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- On tonight's episode, I might as well jump

at a deal for these famous rock and roll sneakers.

Do you recognize these?

- The greatest guitarist of all time, Eddie Van Halen.

- [imitates ethereal choir] - [imitates ethereal choir]

- Yeah, but there's no real proof that he wore them.

Then Chum sees if he can swish a deal

on a Magic Johnson rookie card.

- You have a 1980s Topps basketball wax pack,

and I can see Magic Johnson right there

through the wax pack.

- It scares me because that's where

a wax stain is gonna happen,

and, unfortunately, we wouldn't know

until we opened it up for sure whether it was stained or not.

- And later, Corey is off to the races

when he takes a look at a vintage mint julep cup.

- Somebody told me that these were rare when I noticed

the presidential initials.

[upbeat rock music]

♪

- OK, I'm interested. What do we got here?

- Worn and signed Converse, Eddie Van Halen.

♪

- You're saying that Eddie Van Halen,

the man, wore these. - Mm-hmm.

- That's pretty amazing.

♪

In 1979, I had tickets to Black Sabbath...

- Awesome. - And the warm-up band was...

- How awesome.

- But then I ended up getting grounded,

and I couldn't go to the concert.

- Oh, that's not good.

- Literally ruined my childhood.

- [laughs]

I'm here at the pawn shop to sell Eddie Van Halen's

worn and signed Converse.

I'm a big fan of Van Halen,

but Eddie Van Halen was my favorite.

I believe they're his because I've done lots of research

over the years.

I've looked at the signatures.

I looked up his shoe size.

But I just never had them authenticated.

My asking price for Eddie Van Halen's

signed and worn Converse is 10,000.

♪

- I mean, I'm kind of in awe.

Eddie Van Halen, guitarist for the band Van Halen.

Just, like, mega rock stars of the '80s.

You know, I was around in the '80s.

I mean, who can forget the "Hot for Teacher" video?

- The '80s were great.

The '80s were great.

- I mean, I so miss the '80s. - Yes.

- His signature guitar was nicknamed the Frankenstrat.

It was a Fender Stratocaster,

and it had this paint job on it,

and that's the guitar he played always.

If you have one of his Frankenstrats

that he played onstage or something like that,

you're kind of rich. - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They're beautiful. I mean, yeah.

- Those are the Franken-shoes? - [laughs]

- I'm absolutely in love with them.

- Are you?

- This is my youth right here, OK?

♪

All right, so where did you get these?

- It was a business transaction with a friend many years ago.

- And you believe these are actually Eddie's?

- I do.

- I mean, someone definitely wore these.

- Yes.

- But we-- we don't know for sure

if this was worn by him.

Have you ever had this signature checked out?

- No, and I-- I have thought about it,

but I have just gone online,

and I've looked at the many signatures.

- You know, but the shoes, I mean, they're super cool.

I mean, if we could prove he wore them.

That's the whole problem. - I know.

- How much do you want for these.

- $10,000. - OK.

First, I need someone to take a look at the signature.

So let me call in Steve.

He's old like me, so he's probably

gonna be excited too. - You're not old.

- Be right back. - OK.

♪

- How you doing? - Great.

How are you? - Pretty good.

What do you have here?

- This is one of the most beloved and important packs

of basketball cards in all of history.

- A Long/Johnson/Boone pack.

So I'm guessing this has Magic Johnson on the back?

- Yes, one of the beloved Magic Johnson rookie cards

is on the back.

- Too bad it's not the Bird/Johnson/Erving card.

- That's correct, but it could be in the pack,

and that card, graded as a PSA 10,

worth half a million dollars.

- If you thought there was a 10 in here,

a possibility you would have cracked this thing open

and pulled it out. - Maybe I'm not--

maybe I'm not in the gambling mood right now.

I'm here to sell a 1980 Topps basketball pack

with Magic Johnson's rookie card on the back.

The big factor of this pack is the fact that

the Magic Johnson rookie's featured on the back,

and there is potential for the Magic Johnson,

Larry Bird, Julius Erving card to be inside the pack.

I won this card at auction approximately three years ago

as I started building a collection

of sealed and authenticated wax packs.

I've decided to sell this pack because, quite frankly,

I've just got too many, and I'm looking

to maybe narrow down my collection

and focus on another part.

- This is really cool.

You have a 1980s Topps basketball wax pack.

Cool thing about this is it's graded,

so I do know that it's authentic.

I have no questions about that.

These cards were really cool because basically

one card had three built-in mini cards into it.

They were perforated and you just

kind of had to rip them apart.

But some people didn't rip them apart,

and those were the smart people in time.

If my brain serves me correctly,

this pack would have came with eight cards.

And we actually know what one of the cards is

because it says right here "Long/Johnson/Boone."

And it says "back," so I'm guessing

I can see it through the back.

And that's right.

I can see the Magic Johnson right there.

I mean, I can kind of see a little bit

of the other cards, but we can confirm one card

out of the eight that are in here.

Now there are other cards in this set that could be

very valuable, and they could also be in here,

but that's unconfirmable.

I mean, the other valuable card that you would really want

out of this pack would be the other Magic Johnson rookie.

It also has the Larry Bird rookie attached to it

and then the Erving card on it as well.

So what are you looking to do with this slab today?

- I'm looking to sell it.

- And do you have a price in mind?

- Yeah, I'm pretty firm right at $2,000

based on current market conditions

and the general rarity of that pack.

- OK, as far as price goes,

I really would like to have someone come in

and take a look at it because I don't really know

the graded sports market as well as I should.

So do you have a few minutes

to hang out while I get someone down?

- Yeah, that sounds great to me.

- All right. Give me just a few minutes.

I'll have someone come down and take a look at it,

and then we'll go from there. - Sounds like a plan.

♪

- I have a customer in the shop with a pair of custom-made

Converse high-tops that she says was owned

and signed by Eddie Van Halen.

She's asking for $10,000.

Steve Grad is gonna check out the signatures,

and if they're real, this could be a deal

that makes me dance the night away.

Steve. - What's happening?

How are you? Good to see you.

- Pretty good. - Good to see you.

Hi, how are you. - I'm good. How are you?

- Good. Nice to see you. - Nice to meet you.

- All right. So do you recognize these?

- Well, yeah, I mean, the greatest guitarist

of all time, Eddie Van Halen, correct?

- [imitates ethereal choir] - [imitates ethereal choir]

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Childhood relived right here, everything.

Like, look at these.

I mean, I'm really hoping they're real,

but, you know, there's no real proof

that they belonged to him and he wore them.

- Well, let's take a look at the signature first.

I mean, obviously, that's your big concern because

if you have the signature that's authentic,

you start to tie things together.

- Do your magic.

- I'm gonna just get some magnification on this.

Now, I met Eddie many times.

And if I look at a couple more of my examples

that I have on file, the same thing, Rick,

right in here, he's doing it here.

Now look at this.

Do you cross your sevens when you're writing?

- No.

- A lot of people don't do that.

Very distinct, crossed.

Crossed.

I've got to tell you, this is a museum-quality piece

for sure.

Perfect signatures on both of them.

So you're looking at a piece of music history here.

Everything matches out pretty good.

- OK, all right, what do you think they're worth?

- Since Eddie Van Halen passed away in 2020,

I've seen his value skyrocket, usually guitars.

Now you're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Conservatively, based on what I see here,

you're looking at $30,000.

You know, Rick, with that said,

take these to a professional photo matching service,

these could even go for more.

I could see these going up to 50.

The photo match is the most important thing...

- OK. - So...

- All right. Thanks, man.

- Good to see you. Good luck.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

Thank you. - Yep.

- All right, you got something special here, OK?

But they're not photo matched yet.

How many photos are there of him in these shoes,

I don't know. - Yes. Got it.

- So I would give you the 10 grand for them.

- Are you willing to go a little higher?

Are you stuck on--

- I'll go $10,500 and not no more.

I don't know if he wore them.

It is a gamble. - I'll take it.

- OK, we got a deal.

I will meet you right over at the counter.

I'll get you paid. - OK. Thank you.

♪

- A guy came into the shop with a graded seven

1980 Topps wax pack with the Magic Johnson rookie card.

He's looking to get $2,000, but I don't know

how desirable this is right now.

So I've asked Andy Broome to come take a look

and let me know if I should take a shot on this or not.

Hey. - Hey, Chum.

- How are you doing? - Good.

How are you doing? - Pretty good.

- Hey, good to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- So this guy has one of the coolest wax packs you can have.

I think the only one cooler would actually have

Larry Bird with Magic Johnson on it.

- Very nice. 1980 Topps basketball.

So very famous, or infamous set,

known for having one of the greatest

basketball cards in the hobby.

It was the first time Topps used

such a design where they perforated

three separate cards onto one.

And so naturally, kids rip these packs

and they pulled them apart.

- Well, this is the Long/Johnson/Boone version,

and if you want to check it out,

you can see it right there on the back,

Magic Johnson dead in the center.

- Oh, yeah.

And as we see here, this is where the pack is actually

put together, the wax paper.

And so that seam is right over the top

of the Magic Johnson card.

And so what we know from that is the wax would seep in.

Maybe it had too much, maybe too much heat,

it'd actually go onto the cards and soak in.

And, unfortunately, we wouldn't know

until we opened it up for sure whether it was stained or not.

- So all in all, what do you think about this?

- So this pack here with the Magic Johnson on the back,

the value on this would be $800.

- You got any questions at all?

- It seems a little low due to the rarity

of the pack and the general fact

that Magic is on the back.

I mean, the market at auction seems to be a little bit more

volatile, volatile upwards.

So I'm kind of surprised by that valuation.

- Yeah, you know, in any auction,

it just takes two people to fight each other

and drive a price up.

You know, we see that, especially in cards.

- All right, well, I appreciate you coming out.

- Absolutely. - Thank you.

- Good luck. - Thank you.

- You bet. - All right.

I know you're a pretty firm on what you were saying,

but I do got to go with Andy there.

- Well, I appreciate the consideration.

You know, I do have a big collection

of these sealed and slabbed wax packs,

and I'm just starting to think about breaking it up.

So maybe this isn't the one that I start

breaking up the collection and I keep it intact

for a little bit longer until maybe

the market bounces back up.

- So no deal, but really cool to see this.

Thank you. - Appreciate your time.

- Have a good day.

[upbeat blues rock music]

♪

- OK.

I'm assuming this is yours. - It is.

- What do we got here?

- This is a bust of Dr. Carl Gorman.

The piece is entitled "Code Talker,"

by his son, RC Gorman.

- RC Gorman, who was eventually called the Picasso

of Native American art.

His dad was actually one

of the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II.

I'm kind of impressed.

♪

- I came to the pawn shop today to try

and sell my bronze bust by artist RC Gorman.

The bust has the artist's name in it

and is inscribed with 1978, the year that it was made.

And it also shows markings that it's number three of ten.

I'm hoping to get $50,000 for this sculpture.

Although I love it, I need the money

to restore a classic car that I'm working on.

- It's super cool.

During World War II, they were trying to come up with

a code that the Japanese couldn't break.

The army came up with the brilliant idea

of getting an unbreakable code,

which was Native American languages on the battlefield.

The syntax of Native American languages

are very different than the English language

or the Japanese language.

The Native Americans that were on the battlefield

doing the code, they were very famous

and the Japanese couldn't decode it.

They had no idea what they were talking about.

So what do you know about this?

- RC Gorman, I'm sure you've heard the name,

preeminent southwestern artist.

I got it at an estate sale.

I go around to them.

I know just enough to be dangerous, so...

- [laughs] OK.

- So I went and grabbed it.

- I don't know if he's the most famous Native American artist,

but he's up there. It's in beautiful shape.

It's not been dropped.

It's not-- you know, and these things are heavy.

I like it.

It's an RC Gorman, and it's RC Gorman's dad,

and it's incredible.

I mean, it is beautiful, and it is American history.

I love that part.

Now the big question, how much do you want for it?

- Given the artist's clout, I was hoping

to get around $50,000 for it.

- Most people don't realize this,

art doesn't go up in value forever.

Some art goes up, some art goes down.

This stuff went for really good money back in the day.

These are going for right around $5,000 at auction.

♪

But I would give you $2,500 for it.

- That's quite a difference.

Can we go up to five Gs?

- I can go 2,700 bucks. I can't go no more.

- [sighs]

Well, at that price,

I think I'm just gonna continue

to let it look great in my home.

- If you change your mind, let me know.

- I will.

♪

- Hey, how's it going? - Good.

How are you today? - I'm doing well.

What have we got here? - Just fine.

I have sterling silver mint julep cups.

- Minus the mint julep.

- [laughs]

♪

- I'm here to sell two sterling silver

mint julep cups.

They're from a horse race in 1995.

These cups belonged to my father-in-law.

The cups may have been gifted to my father-in-law

from the trainers.

My asking price for my mint julep cups is $2,500.

If I'm able to sell my cups, I'll be putting the money

in my savings account.

- Definitely a pretty cool item.

Every state has their thing.

Kentucky, it's the mint julep.

It's so popular there.

I mean, I think it's the official drink of the state.

Are these for a horse race, or?

- Yes, they were from a 1995 horse race,

and the horse was Anchor.

- Mint juleps have been synonymous

with horse racing since the 1820s.

And I believe that they actually

used to give out the cups as the trophies back then.

I guess it kind of makes sense.

I mean, it's a fancy drink, it's cold,

it's got the crushed ice, the mint.

It's refreshing on a hot day.

Do you mind if I take a look at them?

- Please look at them. - OK.

Yeah, they're definitely sterling.

Oak Tree Racing Association.

So these are made by Mark J. Scearce.

Scearce is the name of the company.

Shelbyville, Kentucky, obviously.

Definitely a cool gift to give somebody.

You just kind of came across these from your father-in-law?

- I was cleaning out a closet, and I was gonna take them

to work and auction them off.

And then somebody told me that these were rare

when I noticed the presidential initials.

- George Herbert Walker Bush.

- Yes.

- OK, so that's how they date them.

Instead of putting a year, they put the president

that was in office, his initials.

It goes all the way back to FDR.

But I mean, this is kind of weird.

On the bottom, you know, we have George HW Bush,

but then we have this here that's engraved in 1995,

where Bush wasn't president.

So in some way, shape or form, there were some extra cups

laying around that weren't engraved,

and then they got engraved.

You would assume that they would have

a whole mass pile of cups

that they had printed up already.

I don't know, but they are Scearce cups.

What are you trying to get for them?

- Well, I was thinking $2,500.

- I think they're really cool.

But, I mean, in a state where we don't have any horse racing

and I don't think I've ever seen anybody order a mint julep

here, I'd give you about $800.

- What about $900? - Will you do $850?

- Sold. - Sold.

OK, we got a deal? - You got a deal.

- Why don't you meet me right over there?

- All right.

♪

- A guy contacted me about an antique revolver

he's willing to sell.

He said he's up for test firing it,

if possible.

So Chum and I are taking a trip out to the range,

and hopefully we'll have a shot at a deal today.

How's it going? - Not bad.

How about you guys? - Good.

So you're the man with a gun.

- Yeah. - So what exactly is this?

- I believe it's an 1840s Colt Paterson revolver.

- Well, it looks like a Colt Paterson.

It's the first practical, reliable,

"most likely will not blow up in your hand" revolver.

[laughs]

- I reached out to the pawn shop to try to sell

a 1840s Colt Paterson revolver.

I've been collecting for quite a while

and I've never owned one of these or seen one in hand,

so I was pretty surprised when I found it

in this collection of guns that I recently bought.

I'm asking for $4,500.

If we can make a deal today,

I'm gonna put that right back into buying

some more guns and military antiques

for my own collection.

- I'm kind of impressed.

In 1831-ish, Colt comes out with a Colt Paterson.

It was the most high tech,

mass produced firearm of its day.

Everybody wanted one.

Everything about this design was pretty impressive.

I mean, right after this gun came out,

you know, the saying came out that, you know,

God made all men and Sam Colt made all men equal.

[laughing]

- Well, Rick, before you get ahead of yourself,

this gun is missing a trigger.

- No, it's there. - Where?

[trigger clicks]

- Oh. Oh, it comes down like-- is that-- oh.

- That way, you could put it in your belt, or your holster

or something, and it wouldn't get caught

on anything because, you know,

other guns had trigger guards.

But this was a fancy little thing

where you didn't have to have a trigger guard.

- OK, that's pretty cool.

Is there any markings on it, Rick?

- I've seen a few.

One of them's faded.

- It's not Colt markings.

This almost looks like it's French or something here.

You can't see the whole words on it, but it's like "weest"

at the end. [laughs]

It looks just like a Colt Paterson,

but it doesn't say Colt on it where it's supposed to.

- I know it has the profile of a Paterson.

It has that high-end engraving on it, the hidden trigger.

It could be a foreign copy, I guess.

- I just don't know.

I mean-- I mean, I don't know if he made some

of these, shipped them overseas,

they put different stamps on them.

How much do you want for it?

- I'd like to get around 4,500.

- OK.

If it's a Colt Paterson, that's probably a good price.

Let me call somebody, get him down here,

and they can look at it.

Maybe they'll know who made it, and then maybe we can fire it.

[laughs]

[upbeat rock music]

♪

[bell dings]

♪

- How's it going?

- Good. I have a couple of LEGO minifigures

I think you might be interested in.

- OK. Yoda and Spider-Man.

You know, the minifigures are hot right now.

It's kind of weird.

Now they're tied in with Disney, Marvel.

You know, they started off as just little guys

that you could put in a car

you built with the LEGOs, right?

- Yep. [laughs]

I have two very exclusive LEGO minifigures.

One is Spider-Man from Comic-Con

and the other one is Yoda with "New York, I love" t-shirt,

because it's Yoda speak, so it's really clever.

These minifigures are probably some of the most highly sought

after in the world, just because there's

very few of them that were given out,

and they were at very specific events.

For the Spider-Man, I'm looking for $12,000,

and for the Yoda, I'm looking for $14,000.

- Definitely really cool.

LEGO was actually kind of in trouble in the '90s,

wasn't it? - Yeah.

In, like, the early 2000s, you know, they were--

they were having a rough time. - Absolutely.

They've got a whole new brand with the little minifigures

and just about the license

for almost everything kids like,

television, movies, toys, theme parks.

I mean, LEGO's almost a new Disney.

[laughs]

I mean, they just made these things

just massively collectible.

Let's start with Spider-Man here.

- So this was exclusive minifigure,

LEGO Comic-Con 2013.

It's the only time Andrew Garfield

was in minifigure form until the recent movie

that just came out. - Tell me about Yoda.

Where'd you get him?

- So I was at the event where they unveiled a life-size

X-wing fighter built out of bricks

in the middle of Times Square.

And this was a free gift with a purchase at Toys "R" Us.

Knew it was in really good condition,

so I sent it out and got the grading of 100%

And as far as I know, it's the only one

that's hit 100%.

- Give me an idea of what you're looking to get for them.

- For the Spider-Man, I'm looking for $12,000.

- OK.

- And for the Yoda, no one's ever seen one of these,

and I'm looking for $14,000 for this one.

- $26,000 for LEGO figures? - Yep.

- You know what the crazy thing is,

is they might be worth that.

I have no idea.

Do you mind if I have a LEGO expert come down

and take a look at them? - That's fine.

- I'm gonna go give them a call.

I'll be back, OK? - OK. Thanks.

♪

- Chum and I are out at the range

looking at an old revolver

that looks like a Colt Paterson.

The seller is asking for $4,500, and I have

a lot of questions for Alex.

So let's see if he thinks this is a sure shot.

- Hi. - All right, so...

- So Rick is stumped.

I'm just gonna come out and say it.

- Stumped? - Yeah.

- I'm Alex. - Jeremy.

- Nice to meet you, Jeremy. - You too.

- OK, it looks like a Colt Paterson,

but it has some foreign looking words on it

that are pretty worn down. - OK.

I mean, it does look like it wants to be a Colt Paterson.

♪

The Paterson is super important

in firearms design because it is

the first revolving cylinder.

So you can pull the hammer back,

the trigger falls down, and the cylinder rotates.

Fire it, and again.

So that was patented in 1836 by Colt for the Paterson.

From there on, pistols and the idea of a revolver

changed firearms forever.

Oh, look at all the engraving.

- Can you make that out on there?

- I mean, that-- I can see the end of it.

So this is a pretty well known Belgian manufacturer

called Lhoist, and underneath,

that is the end of the word brevet.

So brevet in French means patent.

So the Belgian gunmakers in Liège were prolific.

They were copying firearms made from all over the world,

and they did it legally and illegally,

meaning they honored patents when it was convenient

and possible, or they just made them anyway.

- All right.

- Colt went to Belgium and made an agreement

with most of the manufacturers there

that he would allow them to use his designs

if they paid him for it,

but they had them mark their pistols as Colt Brevetes.

This particular example is marked "brevete,"

but it is not marked "Colt."

Certainly, it's an attempt at a copy of a Paterson.

There are some differences, but that's what the design's

being borrowed from. - OK.

So does it work?

- It should.

It's a super high-quality build

and you can just feel what-- the way in which it's indexing.

The hammer is very strong.

All the chambers look pretty clear.

It doesn't look like it's been used much at all.

- Can you look at it, make sure

it'll shoot and everything. We'll try it out.

- Are you OK with that? - I would love that.

- It's-- it's very simple to fire.

It's just percussion caps and black powder.

- OK. Do your magic.

- All right. I'll go get my stuff.

- All right, Alex.

I'll get some good targets for you.

- All right. Thank you.

♪

[upbeat country music]

- Chum and I are looking at what appears to be

a copy of a Colt Paterson revolver

made by a Belgian gun maker.

The seller is looking to get $4,500

and is willing to test fire it.

I can't wait to see what Chum came up with for targets.

[laughs]

Are we good to go?

- We are good to go.

I've got the right sized projectiles,

percussion caps, and I'm gonna load it with the cylinder off

and then put it back together.

And Chum got some special targets.

♪

- Are those waffles?

- Your eyes are not deceiving you, Rick.

- Why waffles?

- Belgium, waffles, guns. - Where'd you--

- I'm sorry, I couldn't get enough chocolate in time.

- Those are really big looking waffles.

- Well, if we don't hit them, you can eat them.

- [chuckles] All right, load her up.

- OK.

♪

- All right, I'm backing up.

- Everybody put your ears in.

- Remember, if you don't hit it,

it's not a bad thing this time. - [chuckles]

- Three, two, one.

[gunshot] - Yeah!

- Whoa! - [laughs]

- Well, there goes lunch. - Whoa.

Look at this. - All right.

Well, it fires well. - Yeah.

- How was the waffle?

- It was actually a little crispy,

but it's pretty good. - Well, how was the gun?

- Excellent. The gun worked great.

[gunshot]

[explosion]

- All right--

- Rick's just dying to find out how much this thing's worth.

- So how much is it worth?

- So it's a really nice firearm.

If you have an original Colt Paterson today,

it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But it's not a Colt Paterson.

But because it's a Belgian copy,

I think it's worth about $3,000.

- OK.

- OK, so you think this would retail for like $3,000?

- Yeah, retail for $3,000. - OK. Thanks, man.

Appreciate it. - All right. You're welcome.

Good luck. Nice to meet you.

- Thank you. - OK, so...

- I'm asking $4,500.

- Well, that's not gonna happen.

I mean, I think it's super, super cool

because I'm not gonna get myself a real Colt Paterson.

I think $2,000 is fair.

- There's no way--

no way I can go that low on it.

It's 180 years old.

The beautiful engraving, it's in great condition.

- But it's not a Colt. That's just it.

I'd give you 2,000.

- I could come down a couple hundred.

4,200. - Not gonna happen.

- OK.

- But if you change your mind, shop it around,

my offer's 2,000. - I understand.

- All right. Thanks for bringing it.

- Thank you.

- How much you spend on the waffles?

- You don't want to know.

- [laughs]

♪

- A customer brought in two exclusive LEGO minifigs.

One is a Times Square Toys "R" Us,

"New York, I love" Yoda,

and the other is a 2013 San Diego

Comic-Con exclusive Spider-Man.

The seller's looking to get $26,000 for these two figures.

So I called my LEGO expert, Brandon,

to come down and take a look at these

and see if we could put together a deal.

- Hey, Corey. How's it going?

Good to see you again. Hi, I'm Brandon.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- These are the LEGO figures I was telling you about.

- Oh, wow.

These are some exceptional figures.

LEGO created the minifigure in 1978.

They pretty much kept it in house

till the late '90s when they acquired the Star Wars license.

Minifigs became super collectible.

They look great, and people just love them.

They have a sense of nostalgia that just

hearkens back to everyone's childhood.

- OK, he wants quite a bit for these.

What do you think they might be worth?

- So we have the "NY, I love" Yoda.

This figure was given out as an exclusive

in Times Square in May of 2013.

It is very rare.

The one issue with this figure

is there is an extremely large amount of fakes.

Obviously, it's graded 100%,

but I just want to verify myself.

But this looks good.

This looks-- check out--

the color of the heart is correct.

- So it's real?

- I would say this is 100% real, yes.

- Let's talk about Spider-Man over here.

- So starting in 2011,

LEGO issued the superheroes line.

As part of the promotion, they would give away

these exclusive minifigures at San Diego Comic-Con.

This particular figure, I can tell you, is very rare.

Had to get a raffle ticket to get it.

It is the first figure that has

the Andrew Garfield costume printing.

As far as I know, there are only 350 of these...

- Wow. - In existence.

So basically what I'm looking for

is a LEGO trademark stamped onto the bottom

of the legs, which is there.

It's an amazing figure and very rare.

- I guess the biggest question of all, what are they worth?

- So the "New York, I heart" Yoda,

I would give this a value of $9,000.

♪

The Andrew Garfield Spider-Man, extremely rare,

extremely hard to get.

I would put a value of that at $12,000.

- All right, well, I appreciate you coming down.

- All right. Thank you.

- Thank you. - Good luck. Appreciate it.

- So is that what you wanted to hear?

- I think he's-- he's right on the Spider-Man.

I think he's low on the "New York, I love."

- OK, well, that being said,

I'll do 14 for the pair.

Cash money today, and you don't have to go find

a LEGO guy to buy them. - Can you do 19?

- 15,000 is the most I can do.

- [sighs]

- We're talking about little tiny toys here,

and I'm paying you the price of a small car.

- 16,500? - 15,500.

I won't go anymore. - $16,000 it is.

- No, I-- 15,500.

That's gonna be the most I do.

♪

- All right. - Deal.

OK, meet me right over there.

Taking these with me.

[upbeat rock music]

♪

- Hello. - Hello.

Good morning. - Good morning.

How can I help you today?

- I have a Louis Vuitton jacket.

I bought it from a flea market.

It looks real, it feels real.

- OK, well, I've bought plenty of stuff at the flea market

before that was real, and... - Yeah.

- Plenty of stuff that looks just real enough.

- [laughs]

I'm here at the pawn shop today

because I'm trying to sell a Louis Vuitton jacket.

I bought it at a flea market because I wanted

to give it to my dad as a gift,

but when he tried it on, it didn't quite fit him.

It looks great, and it has a great quality.

My asking price today is $550.

If I do manage to make a sale today,

I think I'll go shopping and find my dad a jacket

that fits him and that he really likes.

- Pretty cool.

Well, Louis Vuitton is very prestigious company,

to say the least.

At times, they are trendsetters.

It's nice to see a jacket like this.

I mean, it's got your typical Louis look,

maybe kind of early '90s-ish, really,

kind of when the hip-hop culture really started

kind of taking on to this stuff.

Maybe they started a little bit earlier in the '80s,

but this jacket crosses the boundaries

between streetwear and fashion.

- I think it's a really cool look.

- Do you mind if I take a look at it?

- No, go for it. Have a look.

- No, I mean, on first glance, the zipper looks, you know,

pretty good.

It's a nice, heavy duty zipper. - Mm-hmm.

Let's take a look here.

- It seems like it's a good quality.

- Yeah, the stitching looks pretty good.

A lot of times, knockoff pieces will just

have really, really bad stitching,

and it'll be uneven from here to there.

This one looks pretty good, though.

- Mm-hmm.

- And of course, we'll look at the--

this little Louis Vuitton tag in here,

Louis Vuitton, Paris, 1854.

So it's got a lot of the stuff that I'm looking for.

The major thing I'm worried about

right here is this medium tag is just slightly off-center,

and if it was Louis Vuitton, I would expect that to be,

you know, dead center.

♪

It's a mistake that I wouldn't see very often

in a Louis Vuitton jacket.

It's possible that it could happen,

but it leaves questions unanswered for me.

And how much are you looking to get for it.

- $550 - OK.

It does have some really good stuff going for it,

but I'm not 100% sure this is authentic.

♪

- I really hope it's authentic.

- But I definitely need some questions answered

about this piece.

Do you have a few minutes to hang around?

I could get someone down here. - Absolutely, yes.

- All right. Give me a minute.

I'm gonna make a phone call and see

if he can get down here quick. - Thank you so much.

♪

- What have we got here?

- I have an antique roulette table.

The wheel was built about 1926.

And the interesting thing about it

is this is the Holy Grail of casino cheating.

- It's a rigged wheel?

- It's a rigged wheel, yeah. - I'll put 100 on black.

[laughter]

- I have a antique roulette table.

It was built to be a cheating roulette table,

which is very rare, and there's only a few

known to exist.

The table was found in California,

and I bought it from an antique dealer.

I'm asking 95,000 for it.

I have an antique mall, and if I'm able to sell it,

I will reinvest and buy more merchandise,

and that's what I do, I buy and sell.

- I think it's absolutely beautiful.

People have always gambled.

In the 1700s, they basically came up with--

well, we have this, roulette. It's a French word.

I forget what it means.

And it ended up in gambling halls around Europe,

became very popular, eventually came here.

The great thing about this game is the house always wins.

There's no winning with roulette.

I tell people that all the time.

They just-- you can't.

Just the law of averages, eventually,

it will take all your money. - Absolutely.

- [laughs]

How did you determine it's rigged?

- The legs are hollow.

There were four batteries, two in each leg.

There are three switches, one on the end,

one on each side.

So the dealer could actuate them if they knew

which screw to push right there.

- Yeah, there's a button right there.

- Yeah. - I grew up in Vegas.

I've read about all the mob things.

I've read everything,

and I know how they would rig these things.

If the ball looked like it was gonna go in one section

where the big money bet was at, he'd press a button,

a plunger would hit the ball, and it wouldn't go in that one.

It would go somewhere else.

[laughs]

No, it's very, very interesting.

It's cool. I mean, it's got some history.

We don't know exactly what the history is.

How much do you want for this?

- 95,000.

- How did you come up with that number?

- Antique tables near this same quality are selling

for $75,000 to $100,000.

- I've never heard that kind of money for a roulette wheel.

What you got here is super cool,

but it's finding a customer for it

that wants to spend a lot of money

and has the room for it and wants to collect this.

That's gonna be the problem.

I'm not even gonna make you an offer on it

because we're so far off.

And a regulation size roulette wheel,

most states, you're not allowed to own it, period.

This is still a felony.

But thank you for bringing it in.

- Of course.

- And I will go get some guys help you load it up.

- Thank you very much. - OK, have a good one.

- You too.

- Roulette and its casino table game relatives

are as Vegas as the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop,

but they originated long before billions of neon lights

lit up the Nevada desert.

Some historians say Romans were the earliest

innovators of craps.

Soldiers would shave pig knuckles down

into cube shapes to resemble dice

and threw them into their inverted shields

placed on the ground.

In the late 18th century, blackjack shows up,

based on a French card game.

Apparently, Napoleon Bonaparte was a huge fan,

and it was so popular among his soldiers

that he banned it from being played in the camps

because it was too distracting.

It seems a little hypocritical, but then again,

I don't let Chump play Pokémon Go

when he's here at the shop.

Poker is believed to have been brought to America

by European settlers and traders.

An 1829 account by English actor Joseph Crowell describes

a game he observed in New Orleans

involving four players,

a 20-card deck, and in true New Orleans fashion,

a whole lot of beads.

But not everyone was so gung ho for betting.

By 1910, most gambling was illegal across the nation.

That is, until our fine state of Nevada legalized it in 1931.

It was the great depression, and our economy needed

a serious kick in the pants.

Let's just say it worked out for us.

These days, tens of millions of people

visit Sin City annually,

and blackjack is the table game of choice.

Thousands of tables are in play all over the state.

In 2022, people spent $7.3 billion to play the game.

Too bad I don't have a blackjack table

in the back of the store.

[laughs]

[upbeat rock music]

- There's a woman in the shop with a vintage Louis Vuitton

jacket that she's asking $550 for,

but I have a few questions on its authenticity.

So I'm having my vintage clothing expert, Marko,

come down to take a look to let me know if it's

really designer or just another dud.

- Hello. - Hello.

Lovely to meet you. - Likewise.

- So this is the jacket she brought in.

I'm not quite sure if it's authentic.

It has some nice features to it.

So what do you think about this jacket at first glance?

- At first glance, it's beautiful,

but it's not authentic Louis.

It's one of those weird gray area

where it's not a bootleg, it's not authentic,

but it's definitely valuable.

What you have here is what we call a Dapper Dan piece.

Now, Dapper Dan, if you don't know who he is,

famous designer

for early hip-hop stars in the '80s.

He used to have a shop in Harlem.

You think about like '85, like LL Cool J,

Eric B. & Rakim.

And he realized that people love this monogram.

They loved the logo.

But think back to Louis Vuitton and Fendi.

These brands weren't known for their fashion.

These were, like, powerhouse brands

known for their leather goods, their purses,

their wallets and whatnot.

It didn't have any sauce, is what we would call it.

- Yeah.

- So Dapper Dan, at that time,

he figured it out.

He would make beautiful leather jackets,

and he would buy these Louis Vuitton and Gucci purses,

cut them up, and, you know, make Louis trim.

And then he realized-- he actually

taught himself how to screen print himself

on textiles, and that's what this jacket ultimately is.

He ended up-- he called it--

it wasn't so much of a knockoff.

It was a knock-up, to his words.

Because he took that fabric and made it into designs

that really catered to the urban youth.

But this right here is back in his heyday.

This looks like a, you know, late '80s, early '90s piece,

back when, like, the Members Only jackets

were in style.

As you can see, it's very reminiscent

of a Members Only silhouette. - Yeah.

- And yeah, the medium--

that little tag is slightly off center.

But this is the telltale sign of what,

like, Dapper Dan was doing.

- He wanted to bring that touch of Harlem

to the rest of the world. - Indeed, man.

But he garnished so much attention

that eventually Louis Vuitton and Fendi caught wind of him

and shut him down.

- So what kind of value would you put on it?

- It's really one of, like, the onsets of urban fashion

of streetwear, as we call it now,

but definitely an iconic piece in hip-hop fashion.

Easily $1,000.

That's what I sell them at my shop.

- It was a good find. - Indeed.

- All right, well, thanks for coming in, Marko.

- My pleasure. I love it.

You have a gorgeous piece. - Thank you so much.

- Nice meeting you. - All right.

Well, as cool as it is to have a Dapper Dan in here,

even though Dapper Dan says it's a "knock up,"

it's still a knockoff, and I'm not allowed

to sell it without getting in trouble.

So if it was in my size,

maybe I'd make you an offer,

because I could wear it, but not today.

- That's completely understandable.

Thank you so much.

- I think you'll get some good money for it.

Have a good day. - Thank you. Bye.

♪

- Here they are.

All right, I need to take these out

and get them for sale.

- No, I think I'm gonna keep them.

- Why?

- Because they were signed by Eddie Van Halen,

the coolest guy on the planet.

- I think you paid, like, $10,000

for these, and you're thinking about wearing them?

- $10,500.

I mean, I'm kind of in awe.

You know, I was around in the '80s.

I mean, who can forget the "Hot For Teacher" video.

I am absolutely in love with them.

- Are you?

- And you're thinking about wearing them.

- I don't think they'll really fit me,

but I sort of want to keep them.

I don't know.

- And what are you doing over there with that shirt?

That looks horrible.

- You know how Eddie Van Halen has the Frankenstrat?

- Yeah. - Those are the Franken-shoes.

And since I own the Franken-shoes,

I was gonna make the Franken-shirt.

[laughs]

- What if I told you these are worth a lot of Franken-money?

- What do you mean? - The mail came in today.

The letter of authenticity is here,

and they're photo matched, so you might want to sell them.

- These are photo matched to a concert.

- On July 30, 1993 at the World Music Theater

in Tinsley Park, Illinois.

- Really?

- And didn't Steve say these would go for a little bit more

if they were photo matched?

- He said like $50,000. [sighs]

- Why are you so sad, Rick? That's good news.

I mean, I know you like the cool factor,

but today, you get these framed up,

go for a lot of money. - I guess I am gonna sell it.

But I think I still might design a shirt.

- Well, have at it.

I'm gonna go get these out for sale.

- Would you wear one? - No.

I don't really wear shirts covered in tape.

- Guy has no style whatsoever. [laughs]