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00:00On tonight's episode, my mind is bent
00:03when I check out a rare set of guitars.
00:06This is a B-Bender, right?
00:09Yes, as far as I know, the only B-Bender that Gibson made.
00:12I mean, I've heard of these things.
00:13I've never actually seen one.
00:14And will Corey be ready to fork over the cash
00:17for a set of flatware?
00:18In 1950, you were really, really cool if you had this.
00:22And the more elaborate your flatware set was,
00:25the bigger status symbol that you had.
00:27While later, Chum squawks at the chance
00:29to make a deal on a rare cannon.
00:32I have a Civil War Parrot Cannon.
00:34One of the things that jumps out to me,
00:36I see a little bit of a line.
00:38This was cast as two halves.
00:51What do we got?
00:52We've got a sled from the movie Citizen King.
00:56Rosebud.
00:57That's right.
00:58This is the ultimate prop of all time.
01:00Some people consider this the greatest movie ever.
01:02That's so arguable, because I believe
01:04it's either Godfather Part II or Anchorman.
01:10I'm at the pawn shop today to sell my rosebud sled
01:13from the movie Citizen King.
01:14About 10 years ago, I was in an estate sale in Beverly Hills
01:18when I saw this sled.
01:19What made me curious about this particular sled
01:22is there was a famous auction house that I saw that sold one in 1996.
01:27And this one looks similar to that one that I saw on that auction.
01:30I would like to get $100,000 for this particular rosebud sled.
01:34This is interesting.
01:35You know Rosebud, right?
01:37I think I pretty much know what the movie's about.
01:39It was a really good movie for its time.
01:42It was directed, produced by Orson Welles, 1941.
01:46So the movie was about Charles Foster Kane, gazillionaire and everything.
01:50And his dying words were rosebud.
01:54In the end of the movie, you realize the one time he was really happy
01:58when he was a child with his sled, rosebud.
02:01Okay, I get it.
02:04You got the holy grail of movie props here.
02:07You got to tell me how you got it.
02:08I did get it at an estate sale in Beverly Hills.
02:11It was from a high-end executive from a movie studio.
02:15And from what I researched, there's three of these that exist.
02:19There's one in the Academy Museum that Steven Spielberg donated.
02:23There's one that sold at Christie's, which I believe this one to be that one.
02:28About 30 years ago, it sold for over $200,000.
02:31And then there's another one, which I have no idea where that one is.
02:34So you're saying this was the one that sold at Christie's for over $200,000?
02:38There is a reason that I say that because this is a picture of the one that sold at the Christie's auction.
02:44And if you notice, there's a broken right tip that matches exactly this one that you have in front of you.
02:53Okay, so how much are you looking to get?
02:56I'm looking to get $100,000.
02:59All right, I'm just letting you know if this is the real rosebud, go for probably a couple million dollars.
03:04But here's the big problem.
03:06Well, this is different than the picture you showed me.
03:10Pull that out. I'll show you real quick.
03:13Go pinstriping on the side.
03:16It's different.
03:18I just thought it was real because of where I got it.
03:21I wish it was real.
03:22We would make a deal.
03:23We'd both get red-chopped this thing.
03:24But, like, it's not the one.
03:27I appreciate you bringing it down, though.
03:28It was really cool.
03:29Have a good day, man.
03:30All right, have a good one, man.
03:38Hello.
03:39How are you?
03:40I'm pretty good.
03:40Hold on a second here.
03:41That looks heavy.
03:42Oh, it is heavy.
03:43There you go.
03:45Well, you don't have to be a genius to know this is a canyon, but tell me what you have here.
03:49I have a Civil War-era Parrot Cannon.
03:53Parrot Cannon?
03:54I don't know exactly what it is, but I'm not an expert on cannons.
03:58Are you, like, a cannon guy, or do you just like all cool stuff?
04:01I like all cool stuff.
04:02I'm an impulse buyer.
04:05Aren't we all?
04:07I'm here to sell a Civil War Parrot Cannon.
04:10The cannon weighs roughly between 45 to 55 pounds.
04:15It's solid bronze.
04:16I purchased the cannon about seven years ago at an auction.
04:20My asking price is $10,000.
04:23Okay, that's pretty cool.
04:25So, I mean, cannons are definitely an important part of history.
04:28They served many different purposes.
04:30This one looks like it was probably mounted up somewhere, like right here by this,
04:35on like a swivel mount, so you could project it the way you wanted to.
04:39At first glance, I would think it's maybe a little bit older than Civil War, you know,
04:43maybe 1700s instead of 1800s, but it's definitely got some good weight to it.
04:49I do have a few concerns about it, mostly the patina on it.
04:53It's very patinated on this side, and it's very, very shiny on this side.
04:57When you get an old cannon like this, you really want to see the patina on it, especially
05:01if this is, you know, several hundred years old.
05:03I want to look at it and know it's several hundred years old.
05:06So, when you bought this, what information did you get about it?
05:09Uh, basically, they just said it was in the Civil War era.
05:13Okay, and have you ever fired it?
05:15Never have.
05:16Okay, um, I would love to know if it fired.
05:19I would too.
05:20So, do you have a price in mind?
05:22I have a price of $10,000.
05:24Well, I don't know if that's a good price or a bad price.
05:26I've definitely seen cannons sell for less than that and much, much more than that.
05:31If you have time, I'd love to have my antique firearm expert, Alex, come down, take a look
05:36at it, and after he evaluates it, he's going to be able to give us a price.
05:40Sounds great.
05:41All right, give me a few minutes.
05:42I'm going to call him, and I'm sure he can be down here pretty quick.
05:53Hello.
05:55What are those?
05:56These are the biggest shoes I've ever seen.
05:58Those were worn by Shaquille O'Neal in the 2002 finals against the New Jersey Nets,
06:03where he won MVP, highest average, almost 40 points per game.
06:08He dominated.
06:09Okay, this is really cool.
06:10I just never realized that he would have shoes that big.
06:16This is where little mother Hubbard lived.
06:20I'm here at the pawn shop to sell my 2002 finals game-worn shoes by Shaquille O'Neal.
06:26They're size 22.
06:28They're huge.
06:29They must weigh close to five pounds each.
06:31I've had the shoes for over 20 years now, and they're in a glass case when you walk into the
06:36entry to my door so everybody can see them.
06:38My asking price for the Shaquille O'Neal shoes is $15,000.
06:41This is pretty cool, man.
06:44Shaquille O'Neal, I mean, like, the guy is the coat.
06:47Yeah, just incredible businessman, incredible basketball player, MVP multiple times.
06:54He was on the Lakers, won the national championship three times.
06:58You can just go on and on about this guy.
07:00I mean, like, storied life.
07:02I mean, and I've never met him, but I know people who have met him and said he's like
07:05the sweetest guy in the world.
07:08And I'm still absolutely amazed at the size of these shoes.
07:13And what size?
07:14They're just, is it just size ginormous at this point?
07:17Size 22.
07:18And what brand are they?
07:21I believe they're made by Reebok.
07:22They're kind of epic.
07:24To me, it's like the eighth wonder of the world.
07:26I'd never seen anything like it.
07:27I had to have them.
07:29Where'd you get these?
07:30I got these at a memorabilia show in L.A.
07:33Okay, and this is the paperwork you have on them?
07:35Yes, sir.
07:36Can I take a look at it?
07:36Absolutely.
07:39I mean, you have paperwork here saying that they've been photo matched.
07:43I'm not real big on photo matching shoes, just due to the fact that, you know, how do
07:47you really photo match shoes when all shoes look alike?
07:49You know what I mean?
07:50I mean, the amazing thing is there's, I mean, how many pairs did they make in this size,
07:54which I'm assuming like next to none.
07:56And so, how much you want for them?
07:59$15,000.
08:00Okay.
08:01All right.
08:02Let me call on my sports guy and take a look at him.
08:04All right.
08:04I just want to make sure everything's legit, you know, and also size matters.
08:10All right.
08:10Give me like five minutes.
08:12I'm going to go call my guy and we'll get this figured out.
08:16Okay.
08:17Sounds good.
08:18There's a guy in the shop with what he claims is a Civil War parrot cannon and he's asking
08:25$10,000.
08:27I don't know exactly what it is.
08:28So, Alex Kramer is heading over to help me gather some more information before I think
08:32about making an offer.
08:34Here we go, Alex.
08:37I'm Alex.
08:38I'm Jim.
08:38Nice to meet you.
08:39My pleasure.
08:40So, Jim, why don't you tell Alex what you have here?
08:42I have a Civil War parrot cannon.
08:46Okay.
08:46A little bit of concerns I had was the different color on the top and the bottom.
08:50But other than that, Alex, I got nothing for you.
08:53Where did you get it?
08:54I bought it at an auction.
08:56Okay.
08:56So, during the Civil War, there was an American officer named Parrot who developed a type of cannon
09:03that was rifled.
09:04So, inside the bore, there's literally a channel and when the projectiles move through it, they
09:09start to spin.
09:10A projectile that's spinning will tend to go straighter.
09:13So, Parrot developed the Parrot rifle, which was really a cannon in 1860 and patented in 1861,
09:20and it became more or less the standard cannon of the American Civil War.
09:25But this has nothing to do with a Parrot gun.
09:30So, a Parrot gun would be much larger.
09:32It would be made of iron, and this is made of bronze from its appearance,
09:37and it's much older.
09:39So, the style of this cannon is really much more of an 18th century cannon from the Revolutionary War.
09:45Okay.
09:46The question is, is it authentic?
09:48Is it okay to pick it up?
09:49Yes, sir.
09:50I just want to get an idea of the weight.
09:52Okay.
09:53So, one of the things that jumps out to me about this piece is if I look from the breach,
09:59which means the back, I see a little bit of a line right across the breach.
10:04And then that line continues, and you can see it here at the first reinforcement ring.
10:09And then I can see it again here.
10:10So, what this is indicating is this was cast as two halves.
10:14I've got the lower half, and I slapped the top half on top.
10:17And that's not how cannons were made.
10:19A real cannon would have been made solidly.
10:22Right.
10:22And then they would have drilled out the bore and then drilled in the touch hole.
10:27Right.
10:27It would make it stronger.
10:29If you tried to fire this with two pieces being fused together, chances are it would blow right
10:34apart.
10:35Right.
10:35So, what we have here is a reproduction cannon.
10:39This could have been made from the late 19th century all the way up into the 1980s.
10:45Tom, I'm sorry to break that nose to you.
10:47Yeah.
10:47All right.
10:48If this was a, you know, authentic time period cannon, what do they go for?
10:52You're certainly in the many thousands of dollars range.
10:55As it is, it's a few hundred dollars.
10:57All right.
10:58Thanks, Alex.
10:59All right.
10:59Nice to meet you.
11:01Good luck.
11:01All right.
11:02Well, I'm going to have to pass on it today.
11:04And if you like it, keep it, display it at your home.
11:07But thanks for coming out today.
11:08Well, thank you very much.
11:09My pleasure.
11:16A guy came to the shop with a pair of size 22 sneakers
11:20that he says was worn by Shaquille O'Neal during the 2002 NBA Finals.
11:26And the seller is asking for $15,000.
11:30I have my sports expert, David Kohler, coming down to take a look.
11:33And he's going to let me know if this deal is a slam dunk or a foul.
11:38Hello.
11:39Hello.
11:39How are you, Rick?
11:40Doing fabulous.
11:41Hello.
11:42I'm David.
11:42Hi, Rich.
11:43Nice to meet you.
11:44Just so you know, these are not the Jolly Green Giants.
11:48He says they're Shaq shoes.
11:49They are very large.
11:53What a player.
11:53Four-time champion, three times with the Lakers,
11:56in the three-peat that team with Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher.
11:59They won in 2000, 2001, or 2002.
12:02Probably one of the best big men in the game that's ever played, without a doubt.
12:06Okay.
12:06So are these his shoes?
12:08Can I touch them?
12:09Absolutely.
12:10Can I look at them?
12:10Yeah.
12:11Uh, these are his, yes, these are his shoes.
12:15Like we said, very large, size 23, probably 22.
12:18This is his line, which we called dunk.
12:21So he had his own line that was getting made.
12:23Shaq did.
12:24A lot of times he'd have his number on the bottom, number 34, which he was.
12:27They don't make replicas and things like that.
12:30So, examining these, definitely, those are Game War and Game News, Shaquille O'Neal's shoes.
12:35Yeah, I mean, he's got paperwork.
12:37It's a photo match paperwork.
12:38Not real confident on photo matching on shoes, but like, he does have some paperwork there.
12:42The one thing that does hit me here, it does say here attribution to the finals.
12:47You know, that's not 100% guaranteed.
12:51These could have been worn in the finals.
12:52I wouldn't bet my life on that.
12:54But at a minimum, they're real, they're authentic.
12:56But I could not say 100% confidence that these were actually worn in the finals.
13:01So what do you think they're worth?
13:04I think these are worth probably about $5,000.
13:06Um, if you had a conclusive photo match, I would say that the values be, you know, north of that.
13:13But in my opinion, they're worth about $5,000.
13:15I don't, I'm just by blown away.
13:18Because I have hundreds of pictures from the finals with him in those shoes.
13:22When I bought them from the Lakers directly, they wrote in the finals on the certificate.
13:28There's no question.
13:29So you have any paperwork from the Lakers with you?
13:30No, the group that was selling them had the Lakers banner.
13:34And they said they're contracted or whatever.
13:36They had a lot of Lakers memorabilia in there.
13:39I haven't seen any paperwork from the Lakers and all that too.
13:42So if there is that paperwork, then that obviously would help with a lot of this evaluation.
13:47All right.
13:48Thanks, Dave.
13:49All right.
13:49Thanks, Rick.
13:50All the best.
13:51All right.
13:51Thanks.
13:53It's a third party saying that it happened.
13:55So, um, I mean, unless you have something directly from the Lakers,
13:58it's going to be really hard to prove that these were worn in the playoffs.
14:04And I'd give you like 3,000 for them.
14:05Well, I'm speechless.
14:07I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of pictures that they're identical to what's in the finals.
14:13Photomatch is one of the biggest companies out there that do this.
14:15Right here, they're saying attributed.
14:17They're saying most likely.
14:19They're not saying 100%.
14:20Right.
14:21There's a difference.
14:23We're talking maybe a $1,000 difference if they were in the finals.
14:26Obviously, we're not going to make a deal, but thanks for bringing them in.
14:29Sure.
14:31I'm very disappointed we weren't able to make an offer or a deal.
14:36It wasn't even close to what I know they're really, truly worth.
14:46Hello.
14:46Hi.
14:47How can I help you today?
14:49Well, I don't know what I'm looking at here.
14:51I bought these at an antique store, and I just thought I'd make like a really cool art
14:55installation with them.
14:56And you know how that goes.
14:57You never get around to it.
14:58Well, I agree with you.
14:59They would make a really cool art installation here.
15:02These are Tsubas, and they would go on like a Japanese sword.
15:08So basically, it's a piece that would go between the handle and the blade,
15:12and it would have a few different functions. One would be it would protect your hand from
15:16someone else's sword, and also it was kind of a connection point to make everything secure
15:22and just keep it, you know, put together without moving around.
15:25But these ones are actually pretty cool.
15:28These all look to be made out of iron, which is what you'd expect.
15:34You've got some really interesting stuff going on here.
15:36A typical motif you'd see on these would be animals, religious figures, or mythological
15:45creatures, which I see kind of some mythological creatures here.
15:50Some really cool stuff going on here.
15:52What are you looking to do with these?
15:53I mean, I have no use for them.
15:55Do you have an idea what you're looking to get for them?
15:58You know, I was kind of hoping around like 350.
16:03350?
16:04Yeah.
16:06All right.
16:07I'll be honest with you.
16:09There's a possibility at $350, I'd be ripping you off just a little too much.
16:13Really?
16:14I think you have some good stuff here.
16:16With that being said, I could be wrong.
16:17Okay.
16:18But I would like to have someone come down and take a look at them.
16:21Give me a few minutes.
16:22I'm going to make a phone call, see if I can have Mike Yamazaki come down.
16:25He's basically my samurai sword expert.
16:27Okay, that'd be awesome.
16:29All right, I'm going to give him a call, and I'll be right back.
16:30Sounds good. Thank you.
16:33There's a guy in town with what he calls his Music Man Cave, and it's near the shop.
16:40He said he has a few guitars he'd like to sell.
16:43So I'm swinging by to see what he has and hopefully strum up a deal.
16:52Larry?
16:52Hey, Rick.
16:54So these are the guitars?
16:55Yeah.
16:56Welcome to my little slice of heaven.
16:59This is my studio and workshop where all the magic happens.
17:02Yeah, I got a pawn shop that's sort of like that.
17:06I reached out to the guys at the pawn shop because I have three guitars
17:09that I think they'll really be interested in.
17:11The Gibson B Bender is one of only 400 ever made.
17:15The Moserite Celebrity is 50-something years old.
17:19It's hard to find them in this kind of shape.
17:21And a custom painted Bender Stratocaster.
17:25There's only three of them in the entire world.
17:27I'd love to walk away with $24,000 for the three.
17:30If I'm able to sell these guitars,
17:32I will immediately start building my dream recording studio.
17:36These are really cool.
17:38I mean, like, this is a B Bender, right?
17:41Yes.
17:41And as far as I know, the only B Bender that Gibson made, a B Bender mechanism,
17:47actually pulls the B string tighter, raising the pitch, most likely used in country music.
17:54However, Gibson guitars were mostly used in rock and roll.
17:57I mean, I've heard of these things.
17:58I've never actually seen one.
18:00Yeah.
18:00So the Gibson is a 2013.
18:02And that was done by the factory?
18:04Yes, that's a factory Gibson mechanism.
18:07Then we have this 1967 Moserite Celebrity here.
18:12That is a cool brand.
18:14It was, like, started by a guy named Mosley,
18:17and then he got financial backing from a guy named Boatwright, so they made Moserite.
18:22So, you know, I did not know that.
18:23Yeah, that's how they got together.
18:25I mean, the company was just jamming in the 1960s.
18:28I mean, like, they were making 1,000 guitars a month.
18:30No kidding.
18:31And the way I understood it was, this is the guitar of the Ventures and even into the Ramones.
18:37They love that heavy reverb, dripping, like, made you feel like you're hanging 10 on a longboard.
18:45And then this is a guitar commissioned by Fender.
18:48I mean, everybody knows about Fender.
18:50I mean, it started, like, by Leo Fender.
18:52First guitar was the broadcaster, and then the Stratocaster, you know.
18:55Yeah.
18:55The original rock and roll guitar, you know, Gibby Hendrix.
18:59It's cool, but, like, but that's a factory Gibson paint job?
19:02No, no.
19:03This is a custom hand-painted paint job by Justin Bauer.
19:07So Fender found Justin's art.
19:10He paints paintings and actually pottery, and they commissioned him to do three guitars.
19:14One belongs to Axl Rose.
19:16The other one is in a gallery in Japan, and we have the third one right here.
19:20Interesting.
19:21I thought so.
19:22Yeah.
19:24All right, the big question.
19:24What do you want for these things?
19:25Uh, the Gibsons, $2,500.
19:28The Moserites, only $1,500.
19:31But the Fender is $20,000.
19:34All right, I'm going to get a hold of my guitar guy, because you have some very non-standard guitars.
19:39Mm-hmm.
19:40I specialize in it.
19:41Let me get him down here, and let's get his opinion, and then we'll go from there.
19:44Sounds great.
19:45I'm at a guitar workshop here in town where the owner has three guitars he's looking to sell.
19:56He wants $24,000 for them, and I do not know if that's a good price.
20:02So I've called in Mike Ball, my guitar expert, and he's going to tell me if it's a rockin' deal or not.
20:08So what do you think?
20:09It's not often you get to see one of these.
20:12Yeah.
20:12Gibson Beebender with a Joe Glazer Beebender setup.
20:16They only made 400 of these.
20:18This guitar is so weird.
20:20Looks like some, uh, some natural patina.
20:23This would have had a satin finish.
20:25We can still have a lot of it on the back, but a whole bunch of it's missing on the face of the guitar.
20:30But that's rock and roll.
20:31I mean, what are you going to do?
20:33And then we got the Moserite.
20:35This is an oddball in the Moserite pantheon.
20:38I mean, it's not the solid body like the Ventures played,
20:40or the Mark II like Johnny Ramone played.
20:43Much more limited appeal, but has all the ingredients.
20:46Has the Mosley tailpiece.
20:48Has the hotly wound single coil pickups.
20:50Has the roller bridge.
20:52I'm into it, man.
20:53I love it.
20:54Good.
20:54That's what I like to hear.
20:55Yeah.
20:57And don't see that every day.
20:59No.
21:00Well, I mean, the Stratocaster has been such an enticing platform for artwork.
21:04You've got, you know, Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop.
21:07Yeah.
21:07And then in the 90s, you have Crash, the artist that made those really evocative art guitars
21:12for Eric Clapton.
21:13So there's a good lineage of make your Stratocaster as weird and as wild as possible.
21:19Sure.
21:21What do you think these two would go for?
21:23Well, on the Gibson in its current condition, around $1,800.
21:27And on the Moserite Celebrity, I feel really good about $1,500 for that one.
21:31And this, what was the asking price on this guitar?
21:35$20,000.
21:36I can tell you that if the only thing I can index this off of is the Eric Clapton Crash
21:41Stratocasters, which were played out by Clapton.
21:44So there's a whole extra layer attached to that.
21:47But those I've seen priced at around $30,000.
21:50So can you even put a number on it?
21:52Rick, I can't confidently put a number on that.
21:56Thanks, man.
21:56You're the best.
21:57Absolutely.
21:58Anytime.
21:58Thanks, man.
21:59Larry, pleasure.
22:02All right.
22:03So refresh my memory and what you wanted for these.
22:06So if we're taking the Stratocaster out of the equation,
22:10I wanted $1,500 for the Moserite, $2,500 for the B-Bender Les Paul.
22:15I'm thinking like $2,000.
22:17$2,500.
22:19I'm thinking $2,000.
22:22$2,350.
22:25$2,200.
22:28Sweet.
22:28We got a deal.
22:29Bring it to the shop.
22:30I'll get you paid.
22:31You got it.
22:31Thanks, man.
22:32See ya.
22:35There's a woman in the shop with a collection of Tsubas,
22:40which are mountings for Japanese swords.
22:43She's asking $350 for the lot, but I want to make sure they're authentic.
22:47So I've asked Mike Yamasaki to come take a look and give me his opinion on them.
22:53Why don't you tell Mike how you got this stuff?
22:54I was antiquing and came across these and thought I could make a really cool art
22:59installation piece with them, but I never really got around to it.
23:02And I honestly, I didn't know what they were.
23:04Can you take a look at them and let me know what you're seeing?
23:06Well, at least you made the right choice.
23:09These are whether to be genuine Japanese Tsubas, not Chinese reproductions or anything like that.
23:15With your permission, I'd like to take a look at them.
23:18Please.
23:18This piece is very nice.
23:21It's a classic piece and it's of a Japanese flower.
23:25This was actually a solid plate like this, but then they carved away and left the design.
23:31So that's a lot of work.
23:32So this is actually one of the nicer pieces.
23:34And you can see how heavy this piece is here.
23:39I did hold that one.
23:41It's got a good, uh, nice ring to it.
23:44So this is a very well-made piece.
23:46Okay.
23:47And, um, it also, did you notice the writing on it?
23:52I did.
23:52A couple of them have.
23:54Right.
23:55And that tells us where it was made and who it was made by.
23:59Are you familiar with that name?
24:01Yes.
24:01I actually know this maker.
24:02He worked quite often in the 1800s.
24:05It's, uh, Namitoshi.
24:07And he's actually, you know, a well-known Tsubamaker.
24:13And then the rest of these have condition issues.
24:17Like this has damage on the back right here.
24:20So unfortunately that kind of degrades the value.
24:24How much do you think this collection's worth?
24:27Well, you have quite a varying bit of quality and condition.
24:31But I would say $5,000 would be...
24:36What?
24:38Are you serious?
24:39Yeah, I mean...
24:39I changed my offer.
24:42All right.
24:42Well, I appreciate you coming out, Mike.
24:44Hey, anytime.
24:45All right.
24:46I'll see you.
24:47Nice to meet you.
24:47All right.
24:48So $350 it is.
24:50I think we could do a little better than that.
24:53All right.
24:53How about I add a zero to it and give you $3,500?
24:55I think that seems pretty fair.
24:57Do you go to $4?
25:00I'll go $4,000 on them.
25:02We got a deal.
25:02Awesome.
25:03You can just come up here and I'll get you paid.
25:05Okay.
25:05Hey, how's it going?
25:15Hi, good.
25:16Well, we have flatware here.
25:31A piece of silver?
25:32A stainless steel.
25:33Stainless steel.
25:34Japanese stainless steel.
25:35This was the set of flatware that you bought because you didn't want to be like your parents.
25:40Which I can relate to.
25:43I'm at the pawn shop today to sell my 1950s Carl Aubach flatware.
25:49I found my set of flatware at a thrift store in my area in Southern California.
25:53They look great, but actually using them wasn't the most functional.
25:57So I figured why not try to get some money for them.
26:00Based on my research, I would like to maybe get around $5,000 for the set.
26:06This is pretty cool.
26:07I mean, in 1950, you were really, really cool if you had this.
26:11Mm-hmm.
26:11You know, people didn't have cell phones and app stores and stuff like that to waste their money.
26:16They had dinner parties.
26:17And the more elaborate your flatware set was, was the bigger status symbol that you had.
26:22I mean, I've seen it all the way down to the onion and the pickle fork.
26:25Mm-hmm.
26:26You know, the salt spoons and everything like that.
26:28Where, I mean, it just goes on and on and on to where you got, you know,
26:3027, 37 pieces in an entire dinner set.
26:33Do you mind if I pick a piece up and take a look at it?
26:36No, go for it.
26:38And they're Aubach, right?
26:39Carl Aubach is the designer.
26:41Okay.
26:42Stainless steel from Japan, definitely 1950s.
26:45Mid-century modern.
26:46So how many pieces total?
26:47Uh, 46 total.
26:49Okay, um, what are you trying to get out of this?
26:52Well, I did a little bit of research to figure out what they were.
26:56And I did find a couple listings for a full set going for around five grand.
27:01All right.
27:02Uh, it doesn't look like a full set because there's no serving spoons.
27:06I mean, I've seen full sets go for around $1,200 and actually sell for that.
27:09Um, that being said, if I'm going to sell flatware, it's going to have to be the silver
27:13stuff because that's the only stuff I've ever been able to sell in my life.
27:16It's just, uh, it's way too much of a niche market.
27:18Uh, I do appreciate you bringing it in though.
27:21Yeah.
27:22Well, have a good day.
27:23Take care.
27:31Hi, how are you doing today?
27:32Oh, pretty good.
27:32Good.
27:34It looks like a definitely old pair of golf clubs.
27:37Yeah, just old pair of golf clubs sitting around.
27:40Okay.
27:40Um, all right.
27:41Well, I see the name.
27:43Tell me about them.
27:44This right here is a set of General Eisenhower's clubs.
27:48That my father-in-law got from them.
27:50My father-in-law was golf pro at Fort Meade, where President Eisenhower came and golfed several times.
27:56You know, my dad once told me, find out what you're not good at in this life and don't do that.
28:00So I just stopped playing golf.
28:04Really cool.
28:04I mean, it's Dwight D. Eisenhower.
28:06A five-star general is the highest rank you can get.
28:08And that rank only exists during wartime.
28:11I mean, he was the supreme commander.
28:13This is the guy who defeated Germany in World War II.
28:16And he was a pretty amazing president.
28:18I mean, we have the interstate highway system because of him.
28:21He's definitely in the top ten presidents we ever had.
28:24The clubs are even cast with his signature in it and the five stars.
28:29Yeah.
28:31Now, tell me exactly how your father-in-law got these.
28:34My father-in-law was a golf pro at Fort Meade in Maryland.
28:37President Eisenhower used to go there and golf quite a bit.
28:40Got to know my father-in-law and turned around and gave it to him as a gift.
28:43So this is your father-in-law?
28:46That's my father-in-law.
28:48There's President Eisenhower.
28:49And that right there is retired General Parks.
28:52Okay.
28:53I believe they're his.
28:55Yeah.
28:55I wish we had some more documentation and the history on them and things like that.
28:59How much do you want for him?
29:01100K.
29:02Okay.
29:02That'd be tough.
29:03He had one set that sold for over 100,000.
29:08But that was his custom-made set that was at Augusta.
29:12Yep.
29:13And there's all this documentation on it.
29:16This is not that set.
29:18Nope.
29:19When you have something like this, it's one of a kind.
29:21It is.
29:22People buy the story and I got to have a story and I got to prove the story.
29:25I mean, if there was a letter or something like that, it'd be kind of a game changer.
29:29Yeah.
29:29But my number is like 20 grand.
29:31Okay.
29:32Rick, I'll have to pass on that, but I definitely appreciate the offer.
29:36Thank you for coming in.
29:38I really appreciate it.
29:40Here you go.
29:43Presidents are people just like the rest of us.
29:45And at the end of a long day of running the free world,
29:48they need to kick back and clear their heads as much as anyone.
29:51Since the dawn of the presidency, these guys have each managed to squeeze in time
29:56for their secret or not-so-secret hobbies.
29:59For instance, the OG, George Washington.
30:02When he wasn't putting in place the pieces of a new democracy,
30:06he was probably busy cutting some serious rug.
30:09First-hand accounts claim he was dancing with the stars level good.
30:14Always the center of attention at a party.
30:17Since childhood, FDR was a serious stamp collecting addict.
30:21And when he fell ill with polio, working on his stamp collection
30:25helped pass the lonely hours spent by himself.
30:27As president, he spent up to an hour a day looking at and adding to his collection.
30:33Richard and First Lady Pat Nixon loved bowling so much that they had a one-lane bowling alley
30:40installed in the White House basement in 1969.
30:44Tricky Dick sported an average of 170 and would roll up to eight games a night.
30:50A number that would make the Big Lebowski proud.
30:52President Barack Obama was a serious hooper.
30:56He regularly scheduled pickup games at 1600 Penn, including a game at his 50th birthday celebration
31:04that included WNBA player Maya Moore and NBA players Chauncey Phillips and Chris Paul.
31:11Talk about a star-studded affair.
31:14You know, I look pretty presidential.
31:15I don't think there's ever been a motorcycle-riding, avid collector, Oregon mountain man,
31:21prodigious pawnbroker.
31:23Harrison, 2024.
31:33Kind of impressed?
31:34Thanks.
31:35Tell me about it.
31:36It's a 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.
31:40Okay.
31:41You know, this is a boxing town.
31:42I don't know.
31:43I'm in trouble.
31:44I'm here to sell a 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.
31:50This game, it's two fighters in there, and you're basically trying to hit the other under
31:54the chin to knock them down.
31:55My asking price is $14,000 for my 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.
32:01This is cool.
32:02Mutoscope.
32:03The name is called Scope because they used to make short films for the coin-operated machines they used.
32:08A lot of old bears and stuff used to have, you know, basically it's their old cast iron.
32:12You put your face into it, you turn the crank, and pictures move and you see a little movie.
32:17It's like a minute or two minutes long.
32:18And the company saw the writing on the wall and said like, you know, this short little movie thing
32:25is not going to last.
32:26And they started making different mechanical games.
32:29And this was one of their cooler games.
32:33What year is this one?
32:341955.
32:36It's sort of like Rock and Sock of Robots.
32:38Yeah, that's what I've heard.
32:38But way before that, where did you get this?
32:41Well, I purchased this from a dear friend of mine.
32:44I mean, did you just fall in love with the game or?
32:46Yeah.
32:46I mean, look at it.
32:47How can you not fall in love with that?
32:48Okay.
32:49Does it work?
32:50It does.
32:51It works great.
32:51All right.
32:52Can we play it?
32:53Absolutely.
32:55And the timer just ran out.
33:07All right.
33:08You're good.
33:09I cheated a little bit.
33:19I used to box.
33:20Well, that's got to be what it is.
33:23All right.
33:24So how much you want for this thing?
33:2614,000.
33:27Okay.
33:28That sounds like a lot of money.
33:30How'd you come up with that number?
33:32Just going off what they've sold at auctions for unrestored machines and the cost of the
33:37restoration work.
33:38Okay.
33:39Let me call in a friend of mine.
33:40She will know way more about this game than I do.
33:43And she'll know what it's worth.
33:44Okay?
33:45Yep.
33:51Hey, how's it going?
33:52Hey, how are you?
33:53What do we got here?
33:54So I have a Rarity's Mint metal Snow White coin.
33:58It has a Mint Air designation.
34:00Okay.
34:00And a Congo coin.
34:02Who's on the Snow White coin here?
34:03Uh, we have...
34:04Happy.
34:05Happy, okay.
34:06So there's Happy, Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy and Doc.
34:13Okay.
34:14I'm really impressed that I know that stuff.
34:16That's pretty good.
34:18I'm here at the pawn shop to sell a Rarity's Mint Snow White coin and a Congo coin.
34:24The Snow White is extremely rare.
34:26It's the only one in the world.
34:27The Congo coin has a 50-year calendar, which is very interesting because the coin rotates.
34:33It has a functionality.
34:34The Snow White, I'm asking $10,000, and the Congo is $3,000.
34:40This is interesting.
34:41Basically, this was a commemorative coin.
34:43It's commemorating, what, the 50th anniversary of Snow White.
34:47It's like, it was their first feature film, right?
34:49That's right.
34:50Disney loves a good collectible.
34:51That's right.
34:52Okay.
34:52So where'd you get them?
34:54From another dealer.
34:55Anything particular about these ones that made you have to have them?
34:58Absolutely.
34:59The Rarity's Mint Snow White metal has a mint air wire struck into the metal,
35:05into the silver.
35:06It's between the letters A and the N.
35:08And the Congo coin, there's only three of those in the world.
35:12And so your Congo one is a 50-year calendar coin.
35:15Okay, so yeah, what I'm assuming here is I, you know, you got to have some kind of mechanics in
35:20here to make this thing spin so you can change the calendar around different dates and whatnot.
35:25Obviously, 50 years after they got their independence, it's 10 francs.
35:29Okay, definitely pretty cool.
35:30I mean, I haven't seen one before, but you said there's only three in the world, so why would I, right?
35:34Okay, so I'm assuming you brought them down here to sell them to me, right?
35:38Yes, sir.
35:39What are you looking to get out of them?
35:40I'm looking to get 3,000 on the Congo coin and 10,000 on the Snow White.
35:45You are mighty proud of these things, man.
35:46That's right.
35:47Um, okay, so I don't know if there's anybody out there really collecting Snow White coins.
35:54And I get it's got a mint air, but a mint air really only matters to me if it's on American currency.
36:00You know, now this Congo one, I get the fact that it's functional, it's cool, it's super rare,
36:06but once again, as a commemorative coin, I hate to say it, man.
36:09I mean, I'd give you silver weight on them.
36:11About 25 bucks a piece.
36:13I can't do that.
36:13I mean, what you got is cool.
36:15I know they're really rare, but just because they're rare doesn't mean they're worth a lot
36:19of money to me, but I do appreciate you bringing them down, man.
36:22So you don't want to sell them for 50 bucks total?
36:24No.
36:24Okay, well, I have to thank you very much.
36:26Thank you so much.
36:26A customer brought in the shop a 1955 Budiscope KO Champ coin-operated boxing game.
36:38The seller is asking for $14,000, and it works and is in excellent condition.
36:44But I don't know what something like this is worth, so I've called in Dani, our pinball expert,
36:49and she's going to tell me if this is a knockout deal or not.
36:53Dani!
36:54Hey, Rick.
36:54Thanks for having me.
36:55Hi there.
36:57Hi.
36:57I'm Dani.
36:58Nice to meet you.
36:58Kevin, nice to meet you.
36:59This is a really fancy machine you have here, Kevin.
37:02Rick, what can I tell you about the machine?
37:04Um, everything.
37:05Everything?
37:06Well, this company, International Mutoscope, started in the early 1900s.
37:11Towards the end of their run in the late 1950s, they were mostly just doing arcade machines.
37:16This was one of the last games that they produced.
37:19So how long have you owned this machine for?
37:21A couple of years now.
37:22And then did you buy the machine restored or did you have it restored yourself?
37:26Bought it restored.
37:27Okay.
37:27Yeah.
37:27Well, it looks like it's in really great shape.
37:29So can I take a little bit of a closer look at the machine?
37:32Absolutely.
37:33Okay, great.
37:34So I can see just a couple things on the graphics here that obviously have been redone.
37:42The KO that's in the boxing gloves, slightly smaller font than the original version.
37:47And then the Champ is also a little bit fatter, more bubbly.
37:51The biggest thing that I'm noticing on this machine, however, is the domed top.
37:56So the original machines came with a circular dome.
38:01So a lot of times when you do find these machines, the original dome tops will be broken, cracked, yellowed with age.
38:08This machine is close to 75 years old.
38:11So they obviously reproduced this top for this one.
38:14Okay.
38:15So what do you think it's worth?
38:16Looks like everything's, you know, in very clean shape.
38:21I would put the value of this machine in today's market at 11.5.
38:26A collector is going to want that original bubble.
38:29Okay.
38:30Thanks, Dani.
38:31You're the best.
38:32Thank you so much.
38:33Good luck.
38:34Nice to meet you.
38:34Nice to meet you.
38:36All right.
38:37Well, you heard, Dani.
38:38And I'll give you seven grand.
38:42It's a very small market.
38:44It's tough selling this stuff.
38:45When I do sell it, I got to pay guys to make a crate.
38:48There's a lot of money involved in selling one of these things.
38:51Seven grand.
38:5310.
38:54I mean, I'd go 7,500 bucks.
38:56I mean, hopefully they'll sell right away.
38:57But if it doesn't sell right away, I might run into problems a year from now.
39:00So I'd probably do eight.
39:02That's about as low as I'll go.
39:037,700 bucks.
39:0678.
39:087,800 bucks.
39:10Deal.
39:10Sweet.
39:11I will meet you right up front.
39:13And I'll get you paid.
39:14All right.
39:14Thanks, sir.
39:17This is my new boxing workout.
39:26Earlier at the shop, I looked at a set of golf clubs that may have been owned by President
39:30Eisenhower.
39:31They actually made me reminisce about me trying to play the game in my younger years.
39:36So I've asked Cory and Chum to meet me here to tee off my reintroduction to the game of golf.
39:42There's your pops.
39:44Hey, guys.
39:45What do you think?
39:46What's going on here?
39:47So we had President Eisenhower's golf clubs in the shop.
39:50Start thinking about this place.
39:51It's right down the street from the shop.
39:53We have drinks.
39:54We have golf.
39:55It's brand new.
39:56They have amazing food.
39:58We can relax, hit some balls, and we can have a blast.
40:01All right.
40:02Okay.
40:03So how long have you been here practicing before we got here?
40:06I haven't practiced at all.
40:07This is not a competition.
40:08We're just here to have fun.
40:10All right.
40:10It's a competition.
40:11All right.
40:12It says I'm up.
40:15God!
40:16Just swing slower, Rick.
40:17Take a baby step forward, though.
40:18I promise.
40:19You know what?
40:19I will do great if you guys could just be quiet for a minute.
40:22Okay.
40:23All right.
40:26Whoa!
40:27There you go.
40:28All right.
40:29Here you go, Chum.
40:30You're up.
40:30All right.
40:35Good job, Chum.
40:37Look at that.
40:37I beat you with an eight iron, Rick.
40:39I just need to practice more.
40:41All right, big hoss.
40:41You're up.
40:42All right.
40:43All right, Todd.
40:45Let's see.
40:49Right past Uncle Steve.
40:50Oh, I beat you.
40:52That was a massive slice.
40:54All right, big hoss.
40:55Good job.
40:57You've never heard of Harrison the great golfer.
40:59You did come in last place.
41:01You know what?
41:01I just need a little practice.
41:02It's been a long time.
41:03You know what?
41:04I think you did good, but you're definitely better eating tacos than golf.
41:07So why don't you stick to that, and I'll take your turn.
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