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– All right. Sweet.
– All right, sweet, man.
I’ll meet you right over there.
– Your opinions don’t matter at all to me.
COREY: No, it looked right to me.
So what we’ve got here is very clearly a replica of a very important document.
[groans] OK.
THE OLD MAN: Dumb kid.
I just found out about a guy who’s got an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Arnold Schwarzenegger “End of Days” watch.
I’ve been looking for one of these things forever, and hopefully I make a deal, and if it is, it’s hasta la vista, baby.
– Come on upstairs, Rick.
Let me show you what we have for you.
– Well, that’s the right box. Is there a watch in the box?
[laughs] – A friend told me that Rick was going to be in New York looking for watches and other things, and so I thought that perhaps the watch I had might interest him. The watch is an AP, that’s Audemars Piguet, made in 1999 for a movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger was making. For my AP “End of Days” watch, I’m hoping to get maybe around $40,000.
– Definitely cool. So Audemars and Piguet, they came out with the Royal Oak, and it became a flagship watch of AP, and to this day, if you want one of these, there’s a waiting list.
– Yep. – And it’s a very rugged watch.
It’s a great sports watch. But, like, when it came out, the critics hated it.
I mean, like, it’s got an exposed gasket. It’s got screws everywhere. It was a metal monstrosity, is what they called it. But that’s what people wanted.
Who cares about what the critics say?
[both laugh] So where’d you get it?
– I bought it from a friend a few years back, intrigued by the look of it.
To be honest, I haven’t worn it a lot. It’s kind of–I find it kind of clunky, but it was one of 500 that were made for the “End of Days” movie.
Arnold was apparently involved in the design, but he did wear one of them in the movies.
As to whether it was actually this one, I’m not sure.
– Arnold was in his prime when this came out. I mean, everyone loved Arnold, and it was a really smart business move to partner up with him on it.
All right, you mind if I take a look?
– No, please do.
– I mean, everything is right.
And I can just tell by the face.
I mean, everything is perfect on it.
I mean, like, the screws are right, the face are right, the hands are right.
The value of this brand has gone up tremendously, and the collectibility of this watch has gone way, way up.
This one being such a limited production, I think it will go up.
I’d like to buy it off you for a reasonable price.
How much do you want for it?
– I was looking, hoping something in the 40,000 range.
– I was thinking, like, 30,000 bucks.
– I figured you might be doing this.
I’d love to see if we could come to something maybe in the middle there somewhere, like…
– 31?
– Well, what about 33? – 32?
– 5, split the difference?
– 32.5, you got a deal.
– Okay. – All right, sweet.
– Great. – I’ll wire you the 32,500.
And if you get any more pieces like this, as Arnold would say, “I’ll be back.” – Sounds good.
– I’m happy with the price I got, but I’m a Scotsman so I would always have liked to have had more. The money that I’m going to take out of it, I’m going to put it into NFTs or crypto and watch that instead.
Hey, how’s it going?
– Good. – What do we have here?
– I brought you some pieces of the Hindenburg.
– Pieces of the Hindenburg?
– Yes. – All right.
This is such great history.
To this day, the Hindenburg is still the largest airship ever built that carried passengers.
You know, it was almost three football fields long, and it had, I think, 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen in it.
I mean, that’s a pretty big floating bomb.
[chuckles] – I’m coming into the pawn shop today to sell my pieces of the Hindenburg airship crash. I acquired these pieces of the Hindenburg ’cause my father was on the security detail the first night when the airship crashed.
I’d like to get 20,000. If I make a sale today, I’d like to purchase a new automobile. – This is some incredible stuff here.
The Germans built the Hindenburg in the early 1930s, and it was an engineering Marvel.
You could get across the Atlantic in, like, two days.
Most people think it crashed on its maiden voyage.
It didn’t. It had already been to New York a couple times.
On May 6th, 1937, the Hindenburg was completing a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey, where they had a ginormous hangar for it, and they dropped one of the lines to tie it off, and all of the sudden, the thing burst into flames.
[tense music] So this has to come from the tail.
Believe it or not, this piece right here is worth more than the other ones combined, because that is the rarest piece, due to the fact that the fire started in the tail section.
– Yeah. – This is the normal skin.
It’s great-sized piece, and we have a Western Union telegraph here.
“Dear Mama: Was sent to Lakehurst Thursday night “for guard duty at Hindenburg crash.
“Nothing left of ship.
“Most all bodies burned beyond recognition.
Love, Jimmy.” So how did you get it?
– My father was on security detail the first night.
– Did your father send this?
– Yes. – Oh, okay.
That’s really cool. I’m pretty impressed.
So, big question: how much you want?
– 20,000.
♪ ♪ – [groans] I absolutely love it, and I’ll give you ten grand.
– Um… – Understand, when I go to sell this, I take all the risk.
You walk on out of here with a pocket of money.
$10,000 is a fair price.
– 12,500?
– I’ll do 11… and not a penny more.
♪ ♪ – Okay. – We got a deal.
– Deal. – All right. Sweet.
Um, I will meet you right over there.
We’ll do some paperwork, and I’ll get you paid.
– All right. Thanks.
[lively music] – Very rarely do I get this excited over an item that comes in my shop.
To have this telegraph from somebody who was there basically doubled the value.
Now I’m gonna get this all nicely framed up, and I can’t wait. – Check this out, guys. Pretty amazing.
♪ ♪ – What exactly is it?
– Pieces of the Hindenburg, with a telegram from the guy who was there. What do you think?
– I think it would have been much faster just to send a text.
– What are you talking about?
– I mean, instead of a telegram.
– They didn’t have cell phones in 1937.
We have all the pieces, and all the provenance in the world.
♪ – Okay. – Hey, Rick.
– Here we go. Oh!
[angelic chorus] – This is cool.
– Finally, someone who can appreciate the amazing historical significance of this.
– This is one of those iconic, unfortunate disasters in American and German history.
The Hindenburg was Nazi Germany’s ultimate airship.
They started building in 1931, started flying in 1936.
One of the interesting things about this particular landing– this was the first time that you saw a disaster happening almost in real time.
The newscaster was filming for a throw-away piece for between movies, and all of a sudden, the fire starts, people are jumping out, people are dying right before him… – People are jumping out? – Yes, because it’s burning right in front of him.
You know, and one of the lines he used was, “Oh, the humanity!” That line entered into the public lexicon. – This is too much for me to think about, Mark.
I did not come here with the intention on learning today.
– 35 died in the crash, 62 survived.
When you look at the footage of the crash, it’s still amazing to me that that many survived. – It’s amazing that anybody survived.
– Yes, it is. – Yeah, it was just a massive fireball.
The cool thing about this is I have part of the structure and the fabric and part of the tail–the rarest part of the Hindenburg.
– Yeah, because that’s where the fire started.
And to have that particular telegram, that’s an amazing telegram. – So you guys think it’s cool now?
– It’s pretty cool, Dad.
– Awesome. – Let’s go.
I mean, I’m just telling you, kids today, it’s just, like, this younger generation is just ridiculous.
– So what do we have here?
– We have some pistols. There’s about 13 of them.
– Interesting. So where’d you get these?
– These were my grandfather’s grandfather’s.
And they’ve been passed down to me, uh, about 20 years ago.
– So did he rob banks, or… [both laugh] [gunshot] – I’m here at the pawn shop today to sell my pistol collection. I do believe most of the pistols are from the 1860s, 1870s, so I’ve kept them in the case. They’ve traveled with me from state to state as I’ve moved. They’re in really good condition. I figured that nobody else in the family wanted them, that I would go ahead and see what I could get for them. I’m hoping to sell the entire collection for $6,500.
– Definitely got some cool stuff.
They all look like they’re .32 rimfires, so I guess he collected .32 rimfires.
– That’s what he liked. – What’s .32 rimfire mean?
– It was a popular caliber back then.
After the Civil War, all the people that were making guns for the war were making civilian model guns like this.
.32 was not a super powerful round.
It will kill you, but less expensive guns could shoot it.
If you had money, you’d go buy yourself a Colt Army, or you’d buy yourself a Remington.
If you didn’t, you would buy one of these.
This was actually a decent little gun.
Real convenient to slide inside a boot and everything like that.
This was an inexpensive way to defend yourself, especially out in the Wild West.
You have a little bit of everything here.
Um, you know, can I make a phone call and see if I can get a buddy down here to look at this stuff? – Yeah, that’d be great.
– You wanna go give Alex a call?
– Yeah.
– So how much you want for these things?
– So I was thinking, probably about $500 each.
– So that’d be $6,500. – Yes, sir.
– Okay, um, that’s a starting point.
I mean, you got some neat stuff here.
– Okay. – Got a problem.
– What’s that? – Can’t get ahold of Alex.
[tense music] – Okay, um… [clicks tongue] I don’t want to take a chance on losing them.
I’ll tell you what.
‘Cause I’m sort of buying a pig in a poke here, I’ll give you $3,500 for all of them.
– That’s definitely lower than I was thinking.
Could you do, like, $5,500?
– Here’s the thing.
I know there’s money here, I just don’t know exactly how much.
Okay, I’ll tell you what.
Four grand is, like, the best I can do.
♪ ♪ – [sighs] Okay, I think that’ll work.
Yeah, let’s do it. – Okay, sweet.
Four grand.
Um, you wanna go write him up, Corey?
– All right, come with me. It’s gonna take a while.
[laughs] – 13 pistols?
That’d be a great name for a western.
[laughs] – You really should’ve waited for Alex to buy those.
– He’s gonna be here any second.
– You already bought ’em.
– I wanted a proper display, all right?
See? There he is right there.
– Hey, Rick. – How’s it going?
– Good, man. How are you?
– I bought a collection of .32 caliber rimfire pistols.
– [laughs] There’s a ton of them.
How much you pay?
– $4,000 for all of them.
– For all of them? – For all of them, yeah.
– Well, let me take you through them.
Here what you have is mix of Civil War pistols and cowboy pistols.
♪ ♪ So 1860s and 1870s, and so the bigger guns are all Civil War.
And they got smaller over time.
.32 rimfire is a pretty underpowered cartridge.
It wasn’t really like a man stopper.
[gunshot] The idea with the .32 rimfire is that, it was easily concealed, you could put it in a pocket, it would be quick for self-defense.
This is your saloon pistol. [laughs] – Okay. – You know what I mean?
– You’re walking around gun. – Exactly.
You could sit at a bar, and no one would know your armed.
The value’s really dependent on the manufacturer and the condition.
♪ ♪ So this is an Allen & Wheelock, and this was made probably about 1861.
What’s rare about this is the brass frame.
You can see, here’s another version of it, but it’s all steel. Much more common.
This is very very difficult to find, and it’s in really nice shape.
This is a Whitneyville.
What’s nice about this is– you see the bluing on it?
That deep blue, that’s original.
And this bird’s head grip, so you call it a bird’s head because of the shape, I’m pretty sure that’s rosewood.
So this was, like, a really high end, well-ordered gun.
♪ ♪ This guy right here, that is a Hopkins & Allen.
What’s so beautiful about this is this is all factory engraving.
So that’s a nice tight little solid gun.
♪ ♪ – Okay, what do you think they’re worth all together?
– Um, well.
I can tell you, I don’t think any are reproduction.
About half are Civil War, so Civil War guns tend to start at about $1,000 at the bottom, and then move up.
This value on this, that’s a $1,500 pistol.
– Damn.
– This one, you know, you’re– you’re close to $1,000 just on that.
– Okay. – Maybe more though.
– So he did a fairly good job, right?
– Yeah, I think 13 original .32 rimfires, $4,000 is a really good job.
Without firing any, I would imagine that you’ll double your money.
If you can fire a few, and they’re really mechanically sound, you may even triple it. – Okay.
I’d love to shoot some of ’em.
– Well, I’m gonna need a little time to just look ’em over.
Take them apart, make sure they’re safe.
– All right, well, I’m gonna go eat lunch.
Hang out here. He’s gonna inspect them.
– All right.
– All right.
– You know what you’re doing, right?
– We’ll see.
– All right, I trust you. – [laughs] – How do I know what goes where? – Pick up the tag, pick up a gun, start looking through the guns and find the right one.
– Okay, this gun is nameless.
– What are you guys doing?
– Alex gave us all these tags.
We’re trying to put them on the guns.
– Honestly, Rick, I have no idea what I’m doing.
– Why does that not surprise me?
– It’s just hard to know which tag goes on which gun because they’re so old.
I’m just more of a new gun guy.
I don’t really have a reason to shoot old guns.
– Well, you have no–really reason to shoot any gun because you can’t shoot straight.
– What do you mean?
– Listen, I’m the best shot here, buddy.
But, yes, I can help you. – Um, no, no.
We know who shoots guns better. That would be me.
– You’re blind, you’re hands are crippled, there’s no way you shoot better than me.
– Always have. – You–you can’t see.
– Why don’t you guys settle this at high noon?
♪ ♪ A little competition, maybe? A little duel?
– I don’t know about a duel. I think those are illegal.
– You don’t have to shoot each other.
It’s basically a shooting contest.
– What?
We just go to the shooting range, and I can beat him?
– I mean, if you wanna get embarrassed, feel free.
– You guys should put some money or something up on this.
Or, like, some kind of bet.
– Okay, we got cowboy guns here.
If you lose, you gotta be a cowboy and ride one of my horses that you’re deeply afraid of.
– There’s just a few things in this world I’m not into, and I’m not getting anywhere near a horse.
– Give you $1,000. – I wouldn’t do it for $1,000.
That’s a big bet, buddy. What do I get?
– He’s been denying for years and years that he wants hair.
You could put him in a wig.
– Not just a wig, a man wig.
– A man wig? – A toupée.
– We’re talking, like, not 24 hours or an 8-hour shift– or, like– – A shift in the pawn shop.
– You know what? This is gonna work out great.
Because I’m gonna win, and then I’m gonna rid my son of his fear of riding horses.
Make a reservation at the range.
– Wear your best boots, boys.
This is gonna be a serious competition.
– Yeah, um, it’s not gonna be a competition.
– You know you’re gonna lose. – No, I’m not.
– You’ve already lost because you wore that outfit, man.
– You know, you should’ve dressed for the occasion.
You really should’ve.
– Howdy, boys!
– Howdy, partner.
– You guys both look ridiculous.
– I think I might have to disqualify you just for– you’re not wearing your proper attire.
– I guess I didn’t get the memo.
– All right, well, here we are.
“Chum’s School of Cowboys.” [gunshot] You’ve got 30 seconds, three stations, and you have to hit two targets at each station.
The catch is, you only get one shot per target.
At the end of it, whoever hits the target the most times, will be the winner.
Personally, I love a good competition.
If Corey wins, Rick has to wear a man wig, and if Rick wins, Corey has to ride a horse.
Either way, it’s a win-win for me.
Let the best man win.
♪ ♪ – All right, Alex has inspected all these guns.
You guys are good to go.
– Granted, I typically shoot more modern weapons, but if he wants to challenge me, there’s no way I’m losing this bet because I’m terrified of horses.
– All right, I’m first. – You know what you’re doing?
– I know exactly what I’m doing, Chum.
– We’ll meet you at the finish line, Ricky.
♪ ♪ On your marks, get set, and go!
♪ ♪ – I think he should be moving a little faster.
– One.
Miss.
– He’s running out.
– 15 seconds left!
Ten seconds left!
Miss.
– Has he hit one yet? – Yeah, he hit one.
And time!
That’s it.
All right, you couldn’t even complete the course.
– No, the gun jammed up, it keeps– – Excuses, excuses.
And if you were in a real cowboy shoot off, it wouldn’t matter if the gun jammed.
Corey, you have to hit two targets in order to win.
– Well, this should be easy.
– You move a little bit faster than your dad, you should be able to get it all done.
♪ ♪ All right, you ready, Corey?
On your marks, get set, go!
♪ ♪ One.
Miss.
♪ ♪ – Didn’t hit those two.
– You still got 15 seconds.
♪ ♪ Miss.
You gotta get this Big Hoss.
♪ ♪ All right! Two.
– Kay, you know what– hold on, hold on.
Kay? My gun jammed.
I would’ve won. – You lost, Dad.
– What do you mean you would’ve won?
You didn’t finish in time. Congratulations, Corey.
Cowboy up, because this bald thing right here is gonna be having a wig on it soon.
– Thanks, Pops. – You cowboy up, Corey.
– I knew I was gonna get screwed on this.
Why do I even do these things?
– You look good in a cowboy hat.
You wanna meet me at the wig store before we go back to the shop?
[laughs] – Sounds good to me, man.
Let’s go.
I can’t believe he’s still wearing it.
– So how much you sell that for?
♪ ♪ – [laughs] – Hey, Edwin.
– [laughing] ♪ ♪ – I think you look good, Pops. – You know what?
I’m covering my end of the bet.
– You should think about going across the street and getting a little trim.
I mean, it’s been a long time since you got a haircut.
– Okay. [laughter] – What’s going on?
– Uh, we had a little friendly wager which they cheated on.
– Nobody cheated.
– I ended up losing the bet, so I’m not gonna welch on the bet.
I’m a man.
– Then how come you got a boy’s wig on?
– I’m gonna tell you one thing like you tell me.
You need to be presentable at work, so you need to go comb your wig.
It’s getting a little messy. [laughter] Oh, I got a brush right here you can use.
– Your opinions don’t matter at all to me.
– I mean, doesn’t it feel good to have hair on your head?
– No, it itches, and it keeps on getting in my eyes.
– Rick, it brings out the color in your eyes, though.
The blonde highlights are amazing.
– Remember, I’m your boss.
– Can you get back to work, Rick?
– I can’t take you serious.
– I am a good sport.
And no matter what, with or without wig, I’m still better looking than all of you guys, so have a great day. [laughter] – Well, with or without wig, he’s still delusional, that’s for sure. – Right.
– He looks like Ricky Bieber.
– He looks like Pinky walking backwards.
– [laughs] – Don’t talk bad about Pinky like that.
[laughter] TOM: How are you today?
Can’t complain, man, having a pretty good day.
TOM: Excellent.
COREY: So what do we got?
TOM: This is a letter signed by Napoleon himself.
COREY: That’s really cool.
Where did do you get this?
TOM: Online, I’ve been told by my wife that I had a bit of a Napoleon complex.
COREY: I can see that.
[chuckles] TOM: I don’t know what the letter says.
It’s written in French.
I don’t parlay.
I bought it from a very reputable online site.
So I’d like to get about $10,000 for it.
I think for a piece of history like this, it’s a great price.
COREY: Napoleon actually wasn’t that short, probably average height for the day.
That’s what I tell people.
I’m average height.
COREY: This is really cool.
I mean, Napoleon is probably one of the biggest badasses in the past 1,000 years.
He was a benevolent dictator.
He loved French people.
He wanted to expand their empire.
And this guy pretty much conquered Europe.
When they decided that maybe he was a little too strong and they exiled him, the French army decided to go ahead and defect from France and go pick him up and bring him back to France, and he conquered it again.
There’s very few people in the world that can say that they conquered most of Europe twice.
TOM: Right.
COREY: In the early 1800s, Napoleon was on top of the world.
There was a period for over a decade where he was pretty much unstoppable.
But then his luck started to run out.
I mean, he got his ass kicked at Waterloo.
You have any idea what it says?
TOM: No, I speak very little French.
COREY: I guess it’d be, kind of, weird if Napoleon wrote it in English, right?
TOM: Yeah.
Down here it says Napoleon Bonaparte, “My whole plan of campaign is a battle, my whole policy is a victory.” So it’s probably saying something to the effect of that.
It’s got the seal right there.
This is the type of seal they used back then.
So it does look great for the period.
And you’ve got a COA here.
TOM: Mm-hmm.
COREY: OK, it seems like it’s from a pretty legit company.
What do you want for it?
And don’t be crazy, man.
I mean, I gotta make money here too.
OK, well you know I’m going to say like $10,000.
$10,000 is just way too much.
You’re going to have to come down quite a bit, man.
I’m thinking more along the lines of $1,500.
Oh, that sounds low.
That sounds really low.
COREY: Remember, this guy was the emperor of pretty much Europe, which would mean he probably signed a lot of stuff in his life.
TOM: How about $5,000?
You’re going to have to come a lot lower than that, man.
I can’t pay you $5,000.
I’m going to have to get this reframed.
It’s going to be work involved.
TOM: How about $4,000?
I’ll give you $2,000 for it, man.
That’s the best I can do.
You know what, I didn’t pay that much for it.
So let’s do it?
COREY: $2,000?
– $2,000. – All right, sweet, man.
I’ll meet you right over there.
Thank you.
I was a little disappointed that he laughed when I said $10,000.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime piece of history.
I’m going to treat myself to a brand new set of golf clubs.
COREY: Check it out, original Napoleon document with a certificate of authenticity.
CHUMLEE: Is that Napoleon?
COREY: Yap.
That’s freaking sweet.
And a seal.
I mean, you just don’t see that.
You just bought it?
Yeah.
What did you pay for it, Corey?
COREY: $2,000.
Me winning that money today really starting to work out for me.
Hey, man, it’s your lucky day.
RICK: You had it checked out by anybody?
COREY: No, it looked right to me.
RICK: A signed letter by Napoleon with his official seal would be an amazing find for the shop.
We’re talking $12,000 easy.
But if you’re going to ask that kind of money, you’re going to have to be positive it’s legit.
I’m not going to sell something like this to someone for $12,000 and not know for sure it’s real.
Why don’t you go down and see Greg at UNLV.
See what he has to say.
I mean, it’s got to COA guys.
Isn’t that big of a deal?
We’ve seen funny COAs before son.
[sighs] Fine.
This is typical.
They’re just going after me because I’m on crutches like lions going after easy prey.
Now I’ve got to go drive across town just to shut them up.
THE OLD MAN: Napoleon might have been short, but at least he weren’t a damn idiot.
I wish I could say the same for Corey.
This is it man.
It’s supposed to be an original document signed by Napoleon.
Well, let’s take a look at what we’ve got.
GREGORY BROWN: I’m a professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
And I specialize in the European enlightenment and the French Revolution.
It’s dated the 12th of Frimaire, the year 14.
And that’s a very important date in the history of Napoleon.
That’s the day of the Battle of Austerlitz.
Napoleon and this Grand Army of France were fighting against Austria or the Hotspur Empire.
This was a really bloody battle, about 150,000 troops all told on both sides involved.
But in fact, it was a major victory for the French army.
The Battle of Austerlitz is really one of the best known battles of this period, because Napoleon took his troops and positioned them in diagonal arrow-shaped arrangements and used them to attack.
And this is got a strategy of mobility.
This was really a revolution in warfare.
As I look at this, it looks a lot like part of the proclamation he made to his soldiers after having won.
COREY: OK.
GREGORY BROWN: So what he says here is, “Soldiers, we’ve done everything necessary to assure the happiness and the prosperity of our country.
Then I will take you back to France.
There you will be the objective of all of my attention.” He’s the emperor.
He’s the head of a whole government.
He can give them anything they want.
“That all you’ll have to do is say I was at the Battle of Austerlitz, this great battle we’ve won today.
And people will respond to you [speaking french]..
There goes a brave man.” There were a number of copies that were probably made on the battlefield, because Napoleon dictated it to his secretaries.
And they would have written it down in manuscript.
And he would have sent these all over Europe to try and explain to people what had happened.
So if you’ve got one of the original copies that would’ve been written out on the battlefield, that would be priceless.
The thing is this is not one of those original manuscript copies.
No.
GREGORY BROWN: What we consider to be the original, which looks exactly like this, that’s in the military museum just outside of Paris.
So what we’ve got here is very clearly a replica of a very important document.
[groans] OK, how can you tell?
Well, a handwritten ink document from this period, we would see evidence that somebody had written this out with a pen.
We would see where there are blobs of ink.
And we’d see that the ink would have faded in color.
[exhale] I can’t say that this is worth very much as a historical artifact.
Now, there goes $2,000 down the drain.
I appreciate it though.
I really had to stop myself from just throwing the Napoleon thing out the window.
RICK: Corey what are you doing?
[sighs] I’m trying to find a place to put this so I can sell it for $20.
I just found out a Napoleon letter I bought for $2,000 is completely fake.
This is not one of those original manuscript copies.
On top of that I hurt my foot.
Needless to say this is becoming a very lousy day.
Why are you trying to sell it for $20?
COREY: Because it’s about all it’s worth.
The COA fooled me.
It’s fake.
RICK: You paid $2,000 for it.
THE OLD MAN: That’s a big loss, Corey.
COREY: Yeah, it is.
RICK: Yeah, well you’re not putting it on the wall and selling it for $20.
We don’t sell fake stuff here.
Sometimes Corey’s ego gets the best of him.
But it’s a lesson he’s going to have to learn.
Take the blow and move on.
And while you’re at it, give me my $2,000 back.
Corey, why don’t you take it home and remind yourself not to be so damn stupid.
[sighs] Fine.
[thud] THE OLD MAN: Dumb kids.
– Hey, how’s it going? – Pretty good.
– What have we got here?
– Well, my wife told me to come down and make you an offer you couldn’t refuse.
This is Marlon Brando’s personally owned 1950s biker leather coat.
– This was not a movie-worn jacket?
– No, it’s a personally owned.
– God, I so wish it was a jacket he wore in “On The Waterfront” or, uh– – “Wild Ones?” – Or–Or “The Godfather.” – Yeah.
– Yeah, yeah.
“One day I’m gonna ask you a favor.” [both laughing] [booming] – I’ve come to the pawn shop to sell my 1950s motorcycle jacket that was owned by Marlon Brando. This jacket comes from the Joe Franklin memorabilia collection and was auctioned off a couple years back. I just couldn’t refuse it. – Pretty cool. All right.
Um, well, it’s Brando.
Marlon Brando really was that amazing actor.
I mean, he was basically the original actor doing, like, method acting.
If he was gonna do a part, he tried to live it for a month before he actually started filming.
You know, I–I guess his, like, super breakout hit was probably “A Streetcar Named Desire” because, um, they cast him for that because he was in the play.
And I think today most people know him as “The Godfather.” Because you really couldn’t have had anybody– I can’t even imagine that movie with anyone else playing him.
So, where’d you get it? – I bought it off a guy who bought it from an auction.
– So, what, you don’t have any pictures from the auction?
– I do not.
The auctions only has pictures of the coat.
And all I have was this letter of authenticity.
– Okay. So…
♪ “By my signature I hereby certify the aforementioned “item of memorabilia is the original, authentic, “and gifted personally to me to my Memory Lane collection by the timeless personality Marlon Brando.” All right, sweet.
And from the looks of it, this has actual wear not like today where they purposely make something beat up.
[laughs] – Distressed.
– Um, how much are you looking to get out of this?
– I’m looking to get $15,000 for it.
– [sighs] Okay, 15 grand.
Um, I’ll give you eight grand.
– I know you need to make money yourself.
I get that. Uh, ten grand?
– [sighs] – That’s knocking down 5,000 from my asking.
– I’ll give you eight grand.
– [scoffs] – It’s fair price.
You know, it sold just a couple years ago for 11.
I figure that’s probably what I’ll get out of it if I put it at auction.
– Come up a little bit more?
– 8,500.
[suspenseful music] ♪ – We can make that work. – All right, sweet.
Um, I will meet you right over there and we’ll do some paperwork. – Sounds good.
I didn’t get the $15,000 I was asking for but his offer of 8,500 was fair and now I’ll be able to give my daughter some money for a down payment on her house.
– Hey, how’s it going? – Good, how you doing today?
– Doing great. What have we got here?
– Well, I’ve got something for you.
It’s Raymond Duncan’s scarf.
– Raymond Duncan…
the world’s most arrogant man.
[both laugh] I mean, he literally gave an interview once– I think it was “The New Yorker” Magazine– where he said, “I am the most interesting man living today, “and if I’m not the best artist, I definitely paint the largest pictures.” [both laugh] – I’m at the pawn shop today to sell my Raymond Duncan scarf. I’ve had this scarf for about two years. I like unique textiles. The artist is fairly rare, not well-known, but he does have things that are in museums. The textile itself is interesting, in that it’s hand-painted, and it’s a item that I think would be very collectible for certain people. I’d like to get $1,500 for the Raymond Duncan scarf.
– This is pretty cool, man.
Do you know much about Raymond Duncan?
– A little bit.
He did a lot of work that was done with the Greek influence ’cause he liked body motion and the way bodies looked.
– That’s correct, and part of that was because he was influenced heavily by his sister, who was one of the most famous dancers of the time– Isadora Duncan. She was known for freedom of her movements, which was influenced by Greek culture. – Oh, wow.
– They were in business together.
They were very, very close, and she was killed by a scarf.
– By a scarf?
– She had, you know, a big long flowing scarf, sitting in a Bugatti, and the scarf flew back, got in the wheel, and, I’m assuming, took her head off.
– Holy mackerel.
– So he’s had a very interesting life.
He was also a painter, a sculptor.
He did all sorts of different things, but only stayed famous for this.
He experimented with natural dyes, unbleached fabrics, textiles, and he did woodblock prints.
This was literally a plate of wood that everything was carved into. – Mm-hmm.
– That’s where the black lines would come from, so, I mean, I’m thinking this is probably 1915 to 1920 and not in the greatest of shape.
– Correct. – See how this border is right here. – Right.
– That would have been all the way around, so someone has trimmed this down and done something weird with it.
– Yeah. – So how much you want for it?
– I’m looking to get $1,500 for it.
– I wouldn’t go 1,500 bucks.
It’s in too rough of shape, and it’s a small one.
– Okay. – I’ll give you 500 bucks.
– Mm.
– Mind you, it’s Raymond Duncan.
Not one out of 100 people in this country know who he is.
It’s a very, very limited market.
– How about 800?
– I’ll go 600 bucks, and if I do put it in an auction, I have no idea what I’m gonna get or when I’m gonna sell it. – Right.
– People are gonna complain about the size and the quality.
– You won’t go any higher? – No.
– Okay.
– We got a deal? – We got a deal.
– All right, sweet. I’ll meet you right over there, do some paperwork, and I’ll get you paid.
– Thank you. All right. – All right, cool.
– I’m really happy about the sale of my Raymond Duncan scarf. We only paid $2 for it, and we got 600, so a very good return on our investment.
Hey. So exactly what is this?
We know it’s Spider-Man, but…
– It’s a life-size limited edition from Blockbuster.
– Okay, um…
Well, I thought my Spidey sense was tingling a little bit.
[both laughing] – I’m here at the pawn shop today to sell my limited edition life-size Spider-Man. This was a display used in Blockbuster stores. I picked it up a few years back. I love the fact that it’s life-size. It’s about 5 1/2 feet tall And it’s actually a pretty good replica. I was looking to get, like, 1,500 for it. I’ve seen a few of them selling for that price.
– I think it’s super cool.
This was the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man.
It was the first movie that did over 100 million in its opening weekend.
It just turned into a massive franchise.
♪ Do you know where it originated or anything like that?
– I guess they came out of Blockbuster.
– Okay.
I mean, yeah, they would put this inside a Blockbuster, it’s a promotional item, you know, you’d have little kids come in there, you know, they’d see this, you know, “Let’s rent Spider-Man.
Let’s rent Spider-Man.” And then…
they probably sold them, or you know, they gave ’em away in contests and stuff like that.
But we all know what eventually ended up happening to Blockbuster.
– Yeah.
– In 2000, the CEO of Blockbuster turned down buying Netflix for $50 million.
And 20 years later, Blockbuster is bankrupt, and Netflix is worth $140 billion.
– That was a poor decision.
[both laugh] And it’s in relatively decent shape for being almost 20 years old.
This rubbery stuff, you can tell that it’s getting old.
– Yeah, it’s been around for a while.
– And you said it was a limited edition?
– Yes, yeah, number 2,780 out of, I think, 4,600.
– Okay, I love it when they say 4,600 is a limited edition.
[both laughing] Now, how much you want for this thing?
– I was thinking about 1,500.
– I bet you would.
[both laugh] Okay.
I’ll give you 500 bucks for it.
– 500.
– It’s cool and everything like that, but it’s not that limited edition, okay?
There’s probably a lot of them out there.
There’s a little bit of damage.
– Come on, work with me, just– – [laughs] – Maybe 600 bucks?
– 550. – Um…
– 575? – 550.
♪ – All right, I’ll do it. – All right, sweet.
So just cruise right over there to the pawn counter, we’ll do some paperwork, I’ll get you paid. – All right, thank you.
– Okay.
Yep. I’m just your friendly neighborhood pawn broker.