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00:01On tonight's episode, will Cory and I go full tilt on a deal?
00:05That one seems to work pretty good.
00:07And this one right here?
00:08He's going to blame the motor.
00:09Or is it game over?
00:12Then Cory gets jazzed about a super rare guitar.
00:16That's one hell of a guitar you got.
00:18So what do you think could be worse?
00:19They're highly collectible, but they also only speak to a fairly narrow range of players.
00:25And later, Chum discovers that some rare travel gear is worth fighting over.
00:31So, boar tusks, cowrie's shell, cassowary, feathers.
00:35Cassowary.
00:36This is a bird the size of an ostrich that will kill you in a heartbeat.
00:54Oh, I kind of know what you got here, but tell me what you got here.
00:57Yes, this is a 1959 Chicago Coin Jet Pilot.
01:01That is Genco Motorama.
01:03This is like electromechanical wonderland right here.
01:06Yeah, this is awesome.
01:09I'm here to sell my 1957 Genco Motorama and 1959 Chicago Coin Jet Pilot arcade games.
01:17They have been restored professionally.
01:18There are some original parts still in the games, original graphics, acrylic fronts are still original.
01:25So you'll see some markings, scratchings, and them like that, which adds to the value of the machines.
01:30My asking price for both of the games is $24,000.
01:33This is cool.
01:34Genco was sort of known for odd stuff.
01:38They produced hundreds of different games.
01:40The two you got right here are really cool.
01:42This is like a design they had in the 50s.
01:45They're probably sitting right next to each other in an arcade or something, right?
01:47Pretty much, yeah.
01:49I really dig the car one, though.
01:51Yeah, it's pretty cool.
01:51Do you know if that's the original body for the car?
01:53That is.
01:55Can I try one?
01:56Absolutely.
01:57All right.
01:57All right, here we go, guys.
02:02Do you have any idea what you're doing?
02:03Are you just driving this thing around me?
02:05Let's see.
02:07Yeah, there's a few issues with it.
02:09Yeah, they're electromechanical.
02:10If you don't use them, they hang up.
02:12Okay.
02:13I'm a pilot, so I could do this.
02:17All right.
02:18There you go.
02:23I mean, this one seems to kind of work.
02:26It's an operator error.
02:27There's nothing wrong with it.
02:28You're just not any good at it.
02:29No, there's some problems with it.
02:32Okay.
02:33Yeah.
02:34Okay.
02:35Pretty cool, though.
02:36I like it.
02:36How would she want for it?
02:38Actually, $24,000 for the pair.
02:41$24,000 for the pair?
02:42Yep.
02:43I'd really like my friend Danny to look at him.
02:45She knows everything there is to know about that.
02:46Do you want to have Danny make sure that it was not operator error?
02:50Okay, you know what?
02:51Okay, once you call Danny, get her down here.
02:53I will inspect these machines some more.
02:56All right?
02:57So we'll play the games, okay?
02:58I'll call Danny.
02:58All right.
02:59Do you mind?
03:00No.
03:01Okay.
03:13Hi.
03:13I'm Steve.
03:14Chumlee.
03:15How can I help you, Steve?
03:16I got something that's really kind of cool.
03:18I think you might appreciate.
03:19All right.
03:20What do you got?
03:20Take a look.
03:21All right.
03:22A pen?
03:23Well, it's actually just a little bit more than a pen.
03:27It's a butterfly knife.
03:28Okay.
03:29Do you mind if I take a look at it?
03:30Yes, please.
03:32All right.
03:32So it just swings open right here.
03:36That's pretty cool.
03:37And then, oh, there we go.
03:40I actually remember as a young kid going to the swap meet and buying the butterfly knife
03:44that had a dummy blade.
03:45And I would just be flipping it around all day practicing all this crazy stuff.
03:49I don't want to try those crazy tricks with this though.
03:53I'm here at the pawn shop today to sell a butterfly knife that disguises a pen.
03:58I've had it for quite a while, maybe about 30 years.
04:01After my dad passed, I was going through some of his boxes of other war memorabilia.
04:06And I found this in there just thinking it was a pen.
04:09And it wasn't until years later that I started playing with it, opening it up.
04:13I was like, ooh, this is some kind of a knife.
04:15I don't know exactly how old it is.
04:18Can I find any markings or indication?
04:19My asking price for the butterfly knife is $100.
04:22This is pretty cool.
04:24Well, you know, I've seen many of butterfly knives in my day, but nothing quite like this.
04:29Butterfly knives kind of gained a little bit of popularity after World War II when they brought some of these
04:36home.
04:36They were kind of just cool little keepsake items, but somewhere around the 1950s and 60s,
04:41they got really popularized in television or movies and stuff like that.
04:46And today they're very popular, and this is just a very unique one.
04:50It's disguised as a pen, and they did a really good job at it.
04:54So tell me about it. Where'd you get it?
04:55My father was in the Korean War conflict back in the day.
05:00So after he passed away, I was going through some more of his boxes, and I had come across that.
05:06It's definitely pretty cool. It's much thinner than the typical butterfly knife.
05:10It's very, very light.
05:12And do you have a price in mind?
05:14I'm thinking maybe $100.
05:16Okay, um, I actually do have a military expert.
05:19I would love to come take a look at this.
05:20So if you have some time, I would love to get him down here and see what he has to
05:24say about it.
05:24Yeah, that sounds great.
05:26All right, give me just a moment. I'll call him and see how fast he can get down here.
05:29Okay.
05:36A guy came to the shop with two really cool 1950s coin-operated games.
05:42They're both in working condition.
05:43He would like to get $24,000 for the pair, which is a lot of coinage.
05:48So I have my mechanical game expert, Dani, coming over,
05:51and she's going to let me know if I should press the start button on this deal or not.
05:56There she is.
05:57How's it going?
05:57Good to see you again, Rick.
05:59Wow.
05:59Hi, I'm Dani.
06:01Kevin.
06:01Nice to meet you.
06:02Nice to meet you.
06:03We have a Genco and a Genco Chicago coin.
06:07So Genco was an arcade company started in the early 30s.
06:12They produced these types of arcade machines, not so much the pinballs.
06:16The Motorama came out in 1957 and is the first car-themed game where the car moves freely around the
06:23play field
06:24and doesn't operate on a track like other car machines of the past.
06:28And then the Jet Pilot was produced by Chicago Coin in 1959 after the Chicago Coin Company took over the
06:36Genco operation.
06:38That one seems to work pretty good.
06:40I'm just really bad at it.
06:43And this one right here.
06:45He's really bad at it too, but he's going to blame the motor.
06:47I think the motor in the car or maybe something in there needs a little bit of help.
06:52The Motorama looks like it was restored for a home collector, as you can see by the wear on the
06:58machine.
06:59The Jet Pilot does look like it was operated in the field or maybe is a little bit older of
07:05a restoration.
07:07How collectible are these things? I mean, it has to take up a lot of real estate.
07:10They are big games, obviously. However, there was actually three games produced in this series that all came in the
07:18same cabinet.
07:19Genco put out a game called Space Age. Usually in a collection, you'll see all three of those machines.
07:25Okay. So what do you think they're worth?
07:27The Motorama is a much more popular game. You do see these in the market.
07:33There was one that recently sold on auction within the past few months. I would value this machine at $10
07:38,000.
07:39The Jet Pilot, while being more rare of a machine, is not as fun to play as the Motorama.
07:46I would put a value on this machine of $8,500.
07:49$18,500 altogether.
07:51For the pair, yep.
07:52And if I buy them, you can help me fix them up?
07:54I can definitely help you fix them up, Rick.
07:56Okay. Thanks, Dani. You're the best.
07:58Thank you. Good luck. Nice to meet you.
08:00All right. See you soon.
08:01Thank you, guys. See you soon.
08:02I like that. I appreciate it.
08:02See you later.
08:03All right. You might have seen one go for $12,000 unrestored at an auction.
08:07Auctions are a weird thing. You never know what you're going to get out of them.
08:10Oh, yeah. They're up and down.
08:11Yep. Great items.
08:12It's just a lot more work involved in selling it.
08:14Yeah, it makes sense.
08:15I'd give you $12,000.
08:17No, I'll have to pass.
08:18Okay.
08:19Do you have any more nickels?
08:20I do not.
08:21You're cut off.
08:22Let me go get someone to help you, okay?
08:24I appreciate it.
08:30You really should make a deal with me on this thing.
08:37I have a customer in the shop with a butterfly knife that is disguised as a pin.
08:41The owner would like to get $100 but doesn't know much about it, and there are no markings
08:46to help me determine a value.
08:48I've asked Alex Cranmer to come down and take a look at it before I sign off on a deal
08:52here.
08:54Hi, Alex.
08:55Steve.
08:55Alex, pleased to meet you.
08:56Nice to meet you.
08:57He calls you in about this pin that happens to also be a Chum Bond-like spy tool.
09:05Oh, that's cool.
09:07Do you mind if I pick it up, Steve?
09:08Oh, yeah.
09:09Please do.
09:09All right.
09:11Have you ever seen anything like this?
09:13I mean, I've seen things like this, but this is a bit different, and mostly because
09:20it is, like, precisely built, and it's quite sturdy in your hand.
09:25Like, if this was some Taurus knockoff made overseas, it doesn't have the same build quality.
09:32So, it's got an aluminum body, and this is a steel blade.
09:36It's single-edged.
09:37It is razor sharp with, like, a crazy stiletto tip.
09:43This was made to do really terrible damage, and it's concealable because you could easily
09:51put this in your front pocket, and nobody would be the wiser that you actually had a lethal
09:55weapon on you.
09:56I mean, I would date this to probably the 1960s, maybe 1970s.
10:02The absence of any visual markings is telling, so we would refer to this from a military collector's
10:10standpoint as being sterile.
10:13So, why would something be sterile?
10:15And the answer is because if you lost this, you wouldn't want someone who found it to
10:19know where it came from.
10:21Now, why wouldn't you want to know where it came from?
10:23So, the idea of concealable small weapons that are sterile really began for the Americans
10:31in World War II, the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services.
10:35This is the predecessor to CIA.
10:38So, you're talking spy games things.
10:40And so, this does become a spy weapon.
10:43I was hoping it was a spy weapon.
10:46Is this something that that spy type collector would collect?
10:50Yes.
10:50So, if you were to buy it and put it in the shop, I think you might get up to
10:53$1,000.
10:55All right, Alex.
10:56As always, it's been a pleasure.
10:57You're welcome.
10:58That's great information.
10:59Thanks, Alex.
10:59Good luck.
11:00You still want $100?
11:01Ah, based on this new light of information, my price has gone closer to $1,000.
11:07Okay, Alex is saying that's probably top of the market for a retail situation like we
11:13have here in the pawn shop.
11:14Would you take $400 for it?
11:17Um, how about $800?
11:19Um, how about $550?
11:23How about $650?
11:25I could do $575.
11:27That could be my max.
11:28$575, um, tell you what, that's a deal.
11:32All right.
11:33We got a deal.
11:33Uh, you go ahead over there to the counter, and I'll meet you right over there, and I
11:37will write you up and get you paid.
11:39Thank you much.
11:39I better take this with me.
11:41I don't want to leave a knife on the counter.
11:42No.
11:48How are we doing today?
11:50I'm good.
11:50How are you doing?
11:51What do you have here?
11:53A couple of Planet of the Apes items.
11:54So, where did you get these?
11:56These were found at an estate sale.
11:57All right.
11:58Um, Planet of the Apes is a pretty iconic franchise.
12:01I think they're released in the tenth movie this year.
12:04Yep.
12:05I definitely haven't seen them all, but I've watched a few of the movies.
12:08Did you ever watch them?
12:09Uh, a few.
12:10The reboot, I guess, and then I don't know what's happened over the last few years.
12:16I have a, uh, Planet of the Apes, Dr. Zayas doll, as well as two sealed Planet of the Apes,
12:21like a soldier and a Peter Burke.
12:23The two action figures are men on card and they're unpunched.
12:28And the Dr. Zayas, it's very rare to find the box.
12:31I would like to get $1,375 for the three items that I'm bringing in.
12:35This is definitely cool.
12:37The basics of the first movie was that, um, you know, the apes were from a planet and this group
12:43of astronauts landed on the planet and the apes captured them.
12:47And basically all captured humans on this planet were slaves working for the apes.
12:53And obviously the humans got away and all kinds of stuff going on in the movie.
12:57But, um, the Planet of the Apes was a solid movie.
13:00It had a good following right away.
13:01But when they released the toys, you know, people took to them really well.
13:05The toys are pretty cool, though. These look to be kind of older, maybe 70s-ish.
13:10I believe 74 from what I saw.
13:12These two are unpunched.
13:14Pretty good skills, especially this one.
13:16And then this one was open, obviously, in the original box.
13:19Yeah, you know, a lot of times that'll happen with these older toys is the little film will come apart
13:24from here and it will start ripping.
13:26And you still have the box. That's still good, you know.
13:28People will rather have this in a beat-up box than just the naked figure without a box.
13:34Now this green back looks pretty beat-up, but it is unpunched, so that's also pretty cool.
13:40It's cool that you have two unpunched backs right here.
13:43It's possible that these just sat in a box and never got hung up on a rack or possibly just
13:48lined up on a shelf in a store that didn't have a rack.
13:52How much are you looking to get for this collection?
13:54500 each on those, and then that one, 375.
13:57It's kind of hard to find the box, although it is beat-up.
14:01Yeah, no, the box is beat-up, but it is a box.
14:04So I have some questions on condition and the actual value.
14:08Sure.
14:08I don't doubt you did your research and know how much these are worth, but I want to have someone
14:11come take a look and just kind of go over the condition and see if he thinks those conditions match
14:17what you're asking.
14:18Absolutely.
14:19Do you have a few minutes to hang out?
14:21I can get someone down and take a look at them?
14:22Sure.
14:22Yeah.
14:23Look around.
14:31What do we got here?
14:32A geisha cosmetic traveling box.
14:35Okay.
14:36Do you associate with a lot of geishas?
14:37Not myself, no.
14:38Okay.
14:41I'm at the pawn shop here today to try and sell my geisha cosmetic traveling box.
14:46The box itself is handcrafted with rosewood and inlaid mother of pearl.
14:51The hinges and all the handles are handmade metals.
14:55I'm looking for $1,000 for my geisha cosmetic traveling box.
15:00Pretty cool.
15:01Where did you find this?
15:03At an antique mall in Arizona.
15:05So do you know anything about it?
15:06I watched the movie Geisha Girl and there's models of that cosmetic box in that movie.
15:11That sort of confirmed that it was a geisha girl cosmetic box.
15:14Right.
15:15I thought the craftsmanship was beautiful.
15:18I really liked the hidden compartments in it too.
15:22Oh, okay.
15:24Not super hidden, but I like it.
15:26I know my girlfriend, her makeup wouldn't fit in it.
15:32Do you have any idea how old it is?
15:34Well, I believe it's about 300 years old.
15:36Um, so there's a few things we can look at here to kind of date it.
15:39Okay.
15:39First thing's the mirror.
15:40You can tell it's really thick, heavy glass.
15:43Um, that is commercial ground glass with a silvered back.
15:48Late 19th century, early 20th century.
15:53So, 1850s, the United States sends, um, some ships to Japan.
15:58And by the late 1860s, Japan more or less starts its whole modernization process.
16:05And tourists can go over there.
16:07There's a lot more trade.
16:08And this stuff is the rage.
16:11You know, this is definitely not something a GI brought back that was there in the 1950s or something like
16:16that.
16:17This is much earlier.
16:17So, this was most likely sold to tourists.
16:21You just tell the way it's made and everything like that.
16:23The hardware, the glass.
16:26How much did you want for it?
16:28Like a thousand dollars.
16:29Okay.
16:30Too much money.
16:31Okay.
16:32All right.
16:32Um, it's kind of a tough sell.
16:34You know what I mean?
16:35It's just, who collects these?
16:36Not a lot of people.
16:37You're probably gonna absolutely hate my offer.
16:40I'd give you a hundred bucks for it.
16:41Could you do 250?
16:42I'll give you 150 bucks for it.
16:44If you throw in a polo shirt, I'll take 150.
16:47Ah.
16:48Throw in a polo shirt.
16:49One of your polo shirts, I'll take 150.
16:51Well, not one of mine.
16:52One of maybe went out of a gift shop.
16:54Yeah, that'd be fine.
16:55Fine.
16:57150 bucks on a shirt.
16:58I'll meet you right over there and we'll do some paperwork.
17:00Okay.
17:01Sounds good.
17:04You need to trim this up a little bit.
17:14A guy came into the shop with a Planet of the Apes, Dr. Zaius doll and two action figures from
17:20the 1970s.
17:21All of them are in the original packaging and in good condition.
17:25But he wants $1,375 for all three.
17:29There are certain Planet of the Apes toys that are collectible, but I'm not sure which one.
17:33So I've asked Steve Johnston to come over and take a look before I monkey around with any offers.
17:39I have some Planet of the Apes toys here and basically I want to know what you know about these
17:45and go over the condition of them with me here because these are really cool.
17:48They're unpunched, but this one looks a little beat up, but it's still a nice box.
17:53We know the Planet of the Apes franchise was and continues to still be really big.
17:58It doesn't have the fanfare as some of those other franchises that we might know when you think of like
18:02Star Wars or some of the stuff that came out.
18:04During this time when these toys started to be produced, they were kind of behind the eight ball.
18:08And what you had is you had manufacturers were starting to go to their superstars and start to create, you
18:15know, toys around them.
18:17And Mego was one of those companies that really led the charge for that.
18:21So what do you think about the condition overall of these?
18:24You want if I take a look?
18:25Yeah, absolutely.
18:27This one, really nice condition.
18:28You can see the sticker was removed off of here.
18:30In fact, I can look at this and I can tell you that this was a Toys R Us item.
18:34So this was actually sold or purchased from Toys R Us.
18:37Overall, the card is nice and yes, the hanger tab is unpunched, which is really great.
18:41Now the Soldier Ape, this card has gotten some type of moisture damage at some point.
18:46We can see that from the waviness of it.
18:48The great thing is, if you're going to have a card that's not in the better of conditions, you'd rather
18:52it be the better character.
18:54Yeah.
18:54And any of the apes in this line are very desirable.
18:58Okay, and then the Dr. Zeus.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Box is in decent condition.
19:03You got some break and separation here.
19:05Just to find this in the box is pretty good.
19:07And it does actually affect the value on this overall quite a bit.
19:10So what value would you put on these?
19:12So I'll start with the Dr. Zeus.
19:15In this condition with that box, I think that it would be fair for you to expect to get $300
19:19for that item.
19:20Okay.
19:21This one, the Peter Burke.
19:22This one, I would say you'd expect to get $175 for it as it sits.
19:26I think the Soldier Ape, you'd expect to get $400 for it.
19:28So for the three, I think $875 is a fair number.
19:32All right.
19:32Well, I appreciate you, Steve.
19:33No problem.
19:34Good luck.
19:35Appreciate it.
19:35All right.
19:36So I know you're valuing him a little more, but you know, I do have to take into consideration
19:41what my guy said.
19:42I would go about $500 on the trio of all three of them.
19:47What are you thinking about that?
19:48May I ask if we just did the two?
19:50Maybe like $400.
19:52I would do these two at $450.
19:54Would you go $425?
19:56I kind of want to stay at $450 on this.
19:59All right.
20:00Since you're leaving me with the most desirable piece, I'll go $450 for you.
20:03Yeah.
20:04All right.
20:05You can take Peter Burke.
20:06I'll meet you at the counter and we'll get you paid.
20:07Sounds good.
20:10What do we got here?
20:11This is a nurse's hat signed by Louise Fletcher from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
20:17And I have a certificate of authentication.
20:20Nurse Ratched herself?
20:21Yeah.
20:23I mean, if you collect stuff from villains, this is the one to have.
20:27I'm here to sell a Nurse Ratched hat signed by Louise Fletcher from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
20:34Nest.
20:34It was an iconic movie and everybody understands and knows Nurse Ratched.
20:39After I got it autographed, I went and got it authenticated because I knew it's the authentication.
20:45It would be easier to sell.
20:46I'm asking $125 for my signed Nurse Ratched hat.
20:50If I'm able to get $125 for it, I'm going to buy my granddaughter Olivia's something here in Vegas.
20:56Really cool.
20:57I mean, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
20:59You know, I don't think anyone expected it to be such an amazing movie and do so well.
21:06She actually won an Oscar for this movie.
21:09I mean, she was absolutely scary.
21:13Where did you get it?
21:14I was at a convention and she was present and she signed it.
21:17Yeah, so we got Louise Fletcher, Nurse Ratched.
21:20And this is a nurse's hat.
21:22And I'm assuming it goes together something like, bam.
21:27I'm old enough to remember when nurses wore hats like this.
21:35That's a good one.
21:38I think nurses should bring these back.
21:40I think they're kind of cool looking.
21:42I like it.
21:44How much do you want for it?
21:45$125.
21:48Um, you know what?
21:49That's probably what she charges for.
21:51Okay?
21:52Um, so I'd give you $75 for it.
21:54I can't pay your retail.
21:56Cool movie, iconic movie.
21:58If you're a movie guy and you collect movie stuff, this is the thing to have.
22:03But remember, I've got to frame it up and I've got to do a bunch of other stuff.
22:07$75.
22:08$100, you got a deal.
22:09$75.
22:10$85, you got a deal.
22:12$75 and you don't have to take the pills.
22:14It's an iconic movie.
22:15She's an award winner.
22:16$85.
22:17It fit like a glove.
22:19$85, we got a deal.
22:21All right, sweet.
22:21All right, I will meet you right over there and get you paid.
22:24Okay, thanks.
22:25Literally one of the scariest people in movies ever.
22:31Creepy.
22:38What do we got here?
22:39I have a very special guitar.
22:42All right, let's put it on this.
22:44It's a Rebecky Monterey.
22:47Okay.
22:48I know in like the early 1970s, he built his first guitar in his dorm room.
22:52I don't know how college really worked out for him because he moved to San Francisco and opened up his
22:56first guitar shop and the rest is kind of history.
23:00I am here to sell my Rebecky Monterey premium grade jazz guitar.
23:04This guitar has a number of special features, including quilted maple back and sides, ebony fretboard, tailpiece and bridge and
23:13mother of pearl inlays.
23:15This guitar is special because it is a one off.
23:17So there's no two guitars exactly the same.
23:20I had open heart surgery a little less than a year ago.
23:23I'm looking to make enough to have a little bit of a profit and then also to cover my medical
23:29costs.
23:30Definitely really cool. I mean, he's kind of like almost this mythical guy.
23:33I mean, did he play in any famous rock bands?
23:35Did he ever work for Fender or Gibson or anything like that?
23:38Not that I'm aware of.
23:40Kind of a hard market to get into and be one of the best in the world at.
23:44He's done so well in this business and he's such a good luthier.
23:47You just kind of have to know somebody to know somebody to get ahold of him, right?
23:51Pretty much.
23:51You know, one off customs basically for every single one he does.
23:54The archtop guitars are what he's kind of really known for.
23:57And when someone pulls one of these things out, that guy's probably been working in the music industry for a
24:02very, very long time.
24:03And just probably made a very, very large amount of money doing.
24:06What do you do for a living? How do you acquire something like this?
24:10I'm a retired teacher. I do a little buying and selling of guitars.
24:14I found this at the estate sale of the original owner.
24:18Do you have any idea what they would cost new?
24:19Last time I checked, it was about 30 grand.
24:22And what's the waiting list like to get one of these?
24:24It was about two years.
24:26It's a beautiful guitar.
24:27I have never seen one of these in my life.
24:30So what are you looking to get out of it?
24:31I'm looking for $15,000.
24:33I got 20 years in this business and I'm just pulling out little things I've heard over the past 20
24:39years about this thing.
24:41It could be worth $20,000. It could be worth $50,000. It could be worth $5,000. I have
24:45no idea.
24:45My buddy Mike, he's here in town. He's my guitar guy. Could I have him take a look at it?
24:49He'll really help me out.
24:50I would love to have Mike come and look at it.
24:52Well, hang out for a minute. I'm going to go grab him, okay?
24:53Sounds good.
25:01There's a guy in the shop with a 1999 Rebecky Monterey jazz guitar that he's looking to get $15,000
25:06for.
25:07This thing looks incredible, but I've never seen a Rebecky before.
25:10So I called our guitar expert, Mike Ball, to come down and let me know if this is a good
25:14deal to get jazzed about or not.
25:16Stay by the bell, man. Help me out here, Mike. Thank you very much for coming down.
25:20What's going on, man? That's one hell of a guitar you got here. Thank you.
25:22It's a Rebecky Archtop 1999.
25:25You can't really broach the conversation of Archtop Luthury without talking about Tom Rebecky.
25:32Consummate innovator, 50 years in the game.
25:34You go back to the very first splash that he made in the 1970s with his sound bubble guitar.
25:40I mean, nothing looks like this.
25:42It's a flat top acoustic guitar that looks like it just won a hot dog eating contest.
25:46And that would lead him to make his halfling guitar, which is really the big Rebecky guitar that you hear
25:52about.
25:52If you're talking about Rebecky, you're talking about the halfling.
25:55Not only has he made incredible guitars, but he's brought up another generation of luthiers under him.
26:01May I pick it up?
26:02Please.
26:02Let's take a look here.
26:05Beautiful, hand-carved, quilted maple back and signs.
26:08Some nice bird's eye in the neck.
26:11Ebony appointments, as per usual for Rebecky.
26:14And graduated, hand-carved spruce top.
26:17Beautiful example you have here.
26:20So, Corey, what questions or concerns do you have for me?
26:23I mean, it's such a rare guitar that every one of them is basically a one-off guitar.
26:28I have no idea how to price this thing.
26:30They're highly collectible, but they also only speak to a fairly narrow range of players.
26:35You're talking professional jazz players who are seeking a very refined sound.
26:40They're going to go for Rebecky.
26:42So, what do you think it could be worth?
26:44There are Montereys on the market that have roughly this feature set.
26:48And around $12,000 would be a comfortable median for what these go for used.
26:53I appreciate you coming down. I'll let you know what happens with it.
26:56Hey, absolutely, anytime.
26:57Mike, very nice to meet you.
27:00Okay, so I know you want $15,000.
27:02I'm being told $12,000 is what I could sell it for.
27:04I can't give you $12,000.
27:05I got to pay the bills here.
27:06I understand.
27:07I'm filling $8,000 because, as cool as it is, it's going to take me a minute to sell it.
27:12I could do $11,000.
27:14I can offer you $10,000.
27:18$10,500.
27:20Yeah.
27:22Fine, man, you got to do it.
27:23All right, I'll do $10,500.
27:24Let's do it.
27:26Go ahead and pack it up.
27:27I'll meet you over there.
27:28We got some paperwork we're going to do.
27:29Very good.
27:36How's it going, guys?
27:37Pretty good.
27:37How you doing?
27:38Good.
27:39Let's go ahead and throw it up on here.
27:41Let's do that.
27:42So what do you got here?
27:43So I have a signed photo of Rin Tin Tin and, I think, Lee Duncan's signature.
27:48His owner.
27:49Okay.
27:50Rin Tin Tin was one of the biggest stars in silent movies.
27:54Uh, Rin Tin Tin, let it sign stuff.
27:57Yeah, but...
27:58It's paw prints right there.
28:00It's not...
28:01A paw print is not a signature.
28:03Tell Pinky that.
28:07I'm here to sell my signed photograph of Rin Tin Tin and Lee Duncan.
28:10The photo has been in our family for 80 years and was handed down to me by my father.
28:14The photo's in unbelievable condition.
28:16We've taken fantastic care of it.
28:18My uncle even handmade a frame for it.
28:21I'm asking $7,500 for my signed photo of Rin Tin Tin.
28:23This is pretty cool.
28:26Um...
28:26Rin Tin Tin's first movie, blockbuster success.
28:30So then they immediately want Rin Tin Tin, you know, to do a bunch more movies.
28:33He was so popular, thousands and thousands of people were writing in for Rin Tin Tin's autograph.
28:40Yeah.
28:41So Lee Duncan would personally write out all this stuff on photos of Rin Tin Tin and put his paw
28:47print on it.
28:49It's unbelievable.
28:50I mean, I think it was like a million letters a year that he received.
28:53So how did you get this?
28:55So my great-grandfather was friends with a bartender in Boston in a very famous bar that's still around.
29:00And he would ask every famous actor that came in to give him a signed photo to hang behind the
29:04bar.
29:05So you're telling me, uh, Rin Tin Tin was a drinker.
29:08He was.
29:09You never know.
29:09It's your kind of dog, Rick.
29:13Okay, it's pretty cool.
29:14And is this signed to your grandfather?
29:16It's signed to the original bartender.
29:18Okay.
29:19So how about you walk for it?
29:20I was gonna hopefully get about $7,500.
29:23Where did you come up with that number?
29:25It was sort of a random number.
29:26We're just doing research on Rin Tin Tin artifacts and they're hard to find.
29:30Yeah.
29:31Um, super popular back in the day.
29:34Not that many people in the world left to know who he is.
29:36I mean, I'm sure when you originally got this, you had no idea who he was, did you?
29:40My father had always told me the stories, but I'm sure without that, no.
29:43Okay.
29:43Uh, yeah.
29:44I mean, I would give you, I'd give you 200 bucks for it.
29:46It's very, very obscure.
29:48Quite frankly, there's not that many collectors for it left.
29:51I think we're a little too far apart.
29:53Okay.
29:53All right.
29:54Well, thanks for bringing it in.
29:55Appreciate your time, guys.
30:04Hey, I got something really cool for you.
30:07I'm assuming there's Shania Twain boots, because that's the living legend right there.
30:12Yes.
30:12How in the world did you get these?
30:14It was a know somebody that knows somebody that got us some amazing seats and got invited
30:19to a private charity event afterwards.
30:22So she signed them right there on the stage.
30:25I know that it's impossible to get tickets, but I think I could pull some strings and get
30:29some, because I know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody, and I'm known for that.
30:36I'm here at the pawn shop today, hoping to sell my Shania Twain stage-worn concert boots.
30:41Shania wore these boots in 2012, and I actually got to see her wear those boots.
30:47And then a year later, I went to a charity event where I got to buy the boots.
30:52My asking price for the boots is not nearly what I paid for them, but I'm asking $1,500 for
30:56them.
30:58Pretty cool.
30:59Shania Twain is the biggest-selling female country artist ever.
31:04They shed one out and sold over, like, 40 million copies or something like that.
31:08Won a Grammy, nominated for multiple Grammys.
31:10Sort of faded out for a while.
31:12Comes to Vegas, the comeback tour, and Vegas is where you start every comeback tour.
31:17It was an amazing concert.
31:18I think I did four or five of them with my wife.
31:21It was an amazing moment for me.
31:24Those are little.
31:25They're size five.
31:26She looks bigger on camera, but she's very tiny.
31:30So whose bed they've been under?
31:31So they...
31:33My wife's warned them.
31:34They've been under our bed for a while.
31:38It's really weird that they have holes drilled in them.
31:40There's a story behind that.
31:42Okay, what's the story behind the holes in the boots?
31:44So when she used to fly in on the motorcycle, they had tassels that would be tied through the boots.
31:49They did not include the tassels, though.
31:51No tassels.
31:53All right.
31:55I don't even really need to call on anybody to, like, verify.
31:58I mean, you got the pictures right here.
32:00We have Shania Twain signing them.
32:02And you and Shania Twain with the boots.
32:05Absolutely amazing moment.
32:06Now the big question.
32:07How much you want for them?
32:09Well, I paid a lot more than you will ever pay for them, but I'm asking $1,500 for them.
32:15Okay.
32:15You bought them at a charity auction.
32:18So it's not about the price at the charity event.
32:21It's about giving to a good cause.
32:23Yes.
32:24And that's why the prices at charity auctions mean nothing in the real world.
32:28Okay.
32:29I'm with you.
32:30Okay.
32:31I would give you $500.
32:33I still would like, like, $650 for them.
32:37$500, and I'm being generous at that.
32:39That's what I can do.
32:41Okay.
32:41I'll take it.
32:42All right, sweet.
32:43We got a deal.
32:44Appreciate it.
32:44Thank you very much.
32:44I'll meet you right over there.
32:46Okay.
32:47And I'll get you paid.
32:48All right.
32:48Thank you very much.
32:56Hello.
32:57Hello.
32:59I brought you in some Papua New Guinea unusual breastplates to look at.
33:05Okay.
33:06You don't see this very often.
33:08This is obviously a necklace.
33:10That is.
33:11Okay.
33:11All right.
33:12So maybe this is, like, a headdress, or?
33:15I was thinking it was a tighter necklace, but it could be a headdress.
33:20It could even be worn probably as a front skirt.
33:24It could be a front skirt.
33:26I was leaning maybe towards headdress just because, you know, I don't think you'd want these up in your throat.
33:31No, not too high.
33:32You know, possibly down here if you didn't have quite the tummy that I had.
33:37I am here to sell my two Papua New Guinea breastplates.
33:41I collect unusual jewelry pieces, and being I can't wear too much of it, I usually try to decorate my
33:48house with it.
33:49I'm willing to part with these because I just downsized from a much larger townhouse into a smaller condo, and
33:56I'm losing all my wall space.
33:58For the two breastplates, I would like to get $250 each.
34:03This is interesting.
34:05What can you tell me about this stuff?
34:07Well, I actually picked them up at a yard sale here in Las Vegas about eight years ago.
34:13The only thing that was told to me is that the tusks are pig tusks.
34:18There are some unusual shells, cowrie shells, I understand.
34:22Some parrot feathers.
34:24I'm not quite sure what the long, fluffy feathers are.
34:27They're old, but I don't know how old.
34:30Papua New Guinea's been inhabited for, I think, you know, something like 50,000 years.
34:35And they still live relatively off the land, you know.
34:39They still would make stuff like this up into, you know, modern times, maybe even still today.
34:44And it's a small island, and there's a bunch of different languages on there.
34:48So these people would settle in different tribes, and they all make really cool tools and, you know, jewelry.
34:55These kind of look like ceremonial-type pieces to me.
34:59That's a good possibility they were.
35:01Do you have a price in mind?
35:02I'm just thinking of $250 each.
35:05I mean, that seems pretty fair to me, but I do have some questions.
35:09I would like to have someone come down and take a look at these, if you don't mind.
35:12I don't mind at all. I'd love to have more information.
35:15Perfect. All right, give me a moment.
35:16I'm gonna call down a guy named Bob Dodge.
35:19I've had him come down for Papua New Guinea stuff before.
35:21I think he'll be able to help share some information on these pieces with us.
35:25Oh, I'm anxious to hear him.
35:26Well, let me get him down here and see what he has to say.
35:29That sounds great.
35:36A woman came into the shop with what she believes to be a headdress and a breastplate from a tribe
35:42in Papua New Guinea.
35:43I do think they're authentic, but I'd like more information, so I'm having Bob Dodge come over.
35:49Hey, Bob.
35:50John, how are you?
35:51Pretty good. How you doing?
35:52Hi, Bob.
35:53Hi, Bob. I'm Day.
35:55Good to meet you.
35:55So Day has these two pieces here, which she believes they're from P&G.
36:00May I?
36:01Do you mind, Day?
36:02No, please, please.
36:05So, definitely Papua New Guinea.
36:09Two very distinct pieces.
36:11Okay.
36:12Both from the lowlands.
36:13So, Papua New Guinea is perhaps the most remote area of the world.
36:19There are 700 different tribes.
36:22Wow.
36:22On any given day, one tribe will want to kill their next door neighbor.
36:27And the next day, they may want to trade with their next door neighbor.
36:32So...
36:32Okay.
36:33These are from the Abalam people.
36:35This is called a carahoot.
36:37If you're getting ready to fight your neighbor, it would be worn in the mouth.
36:43Like this.
36:44Oh.
36:44And this represents the life.
36:47The tusks representing hanging your enemy off of the tusk.
36:52And then it could be worn as a necklace when you're in a more peaceful frame of mind.
36:59This guy is a headdress.
37:02Oh, okay.
37:03It would be worn in the front.
37:06So, boar tusks, cowrie shell, cassowary feathers.
37:10Oh, cassowary.
37:11This is a bird the size of an ostrich that will kill you in a heartbeat.
37:16Just a mean bird.
37:18So, you think they're authentic?
37:20They are authentic-ish.
37:22I mean, the height of P&G art was pre 1960.
37:27That's when everything was tribally used.
37:30After that, the natives discovered they could start selling artifacts.
37:35So, this is kind of in that time period, 1960 to 1975.
37:40You can see that this has been worn.
37:42So, there is nice sweat from being danced, but maybe worn once or twice and then sold
37:49to a missionary or a tourist.
37:51The headdress shows much less wear.
37:54You can see the string has probably never been tied.
37:58You don't see signs of excessive sweat.
38:01So, more likely made for selling.
38:05Okay.
38:06What kind of value do these pieces have?
38:08I would price this one at 600 bucks.
38:11Wow.
38:13And for the headdress, I'd put 400 bucks on that one.
38:16Oh, okay.
38:17So, about a thousand bucks worth of value here.
38:20About a thousand bucks.
38:21All right.
38:22Well, appreciate you, Bob.
38:23Thanks for coming out.
38:24Thank you, Bob.
38:25Good luck.
38:25Nice meeting you.
38:28Would you still be willing to take the 500 you're asking for?
38:30I think that's fair.
38:32Yes, I would.
38:32All right.
38:33We got a deal.
38:33That's great.
38:34So, you can leave these here.
38:36Come follow me and I'll get you paid.
38:37Okay.
38:44Steve Grad comes into the pawn shop every once in a while to authenticate autographs for customers.
38:49I have some very special signatures that I have for him to look at and authenticate for me today.
38:55Sure.
38:58Steve.
38:59How are you?
39:00I'm good.
39:01Say hi, Pinky.
39:01Hi, Pinky.
39:02Good to see you.
39:04So, I need your services.
39:07Oh, God.
39:08I need to get Pinky's autographs authenticated.
39:12That way people know it's her paw print.
39:14I don't really authenticate paw prints.
39:18I don't really authenticate paw prints.
39:18You can't.
39:19You're good.
39:19I know you can do it.
39:21Look, I have her paw right here.
39:22You can verify it with your ProScope.
39:24Yeah, being good and everything is one thing, but like you can't really.
39:27All right.
39:28What are you guys arguing about?
39:29Well, Steve is refusing to authenticate Pinky's autograph.
39:33I need to get Pinky's paw print authenticated so I can sell these things.
39:37To be fair, he wouldn't authenticate the Rin Tin Tin autograph either because it's not actually an autograph.
39:42It's a paw print.
39:43Which is her autograph.
39:44Did Rin Tin Tin know Rin Tin Tin was doing this?
39:47Yeah.
39:48Pinky knows she's doing it.
39:50I get it.
39:51Yeah.
39:52We understand how much you love Pinky, but I think you're going to have to have just
39:57a certificate of authenticity, not from an autographed person, but maybe from you.
40:01I don't think Pinky's leaving until she gets her authentication.
40:05I think I got to get back to work.
40:06I'm sorry, Chum.
40:07This isn't going to work for anybody.
40:08Chum, there's people in line.
40:10I was going to give you one of these pictures, but I don't think so anymore, Steve.
40:13Next.
40:15Are you shooing me?
40:17See ya, Chum.
40:18Thanks, Rick.
40:20I'm going to get back to work.
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