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American Pickers - Season 27 - Episode 13: Picks and Bones
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00:00Look at this!
00:01Whoa!
00:02Look at that jersey.
00:04They are dinosaur hunters.
00:07Yes!
00:10That whole box is bone?
00:11All bone.
00:12This could be a Jurassic pick.
00:14This one is such a cool piece.
00:16There we go.
00:18Deals are hot.
00:19It's got hot deals.
00:20It's a hot deal.
00:21Hot deals.
00:21Oh, yeah.
00:29Danny D, what's going on?
00:31What's up, girl?
00:32Well, I'm pretty excited to talk to you guys today
00:34because I've got a killer pick for both of you.
00:37I'm going to send you boys out to see Greg.
00:39Okay.
00:40All right.
00:40He has petroleum and furniture.
00:43Okay.
00:44Well, that's cool.
00:44He's got stuff for both of us, then.
00:46Yeah.
00:47Double whammy.
00:47I like it.
00:48I know.
00:49I do what I can.
00:50Trust.
00:51Greg's dad, Warren, he was a traveling salesman,
00:54so pretty much he was able to go everywhere
00:55and just pick wherever he wanted to go.
00:57He'd find himself in a space, and he'd just be picking.
00:59Nice!
01:00Greg's father passed away in 2001,
01:02and they moved everything into one large storage building.
01:05Okay.
01:06And it's been sitting there for the past 19 years.
01:09All right.
01:09Send us the address.
01:10Okay.
01:11You guys have fun.
01:18Don't go in that ditch, dude.
01:19Be careful.
01:20Shut up.
01:21I'm a professional.
01:22I don't know.
01:22You scare me, man.
01:23I'm a professional.
01:24Whoa!
01:26Oh, yeah, baby!
01:28Rock and roll!
01:29There's the garage.
01:31I got the doors open.
01:32I guess he's in there.
01:34Let's go.
01:35All right.
01:36All right.
01:37Whoo!
01:39Hey!
01:40Hey!
01:41Hey!
01:41Hey, guys.
01:42Cool.
01:43I'm Mike.
01:43That's Jersey.
01:44Hey, Mike.
01:44What do you know?
01:46How you doing, sir?
01:46Got a big job ahead of your job.
01:48I'm trying to get some things done here.
01:49There you go.
01:50What's up for looking for, buddy?
01:51Okay.
01:51So your pops was a big collector?
01:53Big collector.
01:54Big collector, as you'll soon see.
01:56My name is Greg Haigwood.
01:57My dad passed away in 2001, unfortunately, and left us with a lot of stuff.
02:04All of a sudden, 23 years have gone by, and we are, here we are.
02:10Did he specialize in anything?
02:12He was all over the place, as far as collecting.
02:14He amassed a huge amount of items.
02:19So our main goal is to sell the building and a piece of property.
02:22But in order to do that, we've got to move all these antiques out.
02:26Jersey, remember when you couldn't keep these in stock?
02:31Yeah.
02:31Back in 1986, that brass bed would be $3,000.
02:34I'll tell you what, that was hot, man.
02:35Now it's a different deal.
02:37So brass beds aren't as desirable right now.
02:40But just wait.
02:42I don't got my knife on me.
02:43I say do it.
02:43I've got it.
02:44You got one?
02:45Oh, yeah.
02:46I'll keep an arm.
02:47Good.
02:47I can promise you nobody has seen this in probably 30 or 40 years.
02:51So you'll be the first.
02:56Oh, somebody's repainted his head.
02:58Oh, have they?
02:58Look at this hair.
02:59This is not old hair.
03:01It looks like from a wig or something.
03:02That's what I'm saying.
03:03It's kind of weird.
03:04It's like a wig hair.
03:05But the body, look at the paint in the body, Mike.
03:07Yeah.
03:07My God.
03:07The saddle's still intact.
03:09Yeah, that head just kind of, it was replaced probably.
03:12No, my dad, I promise you, he did not do that.
03:13You don't think that's the original head jersey?
03:15It's too flat.
03:16Yeah.
03:16There's no bustle in the neck.
03:18You know who buys these?
03:19Dowel collectors.
03:20You're kidding me.
03:21No, not at all.
03:22They'll put a dowel on here.
03:23Gotcha.
03:23A lot of the dowels that people collect are from the same time period and stuff.
03:27Sure.
03:27This is a mass-produced horse.
03:28Sure.
03:28It's not hand carved by any means.
03:30Made in the 20s.
03:31But retail, we see these things going for $250, like in perfect condition, maybe $300.
03:36It is functioning.
03:37The thing that it has going for it is the oxblood red stand with the stenciling, and then its
03:42overall age.
03:43This is a primitive, and there's a lot of people that are just starting to get into that.
03:47So for an entry-level collector that's into primitives, this is a perfect piece.
03:52What are you thinking?
03:54What about $100?
03:55$80.
03:56So...
03:57Yeah, let's do it.
03:58Let's do it.
03:58Thanks, buddy.
03:59Yeah, that's cool.
04:00Here's a bunch of smalls right here.
04:02Look at this.
04:03This is cool.
04:03The guy was a lion, an international fraternal organization, but he worked for a gas and
04:09oil company, Red Ace Petroleum Company.
04:12Is it a pin?
04:12Wow.
04:13Yeah, it's a pin.
04:13So this is a crossover piece.
04:15There's a lot of people that collect lion stuff.
04:17Tremendous amount of people that collect petroleuma, and it's unique.
04:21And I can sell it for like $15.
04:24That's the beauty of a lot of these smalls.
04:27$5.
04:28How about $6?
04:29All right.
04:30Thanks, buddy.
04:30All right.
04:31All right.
04:31We're here to spend a lot of money here.
04:33Gary, look at this.
04:33Gary, look at this.
04:34Oh, that's cool.
04:35Is that real?
04:35It's been cut off.
04:36Yeah, it's been cut.
04:37Yeah, it's been cut, unfortunately.
04:39Oh, damn.
04:39But yeah, I mean...
04:40But still, it's a cool piece.
04:41Yeah, Sinclair.
04:42You know, this is kind of an interesting sign because it's saying credit cards honored.
04:47Something we take for granted now, but what's going on here is the honored part is
04:51cut off.
04:52Obviously, what's there, the porcelain's good.
04:55Sinclair's...
04:56Yeah, and Sinclair's great subject matter.
04:58Yeah.
04:58$100.
05:00I know.
05:00You're like, why is he being so generous?
05:03Why would he be so generous?
05:04I was going to say $50.
05:05No, because I think I could probably get $150 to $2 out of it, maybe.
05:08Okay.
05:08Yeah, I'll do $100.
05:09All right.
05:10Yes, sir.
05:11Got you, sir.
05:12I got you covered.
05:13You know, it's crazy what things are going for in porcelain science now.
05:16So this is a good entry-level piece.
05:30So there are quite a few boxes in this building that, honestly, we haven't even gone through
05:37yet.
05:38We don't even know what's in them.
05:39The few that we have gone through, it's literally items wrapped in newspaper.
05:53All that stuff is wrapped.
05:55Yeah.
05:55I like this Space Patrol Volkswagen.
05:58Okay.
05:58Interesting piece.
05:59It's 1960s, Japanese made.
06:02Post-war Japanese tin toys.
06:04Have a huge collector's market.
06:06Missing a wheel.
06:08That's a bummer.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Battery compartment.
06:11It's okay.
06:12I mean, it's, you know, it's a little, let's some corrosion on the terminals.
06:15All right.
06:16It's not the worst.
06:17I'd give it about a 7 out of 10.
06:19Missing the antenna.
06:21Got one here.
06:23Windshield's not broken, which is pretty darn nice.
06:25By the mid-50s, the Japanese toy manufacturers, they had replaced the wind-up toys with these
06:30battery-operated toys.
06:31That's a big deal because that dates this toy.
06:34So from 1955 onward, that's the time that the golden era of these Japanese toys.
06:39We got to buy a wheel for it.
06:40Right.
06:41And then also, and the antenna.
06:42Right.
06:43And then when we retail it, we got to say, hey, it's got a reproduction wheel.
06:46It's got a reproduction antenna.
06:48Right.
06:48So that's going to hurt value.
06:49Sure.
06:50You know, I mean retail on this thing, high-end, perfect condition, everything there,
06:53this could be an $800 to $1,000 toy.
06:55Wow.
06:56But with all the stuff that we got to do to it and, you know, we got to make some
07:00money too.
07:01Sure.
07:01I get it.
07:02Don't be an offer.
07:05$350.
07:06And what do you think you could get for it?
07:08With the reproduction wheel and the antenna, we might get, you know, $500, $550.
07:13What about $375?
07:15$375?
07:16Yeah, I'm doing it, man.
07:17I mean, it's a cool piece.
07:19All right.
07:19Awesome.
07:20That's great.
07:21This collection's been around so long, for sure there's hidden value here.
07:27This piece looks interesting.
07:29There is a lot of smalls in here, man.
07:31It's even here from Hershey.
07:33I mean, there's stuff that wasn't as valuable in the 70s, but now it's really valuable.
07:38And it's vice versa.
07:39Stuff that was really valuable then, not so much now.
07:42So we've got to really dig deep.
07:44So my dad traveled around basically middle Tennessee, southern Kentucky area, selling steel to tool and die companies.
07:52So he was in a lot of machine shops and whatnot.
07:54He was in a lot of machine shops.
07:55He traveled a ton of back roads.
07:57The big focus of his being this traveling salesman was that he could hit all these antique shops along his
08:04route.
08:05He would probably literally bring something in every day that he would stop.
08:09Yeah, what I'm seeing here is this piece of furniture.
08:12Okay.
08:12And it looks like it came out of a factory or something.
08:14I wonder if he picked it up at one of his stops at a factory.
08:17That's a very good, that's a good possibility.
08:20We're digging to this piece.
08:22It's like I'm going into this piece of buried treasure.
08:24Did the legs look cool?
08:26I can see it's not just a primitive piece of furniture.
08:29There's more to it than that.
08:30And that's really got me digging faster.
08:33But you can see it's got like, you know, straight cut joinery on it.
08:37The legs are just straight down.
08:38But man, look at the patina and look at the color.
08:41Right.
08:41I mean, this, like this robin's egg blue that's all nice and greasy.
08:46Looks like they've made old crates.
08:49There you go.
08:50Nashville, Tennessee.
08:50Oh, no kidding.
08:51He has a Nashville, Tennessee right on the darn thing.
08:54Look at that.
08:54Wow.
08:55Paris something.
08:56So that was probably a crate.
08:58Could have been.
08:58To me, this is exciting.
09:00I mean, this is the kind of stuff that I wake up in the morning and I hope I find
09:04something
09:04like this.
09:04That's awesome.
09:05This is like a primitive piece of industrial furniture.
09:08I mean, I love the cubby holes.
09:10See the marks on the wood here?
09:12Wow.
09:12We ran through the sawmill.
09:13They're all still there.
09:14Look at that.
09:15Yeah.
09:15That's a sharpener.
09:16Looks like it's from turn of the century.
09:181900, 1910.
09:19And it's from friggin' Nashville.
09:21I mean, how cool is that?
09:23This is like we're picking local history.
09:25So what are you thinking on this piece?
09:28600?
09:29Mmm.
09:29That's high-end retail for that piece.
09:31Okay.
09:31Okay.
09:32I was thinking more like 400.
09:34Won't we meet in the middle at five?
09:36I'll do 500.
09:36Yeah, I love it, man.
09:37I mean, I'm excited.
09:38I'm excited to see you get it.
09:39I don't have much of poker face when it comes to furniture, as you can tell.
09:42Thank you, buddy.
09:43Yes, sir.
09:43All right.
09:44I gotta find some more stuff in here.
09:45This place is packed.
09:55All right, Greg.
09:56What do you find in there, Mike?
09:59Well, remember when I was saying that I'm trying to put together, like, different packages?
10:07So you've got all these pedal cars.
10:09These are made by a company called Garten.
10:11This one is called the Tin Lizzy.
10:14What's amazing is it has the hood ornament on it.
10:16This is always missing.
10:17This would have been something that would have been easy to break off.
10:20Sure.
10:20These are both late 50s, early 60s.
10:24All of these cars aren't in mint condition, but they're in great condition.
10:28I mean, think about the life that this had.
10:30This was given to a child.
10:31It was on a sidewalk.
10:32These things were treated like demo derby cars.
10:35So the fact that the hood ornament is there, the little details, the horn, it's a big deal.
10:40This is what I always call the goat wagon.
10:43Okay.
10:44This says it was sold by Hampton Cooksey.
10:47So it does have a story of its origin.
10:50This is the original seat, and you can see how this is all alligatored right here.
10:55Alligatoring of the paint means basically the paint has gone through so many heat cycles that it starts to fracture.
11:02It bubbles, it separates, and it kind of looks like the skin of an alligator.
11:06So for the goat wagon, the fact that the paint has gone through so many heat cycles means that it
11:11was painted a long time ago.
11:12This one, you can see here the brush strokes where somebody was painting over it to clean it up.
11:19But look at this.
11:19I thought this was cool.
11:20The rubber broke.
11:22They put these little bandages on there so the child's foot wouldn't get hurt when they were peddling it, you
11:27know?
11:27Wow.
11:28Little details like that obviously tell a story, and so that's what makes it more interesting.
11:38So if this was in really nice shape, it'd be 800 bucks.
11:42Okay.
11:43In this shape, I think the retail on it's 500.
11:47This one, retail on that's probably 300 bucks, 325.
11:52Okay.
11:52The goat wagon is early, it's primitive, but it's been repainted, so I'd say the retail on that is between
12:00five and six.
12:01Okay.
12:02I was so appreciative of learning about a lot of these pieces because I just did not know what they
12:09were, you know?
12:10And all of a sudden, I'm like, okay, now I see why my dad got that.
12:15I'm at 875 for the three of them.
12:19Could you go 1,000 for all three?
12:23I'd do 900.
12:25Yeah, I'll do 900.
12:27Okay.
12:28I'll do 900.
12:29Thank you, sir.
12:30I feel like he offered a fair price for all three, and it's freeing up room for us in that
12:37building also, so that was a good sell.
12:41That's cool.
12:42That's all wooden.
12:47Got a barometer in it.
12:50Wow.
12:51And a really nice thermometer.
12:52Look at the mercury in that thermometer.
12:54Got the little squirrel tail on there.
12:5650 bucks.
12:57I'll do $50.
12:58All right.
12:59I'll take it.
12:59Thank you, buddy.
13:00This is a really cool piece.
13:02It's Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan.
13:05It's in the original frame.
13:07This is an original print of the Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
13:11This dates back to the Model T era.
13:15150.
13:16Wouldn't go 175.
13:17I'd go 160.
13:19So.
13:20Okay.
13:20Thank you, buddy.
13:21Yes, sir.
13:22Very cool.
13:22So your dad was a Ford guy.
13:24He was a Ford guy.
13:25My dad was always into cars, and he supposedly had the nicest, finest car that you could have
13:34for the time.
13:35That was his image.
13:36So I also have a picture of him driving down the main street in Ashton City with the
13:41homecoming queen on the back of his car.
13:44Look at this American tool set, like a juvenile.
13:46Oh, how neat is that?
13:55Piggly Wiggly is a patch.
13:58Well, when I'm looking around in here, I'm seeing a lot of smalls, and some of them even
14:03have price tags on it.
14:04Sure.
14:05So was he setting up at flea markets?
14:07Was he selling in an antique space?
14:09Like, what was he doing?
14:10So when he retired, he retired when he was 65.
14:13Okay.
14:13We had a little antique mall down here in Ashton City.
14:16Okay.
14:16So he was selling there.
14:17So he managed the antique mall.
14:19He had his own booth.
14:21And that was his heaven.
14:22He retired from something that he loved doing into something that he loved even more.
14:28Everybody knew my dad.
14:29I mean, everybody knew everybody here.
14:30Yeah, yeah.
14:31There was a little restaurant down here called Stratton's.
14:33Okay.
14:33I don't know if you remember that or not.
14:35No, I've never been through that.
14:36We called it the Dairy Dip, and it was a 50s diner.
14:38Okay.
14:39That's where he lived.
14:40When he wasn't at home, he was at the diner.
14:43Well, because back then, you know, if you're collecting stuff, I mean, from the time,
14:46like if he started, what did you say, he started collecting in the 60s?
14:48In the 60s, yeah.
14:49I mean, you learn from talking to people.
14:50Sure.
14:50One of the great things about collecting is talking to people that have been doing it
14:55for generations before you.
14:57Older people that have the knowledge that you can't get from a book.
15:01He was well loved by a lot of people in this town, and the day of his funeral, his procession
15:07went out, and all the people from that diner came out and stood at the road as a tribute.
15:14Sorry.
15:14Oh, man.
15:15You're choking me up, too.
15:17I didn't even know you were choking me up.
15:19Oh, my gosh.
15:19That was 20 years ago.
15:20I wish Dad could have met both John and Mike, because they would have had so much in common.
15:26You can tell the passion that both John and Mike had, and I feel like my dad had that same
15:32passion.
15:33Okay, so I have a store in Nashville, not too far from here.
15:37Right.
15:37And then I have a store in Iowa.
15:39So we're always looking for smalls.
15:41Things that are like, say, you know, $100 or less, $50 or less.
15:45Right.
15:45You know what I mean?
15:46And you guys have so much of that in here.
15:48Sure.
15:48Yeah.
15:49See, like, for me, I could sell all this stuff.
15:51And some of it's good, and some of it's just so simple.
15:53Like, here's a little plastic race car.
15:56You know?
15:57I mean, that's five bucks.
15:59But still, it all adds up.
16:00Sure.
16:01I mean, there's just so much of it on this table.
16:03I wouldn't mind buying everything from here on top of the table all the way down.
16:10Okay.
16:10You know?
16:11All right.
16:11And so...
16:12Throw me a number.
16:13I mean, that's what I'm trying to think of.
16:15Like, you got some pressed steel stuff here.
16:17Like, here's a Buddy L piece.
16:19But it's missing the rear tailgate.
16:22Right.
16:22This is 50, 60 bucks.
16:23Is it really?
16:24This is interesting.
16:25This is cast aluminum.
16:27The manufacturer's right there.
16:29Wow.
16:29Made in, looks like Ohio.
16:31But someone has replaced the front wheels.
16:34Okay?
16:34But still, that's a great-looking piece.
16:36You know, taking a chance on the whole pile, I kind of like the idea of the gamble.
16:40All I can do is do a primary search, look over it all, and then throw a number.
16:45Out there.
16:45How about, uh, for everything on the table, with the condition it's in, 1,500 bucks.
16:51Some of this stuff is 100 bucks, some's 200, some's 25, some's five.
16:56$1,500 for all those toys on the tabletop, I was a little flabbergasted.
17:01That's a pretty reasonable offer, considering what I'm looking at.
17:04The only thing that has any significance at all on this table that I'm aware of...
17:09Okay.
17:09...is this piece right here.
17:11I don't know the exact history, except I know my dad, that was his train when he was a child.
17:16Okay, so this is...
17:17When he was a child.
17:18Well then, do you want to keep this?
17:19So that may be a piece...
17:20Because this is, this is not an expensive train, but it's...
17:23It is not.
17:23It has emotional value.
17:24Yeah.
17:25It's more sentimental, yeah.
17:25It's more sentimental to me.
17:27It was just something my dad put together.
17:29It was his toy.
17:30I know it came from him, but he had it when he was a kid.
17:34I mean, that's one piece I would probably like to keep.
17:36Absolutely should have that.
17:37That, yeah, let's do the 1,500.
17:39Okay.
17:39Let's do it.
17:40Alright, thank you.
17:40I think that's more than fair.
17:41So at the end of the day, going through this whole process with Mike and John, first of
17:46all, I had so much fun.
17:47I love it.
17:48It was just such a blast to be in there with these guys and to see their passion for this
17:53stuff, because it reminded me of my dad's passion.
17:57I could see him, you know, going into this building and being just as excited about this
18:03stuff as they were.
18:05Oh, man.
18:06Oh, yeah.
18:08Woo!
18:08Jersey, what?
18:09Without even meeting Greg's father, we feel like we're kindred spirits, because he invested
18:15so much of his life doing the exact same thing that we do.
18:19Man, we got this thing hot.
18:21Enjoyed it immensely.
18:22I'm sweating.
18:23Yeah, me too, John.
18:24Dude, this was a good day.
18:25Yes, sir.
18:26Alright, take care, guys.
18:29Happy picking!
18:30See you guys.
18:41Danny D, what's up?
18:42What's up, girl?
18:44Aw, how are my beautiful babies doing this morning?
18:47What you got, girl?
18:48Thanks.
18:48I'm gonna send you to meet Alan and his wife.
18:51Her name is Lynn.
18:52Okay.
18:53They are dinosaur hunters.
18:56Yes!
18:57I love that!
18:58It's super cool.
18:59They've been collecting fossils for over 50 years.
19:03I love a good fossil.
19:06Danielle, do you remember that time when you bought that dinosaur bone?
19:09And we donated it to that museum?
19:12Yes.
19:12This is that, like, times a hundred.
19:15Jersey, you know the value of fossils?
19:16I know that a stegosaurus just sold for 44.5 million dollars.
19:20Really?
19:21Yeah.
19:21That's more than I know.
19:22Yeah, these guys are a big deal.
19:23So they go out, just the two of them, they find fossils, they find buyers, and they ship
19:28them across the world.
19:29I love that, but do they have anything else besides bones?
19:32Yeah.
19:33So they both collect outside of the bones.
19:35Okay.
19:36Anything from pottery to religious artifacts.
19:38They have military memorabilia and tons of old radios.
19:42Cool.
19:43That's awesome.
19:43Send us the coordinates.
19:44Yeah.
19:45Hey, bring mama back some dino bones.
19:48Oh, yeah.
19:52All right, we're coming up on it, Jersey.
19:54I think right here, make a left of the tree.
19:57Yeah.
19:57Wow, look at these bones hanging on the fence posts.
19:59What the heck?
20:01Look at that.
20:01Yeah, they're all skulls and stuff.
20:03This is cool, man.
20:04Looks like parts of cows.
20:05Oh, this is cool, dude.
20:06This is great.
20:06Little gantry.
20:07This is going to be awesome.
20:08All right.
20:10Whew.
20:11Hey, hey.
20:13How you doing, buddy?
20:14Hey.
20:15Well, we're doing good.
20:16We're having a lot of fun.
20:17I see that.
20:18This is cool.
20:19I'm John.
20:20John, how are you?
20:21I think the only thing that's not on here is dinosaur bones.
20:25What I'm looking for is a stegosaurus.
20:27Okay.
20:28My name's Alan Dietrich and this is my gorgeous genius wife who has been taking care of me,
20:36finding dinosaurs and digging in dinosaurs for over 20 years.
20:40She's amazing.
20:41Hey, how are you?
20:42I'm Mike.
20:42Nice to meet you.
20:43Nice to meet you.
20:43How are you?
20:45Nice to meet you.
20:46See what you guys got going on.
20:47Nice to meet you.
20:48Uh, Lynn and I are working on a gigantic triceratops dinosaur.
20:53Whoa.
20:54And it's going to Italy.
20:55It's right here?
20:56These are dinosaur bones of a triceratops.
20:58It's a big white blob here.
20:59Inside of this.
21:00That's correct.
21:01Wow.
21:01This is triceratops dinosaur bones that, how they've been captured in Montana.
21:09When you're saying captured, you mean unearthed, you know, taken out of the ground.
21:12You're shipping them off exactly the way you found them?
21:15I used to put these things together.
21:17Okay.
21:18I'm making too much money now.
21:20Okay.
21:21I don't want to sniff glue anymore.
21:22So the dinosaur business is good.
21:24It's good.
21:25Okay.
21:25A triceratops dinosaur is the one with three horns and has a giant frill for protection.
21:32Now it could take down a T-Rex.
21:35Really?
21:35Yes.
21:35So this is the big shield at the front of it.
21:37And this is the shield on the bottom.
21:38This bottom piece is...
21:39So the whole shield was bone.
21:41It was bone.
21:42Wow.
21:42Wow.
21:43It's kind of like bulletproof.
21:44So have you ever approached a landowner where you're like, hey, if I find anything
21:49on your property, there's a percentage that you might be able to...
21:52Our leases state clearly.
21:54Okay.
21:55Oh, you actually have a document of lease.
21:58Absolutely.
21:58And the first place you stop in accounting is a courthouse and find out who has the largest
22:04amount of land.
22:04You know, these landowners in Montana don't own acres or sections.
22:09Okay.
22:09They own townships.
22:11Yes.
22:11Okay.
22:11So they got their own zip code.
22:13Yeah.
22:13You want to go where the layers are exposed, the Hell Creek layer.
22:19What's Hell's Creek?
22:20It's the Hell Creek Formation.
22:22It's the name of the geologic formation.
22:25Okay.
22:26There is an actual Hell Creek in Montana.
22:28Okay.
22:28So it's actually an ancient creek bed.
22:30Yes.
22:31And so it's a runoff into Fort Peck Lake.
22:35Okay.
22:35The Missouri River runs through South Dakota, Montana, and these are tributaries.
22:43The Hell Creek, Snow Creek.
22:45There's the big dry.
22:47So they all feed into the Missouri.
22:50And the Missouri River, I guess in the 1930s, was dammed up.
22:54And there's a beautiful lake up there now.
22:57But those tributaries are still there.
23:00So they call it the Missouri Breaks because the land has been eroded away because of the river.
23:06Say in Montana, there are very few trees.
23:10So you're driving along.
23:11I mean, you can see in the distance on the buttes.
23:14You can see the geologic layers.
23:16Okay.
23:16So sometimes you guys can actually see from just looking at the landscape where that's exposed?
23:22Yes.
23:22Even though we're in completely different businesses, our approach to how we do business is so similar.
23:29I mean, we drive back roads.
23:31We knock on doors.
23:32We try to dig up tax records to find out who owns a property because we can see cars buried
23:39in the woods behind a house or something.
23:41Over the years, we've dug a lot of stuff out of the ground.
23:44I can remember we're two blocks away from the Indian factory in Springfield, Massachusetts,
23:49and we're digging a Power Plus Indian out of the ground.
23:53That looks like a rear fender.
23:55Oh, my gosh.
23:55This is it.
23:56This is it.
23:56This is it.
23:57We found the tanks, the front end, the frame.
24:00You know, the thrill of the hunt was there.
24:03So in some respects, I've always loosely thought of myself as an archeologist.
24:08I think this is a tibia.
24:10A leg bone.
24:11A tibia.
24:11And the fibula is right here along the right.
24:14Yeah.
24:14They want it exactly the way it was found because that's the way it is with old motorcycles like we're
24:19at.
24:19Years ago, people were restoring stuff, weren't they, Jersey?
24:21They restored motorcycles to death like crazy.
24:23And now we want them untouched.
24:25We want barn finds.
24:26We want original paint because it shows us what it was.
24:29We're finding dinosaurs.
24:30We're finding motorcycles.
24:31Yeah.
24:31We want like what you guys do.
24:33Like we actually, if we see one in a barn that's in what we call its natural setting,
24:37we want tons of photographs.
24:40Probably just like you guys do.
24:41I mean, I'm sure your customers want pictures of the process.
24:46Yes.
24:46It's cool.
24:47We take pictures of them before they're completely jacketed.
24:50Yeah, yeah.
24:50So is this called jacketed?
24:52This is called jacketed?
24:53It's called jacketed.
24:54Right.
24:55And it's protection.
24:56In order to protect these ancient creatures from getting damaged, the best way to do it is to expose the
25:06bone and then cover the bone with foil because you're going to add plaster of Paris to that bone.
25:13And the foil will keep it from sticking to the bone, but it'll also offer a perfect cast of the
25:20bone.
25:20But if you don't have that, that dinosaur bone turns into gravel.
25:25Right.
25:27And the collecting of it.
25:28So you got to do it.
25:29You know, when you find one of these and you see it poking out and you realize you're the first
25:35person to see this.
25:37That's going to be very exciting.
25:38For 65 million years or more.
25:40It's the first experience.
25:42It's just, it's incredible.
25:43You never forget it.
25:44If you want to see like an exposed bone.
25:47Yeah, absolutely.
25:47We've got one over here.
25:55If you want to see a bone.
25:57Yeah, absolutely.
25:57We've got one over here.
25:58So this is a vertebrae.
26:00This is it here?
26:01Yeah.
26:01So this is from a hadrosaur.
26:03Edmonosaurus.
26:04The nickname is a duckbill.
26:06There.
26:07So this is actual dinosaur bone.
26:08Yeah.
26:09Well, the Edmonosaurus, they have a distinctive skull with a very large, if you want to call
26:16them beak, and then with these kind of lips at the end.
26:20And that's how they get the nickname, a duckbill.
26:23Those are called zypothesis.
26:25This?
26:25Yes.
26:26Okay.
26:26And what they are is the connectors.
26:27You've got a little brush.
26:28From one vertebrae to the next.
26:30Oh, look at that.
26:31That's the backbone of a dinosaur.
26:33This is?
26:34Yeah.
26:35So this is part of the vertebrae?
26:36Yeah.
26:36How big was this animal standing up?
26:38This animal, this is a robust Edmonosaurus.
26:42They'd be, they got up to 35, 37 feet long.
26:45Wow.
26:46Yeah.
26:46Big dinosaurs.
26:47Where was this found?
26:48What state?
26:49This was found in Montana also.
26:50No kid.
26:51Me and Mike are, it's like we're going to Dinosaur School 101 here.
26:55It's like pretty cool that we can have this experience with Alan because he's educating
26:59us.
27:00What is the value of something like this?
27:01In this stage, about $2,500.
27:03After it's prepped out and mounted and put on display, it'll bring a lot more than that.
27:10Well, what's a lot more though?
27:11All the person will ask.
27:13Yeah.
27:13That's what I'm saying to you.
27:14Like, I mean, you've been doing this for a while.
27:16So like, what would that be on display if it was prepped out properly?
27:20Well, if you go to a museum, Mike, they'll tell you it's priceless.
27:23Right.
27:24Okay.
27:24So what's it worth?
27:25Yeah.
27:26What's priceless to me is I unearthed a 66 million year old dinosaur bone.
27:31So what's your bottom on this bone?
27:32What will you get?
27:33$1,500.
27:34Deal.
27:35All right.
27:35We're doing it.
27:36Beautiful.
27:37Really?
27:37We put a dinosaur bone?
27:39I guess.
27:39Yeah.
27:39I mean, you got me all jacked up.
27:41Thank you, man.
27:43I appreciate you.
27:44Yeah.
27:45Oh, I was delighted that Mike made an offer on the vertebrae of the Edmontosaurus dinosaur
27:51because, you know, it's going to be exciting for him as well as the potential customers
27:56that come into his store and sees this real dinosaur.
28:00So what is this box here?
28:02It's like, is this like copalite or?
28:04No, no.
28:05This is fragments.
28:06People in the field call this gravel.
28:08But what it is is dinosaur bone.
28:09If you look at it.
28:10Oh, yeah.
28:11This is smooth like a bone.
28:12Yes.
28:12That whole box is bone?
28:14All bones.
28:14But it's all pieces and parts.
28:16This is part of something that roamed the earth 65 million years ago or a hundred million
28:20years ago.
28:20These were all the little pieces of fossils, fossilized bones.
28:26What's something like this worth?
28:27They sell at $6 a pound.
28:29Oh, really?
28:29It used to be 20 years ago when I was selling it.
28:32I don't sell it anymore.
28:33I mean, this would be cool for the shop.
28:35This piece right here, you know, in a child's mind, who's a treasure hunter, very curious
28:39to hold this.
28:40You never know what kind of mark that's going to leave on them.
28:43Yeah.
28:43As far as like what trajectory they're going to be pushed into the rest of their life just
28:47because they've owned this since they were five or something, you know?
28:51Yep.
28:52I'm going to say it's like 125 pounds of bones here.
28:56Rocks too.
28:56Yeah.
28:57They're in there.
28:58How about 400 bucks?
28:59Deal.
29:00Dude, you're easy to get along with.
29:01Thank you, John.
29:02Awesome.
29:03All right.
29:16You got plenty of storage, man.
29:18Wow.
29:18This place is just amazing.
29:20We've got all kinds of taxidermy.
29:22That's the fun stuff up there.
29:24This is what we do for fun.
29:25Yeah.
29:26Walking into the barn, we're seeing a completely different side of Al as a collector.
29:31We collect the dinosaur bones so we can go have fun and buy this stuff up here.
29:35What's going on with the moose head?
29:37Where'd you get that at?
29:38I bought this at auction in Manhattan, Kansas.
29:40Oh, okay.
29:41I got you.
29:41I got you.
29:42That's where I buy everything.
29:43I buy it at auction.
29:44And then...
29:44Alan, what do you know this bell?
29:46It was Tyson's.
29:47Yeah.
29:48No, this is way before Tyson's.
29:49This is early.
29:50Rocky Martin, the animal.
29:51Yeah, it's broken in the cast piece there.
29:53Yeah.
29:53And then, you know, the springs are messed up.
29:55You guys don't have to downgrade.
29:57Just make me an offer.
29:58No, I'm not trying.
29:59I'm just saying.
30:00It's a piece of sports memorabilia.
30:02The importance of a boxing match all hung on the sound of this bell.
30:06This could have been in a Jack Dempsey fight.
30:08When you see a real boxing bell, hand-operated, cranked bell.
30:13Pretty amazing.
30:1450 bucks.
30:15I like you, John.
30:16I'm gonna take it.
30:17Yeah?
30:17$50?
30:18There you go.
30:19All right.
30:19Done deal.
30:20Thank you, buddy.
30:21Woo!
30:21You know, I can't have it all.
30:23I don't want a doll.
30:29Alan's a mover and a shaker.
30:31There's so many different paths you can go down in antique collecting.
30:33And that's why it's so cool.
30:35I mean, you can collect buttons.
30:36You can collect baseball cards.
30:38You can collect architectural salvage.
30:40There's so many different things you can explore.
30:42It depends on what you're interested in.
30:43World War II.
30:45Alan, what can you tell me about these doors?
30:47Yeah, they're beautiful.
30:48They came from the state capital of Kansas.
30:50You know, I had a conversation with the governor of Kansas and the lieutenant governor of Kansas
30:55because of my efforts to establish a state fossil in Kansas.
30:59I donated a 17-foot mosesaur, an 88-million-year-old reptile, to the state of Kansas.
31:05And now, forevermore, just like the sunflower and the buffalo, a mosesaur is gonna be the state fossil forever.
31:13These came on those doors?
31:14Yep.
31:15These are the state capital doors from the Kansas state capital.
31:18When they remodeled it, they spent $300 million on the place.
31:21Well, there's only one of these doors.
31:23This is a different door.
31:24That's a different door.
31:24I thought they were a pair of doors.
31:26No.
31:26That's oak, Mike.
31:27This is walnut.
31:28That's correct.
31:29Come on, dude.
31:29The fact that Alan knows the story behind the doors adds even that much more value to them.
31:36What are you thinking on the doors?
31:37600 bucks.
31:38That's with the doorknob?
31:40Yeah.
31:40You only have one of these, right?
31:41That's oak.
31:42I got a guy that buys doors off me down in Coleman, Alabama, a place called Southern Accents.
31:47His name's Garland.
31:48He is gonna lose his mind when he sees these doors.
31:53Oh, yeah.
31:53It is cooler in here.
31:54Woo!
31:55Dang!
31:56That's $100.
31:57That's the last thing I think you would specialize in was radios.
32:00I graduated from Fort Hayes with a master's degree.
32:03Okay.
32:04And I graduated at Wichita State University with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
32:08Wow.
32:09And I was 27 when I left college and my mother loved antiques and she was really instrumental
32:16in me getting involved in the antique business because when I came home from college, my bed
32:21was always full of junk and antiques.
32:24She was using your room for storage?
32:26Yeah.
32:27I was away.
32:28Yeah, yeah, exactly.
32:29So, I had a roommate in college whose dad was in the oil and gas business.
32:33Yeah.
32:33Well, when I was going to college, in the summertime, I roughnecked.
32:36I make $3,500 to $4,000 a summer.
32:40And then I called my buddy and said I want to get involved in the oil business because
32:44I know a little bit about it because I caught samples.
32:47So, as you're digging up through these oil wells, were you finding pieces of dinosaurs
32:51and that was your inspiration?
32:52You know what?
32:53No.
32:53That was going on here?
32:54I wish it was sweeter than that, but it's not.
32:56What happened was, you know, we would core drill sometimes and you'd see fossils in those
33:01cores.
33:01Right.
33:01You know, 3,500 feet, 4,000 feet.
33:03That's what we were drilling in Barton County.
33:05There's a lot of oil over there.
33:07Okay.
33:07I saw an article about a paleontologist had sold a Zyfactonist fish in a magazine.
33:14And I thought, it was found in Kansas.
33:18So, I started getting interested in the fact that there was fossils in Kansas.
33:23This is a nano.
33:24A nano is not a T-Rex.
33:28It's a different species.
33:29I mean, it looks like a T-Rex skull.
33:30But it's not quite there.
33:33The teeth are wrong.
33:34The serrations are wrong.
33:35So, this is an actual fossil?
33:37No.
33:38It's not?
33:38They're plastic, just like this one.
33:40So, this is resin?
33:41Yes.
33:41I got about $10,000 in it.
33:43It's really interesting.
33:45It's really, obviously, well-made.
33:47I mean, well-reproduced.
33:48As a reproduction, we have the same problem in the antique motorcycle world because the reproduction
33:52parts are on a lot of really nice original bikes.
33:55And that kind of takes the value down a bit.
33:57Absolutely.
33:58You know?
33:58And this is kind of the same kind of deal.
34:00You know?
34:00If this was a real fossil, it would be $100,000.
34:03Yeah.
34:03And you're saying this is worth about $10,000 now.
34:05Yeah.
34:05Now, what is happening is that people are using 3D printing and scanning.
34:11So, they'll take Stan, which is the famous T-Rex.
34:15They have a whole catalog of scanned bones.
34:19And so, if somebody's putting together a T-Rex, they can use scans from Stan and reproduce parts
34:27that are really accurate.
34:28Look at this!
34:29Oh my gosh, a bar radio.
34:32Yeah.
34:33Whoa.
34:34Isn't that fantastic?
34:35It's got a decanter in there?
34:36Yeah.
34:37The decanters, the shot glasses.
34:39It's a radio.
34:40And eyeballs.
34:41It's the first entertainment center.
34:42Oh my gosh.
34:43It really is.
34:43This is my kind of entertainment center.
34:46Listen to radio.
34:47Porto Bar Radio.
34:49This is a really interesting concept because back in the day, everyone gathered around the
34:54radio.
34:55That wasn't just an entertaining time.
34:57It was a social time where everybody was in one room.
35:00To incorporate a bar into the radio?
35:03Brilliant.
35:04$100.
35:05I'll take three.
35:06$150.
35:08Okay.
35:08I'll take $200.
35:09$175.
35:10Just to win, I'll take $195.
35:13All right.
35:15All right.
35:16You're the best, Alan.
35:24Let me see if I can get a fan up there for you, Mike.
35:27Woo!
35:28Yeah!
35:29Yeah, it's way too hot.
35:30I'm talking hotter than the hinges on the gates of hell, but there is so much great stuff.
35:36This is basically where Alan has stashed his collection all of these years.
35:45You guys okay up there, the last person up there?
35:47We never came down.
35:49Can you get them?
35:50Yeah.
35:51I'm gonna come down after you.
35:57What I love about Alan's collection is that there's no rhyme or reason to it.
36:01He's into a little bit of everything.
36:02There's lighting, there's architectural salvage, there's trench art, there's some really cool books,
36:08there's great photography.
36:10I mean, I'm just trying to navigate this space the best I can and everything is packed in boxes.
36:17You might start one direction because you see something sticking out of the top of a box
36:21and then you forget about that because you can't get to it right away and you start going to it
36:26another way.
36:27This is the kind of space I love to pick just for the sheer variety of it all.
36:31I think I lost 10 pounds.
36:34Man, you're in good shape.
36:36Look at this.
36:37All right, fire marker.
36:39Now that's gonna fire you up because that's a good piece.
36:43Yeah, and it's a real one.
36:44Yes, it is.
36:44They reproduce these.
36:4699.9% of the time, you know, the ones you find are reproductions.
36:51This is a great early Americana piece.
36:53And you can see all of the pitting.
36:56This looks like it was found in the ground.
36:57Fire markers date back all the way to the late 1700s.
37:02Fire markers were attached to the front of the buildings as proof that the property owner had paid for fire
37:08insurance.
37:08It's got the snake.
37:10Yep.
37:10And it looks like a lighthouse, doesn't it?
37:12Lighthouse.
37:12But that's a fire plug.
37:14Uh-huh.
37:14At first it looks like a lighthouse with a snake, but it's really a fire hydrant with a hose.
37:20What are you thinking on that?
37:21200.
37:23I'll give you three.
37:25No.
37:28Yeah!
37:28Yeah!
37:30So this says, Quinn's Aerial Photos.
37:35Look at that.
37:36Wow.
37:37This is a large format aerial camera, probably World War II vintage.
37:42If you research these cameras at all, you'll see people asking anywhere from $150 to $800 for them.
37:49I've had a few of them in my store before, and we always seem to land around $250 at the
37:53most.
37:54The great thing that this one has going on for it is the box.
37:57You know, it actually kind of identifies who was using it.
38:01I think it's on both sides, isn't it, Jersey?
38:02That's on both sides of the box?
38:04Yeah.
38:05Aerial Photos.
38:05So I'd do like $125.
38:09I think you've been real fair.
38:11Well, I appreciate that.
38:12I think I have.
38:12And I think you have too.
38:13Yep.
38:14So does that mean we're doing it?
38:15I think we are.
38:16All right, man.
38:16Awesome.
38:16I appreciate it.
38:18You got anything else, Jersey?
38:19Yeah, I got these swords here.
38:20Okay.
38:21I'm gonna go dig around over here.
38:22Sure, that's some cool.
38:22You got these three swords here I pulled out of there.
38:25All right.
38:27You got the one ceremonial sword here.
38:29It says knights on it, which I'm assuming Knights of Columbus.
38:33That's correct.
38:33You know, it's got some good features on it.
38:35It's got that skeleton hand on it.
38:37It's really interesting.
38:38Now, this one here, this is definitely American.
38:42It's Civil War.
38:43Well, we know it's American because it says US right on the hilt.
38:47Uh-huh.
38:47So it's right there on the blade.
38:49This one saber is an Ames cavalry saber.
38:52It's a light saber.
38:53But unfortunately, somebody took a grinder to the whole edge of this sword.
38:58The damage is irreparable.
38:59They removed way too much metal.
39:01It's pretty messed up.
39:03Yeah.
39:03This is a really cool Civil War sword.
39:06But that damage really affects its value.
39:08You know, if that was a really, really nice sword, that'd probably be eight or 900 bucks.
39:12But this one here, this one I believe is European.
39:15Oh, really?
39:16Yeah.
39:17It's got a crown.
39:19Yeah, that makes sense.
39:20And this other one is also a Civil War saber.
39:22But it's an imported saber.
39:24It's marked S and K. It's got the crown on it.
39:26And the S and K marks on the saber tell me that this thing was probably made in Solingen, Germany.
39:32The City of Blades.
39:34This sword is more decorative than anything.
39:38It's going to hang it over the fireplace, whatever.
39:39It's going to look good.
39:40Décor.
39:40Décor.
39:41Anytime you have an opportunity to buy a Civil War saber, you do it.
39:44You got two cavalry swords here and one ceremonial sword.
39:47I think I'd like to be at 500 bucks for those swords.
39:52Yeah?
39:53Deal.
39:54Love it.
39:54I had a buyer right there.
39:56And I'm a believer if you got a buyer, it's time to go.
40:00All right.
40:01Here, Jersey, take this.
40:02What you got?
40:03Trench art piece.
40:04Oh, yeah.
40:05Got a lady engraved on it.
40:08Pretty cool.
40:09Yeah.
40:09Hashtray.
40:10Check it out.
40:11When's the last time you saw that?
40:12Do you remember that?
40:12Do you remember buying that?
40:13This is a spent 40 millimeter shell, probably from a Bofors gun on a Navy ship.
40:19The artwork on this shell is a little bit more crude than the stuff that you traditionally see.
40:24This was probably made by a sailor onboard ship in his downtime.
40:3075.
40:31Okay.
40:32Thank you, boys.
40:33You guys been fair all along.
40:34Woo!
40:35Deals are hot.
40:36It's got hot deals.
40:36Hot deals.
40:38Oh, yeah.
40:39Oh, yeah.
40:40Little Abner band.
40:42Yep.
40:42This is the dog patch band based on the little Abner comic book strip.
40:47This toy isn't in pieces because it was broken.
40:49It was actually designed that way to transport.
40:52So basically what I want to do is I want to assemble it, see if there's any tabs broken
40:57off of any of the characters, and then see if it fires up.
41:02That's grandma.
41:03She's missing an arm.
41:04All right.
41:05Don't overwind it.
41:07There we go.
41:11That's great.
41:12You lost your arm.
41:13That's disarming.
41:14She was disarmed.
41:16So it's pretty much all here except for this arm.
41:20Too bad.
41:21And then this arm.
41:21I mean, this is going to all be repaired, obviously.
41:23Yeah.
41:24But, you know, in this condition, 125.
41:27Deal.
41:28Thank you, buddy.
41:29You can't take this stuff with you because it'll burn where most people are going.
41:34But I got to tell you.
41:36And that's what my advice to anybody that's getting up there in a few ages is sell your
41:41junk.
41:42Get rid of it.
41:44Sell it now.
41:45Woo!
41:46What a day.
41:47Fantastic.
41:48I love the way that Alan and Lynn have bonded with each other over history.
41:53Whether that history is 40 million years ago or a hundred.
41:57This is the most fun I've had in history class ever.
42:01You're a good teacher.
42:02Yeah.
42:03I wish you.
42:04He teaches me.
42:05They both are big kids at heart.
42:06They wake up every single day believing that they can discover and find the impossible.
42:14Sweet picket!
42:17Yee-haw!
42:18Yeah!
42:18Yeah!
42:18Yeah!
42:19Yeah.
42:19Yeah!
42:19Yeah!
42:20Yeah!
42:22You're a good teacher for that.
42:22You're good!
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