocked you didn't normally see things like this um these were all letters arguing for the Constitution we have now and a lot of people were completely against it they wanted us to stay as 13 independent countries with a much weaker central government and Hamilton Madison and Jay were publishing these Anonymous letters for the Constitution and they were explaining all the different parts of the Constitution to convince people to go along with the Constitution and there's some pretty interesting writing in here yes there is so you want to sell them yes I do okay and how much do you want for them well I've seen them advertised for 14 to 16 000 so I thought eight thousand two hundred and fifty would be fair okay so I mean were these prices on the Internet or something like that yes it was an internet bookstore all right these things might be in great condition or a terrible condition I have no idea um do you mind if I have someone look at them no that'd be fine I have a friend who knows everything there is to know about this stuff and she's probably going to completely nerd out on these okay so uh sounds good I'll be right back okay I'm looking forward to hearing their opinion on the books the condition the value and the importance towards our history what do we have these are the Federalist Papers she says they're the second edition I don't know if these are really bad condition or just bad condition [Applause] two Edition the last Edition before Hamilton's death and Hamilton's early Death By duel was in fact really kind of a shame for American history because he doesn't often get his due Hamilton's a really important guy he essentially established the economic foundations for the federal government he wrote many of the essays here and this is one of the great works in American history I mean it's huge and it's something that every collector wants um but we gotta stop for a second um I am seriously concerned that this might be mold okay and if it's mold you'd need a very serious cleaning of the paper and boards where did you get this from the trash okay yeah it's probably multiple but it's worth salvaging okay and the repairs you're looking at probably at least a thousand dollars okay so then how much would they be worth if they were all restored um if it works out nicely it could be up to fourteen thousand I would say okay now she just made everything more complicated thanks Rick's trying not to show it in front of the seller but I think he's really excited by this book everyone wants it so important it's some of our most intellectually stimulating and Fascinating People in the history of America and frankly it's a good business decision to get okay um what would be your best price I still think they're worth what I'm asking eight thousand two hundred and fifty I mean this is my situation I buy them off you and somewhere north of a thousand dollars I'm gonna pay to get them restored then I have to wait six months and then I get them back and then I have to sell them how about seventy five hundred I mean this is literally I give you the money I'm not even gonna see any type of return for over a year most likely I mean 65. 7250. that's bringing me down from my beginning how about seven thousand dollars I think it's a good price at seven thousand okay I'll take it cool come this way and uh we'll just pay for work just leave them right there our daughter was always teasing my husband about digging through the trash but it just made us seven thousand dollars richer hi there hey how's it going good got a 1922 proof High Relief matte finish coin okay where did you get this I wanted at a poker game believe it or not this is like one of the Holy Grails of American coins and you went into Pokemon yep whoa came down to the pawn shop today to try to sell a 1922 proof coin I don't know a lot about it but uh the guy who lost it to me said it was really valuable so hoping to get 20 000 out of it this is cool in 1921 we brought the silver dollar back and The Story Goes is they were going to try and make some really high relief ones what this means by high relief right here is the image really comes off the coin okay it's much higher detail and I don't know the exact story but there was like some problems and they got melted down and most people didn't even know they existed for like 15 years and then also some stories came from the men but they actually existed so there's like a dozen of these things in the world pretty rare oh well it's beyond rare the 1922 High Relief peace dollar is one of the rarest coins in American history it definitely shocks me that people will walk up my counter and pull out an item worth 50 or 100 000 or more I definitely want this thing but I have to make absolutely sure this is the real deal [Music] silver dollars is what every coin collector collects everyone collects silver dollars and maybe they collect half dollars nickels but they all buy silver dollars I mean that's the Mainstay of collectible coins okay so how much do you want for it twenty thousand wait you want 20 for it twenty thousand do you think it's worth it sure no problem let's go no um no this is worth a lot more than 20 grand oh that's pretty awesome do you mind if I call a friend to take a look at this I have a few mega mega concerns here okay I've never seen one in person and I just want to make sure everything is legit I mean if someone was to fake a coin this is the one they would do it on um I'm actually friends with a guy who works at NGC he's one of the best coin graders and if everything's legit um maybe we'll do some business so that's good all right hang out all right I think there's a good chance it's legit obviously nothing in this world is 100 but I'm happy with an expert coming in for sure Dave Rick how you doing I am doing absolutely fabulous and this is it wow it isn't every day a 1922 High Relief peace dollar walks in the door this guy got in a poker game oh my God it's always nice to get called in on an exciting coin this coin is particularly interesting historical and it's rarest hen's teeth [Music] Corey with this coin I mean this was the coin the government minted but no one knew they minted it for like 15 or 20 years that's correct none of these had transacted until 1937. these were more or less unknown and They carried over the high relief of the 1921 issues all of which by the way were stuck in a one week period at the end of 1921. now the high relief design was sort of a Triumph of Art and a failure of Technology because although they were beautiful they couldn't strike them with enough pressure to get a lot of them out so they ended up early in 1922 having to reduce the relief of the design okay so I assume your main concern is is it real yeah okay definitely [Laughter] it is in an NGC holder which is wonderful the holder is completely intact and genuine Quine is perfectly legitimate it's one of very few known okay so the big thing is what's it worth one of these sold very recently that brought a touch over a hundred thousand so it's a little bit nicer than this but not too far apart I think this coin is worth something north of 50 but less than 100. okay thanks man super rare no problem okay thank you congratulations thank you all right there you go all right all right um I'll talk to you soon sounds good I'm quite excited that this is the real thing uh very few Specialists have had the chance to actually handle them but finding one of these especially walking into a pawn shop is really extraordinary I should have just gave you the 20 grand and I called him Dave uh I'm happier now I'll give you 65 000. what about 90 I think 90 is fair you were willing to take 20 grand for it you weren't willing to offer me 20 grand for it I think 75 is fair meet me in the middle at 80 and you got a deal it's a deal all right okay all right let's go up front I'll write you up I made 80 000 on the coin super excited about it definitely gonna keep playing poker uh hopefully I get another coin like this sometime hey how's it going good good I have something I think you might be interested in it's the very first issue of Playboy volume one issue one okay Marilyn Monroe Playbook awesome I came to the pawn shop today to try and sell my first issue of Playboy magazine the Marilyn Monroe issue it's not a copy this is a genuine first edition I'd like to get two thousand dollars for the magazine but don't tell him I I will take probably 1600 if I can get it so where did you get this well my father bought it uh back in 1953 and then before he passed away he gave it to me this was the very first Playboy and I truly believe that Maryland wasn't in the first issue I don't know if it would have lasted much longer this is what lit the whole thing on fire how do you know so much about Playboy's trust me Sean I know this is amazing this is the most collectible issue of Playboy ever most Playboys are worth a few bucks this is worth a few thousand do you know how Marilyn Monroe ended up in this magazine no I don't in nineteen I think it was 47 Marilyn Monroe then Norma Jean needed some money and she wasn't a star yet hadn't been any movies she got paid somebody to do some nude photographs well 1952 comes along and she gets a movie deal later in the year the photographer who took the pictures looked at the movie poster and going oh my gosh I think I have pictures of her and he ended up selling the pictures to Playboy magazine okay the studios thought it was just going to ruin her it was going to ruin the movie but the great thing was Maryland she just played it off and she just went yeah that was me you ought to buy the magazine that's wild the thing you have to remember this was the 50s just a few months earlier she was getting criticized for the pictures she took during the 1952 Miss America pageant for a low neckline just imagine what people thought when they saw that picture in that magazine of her on the red velvet these are really collectible I mean if you collect Playboys this is the one everybody wants what were you looking to do pawn it or sell it I'd like to sell it and what do you want for it uh 2000 [Laughter] um I'm thinking closer to a thousand I think a thousand's a little low um Michael 16. what do you think we should pay for it Trump I can buy a new one right now for six bucks full color I mean I'll cut to the chase I'll give you 1400 not a dime more [Music] okay I'll go for it thanks God you have great negotiating I generally don't like buying magazines because they're hard to sell but this is awesome I could probably double or triple my money on this but I think I'm going to keep it in the case for a while because it's going to bring people in the door a red Pepsi machine [Music] Pepsi machine um usually Coke machines are red and Pepsi is blue right can you honestly tell the difference between a coconut Pepsi I honestly can I prefer Pepsi whatever I came to the pawn shop today so my 1950s Pepsi Cola vending machine if I pay the money to restore it I'm just afraid my kids are going to tear it up I'm hoping to get four thousand dollars for it today but the least amount I'll take is three thousand so where'd you get it I bought it at a storage auction for about 350 bucks and it's a 1950s Pepsi Cola vend 81 machine all right this thing is definitely cool when they say a vend 81 that means it bends 81 bottles and the cola war is the War Between Coke and Pepsi has been more or less going on forever um back then a Coke was a six ounce bottle Pepsi started selling 12 ounce bottles for the same exact price which got them really popular but then they started losing again during World War II because Coca-Cola got the contract to supply the US troops and they ended up telling the US Army you know it would be so much cheaper that if we just shipped the syrup overseas and we opened up bottling plants and all these countries were in now right and that's really helped Coke become a worldwide brand well at least you have the coin mechanism [Music] really rusted out and a lot of times you'll open them yeah that's true I really like this thing but I'm worried about how much it would cost to restore it I need to do some more research before I can pull the trigger on this one so what you want to do with it I want to sell it how much you want for it four thousand dollars [Music] do you mind if I call somebody up and see if it would be worth my time to restore it and pay you that kind of money okay all right I'll be right back all right well check it out it's our red Pepsi machine this is pretty rare Pepsi and Coke were in such competition that the reason why that's red is because somebody stole it from the other they grabbed them they were sold to the customer they buy that machine for about I think they're about 140 bucks a piece and you can buy a brand new machine you have Pepsi on the front of it and you sold Pepsi products well Coke could come by the same gas station say hey I'll give you my product and I'll end up putting them in the machine if you go ahead and paint it red put a Coke decal in the front and they would do that they would just they would swap back and forth okay she wants four grand for it okay so basically all I want to know is how much it's going to cost to restore it all right well let me check this thing out see what you guys got here it's weird I mean it's red it is Red from the beginning usually when you look behind them you'll see some blue or something and a lot of it is like painted red really well so you think it was painted red from the factory I do you can see somebody painted again and cleaned it up but back in here it's all still red I've seen a Pepsi machine yellow and I've seen a Pepsi machine blue in the era I've never seen it red and it could be one of a one-of-a-kind as far as the total machine it's in pretty darn good shape for me to go and restore it new rubber take it all apart the Body Works decent it's got some waves and stuff and it's not real real bad Chrome and everything you're looking about 4 800. so what would one of these things be worth completely restored um I would I would probably be asking nine for it okay all right all right thanks man okay hey thanks Rick very much if he does end up with it I want to be the one to restore because there's a lot of little things that are unknowns why is it still red behind the Rubber and it should be blue none of that makes any sense okay so all that being said how much do you want for it four thousand I can't do four thousand there's no money to be made I'll give you 2500 bucks thirty five hundred I'll tell you what I'll go three grand I'm not gonna go no more than that all right you got yourself a deal all right let's go up front I'll write you up all right I'm really glad I picked up this machine it's pretty weird that it's red but if I ever do decide to get it restored I could always go back to Classic Pepsi Blue either way I think there's money in this thing hey hey what's up how you doing how's it going run good uh what is this this is a piece of the flag that was carried by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders it went up San Juan Hill okay and some photos that go with it this is piece of the flag that they brought up San Juan Hill yes the most famous battle of the Spanish-American War yes that's um pretty amazing [Music] anything that's associated with Teddy Roosevelt is a really rare piece Teddy Roosevelt was only really with the Rough Riders for about a year so there isn't much out there I'm asking eight thousand dollars for this piece but as everything I bring in it's always negotiable so this is this is actually the guide on from I believe it's company F or troop F as it would be called in the Cavalry the guide like signifies their unit yeah it's not the U.S colors the regimental colors it would be the company flag you got like paperwork and stuff that goes with it or well I had a handwritten note from the guy who was given the piece of the flag it was a common practice to souvenir out Flags in the military in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War certain people would get a piece of that flag okay um yeah 1898. he's under Secretary of the Navy bill of the night there was a telegram that the Spanish fleet was getting close to the American Fleet next thing you know he goes man just fire on him basically starts the Spanish-American War all by himself and almost immediately forms the Rough Riders wants to go to Cuba and fight basically because he wanted to be president one day it was cockier than you cocky nerd this is something you never hear about today A high up government bureaucrat resigning his position so he could lead volunteers into war it just doesn't happen anymore and this is just one of many stories that made Teddy Roosevelt Larger than Life and this one went up San Juan Hill he has a list of battles here San Juan July 1st through 4. um what went everywhere the Rough Riders went all right this is neat I really like this well good what do you want to do with it I want to sell it and how much you want 8 000. holy um I'm gonna call it Market have a look at this I just want to make sure everything is right okay I think Mark knows his items for the most part but he's looked at my things before and sometimes he gets it right and sometimes he doesn't so what have we got this time uh part of the flag that went up San Juan Hill Rough Rider flag um it's actually the guide on okay the interesting thing when you're talking about San Juan Hill you're talking about the Rough Riders and that and the Rough Riders had their own flag the guidons each troop would have one of those the term Rough Riders actually was taken from Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and Congress of Rough Riders so what's your concerns here is this the flag that went up San Juan Hill well do you mind if I take a closer look at it sure um San Juan July 1st to 4th 1898 very nice that's the one that everybody's heard of the Rough Riders running up this hill which is always kind of interesting because this was a Cavalry group The Cavalry are on horses San Juan Hill they're on foot I guess that would make a lot more sense I mean if you're trying to go up a hill on horses and they're firing down on you you would make a much easier Target on a horse but looking at the material itself is absolutely correct for the time period and given this note I do believe that this was a piece of troop apps guide on [Music] but it doesn't say that it went up the hill that went into battle you know because at San Juan Hill they were on foot they weren't carrying guidance the way this is written it says you know engaged at just the following battles yeah engaged to that doesn't say anything about being used in battle it just says these are the battles we were ill so when it comes to whether it went up San Juan Hill probably not [Music] well I think I got what I want man all righty well thank you to say that it didn't go up San Juan Hill is just I think it's wrong you know it says right on the note that it was engaged at those battles and I'm going to trust the word of someone who is there versus someone who is not there it's really cool but I don't think it's worth nearly as much as what you're asking for it it didn't go up San Juan Hill even if they fought dismounted I think that went up I don't see it eight thousand bucks I see it a lot lot less than that how a lot lot less I'm not even gonna make an offer we're just so far off I I I I'm sorry man all right okay so glad you're here I would have paid a lot of money for that thing you'll come back with some more stuff you know I'm not going to pay a lot of money for something unless I know 100 it's the real deal but I know Eric will come back with something cool he always does how's it going Hi how are you what we got here something you might be interested in it's an original souvenir program from the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty dated 1886. that is really really cool yes it was just such an amazing project when they built this thing you know the base that it sits on that was actually constructed by American donations oh I didn't know that and Pulitzer who owned the New York Times at the time he put out this thing that if you donated a penny he would put your name in the newspaper so people were donating you know a dime or a quarter every week so you could be in the list of people in the newspaper [Applause] came down to the pawn shop today to sell my original souvenir program from the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty it's in excellent condition for 127 years old I'm hoping I get 2500 for it and the least I'll take is a thousand so where did you get this this has been in my family for generations and I actually found it in my mother's file after she passed away okay have you ever looked through it or anything yes it's such a cool piece of Americana they came up with the idea in 1865 Bartoli started it and then you know one of the engineers on this was Gustav Eiffel from the Eiffel Tower wow I didn't know that either this must have some really cool little things on it this program is absolutely amazing it really gives you a sense of what it was like on that day in 1886. the history nerded me who loves this kind of stuff I just have to make sure that nerd doesn't pay too much [Laughter] do you want to sell this yes so how much you want for it 2500 okay do you mind if I have someone look at it not at all okay um the thing that concerns me is um this could have been reproduced in 1986 and looks like this now I hope not okay that's original so hang out a few minutes I'm gonna give him a call get him down here fine he's going to tell me about it hold on a minute okay I'm excited for someone to look at it I know it's original and I'm looking forward to seeing what they say about it [Laughter] pretty damn neat huh that is cool very nice nice dedication of the Statue of Liberty October 28th yeah that's right 1886 this was a big deal this was the first time in the history of New York that there was a ticker tape parade I knew that you know they had almost a million people there and the only ones who were allowed to go out to the island and actually saw or heard anything of the real dedication where like the president and uh you know all the dignitaries they didn't even let women out there so what what's your uh concern I just want to make sure this is the one from 1886. because um I'm just afraid that this thing was sold at the gift shop right next to the ferry for the next 50 years I understand that's a real valid concern because a lot of this stuff has been reproduced over the years but do you mind if I pick it up and take a look at it thank you looking at it this wouldn't have been considered expensive at the time as you can tell it was 10 cents great these would have been sold to the crowd there were probably a hundred thousand of these printed okay I doubt whether there's more than four or five hundred left out there I mean there's probably not many of them cool part of the thing that you notice in 19th century printing is they use a different typeface almost every line this is a very typical layout but you don't see these metallic inks being used today okay you know from what I see here and in comparison to thousands of 19th century pamphlets and Publications that I've looked at [Music] this is real this is original it's 1886. all right that was from the party so thanks man I appreciate it not a problem thank you good to meet you thank you I've seen a lot of opening days celebratory dedication programs for a lot of different things but it isn't one that I've run into before it's really neat very rare now I mean I don't mean to beat you up but I would give you like 200 for this thing I'm one at least 2500. it's extremely rare I I know I've never seen another one it's rare but you have to realize it's not like a first edition Mark Twain or things like that it's uh but it's a piece of history but it's definitely a piece of History I think it's worth at least a thousand dollars it's extremely rare you'll never see another one I mean I would go 250. no I won't sell it for that okay well thanks for bringing it in oh that's all I can tell you I mean if you change your mind one day bring it back otherwise give it to your kids okay thank you very much no problem I was disappointed when he gave me a 200 price I thought it was worth a lot more 200 I might as well just keep it in the family how can I help you hey guys I have a real piece of American History I'd like to sell you okay hopefully it's a toupee no it's not a toupee all right I have a first-hand journal of the travels and history of Lewis and Clark Rick this thing looks like it's been Across America okay I have a book to sell today that is the Journal of Lewis and Clark's expedition across the United States in 1804. I've seen other copies of this sell for sixteen thousand so yeah I'm trying to get them up as high as I can on it this is pretty cool man can I take a look sure you know about Lewis and Clark Rick yes I know about Lewis and Clark they were literally the Lindbergh of their day in 1804 Congress wanted a route to the West Coast over land they wanted to explore the center of this country that really hadn't been explored before President Jefferson was way behind this he really wanted this to happen because he knew that eventually the United States would be going farther and farther west and he really wanted to know what we had there but going on land across this country in 1804 it's almost the equivalent of going into space so Lewis and Clark set out to discover the unknown and they did this Overland Trek all the way across the United States over like treacherous territory and had adventures and everything else like that when they got back to the east coast they were hailed as Heroes before them we had no idea some of the resources we had going west and it really helped out plan the future of the United States so where did you get this I was on the estate sale about five years ago and I bought a box of books I noticed this in here Lewis and Clark's Journal actually it was a journal kept by a guy named gast the troops dominated him become the sergeant one of the duties of the sergeant was to keep a journal the book If you read through it it shows a pretty much a day-to-day journey of what they did how much do you want for this sixteen thousand okay I have no idea if that's a good price or not but I have a friend who will know about everything there is to know about the book and if you don't mind hanging out for a little bit we'll bring her down here I'd love for you to can you call Rebecca for me she'd much rather hear from me trust me [Music] so it's Patrick gas's book on Lewis and Clark and was 1804 to 1806 and this was the first published account in 1807. people were dying for information about this trip because you think about it like the United States have just bought this huge amount of land they were trying to find waterways the whole way through because at that point water routes were the roads that's how you did any sort of shipping and that's what Jefferson wanted gas was supposed to keep a journal that was part of his duties as a sergeant and so that's what you're getting here is you're getting really a play-by-play every single day and Jefferson's really interested to see what was happening out west it is on the one hand not terribly well preserved but on the other hand to have it with all of the original elements intact is great and does really affect what you can ask for it so it's actually quite handleable considering all things considered the hinges seem pretty well intact all right but looking inside this looks like an Institutional Library stamp there are a couple of the institutional Library stamps but you can see this book doesn't look great and that's typical The Binding here yes that sheep which was the cheapest of the Leathers available so what's it worth so when I think about dealers who are specialists in Americana I see them these days listing them for prices around 15 16 17 000. but this is X Library which is a real painful hit to the asking price because private collectors mostly really dislike that so for this particular book with all faults I would put it around 7 500. why would it uh go down in value so much be in the next Library copy you can see libraries tend to put stamps in things they tend to leave markings and the markings often are very obvious to have one is annoying enough but this has three so this particular library was a little stamp happy unfortunately and collectors are all about pristine condition they want it to look exactly the way it did when it first published because it's unremovable yeah X Library is a little bit like a choose a literary reference a Scarlet Letter you know thanks for coming in though you're the best glad I could help well where are we at um lucky before grandfather that's not going to do it you can do a little better than that seven thousand if I'm not gonna make any money but four grand I think is a fair price that's too low the book is the original book it that has Library stamps granted how about five thousand I go 4 100. it's a fair price 45. I'll I'll go 42. I shouldn't go that way I'm done all right 4200 it's still done deal do it right come on I made an expedition out here in Las Vegas just to sell this book and it paid us I have these cigar box labels I'm pretty sure okay yeah these are old cigar labels saw a couple presidents on there a couple old guys this is something you would definitely not see nowadays politicians putting their names on tobacco products back then they had to find something to get their name out there they didn't have no tweeter you mean Twitter okay I decided to come in the pawn shop today to sell my collection of cigar box labels I have no idea what they're worth or anything but I just want to make some money off them to be honest with you that's really the only reason I bought them these are pretty neat do you know much about them absolutely nothing uh my mom had me garage saling with her the whole book was three bucks so I figured what the hell I'd pick it up you know smoking's bad for you but back then that's what people did you would go into a store and they were kept behind the counter but they always had like a box sitting on the counter and generally that box was the one with the coolest artwork on it okay and there was a lot of competition they were constantly changing the name of the cigars just so they could put new artwork on there and make it a little different back in the early 1900s cigar smoking was incredibly popular and cigar manufacturers did whatever they could to get new customers labels like these were a great way to get your brand to stick out they're all in remarkably good shape most of these are like 1910ish except for this one right here you got to realize it was only made for a few months in the summer and fall of 1900. McKinley and Roosevelt were running for president and vice president this was made with stone lithography and they started adding gold leafing the process to do it was expensive yeah the artwork on these things is something that's really really collectible it's awesome so how much are we looking to get them how about 300. so you can just make 100 times what you paid for them hey I gotta I gotta start somewhere they don't go for a lot of money and they sit around for a long time I'll give you 50 bucks I need a little bit more man I'll knock off a hundred two hundred dollars I'll tell you what um I don't have time to dance around all day I'll give you a hundred bucks that's my final offer take it or leave it I'll do it okay all right I'll meet you right up front up here okay cool I paid three bucks so I think I'm a winner I'm gonna go out tonight what the hell is this put them right there dude in the middle you ever think of calling ahead man what the hell are these things there are a couple of bomb fins probably from World War II or something I I've never seen anything like it myself don't you think they're the bomb wow came down the pawn shop today tried to sell my bomb fins I'm not sure exactly what they're worth I kind of will take anything at this point as long as they're out of my backyard I mean they look like the tail end of a bomb or something but you're definitely missing the bomb a part of them these are just like the fins that would help guide it to where it needed to be yeah um so where'd you get these man well they were kind of sitting in my dad's backyard and ended up getting them at my house somehow and now I just want to get rid of them well wife wants to get rid of them how much does it weigh this one probably weighs a couple hundred pounds that one's probably about 50 60 pounds they're I guess from World War II all right the Allies dropped millions of tons of bombs in World War II so I guess it would make sense that there would be some bomb friends laying around in some guy's garage did you paint that one oh no no that came as is and I could see someone turning this into a table or something I don't know what the hell you would do with that one you can play a little basketball with them and stuff and yeah I can also buy a basketball hoop yeah to be honest with you I've never had these come in before and I have no idea what they're worth for all I know they could be a septic tank off something dude no no definitely not I got a buddy that might know um I think my dad would probably like to check them out too let me give him a call and see what I can do all right that sounds good I don't know much about what these fins are I'd really like to hear from an expert because maybe they're worth more than what I'm expecting wow what are you guys getting in the body making business no no no the guys usually call me down here for anything Aviation or military related and I try to come down here and answer any questions they might have so you know what these are uh I do these are actually conical fins off low drag general purpose bombs so before in World War II and even World War One a little bit we would just drop the bombs out and so accuracy wasn't there these conical fins got put in use from Vietnam on you strap this onto the tail section of a bomb and it provides a predictable Glide path for the bomb basically improves accuracy all right it's pretty low Tech you know today we're dropping laser guided GPS guided bombs but we're still dropping these in 2003 in Iraq this is what we were using why are we we still dropping you know these big dumb bombs instead of the smart ones that are going down people's chimneys you know obviously the accuracy is in there but it's just so much cheaper the laser guided bombs you know you can't actually drop through clouds you know sometimes it's just it's easier this one looks like it's strapped to about a mark 84 which is a 2000 pound bomb and 11 feet long will fly in we'll identify a Target and basically roll in and kind of come in on a dive to improve accuracy and then we'll release the bomb and then come off obviously we want to get bomb aircraft separation as far as damage you're looking about probably a 50-foot crater about 11 feet of concrete that can go through wow that's a big bomb yeah that would pretty much level the golden and Silver Pawn Shop all right that's good to know you did make sure there's nothing in that thing right yeah man obviously it's not illegal to own these things or anything is it no you know most of them are actually serialized and we kind of account for it but they are out there it's not surprising but it's not very common okay so what are they worth believe it or not this is probably higher value the smaller one just because it's got more uses I've seen people make tables out of these the conditions average at best they are a little beat up this one's been painted over you know it's going to bring down the value a little bit because it's not original you know commercial value probably all in five six hundred dollars in that range okay [Music] good to see you oh disappointed I figured they'd be worth a little bit more but uh you know it is what it is so let's talk money well I was hoping somewhere in the 1200 range obviously man you know I can't pay 1200 bucks for it I mean I I maybe like 400 bucks for it man 400 for one or or both for both I do want to get rid of them but I still think that I mean 400 bucks is a little low I mean you can't go up to like maybe seven no no the more that I look at them the more I don't want them they just take up so much damn room 400 bucks or nothing they're cool I mean there's something that's not gonna I don't think they'll sit in the shop for a long time would your wife let you put this in the living room she did would you she did for a little while and that's and then I'm here and that's what happens yeah 400 then all right about all right let's go do some paperwork then well I feel okay about the deal my wife will probably be happy it'll be a nice dinner or take her out and just have a good time with the money

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Length: 58min 52sec (3532 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 01 2022