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00:00Here's the deal.
00:01It's like your favorite tool.
00:03If I came over to your place and I'm like wanting to borrow your favorite tool, you
00:07probably wouldn't let me.
00:08No, I would not.
00:08And if you did let me, you'd be giving me a tutorial on like how to handle it.
00:13Absolutely.
00:13Okay, so when you ask to drive the van, dude, this is a bigger van than you're used to.
00:17No, it's not.
00:18It's taller, it's longer.
00:20No, it's not.
00:21This is bigger than your van.
00:22This is way bigger than your van.
00:24Yes, it is.
00:25No, it's not, dude.
00:25Oh my gosh, I've seen your van.
00:27I've got the $2,500.
00:28You don't even have a high roof.
00:30Yes, I do have a high roof.
00:32I walk her in the whole thing.
00:33How tall are you?
00:34I'm 5'10".
00:34Oh, that ain't high roof.
00:36You need 5'11".
00:49Nanny D, what's up?
00:51Good morning, boys.
00:52How you doing?
00:53Good morning.
00:54What's going on?
00:55Oh, you know, keeping the shop in order, doing Danielle stuff.
00:59Uh-huh.
00:59Good, good, good.
01:00Actually, this pick is for Mr. John Sazlay.
01:04Salad Zay?
01:04Who's that?
01:05Salad Day?
01:06Sazlay.
01:07Who is that?
01:07Is he in the payroll?
01:08It's Sazlay, right?
01:09Danny, it's pronounced Z-lay.
01:12Z-lay.
01:12S-Z.
01:13I don't know how to pronounce your name.
01:14I apologize.
01:16Hungarian.
01:16The Hungarian oak.
01:17Hungarian oak.
01:18Boop, boop, boop, boop.
01:19Okay, anyway, this call is for John Sazlay.
01:23Okay, I'm worried already.
01:24What is it?
01:24John, I'm sending you to meet Susie.
01:27What about me?
01:27I'm gonna get to you.
01:28Not everything is about you right now.
01:30Yeah, really, Mike.
01:31Susie's father, Bob, was a jack of all trades.
01:33Cool.
01:34And he practically has an entire museum of tools.
01:37Oh!
01:37Yes!
01:39Old-school, vintage, antique tools.
01:41Yes!
01:42I love this!
01:43Dude's got player pianos.
01:44He's got cameras.
01:45I like cameras.
01:46Cameras are cool.
01:47Now we're getting to the Mike territory.
01:49See, I never forget about you.
01:51Okay.
01:52All right.
01:52They've even got a couple of trucks that they just might be interested in selling.
01:55All right.
01:56Cool.
01:56Unfortunately, Susie's dad passed a couple years ago.
01:59Uh-huh.
01:59They've already started going through the collection.
02:01I mean, the neighborhood is actually really still fond of the museum.
02:04Lots of folks still come and visit it.
02:06Oh, it's a museum?
02:07It's like a private, personal museum, like a collection that's displayed.
02:10That's cool.
02:11But then there are parts that are just, like, piles of collections.
02:14I mean, that's nice.
02:15That's diggable.
02:16Okay.
02:16Let's say 80% of it is tools.
02:19So, John, you're going to have a very good time.
02:21Yeah!
02:22Maybe I'll find my Stanley number one, finally.
02:25Oh, Daniel.
02:26My dream tool could be in this collection, Danny.
02:28Aw, John, you're my favorite tool.
02:30You're like a Swiss army knife, you know?
02:32I can't live without you.
02:33Yes, I am a tool, that's for sure.
02:35Yeah, you are a big tool.
02:35I get used a lot.
02:36Anyway, listen, they're expecting you guys.
02:38They'll meet you out back.
02:39I'll shoot you the coordinates right now.
02:40All right, thanks, Danny.
02:41Thank you, Danny.
02:42All right, bye-bye.
02:43All right, here's the deal, Jersey.
02:44You look at the tools.
02:46All right.
02:46If there's any anvils there, they're mine.
02:48No.
02:49No, no.
02:50That's not how it's going down, dude.
03:02All right, here it is.
03:03Interesting.
03:04Oh, yeah.
03:05Grab a fire, dude.
03:10Hey.
03:11Hey.
03:11Hey.
03:11Hey, what's going on?
03:12Man, this is like the last little piece of heaven here, it looks like.
03:16How are you doing?
03:16I'm John.
03:17Nice to meet you.
03:18Hi, Susie, nice to meet you.
03:19Nice to meet you.
03:19Hello.
03:20Rod.
03:20Rod, nice to meet you.
03:21Nice to meet you.
03:22How long has this house been here?
03:23Since 59.
03:25Yeah.
03:25And across the street was cattle.
03:27So this was big farm country.
03:29Yeah.
03:29But this is stuff we're looking for.
03:31Okay.
03:31Right there it says Fords, 36 Fords.
03:33Uh-huh.
03:34What's going on with that?
03:35When's the last time this was driven?
03:36Yeah, this is cool.
03:38So.
03:38Two years ago, about.
03:40It was my dad's last project.
03:42The 33s and the 34s were beautiful trucks, but they were built like tractors and they rode
03:46like tractors.
03:4735 and 36 is where Ford planted the flag with the truck.
03:51I mean, this is basically the beginning of the F-100 series.
03:54Your father restored this?
03:55He did.
03:56He was probably 85.
03:58Whoa, really?
03:58Uh-huh.
03:59He did his, what do you say, his 80s?
04:00Yeah.
04:00It was quite a project for a man that age to completely do a frame off.
04:05I mean, he took the whole thing apart and painted it and put it all back together again.
04:08So this is something you want to keep.
04:10You want to keep it.
04:10Because your dad restored it.
04:11I'd say we think about it.
04:13Okay.
04:13But we got a lot of stuff.
04:15Danny says there's tools.
04:15We have a nice museum with a lot, a lot of tools.
04:18I know.
04:19I mean, I can see him gritting his teeth.
04:20I know.
04:20I can see him gritting his teeth over there.
04:22Jersey's been so patient so far.
04:24My dad passed away September 4th, 2022.
04:27And my mom passed away September 8th of 2022.
04:31And I just kind of sat there with it all.
04:34And then it just kind of reached the point where you're like, you can't keep all of this stuff.
04:37Oh, man, it's packed in here.
04:39I'm very sentimental.
04:40So it's kind of hard to let their things go.
04:43Yeah, this is great.
04:45It's really an interesting display.
04:47There's a butcher section.
04:48There's a mechanic section.
04:49There's a section on railroad building.
04:51Each trade had its own tools.
04:53Whether you're a stonemason or a carpenter, the tools are different.
04:57And here they all are.
04:58So have you guys thought about what you're going to keep in here?
05:02Does he have a lot of friends that collected tools as well?
05:04All of his friends are dead.
05:05That have talked about it?
05:06All of his friends are dead.
05:07How old was he when he passed?
05:08He was 92.
05:09Really?
05:10Yeah.
05:10Wow.
05:11Nice long life.
05:12You know what?
05:14I'm 60 and I still have my mom.
05:17You're lucky.
05:18And it's pretty awesome.
05:18For you to have your father until he was 92.
05:22Wow.
05:23There are still people that like to come and look at it.
05:25He used to have a fourth grade class from the Lutheran school that would come every year.
05:29Like Little Red Hat Society ladies.
05:32People around know about it.
05:34You guys are kind of a local legend.
05:35Yeah.
05:36Visually it's interesting, but also it shows the way that things were done.
05:39That's what tools are about.
05:40Yeah.
05:40You know, it's part of how we built America.
05:43So many collectors are obviously passionate about collecting.
05:46But when you add that educator gene to it, that's when the small museums start popping up.
05:52Woo!
05:52Oh my gosh.
05:53Dang.
05:54In school we learn world history, we learn national history.
05:58But when do we learn about local history, community history, the thing that ties all of us together?
06:03This is a homegrown museum that started about 50 years ago.
06:07We learn about that from historical societies or guys creating these museums.
06:11There's a mystery tool there.
06:12That is a mystery tool.
06:13What is it for?
06:14I don't even know.
06:15I don't know.
06:16Somebody's gotta know what it is.
06:17It's hard to stump this guy on tour.
06:18Yeah, I mean, I'm looking for a Stanley number one.
06:20You got one of them around here?
06:21I'd love to find one one day.
06:23I've not found one yet.
06:24All I keep hearing about this is the Stanley number one.
06:27It's like a legend.
06:27Yeah, it's like looking at a different 19.
06:29It's a little tiny jack plane that fits in the palm of your hand.
06:31It's so cute.
06:31Trust me, if your dad had one, he'd be showing it off.
06:34It'd probably be in a case with a light on it.
06:38Yeah, like a big halo around it.
06:39Jersey, check this out.
06:41Whoa, that's beautiful.
06:42That is gorgeous.
06:43Why has it got four lenses on it though?
06:45I love these large studio cameras.
06:47They're beautifully constructed out of mahogany and brass,
06:50and they're shiny, and they're instruments of science.
06:53Coding the plate, taking the picture, and developing the image
06:55had to be accomplished with the collodion process.
06:58This one camera with the four lenses, it's from 1858.
07:01That's amazing that they had something that technological
07:04at that time period.
07:05Is this something you'd sell?
07:07No.
07:08That's a hard no.
07:09Okay.
07:10Daddy, you know, rebuilt player pianos and refinished furniture,
07:13and these cameras belong to one of the very first photographers
07:16in the city of Fort Worth.
07:17Okay.
07:18The photographer had one daughter,
07:20and she had a player piano she wanted redone.
07:22And so my dad swapped her for all of her dad's photographic
07:27equipment for doing her player piano.
07:29There's something about places like this
07:31that directly connects all of us together.
07:33So this is a very important part of the community.
07:36So what's going on here?
07:37He's got razor blades.
07:39He's got some barber stuff, some hair tonics.
07:41You know what?
07:42Pharmaceutical stuff.
07:43There's glass display cases, and it's mercantile,
07:45general store, photography.
07:48He's all over the place.
07:49That's a drill.
07:50Oh, yeah, right.
07:51Could you imagine that?
07:52Like going to the dentist and him pulling this out?
07:54I couldn't.
07:55You know?
07:58This is the type of museum.
07:59It's not if you're going to find something you're connected to.
08:02It's when.
08:03Was this his when he was a kid?
08:05I have no idea.
08:06It's got Indian on it.
08:07All right.
08:07And they call this a swivel head.
08:09Yeah.
08:09Where the head actually moves on it.
08:11That's been re-peened over there.
08:13So this wheel has been off at some point in time.
08:15Are those original wheels?
08:15And you can see this rear axle's been replaced.
08:18Yeah, that's new.
08:19That's new.
08:19But here's a break in it right here.
08:21Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:21See that piece is gone.
08:22Yeah.
08:23Cast iron breaks so easy.
08:24I mean, for a kid, if somebody had this and they just dropped it
08:26or it breaks like glass.
08:27Moved it, it would break, yeah.
08:28But it's original paint.
08:29It's a great toy.
08:30It's a great size.
08:31But the thing with cast iron or any toys with toy collectors, it's like condition, condition,
08:37condition.
08:38Is this something you'd sell?
08:40Yeah, probably.
08:41Okay.
08:41So in this condition, this brake, this new axle, these tires that have been replaced at
08:47one point in time, if it didn't have all that stuff, it'd be 600 bucks.
08:52Wow.
08:53But now that it's got this brake and all this other stuff, the retail on, it's like 250
08:57to 300.
08:59So I'd do two and a quarter.
09:03I'd do two and a quarter.
09:04Yeah?
09:05Yeah, let's do that.
09:06Awesome.
09:07All right, cool.
09:07Thank you, thank you, thank you.
09:09Appreciate it.
09:09I'm excited that I found this toy because it's showing me that there's a lot more sides
09:14to her father than just collecting tools.
09:16That's great.
09:16And then he's got this toy.
09:18Isn't that cool?
09:18Yeah, it's a Lehman.
09:19So Lehman German toys, as far as like high quality toy collectors, the European toys were
09:25so much more advanced than the American toys.
09:28Lehman started making toys in Germany in the 1880s, but they didn't start exporting them
09:33to the U.S. until around the turn of the century.
09:35The tin is like a lighter gauge.
09:37They were able to do more with it.
09:38The paint work was nicer.
09:39A toy like this would have been sold at a high-end retailer in a larger city.
09:43In this condition, this is around between $300 and $400.
09:47Oh, wow.
09:48You know, the retail on it.
09:49I know nothing about toys.
09:50Yeah.
09:51Um, you know, a couple hundred bucks.
09:55Uh, can you do $225 maybe?
10:00I can.
10:01Yeah.
10:01And I will.
10:02Thank you, thank you, thank you.
10:03That's great.
10:04Very cool.
10:12What up, Danny D?
10:14Good morning, my sweet lone wolf.
10:17How you doing?
10:18I know.
10:18It feels pretty good being out here.
10:19The lone wolf on the road.
10:21And the sun is shining.
10:23Ooh, I love that for you.
10:24Now listen, I'm going to send you to Bob and Cheryl.
10:28Now, Bob has been collecting for almost 50 years, but they have been collecting together
10:32for 15 and have filled up a house, garage, and an outbuilding, all packed with advertising.
10:38Wow.
10:39I like all that.
10:40Everything you're saying.
10:42And I appreciate this lead, so send me the coordinates.
10:44I'm looking forward to it.
10:46All right, honey.
10:46Hey, have fun.
10:48I'm going to send some sunshine your way.
10:50Oh, please do.
11:12You Bob?
11:13Hey, how's it going?
11:14Good.
11:15Rob Wolf, you talked to Danielle on the phone?
11:17Yes.
11:19All right.
11:19You said you got quite the collection of stuff.
11:22Oh, it looks like a little bit of everything.
11:23Anybody that's got land like this, you can have all kinds of good stuff here.
11:27I mean, what's up with the golf?
11:28Planning it on one day, set it up.
11:30How long has this thing been sitting here?
11:32Oh, a couple years.
11:33Dude, you got a bucket truck here.
11:35Yeah, well, that'll help a little bit, but you won't really believe the stuff that I
11:38find when you're in the air working on the power lines.
11:40You can see everybody's backyard.
11:42You can see everybody's yard.
11:43Yeah.
11:43You can see stuff on top of buildings.
11:45As I say, you ever find any signs on top of roofs?
11:47Oh, yeah.
11:47I worked for a cable company for 32 years.
11:50Sometimes you're in a bucket up on the pole working on the lines.
11:54You can see a lot of stuff.
11:55So that's where I find a good bit of my stuff.
11:58Man, I love what you got going on here.
12:00This is awesome.
12:01What's up with the Mustang?
12:02Well, I've had it for two or three years now.
12:04Dude, this thing looks sick.
12:06Wow.
12:07I love showing off that Mustang.
12:09That is my baby.
12:11It's stupid fast.
12:11It's got a 351 original motor, bumped up to a 408.
12:15It's got a lot of horse.
12:16That was my retirement present to myself when I retired.
12:20How much horsepower?
12:21640.
12:22It'll set you in the back seat.
12:24You got to love that.
12:26Dude, you got everything in here.
12:27A little bit of everything.
12:28Yeah.
12:29What in here is for sale?
12:30I'm taking offers on anything.
12:32I see this fishtail up here.
12:34Yeah.
12:35I think it does have a little crack on the top left-hand corner.
12:39Actually, it's in the bottom right here.
12:41Oh, is it the bottom?
12:41The bottom, okay.
12:42I've had that in probably about 10 years.
12:44I got it from a friend of mine, Greg.
12:46You know, Lexan started around 1947.
12:49You know, this sign probably looking at it's late 50s, early 60s.
12:53Yeah.
12:54You know, they call that the fishtail.
12:55Yeah, you don't see those too often.
12:57The fishtail came out around 1958 for Coca-Cola.
13:00I love the fact that it's embossed.
13:02It's one of the most iconic soda signs there is to buy.
13:04Actually, I love the can on that thing.
13:06Yeah.
13:06It's actually cool.
13:07It lights up.
13:08It's in great shape.
13:09It's got the case.
13:10Do you know if the balance has been changed on this?
13:12Don't know.
13:13Is it for sale?
13:14It's for sale.
13:18Can you do 600 bucks?
13:22Mmm, 650.
13:25625 because it's got the crack.
13:27Sold.
13:28All right.
13:29I think I paid somewhere around 350 for it.
13:32So pretty much double over the years.
13:34So I'm very happy.
13:35All right.
13:36Like that.
13:37Appreciate it.
13:39Well, let's take a look at one of the pianos he restored.
13:42Okay.
13:42They all still work.
13:44This one was not originally a player piano.
13:47Okay.
13:47Did he convert it?
13:49He made it.
13:49Okay.
13:50He did.
13:50He made this?
13:51He put the player mechanism in it?
13:52And then he did all this.
13:53Yeah.
13:54Oh, so all this is all part of the same instrument.
13:56One, two, three, go.
14:01Yeah.
14:19That's amazing.
14:22Bravo.
14:23That was, I mean, he built this thing.
14:25Yeah.
14:25I don't know anybody who's ever built a player piano before.
14:28Yeah.
14:28This guy obviously was a genius.
14:32To make a player piano, it was an amazing thing to do.
14:37They had an electric motor that pumped air through all these reeds and whistles and bells.
14:42That's great.
14:43They were mechanical wonders.
14:45Did he share with you guys the value of these?
14:47He kind of felt like these were not that valuable anymore because people just weren't that interested in them.
14:51Well, I mean, the people that are collecting this stuff, unfortunately, are aging out.
14:55I mean, not to say that there's not a market for them because there's a market, I think, for everything.
14:59Probably.
14:59But most dealers won't mess with something like this because they're so mechanical.
15:04Yeah.
15:04If something goes wrong, it's hard to fix.
15:06And to find someone to do it because those guys like your pops are just passing, you know, and all
15:11that knowledge goes with them, you know?
15:12The pianos, those are kind of almost an albatross.
15:16And what do you do with them?
15:18A cob organ.
15:22This is like a miniature version of what all is going on here.
15:26This is like the first player piano or organ.
15:28This is probably, you know, 1890s or so.
15:31It's got the bellows in it.
15:33Same idea behind all this stuff.
15:34The reason they call it a cob is that it looks like a corn cob.
15:37You stick it in there and all these little pins, you know, made a little thing work.
15:40The second you look at a cob organ, it paints a picture in your mind of its historical significance.
15:45If you're going across country in a Conestoga wagon, you could bring your cob organ.
15:50It doesn't get much better than that.
15:51It's like the boom box of 1890.
15:53Would this be something you'd be thinking about selling?
15:56I don't know.
15:58What do you think it's worth?
15:59This one, he's worked on this one.
16:01Yeah.
16:01It's like a restored cob organ.
16:04The more cobs you have, the more the price goes up.
16:06Sometimes the cobs are worth more than what the organ is.
16:08Yeah.
16:08So you've got two cobs here, one on the machine.
16:11So retail on something like this, you know, 400, 450.
16:15Okay.
16:16How about 300?
16:17I'll say more like 275.
16:20No, I'll do 275.
16:22You'll do 275?
16:23Yep.
16:24All right.
16:24We're going to get along this line today.
16:27Whoo!
16:28What I love about this cob organ the most is that it was restored by Bob.
16:42Susie, how much for this mite?
16:43I have no idea.
16:45Where did you find it?
16:47Down here, bottom shelf.
16:48It's beautiful because that's copper, and then this is brass, and so is this.
16:55It's industrial.
16:56It could be nautical.
16:57Industrial lighting has been so hot for so long that they've been reproducing it now for
17:03a very long time.
17:04But when you find an original piece, the way it's manufactured, it's so overbuilt.
17:09It's built to stand the test of time.
17:1275 bucks.
17:13How about 100?
17:15How about 85?
17:18All right.
17:20Okay.
17:20Thanks.
17:22I love it.
17:31So what's going on with this neon sign that's behind you?
17:34I'm a neon freaking guru.
17:36I've had it probably three, four years.
17:38Maybe five years.
17:39So I mean, this is a big neon.
17:40What was the plan for it?
17:41Are you going to put this in your house?
17:42Well, I was actually going to put it on the wall back here.
17:45But there's so much stuff.
17:47That's a big chore.
17:48It's kind of changed a little bit.
17:50I was told it came off of an old corn machine.
17:52It flashes red, white, and blue.
17:54Does it work?
17:55Yes.
17:56Can we plug it in?
17:57Yes.
17:59It's a little slow, but it does flash.
18:07Does it get going faster?
18:08It does go a little faster, yes.
18:10Remember that?
18:10It comes up to the red, and then it comes up to the white, and then the blue.
18:15Remember that ketchup commercial?
18:16Yes.
18:17The anticipation?
18:18Yeah.
18:18That's what I'm feeling right now.
18:21It's got to have a mechanism in it.
18:23Yeah.
18:23You could turn it up so it would flash faster.
18:25Yeah.
18:25I did look in there to try to find that at one time, but I didn't know what I was
18:29doing.
18:30So I left it alone.
18:31So you never took this all completely apart?
18:33No.
18:34I'm trying to figure out why they would put it so slow.
18:37A chaser is a mechanism that's installed in the back of a neon sign to make the movement
18:42faster or slower.
18:43If this was at a carnival, it would be going really fast.
18:46Yeah, they're actually exposed, man.
18:49Oh.
18:49I don't need to be zapped.
18:50No, me either.
18:52I get enough of that work.
18:53It's weird that it doesn't have a box.
18:55I can't find the chaser.
18:56It's not inside the sign.
18:57I don't even want to get in this sign, because whoever wired it, wired it wrong.
19:00Yeah.
19:01Because, you know, the value in this thing is like, this thing was an attraction back in
19:06a day.
19:06So the faster it would move, it would catch your eye.
19:10Yeah.
19:10I've seen a lot of neon signs.
19:12I mean, this thing is kind of an oddball.
19:14It half looks like an arrow.
19:16Almost looks like half of an arrow or half of a shooting star that's missing other pieces
19:20to it.
19:21They repainted this piece down here on that porcelain.
19:24I don't know why.
19:25I'm trying to figure out when he said it was part of a carnival how it was used, because
19:29there's other pieces missing.
19:30I'm open.
19:31I know.
19:32I'm thinking.
19:32Let's hear your number.
19:35Honestly, I'm thinking a thousand bucks.
19:39Yeah.
19:40Um, I got a little bit more than that into it.
19:44I'm interested in this thing, and I know how to do the work on it.
19:47I'm just not sure I want to go the extra mile on it.
19:49Well, let's make a bundle.
19:51What else you want to show me?
19:52Got a couple over there.
19:53We got some over there.
20:07You guys have decided that you're going to keep a lot of this intact.
20:11So, how much of it are you going to sell and how much of it are you going to keep?
20:14I would be willing to sell some of it.
20:17To me, those are kind of very similar.
20:19Yeah.
20:20With my dad, if one was good, five was better.
20:22So, we had plenty of similar cameras.
20:25This one, the case is in great shape.
20:27The leather's kind of getting tore up on it.
20:29Any camera with a leather bellows, we can sell, no matter what size it is.
20:33So, these.
20:33Because people are using them for an aesthetic.
20:36And it creates this, like, worldly, traveled aspect to any room.
20:40This is a camera I could probably get 300 bucks for.
20:43But the other larger camera with a flash attachment was built for professional use.
20:47I mean, this would have been something that you'd see, like, somebody working in the press.
20:51It's very cool.
20:5225 bucks for this.
20:54Okay.
20:54And 30 for that?
20:5735 for this.
20:58Okay.
20:59225.
21:00So.
21:01315 for all of them.
21:02Yeah.
21:04325 and we're good.
21:09Okay.
21:11Perfect.
21:13I appreciate it.
21:14I got some cameras on.
21:15No, I love this, though.
21:16I mean, this is the kind of stuff, seriously.
21:17I mean, it's what people are putting on their shelves.
21:19Yeah, I'm in real estate, so I work with stagers all the time.
21:22So, I see things like this used for preparation a lot.
21:25Yeah.
21:25Yeah, absolutely.
21:26All right.
21:26Very cool.
21:27I love it.
21:28Hey, Rod.
21:29Yeah.
21:29Oh, I got some stuff I want to show you.
21:31I've been digging around back here.
21:33It's a little gold mine for me.
21:34Nice.
21:35I found some great books.
21:36And these two things are fantastic.
21:39Look at these babies.
21:42It's like a piano tuners touch-up kit.
21:45Oh, wow.
21:46Isn't that great?
21:46And furniture refinishers use the same thing.
21:49This is probably from the 30s and 40s.
21:52This is actually the tuners kit.
21:58Look it.
21:59That would tighten the strings on the piano.
22:01Tuning fork.
22:04Now you can hear it.
22:05Yeah.
22:06And then if you had problems with the finish on the piano, this is all the touch-up stuff.
22:10The fact that John was so excited about it and knew what they were, and they were tools that he
22:14had used before.
22:15We know that Susie's dad used them, and that was nice to see that connection there.
22:20Then I also found these great books.
22:22Furniture finishing, decoration and patching, and it's old.
22:251795 to 1840.
22:27That is cool.
22:28And then this one, how to repair musical boxes.
22:30Yeah.
22:30You can't find that information on the internet.
22:32I started my business pre-internet.
22:35I had to learn these things from books like this and whatever mentorship I can get.
22:40Is this something you want to sell?
22:42Yeah, I think we'd sell it.
22:44So the kit, complete like that, it's probably about $125 to $130 retail on this kit.
22:50And then this thing's not so much because the chemicals are gone.
22:52It's just more of like a decoration in somebody's shop or something like that.
22:55That might be worth like $50.
22:57And the books, they're another $30 or $40.
23:01I'd go $150 on the group.
23:03Yeah, we'll do $150.
23:04You do that?
23:04Yeah.
23:05Hey, listen, I also found something back there.
23:09What else you got to look at?
23:11Well, this car trailer will take my Mustang to the car shows every now and then.
23:15Actually starting to put a few signs on the walls.
23:17Just haven't been able to finish it yet.
23:20Oh, yeah.
23:20Heck yeah.
23:21There's a few in here.
23:22I'm getting it started.
23:23Do you want to sell some of this stuff in here?
23:25Whatever you want.
23:26I'll sell a few of them.
23:27I got to ask about this Pure Twin sign.
23:29It looks to me like that was a pump plate.
23:31So these were two different types of gasoline for Pure.
23:34Found that one in an old barn.
23:36I found those together.
23:38I had to crawl in a whole bunch of crap to get to them.
23:41But I got to them.
23:41I've seen that one before, but I've never seen this one before.
23:44Pure Oil Company started around 1895 in Pennsylvania as an independent.
23:48The Tylene brand was their brand of oil that they pushed.
23:52Around 1914, they moved to Ohio and became a branded company there and they pushed Pure Gasoline.
23:58The Pure and the Pure together.
24:04750.
24:08800.
24:11Let's close it.
24:15How do you know you got me already?
24:16We've been spending too much time together today.
24:18All right?
24:21What's the condition of this thing?
24:22It's about the same condition on the other side.
24:24It's a pretty cool sign.
24:25I've had this one probably 10 years.
24:28Yeah, it's got a great Art Deco hanger that goes above this and attaches to that.
24:32That's a really hard hanger to find.
24:34When they actually produced these signs, the ornate bracket was made by the same company.
24:38I paid up for it.
24:39Yeah.
24:40Well, hit me with a number.
24:423,000.
24:51I'll tell you what, I appreciate you throwing a number at it.
24:53Yeah.
24:53Can I think a little bit about it and see what else you got?
24:55Yeah.
24:56Well, let's go to the inside the house.
25:06All right, you might want to take a look at this garage area.
25:09This is just where I keep all my stuff before it goes into the house.
25:13Yeah?
25:13So a two-car garage with all the stuff that goes in.
25:16Don't ever put any cars in here.
25:17Never have.
25:18What?
25:18Are you kidding me?
25:19They're like stacked up in here like cornwood, man.
25:22Little dune buggy.
25:24Wow.
25:24When I first get something, it goes to the garage first.
25:27It'll eventually come in the house one day.
25:30When my daughter Hannah decorates the house with all the signs.
25:34What's up with the Winchester sign right here?
25:36I don't really know where it come from.
25:39What do you value it at?
25:4025.
25:42It's kind of faded out.
25:43I know.
25:43It looks like it was hanging outside.
25:45So did the hanger come with it?
25:46Yes.
25:46Winchester was the brand that won the West.
25:49And Western was the brand itself that was the ammunition.
25:53So when these guys partnered together and they stayed partnered from the 1930s to present day, it was Winchester Western.
26:02This?
26:02What's this?
26:04What's this?
26:04Hold on.
26:05I had to dub all the other guy, but I don't know how much about it.
26:10All right.
26:10All right.
26:10All right.
26:11All right.
26:11All right.
26:11All right.
26:14All right.
26:23All right.
26:24Now, I really don't understand what the sign says on it, but I do understand that it's got a guy
26:29sitting on a keg, drinking a beer.
26:31Everybody understands that language.
26:33The Winchester in this sign right here.
26:35Yeah.
26:412,500.
26:4823.
26:5123.
26:5123.50.
26:53Wow.
26:54That was quick.
26:55I got stuck on that for 50.
26:57All right.
26:58If you see something that you've never seen before, you buy it.
27:09There are two things that defeated my dad.
27:11Okay.
27:12That jukebox.
27:13You mean as far as like him being able to fix it?
27:15He could not fix it.
27:16Okay.
27:16And then he had a Player Baby Grand piano.
27:20And that defeated him, too.
27:22And the Player Baby Grand, he got so mad, he dug a hole in the back and buried it.
27:28Get out of here.
27:29No.
27:29Just to get it out of his mind.
27:30He never wanted to see it again.
27:31Off his bench and out of his mind.
27:32He never wanted to see it again.
27:33So, if it defeated him, is this something you'd sell?
27:36Yeah, absolutely.
27:37Okay.
27:38Well, it's 1962.
27:39Mm-hmm.
27:39It's what they call a Model 2600.
27:50All of these jukeboxes are reflective of the time period.
27:53It's industrial art.
27:55This has got great colors.
27:56The chrome on the front is nice.
27:58Yeah, it is.
27:58I mean, it almost has like a 1960s car look to it.
28:02You know what I mean?
28:02It's very futuristic.
28:04At first glance, it's like Austin Powers meets James Bond.
28:07It's 1962.
28:09It's got a little bit of an Impala look to it.
28:11It's made to grab your attention to make you want to spend some money.
28:15Condition-wise, obviously, if it whooped his butt, there's something seriously wrong with it.
28:20You know what I mean?
28:20Because I feel like he probably got into it.
28:22You know what I mean?
28:22Okay.
28:22But he had never done a jukebox.
28:24This was the one and only.
28:25Okay.
28:26In this condition, I'd pay about 400 bucks.
28:30You know?
28:31I would sell this to somebody that's going to repair it, and then they would sell it.
28:35Yep.
28:35I could probably get six, six and a half out of it.
28:41How about five?
28:43How about 450?
28:45I'll do 450.
28:46You want to do that?
28:46Yes.
28:46Okay, cool.
28:47The jukebox, it was like moving on down the road.
28:52All right, cool.
28:56Dude, what is up with this?
28:58Did you take this off the building?
29:00That would come off the building of Southern Bale.
29:02When they changed names, they took it off the building.
29:05It was Southern Bale, and then Bale South.
29:08Now it's AT&T.
29:09Is it for sale?
29:11Let me talk to the boss.
29:12Oh, it's the boss's son.
29:14Boss's son.
29:14You have to talk to her.
29:15Can you go get her?
29:16Yeah.
29:17Yeah.
29:18I know all the big heavy hitters when it comes to telephone collecting.
29:22And I guarantee you, none of them got this thing in their house.
29:25So that's why I got to try and buy it.
29:27Hey, Robbie.
29:28Hey, how are you?
29:29Good.
29:29This is my wife, Cheryl.
29:31He said this is your collection, not his.
29:33Exactly, it is.
29:34It is.
29:35Mm-hmm.
29:35So I'm interested in this.
29:37That has a special attachment to me because my best friend from growing up, my childhood
29:43best friend, that's where she worked.
29:45She was an operator.
29:46And she's no longer here, so that's kind of...
29:48When you look at it, you think of her.
29:50It's attached to her friend, and it reminds her of her.
29:52I can understand that.
29:53This sign needs to stay in this place.
29:55There's so many signs here that don't have a sentimental attachment.
29:58How come it hasn't gotten made into the house?
30:00Because there's no room in the house.
30:01Because there's no room in the house.
30:03I forget what we've got, so, you know.
30:05I've been digging.
30:06There's a lot to be dug in here.
30:07Be careful over there.
30:08Don't break or bend anything.
30:09I know, I know.
30:11Wow, look at that.
30:13Isn't that cool?
30:14I love it, even though it's cut up.
30:16I know, right?
30:17Dang!
30:18I actually forgot about it.
30:19I remember buying it from an old country store that we used to ride our bicycles to.
30:23Go play pinball, get soda pops.
30:26What were they using it for?
30:27It had to have been a patch for something.
30:29They had to use it for a patch or something on that building.
30:31They chopped off the side of it.
30:33Man, this is a Merida bread sign with the Lone Ranger on it.
30:36This is the embossed version.
30:38This is the hardest one to find.
30:40I mean, what the heck is on there?
30:41I mean, it's kids' gum.
30:43Yeah.
30:44It's your chewing gum from that day.
30:46Merida bread became the sponsor of the Lone Ranger show.
30:49When you thought of Merida bread, you thought of the Lone Ranger.
30:52They used it in everything they did.
30:54$150.
30:56Whew!
30:57I mean, it's chopped up.
30:59The side's chopped off.
31:00How much did you pay for the last one you bought like that?
31:03One complete, and this is the embossed one.
31:06Yeah.
31:06I paid $4,500 for it.
31:10And you want to give us $150?
31:11It's chopped up!
31:13You can still see the man, Lone Ranger, and the bread, even if it is cut off on the top
31:17right.
31:18I like her.
31:19Hey, she is my negotiator.
31:21Okay, so what's your number?
31:24$600.
31:26$400 bucks.
31:27$550.
31:28How come this thing ain't hung in the house?
31:30There's not enough room in the house.
31:32So if you pay us enough for that, we'll let you go in the house and look.
31:36$475.
31:37Five.
31:38And I'll let you in the house.
31:40I'm doing it, because the entrance to the house might be worth more than that.
31:44Exactly.
31:45They call me the closer.
31:47Dang.
31:49Most expensive chopped up sign I ever bought.
31:51I'll tell you that right now.
32:06John, did you see this?
32:08It's a broad axe, dude.
32:09I know, dude.
32:10See how the handle's curved?
32:11We have two of those if y'all want to joust with them.
32:13There's another one right here.
32:15He's got everything to build a log cabin.
32:17So that's what...
32:18Oh, that's what all this is?
32:20Yeah, that's all log cabins.
32:21Yeah, this would do it, too.
32:22This is all hand forged.
32:23You buy a piece of property.
32:25It's got trees on it.
32:26You fell the trees, but you square them up to build a building with a tool like this.
32:31For both of them?
32:32How about for one of them?
32:34All right.
32:35$75.
32:35And you keep this one.
32:37Yeah, I'm good with that.
32:38All right.
32:38What about this umbrella?
32:39This would have been something that would have sat on an implement.
32:42Take somebody out of the sun into the shade.
32:44And obviously, back then, they were putting advertising on everything.
32:47The ones that are more desirable are the ones that might have a denim company on it.
32:51This one does have saddlery and harnesses.
32:54So a lot of horse people would be interested in this one.
32:56But the problem with it is, is that whole edge is...
32:59The condition in the middle is bent.
33:01What better way to advertise than on something that's utilitarian that you have to use over and over again?
33:07$80.
33:09How about $100?
33:12All right.
33:12I'll do it.
33:12I like it.
33:13That's awesome.
33:14And they're getting hard to find.
33:15I used to see these all the time.
33:16I didn't think anybody would be interested in.
33:19That looks kind of surprising.
33:27Come on, Rob.
33:28I'll show you.
33:29Wow!
33:30Holy cow!
33:32I see some spots, though, that you could hang a few more things.
33:36There's a few.
33:36Honestly, I think I earned my way in here.
33:39I've got to at least try to buy something out of here.
33:41Let me ask you this.
33:42Are any of these clocks for sale in here?
33:44Yes.
33:45There's a couple of them that really, like, stood out.
33:47We're open for...
33:49Negotiations.
33:50This Greyhound clock down here.
33:54I can't even remember where I got it from.
33:56It says Pam clock on the bottom.
33:58Pam was the biggest advertising company in the world.
34:00I mean, any of these clocks that are in here, a lot of these are Pam.
34:03Yes.
34:03Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, all those were.
34:05I mean, the condition of it's amazing, actually.
34:08They always put too hot of bulbs in there.
34:10Yes, and it burned.
34:11Yeah, and it burned the whole back of them.
34:13So this one doesn't even look like it's been lit that long.
34:15Greyhound bus is one of the most iconic bus lines in America.
34:18This is an advertising clock probably from the 50s or 60s.
34:22But remember, Greyhound bus started in 1929.
34:25How much is a Greyhound clock?
34:28750.
34:31Because it's Greyhound.
34:33I understand that, and it's a Pam.
34:36525.
34:39600.
34:41550.
34:43575.
34:44550.
34:45575.
34:46I think the clock...
34:47I'm trying to leave just a little bit left on the back side.
34:49560.
34:50I think it's...
34:51Okay.
34:54All right.
34:56That clock has been there so long, I'll just buy another one to replace it.
35:00Yeah, he just wanted to move it.
35:02There's one more that's here, and because I'm a gas oil guy, I've got to take this one off the
35:06wall here.
35:06I love the size of this thing.
35:10Pennzoil sounds your Z.
35:11Yep.
35:12The one thing about Pennzoil is it's always about the Z.
35:15You know, if you notice on the clock, it's got the big Z in there.
35:18And that's what makes this thing appealing to collectors.
35:20Do you remember where you got this from?
35:22Huh.
35:23Wasn't it South Georgia?
35:25No, that was in Tennessee somewhere.
35:26How long ago did you get it?
35:28About four years, maybe?
35:30No, it's been a lot longer than that.
35:31Yeah.
35:32I lose track of time.
35:33Yeah.
35:33See how the hand's moving on that?
35:35Yeah.
35:35Not the end of the world.
35:36No.
35:37But it does deserve a little bit of a discount, Bob.
35:40Just a little bit there.
35:41Well, talk to me.
35:44560.
35:46600.
35:49650.
35:51She going up on me.
35:52I was just going to say 575 and shake your hand.
35:56Well, let's do it.
35:57All right.
35:58Good to hear.
35:59All right.
36:00Hopefully I'm not in a dog house.
36:04Look at that.
36:06Still works.
36:07Yeah, it still works.
36:08It needs a foot pedal grinder.
36:10Yeah.
36:10No electricity needed.
36:13And there you go.
36:14Whoa, it's sharp.
36:15Yeah.
36:16You got a couple different candlestick phones.
36:18These are easy sells.
36:19Somebody that wants it for an aesthetic.
36:21Looks like you got two of them.
36:22I'm going to hit the general antiques,
36:23because I have a store that I got to feed all the time.
36:27What about that?
36:27Would you think about selling that?
36:28Yeah.
36:29I mean, there are certain staples.
36:30These wall phones, candlestick phones.
36:33Ready?
36:33Yep.
36:34Brass blade fans.
36:35That thing's heavy.
36:37Brass cash registers.
36:38This token machine from a bus.
36:40These wooden barrels.
36:41What I call the must-haves for the entry-level collectors.
36:44How about 200 for all of them?
36:46All right, let's do it.
36:47Okay.
36:4850 apiece.
36:51150.
36:51I'm good with that.
36:55300 bucks.
36:56That'd do 325.
36:57Okay.
36:58Let's do that.
36:59All of those are simple things that are easy to sell.
37:02All right, help me get this.
37:09Can we go back and revisit the neon and that Coca-Cola sign?
37:14Yeah, let's go.
37:14All right.
37:15You know, I've still been thinking about that neon sign and that Coca-Cola sign.
37:19All right, I've got one more shot at this before I get out of here.
37:22Did you have a use for this, Cheryl?
37:24I mean, he said he was hanging up in here, but it would look kind of good in the house.
37:28Where are you at in the house?
37:31There's nowhere to put it in.
37:32I know.
37:33Kind of running out of room, but it's a very cool piece.
37:37I'll tell you what.
37:38I like the Coke sign, the one that's in the trailer.
37:41So you're talking about the Coke that says fountain service?
37:43Yeah.
37:43Okay.
37:44It's double-sided.
37:45I took Bob's word that both sides are the same.
37:47They are.
37:48Final offer.
37:49One offer.
37:50For both, right?
37:51For both.
37:52Okay.
37:52Give it to us.
37:553700.
37:583750.
38:00I'm at 3700.
38:02I got to rewire this.
38:05Done deal.
38:06All right.
38:07Appreciate it.
38:08That was a really good number.
38:09We did very well on it.
38:11Wow.
38:12All right.
38:13I'm glad Robbie got a lot of it because you could just see the enthusiasm.
38:16We're going to put a wooden frame on that one.
38:18That's a cool piece.
38:19I love it.
38:19Just like we get enthusiastic about stuff that we like that's different and we buy.
38:25Yeah.
38:25Appreciate it.
38:26Who's this little dude?
38:27This is Mary Marie.
38:29Mary Marie.
38:30All right.
38:31Appreciate it.
38:32Appreciate it.
38:32Good meeting you.
38:33You got a few of them.
38:34I got a few pieces in it.
38:35I didn't even put a dent in it.
38:37I can come back.
38:38Next time there'll even be more.
38:39It will.
38:40For a guy that hasn't sold stuff in over a decade, you just got to keep throwing darts
38:44at the wall.
38:45You don't have to buy everything.
38:46You just got to get a few items.
38:49Come see us in Iowa.
38:51All right.
38:51Bye.
38:52Thanks.
38:55Have you guys thought about the truck at all?
38:58We were just talking about that.
38:59Can we look at it again?
39:00Yeah, absolutely.
39:01Because, I mean, he did some upgrades to it that were pretty spot on.
39:04Jersey, where you at?
39:05In 35 and 36, everything changed with Ford trucks.
39:09I mean, they actually became trucks.
39:11Longer wheelbase, bigger vehicle, standard V8.
39:17He put the Corvette engine in it or it came that way?
39:20No, it came with the Vette engine.
39:21I mean, the firewall, to be honest with you, for cranking that engine in there.
39:24I know.
39:24The firewall's pretty intact.
39:26I mean, it's still there.
39:27I love the front end of these things.
39:28Yeah, it's beautiful.
39:29These 30s Ford trucks, man.
39:30No one's ever made you an offer on it or anything?
39:32Uh-uh.
39:33I know what he has in it.
39:34Yeah?
39:35I'm pretty sure he paid 16 for it.
39:37Did he really?
39:38Before he worked on it?
39:39Mm-hmm.
39:39Wow.
39:40I was going to say 14 on it.
39:43I mean, I'd do 15 on it.
39:45If he got it running and slammed some tires on it locally here, I think he could probably pull
39:4920.
39:50I mean, I got to be at 15 on it just because I got to pay shipping.
39:53And I have some friends who can help us.
39:55And here's the deal, too.
39:56It'd be cool.
39:57I'm just saying, if you kind of saw it cruising down the road.
40:00Yeah.
40:00To keep it in the neighborhood.
40:01Oh, people, they knew it was in it.
40:03Yeah.
40:04These trucks are hot.
40:04I mean, I don't mean to talk you out of it.
40:06But I mean, seriously, I feel like...
40:08It wouldn't take a whole lot to talk me out of it.
40:10See what I mean?
40:11Because I know.
40:11I know.
40:12I mean, I can't...
40:13I mean, this is a tremendous amount of work your pops did to this.
40:16Yeah, he did.
40:16I mean, a tremendous amount of work.
40:18Anytime I see a truck like this, the reason why it survives is because of guys like Bob Fitzgerald.
40:23And he was in his 80s?
40:24Yep.
40:25Wow!
40:26He never stopped moving, ever.
40:27Yeah, he's got some good blood.
40:28Yeah.
40:29I tell you what, he's the kind of guy that sounds like that Jersey and I could just sit and
40:34talk to for hours.
40:34We all would have had them all.
40:35We would have been a sponge.
40:36We've been talking all day.
40:38Let's load some stuff up.
40:39I love it.
40:40I think it's a great truck, but I think you can make more money local and do it.
40:43It is just really hard.
40:45I'm so sentimental.
40:46I miss my parents so much.
40:48I want to keep everything they ever touched.
40:50It was just good to learn to let things go.
40:53Okay, I know this is tough, but I still love it.
40:56Bob's collection wasn't just his own.
40:58It was there to inspire.
41:00You've got a lot to be proud of.
41:01I'm glad you're keeping that together.
41:03Yeah, we love it.
41:03He worked so hard on it.
41:04Yeah, thank you so much.
41:06Really appreciate it.
41:07Great day today.
41:08Come here, sweetie.
41:09Thank you so much.
41:10I really appreciate you.
41:11Glad we found your toys.
41:12All right, buddy.
41:12He wanted to teach people about things that were so common in his day, but now so uncommon.
41:19See you guys.
41:20Think about all the kids that passed through his museum and the mark that he left on all
41:26of them.
41:27Bye.
41:28Take care, guys.
41:29See you all.
41:36Cheers.
41:36What are you thinking on that light?
41:37No.
41:39Mike's a big collector of Barbie dolls.
41:41Yep, right there.
41:42We're obviously going to edit that out.
41:44We can put some Go Go Girls in there.
41:46Go go.
41:47The Go Go Girls.
41:49What is it?
41:50Who lap..
41:51Okay, let's go back.
41:52I'm digging a hole, aren't I?
41:54Yeah, he does a hole.
41:54Okay, 100.
41:56Okay.
41:57What?
42:01Is that better than spinning it?
42:08We're talking all over each other, we can't use any of this.
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