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Pawn Stars - Season 24 - Episode 07: Man I Feel Like a Pawn Star!
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00:01On tonight's episode will Cory and I go full tilt on a deal that one seems to work pretty good
00:06and this one right here
00:08He's gonna blame the motor or is it game over?
00:12Then Cory gets jazzed about a super rare guitar. It's one hell of a guitar you got. Thank you
00:18So what do you think can be worth? They're highly collectible, but they also only speak to a fairly narrow
00:23range of players
00:25And later chum discovers that some rare travel here is worth fighting over
00:30So more tusks cowrish shell cassowary feathers
00:35Cassowary this 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. Yes. This is in
00:581959
00:59Chicago coin jet pilot. That is Jenko
01:02Motorama this like electro mechanical wonderland right here. Yeah, this is awesome. Yeah
01:09I'm here to sell my 1957 Jenko Motorama in 1959 Chicago coin jet pilot arcade games
01:16They have been restored professionally
01:18There are some original parts still in the games original graphics
01:22Acrylic fronts are still original so you'll see some markings scratchings in them like that which adds to the value
01:29of the machines
01:29My asking price for both of the games is 24,000
01:33This is cool. Jenko was sort of known for odd stuff. They produced hundreds of different games
01:40The two you got right here are really cool. This is like a design they had in the 50s
01:44They're probably sitting right next to each other in an arcade or something, right? Pretty much. Yeah
01:48I really dig the car one though, and it's pretty cool
01:51Do you know if that's the original body for the car that is
01:54Can I try one absolutely all right all right here we go guys?
02:01Do you have any idea what you're doing or are you just driving this thing around me? Let's see
02:06Yeah, there's a few issues with it. Yeah, they're electromechanical. You don't use them. They hang up. Okay. I'm a
02:13pilot so I could do this
02:16All right
02:17All right
02:23I mean this one seems to kind of work
02:26It's a it's operator error. There's nothing wrong with it. You're just not any good at it. No
02:30There's some problems with it. Okay
02:33Yeah, okay pretty cool though. I like it. How would she want for him passion 24,000 for the pair?
02:4124,000 for the pair yeah, I'd really like my friend Danny to look at him
02:45She knows everything there is to know about that. Do you want to have Danny make sure that it was
02:48not operator error?
02:50Okay, you know what? Okay, once you call Danny get her down here
02:53I will inspect these machines some more all right, so we'll play the games. Okay. I'll call Danny. All right
02:59Do you mind? No
03:02Hi, I'm Steve chumly. How can I help you? I got something. That's really kind of cool. I think you
03:18might appreciate all right
03:20What do you got take a look all right a pen?
03:23Well, it's actually just a little bit more than a pen
03:27It's a butterfly knife. Okay, do you mind if I take a look at it? Yes, please
03:32All right, so it just swings open right here
03:36That's pretty cool. And then
03:39Oh, there we go. I actually remember as a young kid going to the swap meet and buying the butterfly
03:44knife that 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 sell a butterfly knife that disguises the pen
03:58I've had it for quite a while maybe about 30 years
04:01After my dad passed was going through some of his boxes of other war memorabilia and I found this in
04:07there
04:08Just thinking it was a pen wasn't till your years later that I started playing with it opening up
04:13It's like ooh, this is some kind of a knife. I don't know exactly how old it is
04:17Can't find any markings or indication
04:20My asking price for the butterfly knife is a hundred dollars. This is pretty cool. Well, you know
04:25I've seen many a butterfly knife 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 and today
04:47They're very popular and this is just a very unique one
04:49It's disguised as a pen and it's they did a really good job at it
04:54So tell me about it. Where'd you get it?
04:56My 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. It's very very light
05:12And do you have a price in mind? I'm thinking maybe a hundred dollars. Okay. Um, I actually do have
05:18a 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. All right. Give me just a moment. I'll call him see how fast he can get
05:28down here. Okay
05:30Oh
05:36A guy came to the shop with two really cool 1950s coin operated games. They'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 danny coming over and she's gonna let me know if I should press
05:54the start button on this deal or not
05:55There she is good to see you again rick wow
06:00Hi, I'm danny. Kevin nice 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 the motorama came out in 1957
06:18And is the first car themed game where the car moves freely around the play field and doesn't operate on
06:26a 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 i'm just really bad at it
06:43And this one right here um
06:45He's really bad at too, but he's gonna 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
07:00The 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 they are big
07:11games obviously
07:13However, there was actually three games produced in this series that all came in the same cabinet genco put out
07:20a game called space age
07:22Usually in a collection you'll see all three of those machines
07:25Okay, so what do you think they're worth?
07:28The motorama is a much more popular game you do see these in the market
07:32There was one that recently sold on auction within the past few months. I would value this machine at ten
07:38thousand dollars
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 eighty five hundred eighteen thousand five hundred all together for the
07:51pair yep
07:52And if I buy them you can help me fix them up. I can definitely help you fix them up,
07:56right?
07:57Thanks, danny you're the best you good luck nice to meet you all right
08:01See you guys see you soon that way appreciate you later all right
08:04You might have seen one go for twelve thousand unrestored at an auction auctions are a weird thing
08:08You never know what you're gonna get out of yeah, they're up and down great items
08:12It's just a lot more work involved in selling it. Yeah, it makes sense. I'd give you twelve thousand
08:17No, I pass. Okay. Do you have any more nickels? I do not
08:21You're cut off. Let me go get someone to help you. Okay. I appreciate it
08:25Ah
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 a hundred dollars, but doesn't know much about it
08:45And there are no markings to help me determine the 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 Steve Alex pleased to meet you nice to meet you calls you in about this pin
09:00That happens to also be a
09:03Chum bond like spy tool. Oh, that's cool. Do you mind if I pick it up, Steve? Oh, yeah, please
09:09do
09:10Have you ever seen anything like this? I mean, I've seen things like this
09:15but this is a bit different and mostly because
09:19It is like precisely built and it's quite sturdy in your hand
09:25Like if this was some taurus knockoff made overseas
09:29It doesn't have the same build quality. So it's got an aluminum body and this is a steel blade. It's
09:36single-edged
09:37It is
09:38razor sharp with like a crazy stiletto tip
09:42This was made to do really terrible damage
09:47And it's concealable
09:49Because you could easily put this in your front pocket and nobody would be the wiser that you actually had
09:55a lethal weapon on you
09:56I mean, I would date this to probably the 1960s, maybe 1970s
10:02The absence of any visual markings is telling
10:07So we would refer to this from a military collector's standpoint 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 know where it
10:20came from
10:20Now, why wouldn't you want to know where it came from?
10:23So, uh, the idea of
10:26Concealable small weapons that are sterile really began for the americans
10:32In world war ii the oss the office of strategic services. This is the predecessor to cia
10:38So you're talking spy games things and so this does become a spy weapon. I was hoping it was a
10:44spy weapon
10:46Is this something that that spy type collector would collect?
10:50Yes, so if you were to buy it and put it in the shop, I think you might get up
10:53to a thousand dollars
10:55All right, alex as always it's been a pleasure. You're welcome. That's great information. Thanks. All right. Good luck. You
11:00still want a hundred bucks?
11:02Based on this new light of information
11:05My price has gone close to a thousand
11:08Okay, alex is saying that's probably top of the market for a retail situation like we have here in the
11:14pawn shop. Would you take 400 for it?
11:17How about 800?
11:20How about 550?
11:23How about
11:25650 I could do 575 that could be my max 575
11:30Tell you what that's a deal. All right, we got a deal
11:33You go ahead over there to the counter and i'll meet you right over there and i will write you
11:38up and get you paid
11:38Thank you much. I better take this with me. I don't want to leave a knife on the counter. No
11:48How are we doing today? I'm good. How are you doing?
11:51What do you have here? A couple of planet of the apes items. So where did you get these?
11:55These are fun at an estate sale. All right
11:58Planet of the apes is pretty iconic franchise. I think they're released in the 10th movie this year. Yep
12:04I definitely haven't seen them all but i've watched a few of the movies. Did you ever watch them?
12:09A few of the reboot i guess and and then i don't know what's happened over the last few years
12:16I have a uh plane of the apes dr zayas doll as well as two sealed plane of the apes
12:21like a soldier and a peter burke
12:23the two action figures are
12:25men on card and they're unpunched and the dr
12:29zayas it's very rare to find the box i would like to give uh
12:321 375 for the the three items that i'm bringing in this is definitely cool the basics of the first
12:38movie was that um
12:40you know the apes were from a planet and this group of astronauts landed on the planet and the
12:46apes captured them and basically all captured humans on this planet were slaves working for
12:52the apes and obviously the humans got away and all kinds of stuff going on in the movie but um
12:57the planet of the ace was a solid movie it had a good following right away but when they released
13:02the toys you know people took to them really well the toys are pretty cool though these look to be
13:07kind of older maybe 70s-ish i believe 74 from what i saw these two are unpunched pretty good skills
13:15especially this one and then this one was open obviously in the original box yeah you know a lot
13:20of times that'll happen with these older toys is the little film will come apart from here and it will
13:25start ripping and you still have the box that's still good you know people will rather have this in
13:29a beat-up box than just the naked figure without a box now this green back looks pretty beat up
13:37but it
13:37is unpunched so that's also pretty cool it's cool that you have two unpunched backs right here it's
13:43possible that these just sat in a box and never got hung up on a rack or possibly just lined
13:48up on a
13:49shelf in a store that didn't have a rack how much are you looking to get for this collection 500
13:54each on
13:55those and then that one 375 it's kind of hard to find the box although it is beat up yeah
14:01no the box is
14:02beat up but it is a box so i have some questions on condition and actual value uh i don't
14:09doubt you
14:09did your research and know how much these are worth but i want to have someone come to take a
14:12look
14:13and just kind of go over the condition and see if he thinks those conditions match um what you're
14:18asking absolutely do you have a few minutes to hang out i can get someone down and take a look
14:22at
14:22them sure yeah look around thank you thank you what do we got here a geisha cosmetic traveling box
14:35okay do you associate with a lot of geishas not myself no okay
14:41i'm at the pawn shop here today to try and sell my geisha cosmetic traveling box box itself is
14:47handcrafted with rosewood and inlaid mother of pearl the hinges and all the handles are handmade
14:54metals i'm looking for a thousand dollars for my geisha cosmetic traveling box pretty cool where did
15:02you find this at an antique mall in arizona so do you know anything about it i watched the movie
15:07geisha
15:07girl and there's models of that cosmetic box in that movie that sort of confirmed that it was a geisha
15:13girl cosmetic box right um i thought the craftsmanship was beautiful i really like the hidden
15:18compartments in it too oh okay that's super hidden but i like it i know my girlfriend her makeup wouldn't
15:28fit in it do you have any idea how old it is well i believe it's about 300 years old
15:36um so there's a few
15:37things we can look at here to kind of date it okay first thing's the mirror you can tell it's
15:41really thick
15:42heavy glass um that is commercial ground glass with a silvered back late 19th century early 20th century
15:52so 1850s the united states sends um some ships to japan and by the late 1860s japan more or less
16:02starts its whole modernization process and tours can go over there there's a lot more trade
16:08and this stuff is the rage you know this is definitely not something a gi brought back that
16:15was there in the 1950s or something like that this is much earlier so this was most likely sold to
16:20tourists you just tell the way it's made and everything like that the hardware the glass
16:26how much did you want for it like a thousand dollars okay too much money okay all right um it's
16:33kind of a
16:33tough self you know what i mean it's just who collects these not a lot of people you're probably
16:38going to absolutely hate my offer i'd give you a hundred bucks for it could you do 250. i'll give
16:43you 150 bucks for it if you throw in a polo shirt i'll take 150. throw in a polo shirt
16:49one of your polo
16:50shirts i'll take 150. well not one of mine one of maybe one of the gift shop yeah that'd be
16:54fine fine
16:56150 bucks for this shirt i'll meet you right over there and we'll do some paperwork okay sounds good
17:04you need to trim this up a little bit
17:14a guy came into the shop with the planet of the apes dr zeus doll and two action figures from
17:20the 1970s
17:21all of them are in the original packaging and in good condition but he wants one thousand three
17:26hundred and seventy five dollars for all three there are certain planet of the apes toys that
17:31are collectible but i'm not sure which one so i've asked steve johnston to come over and take a look
17:36before i monkey around with any offers i have some planet of the apes toys here and basically i want
17:43to know what you know about these and go over the condition of them with me here because these are
17:48really
17:48cool they're unpunched but this one looks a little beat up but it's still a nice box we know the
17:54planet
17:54of the apes franchise was and continues to still be really big it doesn't have the fanfare some of
17:59those other franchises that we might know when you think of like star wars or some of the stuff that
18:03came out during this time when these toys started to be produced they were kind of behind the eight
18:08ball and what you had is you had manufacturers were starting to go to their superstars and start to
18:15create you know toys around them and migo was one of those companies that really led the charge for
18:20that so what do you think about the condition overall of these you want if i take a look yeah
18:25absolutely this one really nice condition you can see the sticker was removed off of here in fact i can
18:31look at this and i can tell you that this was a toys r us item so this was actually
18:34sold or any
18:35purchase from toys r us um overall the card is nice and yes the hanger tab is unpunched which is
18:41really
18:41great now the soldier ape this card has gotten some type of moisture damage at some point we can
18:46see that from the waviness of it the great thing is if you're going to have a card that's not
18:51in the
18:51better of conditions you'd rather it be the better character yeah and any of the apes in this line are
18:56very desirable okay and then the doctor zeus yeah box is in decent condition you got some break and
19:04separation here just to find this in the box is pretty good and it does actually affect the value on
19:09this overall quite a bit so what value would you put on these so i'll start with the dr zeus
19:15in this
19:15condition with that box i think that it would be fair for you to expect to get 300 for that
19:20item okay
19:20this one the peter burke this one i would say you'd expect to get 175 for it as it sits
19:25i think the
19:26soldier ape you'd expect to get 400 for it so for the three i think 875 is a fair number
19:31all right well
19:32i appreciate you steve problem good luck thank you appreciate it all right so i know you're valuing them a
19:38little more but you know i do have to take into consideration what my guys said i would go about
19:43500 on the trio of all three of them what are you thinking about that may i ask if we
19:49just did the two
19:50maybe like 400 i would do these two at 450. would you go 425 i kind of want to stay
19:57at 450 on this uh
19:59all right since you're leaving me with the most desirable piece i'll go 450 for you yeah all right you
20:05can take peter burke i'll meet you at the counter and we'll get you paid sounds good
20:10what do we got here this is a nurse's hat signed by louise fletcher from the movie one flew over
20:16to
20:16cuckoo's nest and i have a certificate of authentication nurse ratchet herself yeah
20:22i mean if you collect stuff from villains this is the one to have
20:27i'm here to sell a nurse ratchet hat signed by louise fletcher from the movie one flew over
20:33the cuckoo's nest it was an iconic movie and everybody understands and knows nurse ratchet
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 i'm asking 125 for my sign nurse ratchet hat if i'm able to get
20:51125 for it
20:52i'm gonna buy my granddaughter olivia something here in vegas really cool i mean one flew over
20:58the cuckoo's nest you know i don't think anyone expected it to be such an amazing movie and do so
21:05well she actually won an oscar for this movie i mean she was absolutely scary where did you get it
21:14i
21:14was at a convention and she was present and she signed it yeah so we got louise fletcher nurse ratchet
21:21and this is a nurse's hat and i'm assuming it goes together something like bam i'm old enough to
21:29remember when nurses wore hats like this
21:35it's a good one
21:38i think nurses should bring these back i think they're kind of cool looking um i like it how much
21:44you want for it 125 dollars um you know what that's probably what she charges for okay um so i'd
21:53give you 75 bucks for it i i can't pay your retail cool movie iconic movie if you're a movie
21:59guy and you
22:00collect movie stuff this is the thing to have but remember i gotta frame it up and i gotta do
22:06a bunch of
22:13pills it's an iconic movie she's an award winner 85 bucks it fit like a glove 85 bucks we got
22:20a deal
22:20all right sweet all right i will meet you right over there and get you paid okay thanks
22:25literally one of the scariest people in movies ever
22:31creepy
22:38what do we got here i have a very special guitar all right let's put it on this
22:44it's a rebecky monterey okay i know in like the early 1970s he built his first guitar in his dorm
22:51room i don't know how college really worked out for him because he moved to san francisco and opened
22:56up his first guitar shop and the rest is kind of history i am here to sell my rebecky monterey
23:02premium grade jazz guitar this guitar has a number of special features including quilted maple back
23:09inside ebony fretboard tailpiece and bridge and mother of pearl inlays this guitar is special because
23:16it is a one-off so there's no two guitars exactly the same i had open heart surgery a little
23:21less than a year ago i'm looking to make enough to have a little bit of a profit
23:26and then also to cover my medical costs definitely really cool i mean he's kind of like almost this
23:32mythical guy i mean did he play in any famous rock bands did he ever work for fender or gibson
23:37or
23:37anything like that not that i'm aware of kind of a hard market to get into and be one of
23:43the best in
23:43the world but he's done so well in this business and he's such a good luthier you just kind of
23:48have to
23:48know somebody to know somebody to get a hold of him right pretty much you know one-off customs
23:52basically for every single one he does the archtop guitars are what he's kind of really known for and
23:58when someone pulls one of these things out that guy's probably been working in the music industry
24:02for a very very long time and just probably made a very very large amount of money doing what do
24:07you do
24:07for a living how do you uh acquire something like this i'm a retired teacher i do a little buying
24:12and
24:13selling of guitars i found this at the estate sale of the original owner do you have any idea what
24:19they
24:19would cost new last time i checked it was about 30 grand and what's the waiting list like to get
24:23one
24:23of these it was about two years it's a beautiful guitar i have never seen one of these in my
24:29life
24:29so what are you looking to get out of it i'm looking for fifteen thousand dollars i got 20 years
24:35in
24:35this business and i'm just pulling out little things i've heard over the past 20 years about this
24:40thing it could be worth twenty thousand it could be worth fifty thousand it could be worth five
24:44thousand i have no idea my buddy mike he's here in town he's my guitar guy could i have him
24:49take a
24:49look at it he'll really help me out i would love to have mike come and look at it well
24:52hang out for
24:52a minute i'm gonna go grab him okay sounds good
25:01there's a guy in the shop with a 1999 rebecky monterey jazz guitar that he's looking to get fifteen
25:06thousand dollars for this thing looks incredible but i've never seen a rebecky before so i called
25:10our guitar expert mike ball to come down and let me know if this is a good deal to get
25:15jazzed about or
25:15not stay by the bell man help me out here mike thank you very much for coming down what's going
25:20on man
25:21it's one hell of a guitar you got here thank you it's a rebecky archtop 1999. you can't really broach
25:26the conversation of archtop luthury without talking about tom rebecky consummate 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 it's a flat top acoustic guitar that looks like it just won a hot
25:45dog eating contest and that would lead him to make his halfling guitar which is really the big
25:50rebecky guitar that you hear about if you're talking about rebecky you're talking about the halfling
25:54not only has he made incredible guitars but he's brought up another generation of luthiers under him
26:01may i pick it up please let's take a look here beautiful hand carved quilted maple back and
26:08signs some nice bird's eye in the neck ebony appointments as per usual for rebecky and
26:14graduated hand carved spruce top beautiful example you have here thank you so corey what questions or
26:22concerns do you have for me i mean it's such a rare guitar that every one of them is basically
26:27a
26:27one off guitar i have no idea how to price this thing they're highly collectible but they also
26:32only speak to a fairly narrow range of players you're talking professional jazz players who are
26:38seeking a very refined sound they're going to go for rebecky so what do you think it could be worth
26:44there are montereys on the market that have roughly this feature set and around twelve thousand dollars
26:50would be a comfortable median for what these go for used i appreciate you coming down i'll let you know
26:55uh
26:55what happens with hey absolutely anytime mike very nice to meet you pleasure okay so i know you want
27:0115. i'm being told 12 is what i could sell it for i can't give you 12. i gotta pay
27:05the bills here i
27:06understand i'm feeling 8 000 because as cool as it is it's going to take me a minute to sell
27:11it
27:12i could do 11. i can offer you 10. 10 500. fine man you gotta do all right let's do
27:24it let's do it go ahead
27:26and pack it up i'll meet you over there we got some paperwork we're gonna do very good
27:36how's it going guys pretty good how you doing good let's go ahead and throw it up on here
27:40let's do that so what do you got here so i have a signed photo of ren tin tin and
27:46i think lee
27:47duncan's signature his owner okay ren tin tin was one of the biggest stars in silent movies uh
27:54red tin tin with its sign stuff yeah but paw prints right there it's not a paw print it's not
28:02a signature tell pinky that i'm here to sell my signed photograph of ren tin tin and lee duncan the
28:11photo has been in our family for 80 years and was handed down to me by my father the photo's
28:15in
28:15unbelievable condition we've taken fantastic care of it my uncle even handmade a frame for it
28:21i'm asking 7 500 for my signed photo of ren tin tin this is pretty cool um ren tin tin's
28:27first movie
28:28blockbuster success so then they immediately want ren tin tin you know to do a bunch more movies he was
28:34so popular thousands and thousands of people were writing in for ren tin tin's autograph yeah so lee
28:41duncan would personally write out all this stuff on photos of ren tin tin and put his paw print on
28:48it
28:49it's unbelievable i mean i think it was like a million letters a year that he received so how
28:54did you get this so my great grandfather was friends with a bartender in boston in a very famous
28:58bar that's still around and he would ask every famous actor that came in to give him a signed photo
29:04to hang behind the bar so you're telling me uh ren tin tin was a drinker he was you never
29:09know it's your
29:10kind of dog rick okay it's pretty cool and is this signed to your grandfather it's signed to the original
29:17bartender okay so how would you want for it i was gonna hopefully get about 7 500. where did you
29:23come
29:23up with that number it was sort of a random number we're just doing research on rin tin tin artifacts
29:29and they're hard to find yeah um super popular back in the day not that many people in the world
29:35left to know who he is i mean i'm sure when you originally got this you had no idea who
29:39he was did you
29:39my father had always told me the stories but i'm sure without that no okay uh yeah i mean i
29:44would give
29:45you i'd give you 200 bucks for it it's very very obscure i think quite frankly there's not that many
29:50collectors for it left i think we're a little too far apart okay all right well thanks for bringing it
29:55in appreciate your time guys thank you hey i got something really cool for you i'm assuming there's
30:08shania twain boots because that's the living legend right there yes how in the world did you get these it
30:14was know somebody that knows somebody that got us some amazing seats and got invited to a private
30:20charity event afterwards so she signed them right there on the stage i know that it's impossible to
30:27get tickets but i think i could pull some strings and get some because i know somebody who knows
30:31somebody who knows somebody and i'm known for that i'm here at the pawn shop today hoping to sell my
30:38shania twain stage worn concert boots shania wore these boots in 2012 and i actually got to see her
30:46wear those boots and then a year later i went to a charity event where i got to buy the
30:51boots my asking
30:52price for the boots is not nearly what i paid for them but i'm asking 1500 for them pretty cool
30:59shania
30:59twain is the biggest selling female country artist ever they shed one out and sold over like 40 million copies
31:07or something like that won a grammy nominated for multiple grammys sort of faded out for a while
31:12comes to vegas the comeback tour and vegas is where you start every comeback tour it was amazing concert
31:18i think i did four or five of them with my wife it was an amazing moment for me those
31:24are little
31:25they're size five she looks bigger on camera but she's very tiny so whose bed they've been under
31:31and so they my wife's worn them they've been under our bed for a while it's really weird that they
31:39have holes drilled in them there's a story behind that okay what's the story behind the holes in the
31:43boots so when she used to fly in on the motorcycle they had tassels that would be tied through the
31:49boots they did not include the tassels though no tassels all right uh i don't even really need to
31:56call on anybody to like verify i mean you got the pictures right here we have shania twain signing them
32:02and you and shania twain with the boots absolutely amazing moment now the big question how much you
32:08want for it well i paid a lot more than uh you will ever pay for them but i'm asking
32:141500 for okay
32:16you bought them at a charity auction so it's not about the price at the charity event it's about
32:21giving to a good cause yes and that's why the prices at charity auctions mean nothing in the real
32:28world okay i'm with you okay i would give you 500 bucks i still would like like 650 for them
32:37500 bucks
32:38and i'm being generous at that that's what i could do okay i'll take it all right sweet we got
32:43a deal
32:44i'll meet you right over there okay and i'll get you paid all right thank you very much thank you
32:56hello hello i brought you in some papua new guinea unusual breast plates to look at okay um you
33:07don't see this very often this is obviously a necklace that is okay all right so maybe this is like
33:13a headdress or i was thinking it was a tighter necklace uh but it could be a headdress it could
33:21even be worn probably as a front skirt it could be a front skirt i was leaning maybe towards headdress
33:27just because you know i don't think you'd want these up in your throat no not too high you know
33:32possibly
33:33down here if you didn't have quite the tummy that i had i am here to sell my two papua
33:39new guinea breast
33:41plates i collect unusual jewelry pieces and being i can't wear too much of it i usually try to decorate
33:48my house with it i'm willing to part with these because i just downsized from a much larger townhouse
33:54into a smaller condo and i'm losing all my wall space for the two breast plates i would like to
34:01get
34:01250 each this is interesting what can you tell me about this stuff well i've actually picked them up at
34:09a yard sale here in las vegas about eight years ago the only thing that was told to me is
34:15that
34:16the tusks are pig tusks there are some unusual shells uh cowrie shells i understand some parrot
34:23feathers i'm not quite sure what the long fluffy feathers are they'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 and they still live
34:36relatively off the land you know they still would make stuff like this up into you know modern times
34:42um maybe even still today and 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
34:54jewelry these kind of look like ceremonial type pieces to me that's a good possibility they were
35:01do you have a price in mind i'm just thinking of 250 each i mean that seems pretty fair to
35:07me but
35:07i do have some questions i would like to have someone come down and take a look at these if
35:11you
35:11don't mind i don't mind at all i'd love to have more information perfect all right give me a moment
35:16i'm
35:16going to call down the guy named bob dodge i'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 oh i'm anxious to hear
35:26him
35:26well let me get him down here and see what he has to say that sounds great
35:36a woman came into the shop with what she believes to be a headdress and a breastplate
35:41from a tribe in papua new guinea i do think they're authentic but i'd like more information
35:45so i'm having bob dodge come over hey bob john how are you pretty good how you doing hi
35:53hi hi bob i'm day good to meet you so day has these two pieces here which she believes they're
35:59from png may i uh do you mind day no please please so definitely papua new guinea um two very
36:09distinct
36:10pieces okay both from the lowlands so papua new guinea is perhaps the most remote area of the world
36:19there are 700 different tribes on any given day one tribe will want to kill their next door neighbor
36:28and the next day they may want to trade with their next door neighbor so okay these are from the
36:34abalam
36:34people this is called a carahoot if you're getting ready to fight your neighbor it would be worn in the
36:42mouth like this oh and this represents the life the tusks representing hanging your enemy off of the
36:51tusk and then it could be worn as a necklace when you're in a more peaceful frame of mind this
37:00guy
37:00is a headdress oh okay it would be worn in the front so boar tusks cowrie shell cassowary feathers
37:10oh cassowary this is a bird the size of an ostrich that will kill you in a heartbeat just a
37:16mean bird
37:18so you think they're authentic they are authentic-ish i mean the height of png art was pre-1960
37:27that's when everything was tribally used after that the natives discovered they could start selling
37:34artifacts so this is kind of in that time period 1960 to 1975 you can see that this has been
37:42worn so
37:42there is nice sweat from being danced but maybe worn once or twice and then sold to a missionary or
37:50a
37:50tourist the headdress shows much less wear you can see the string has probably never been tied
37:57you don't see signs of excessive sweat so more likely made for selling okay what kind of value
38:07do these pieces have i would price this one at 600 bucks wow and for the headdress i'd put 400
38:15bucks on
38:16that one oh okay so about a thousand bucks worth of value here about a thousand bucks all right well
38:22appreciate you bob thanks for coming out thank you thank you bob good nice meeting you thank you
38:28would you still be willing to take the 500 you're asking for i think that's fair yes i would all
38:33right
38:33we got a deal that's great so you can leave these here come 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
38:48i have some very special signatures that i have for him to look at and authenticate for me today
38:54thank you sure
38:58steve how are you i'm good say hi pinky hi pinky good to see you so i need your services
39:06oh god
39:08i need to get pinky's autographs authenticated
39:12that way people know it's her paw print i i don't really authenticate paw prints
39:18you can't you're good i know you can do it look i have her paw right here you can verify
39:23it with
39:23your proscope yeah that being good and everything is one thing but like you can't really all right
39:28what are you guys arguing about well steve is refusing to authenticate pinky's autograph i need
39:34to get pinky's paw print authenticated so i can sell these things to be fair he wouldn't authenticate
39:39the red 10 10 autograph either because it's not actually an autograph it's a paw print which is
39:43her autograph did rin tintin know rin tintin was doing this yeah pinky knows she's doing it
39:50i get it yeah we understand how much you love pinky but i think you're gonna have to have just
39:57a
39:58certificate of authenticity not from an autograph person but maybe from you i don't think pinky's
40:02leaving until she gets her authentication i think i gotta get back to work i'm sorry chum this
40:07isn't gonna work for anybody chum there's people in line i was gonna give you one of these pictures but
40:12i don't think so anymore steve next are you shooing me see you chum thanks rick i'm gonna get back
40:21to work
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