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- On tonight's episode, my mind is bent

when I check out a rare set of guitars.

- This is a B-bender, right?

- Yes, as far as I know, the only B-bender that Gibson made.

- I mean, I've heard of these things.

I've never actually seen one.

And will Corey be ready to fork over the cash

for a set of flatware?

- In 1950, you were really, really cool if you had this.

And the more elaborate your flatware set was,

the bigger status symbol that you had.

- While later, Chum squawks at the chance to make

a deal on a rare cannon.

- I have a Civil War Parrott cannon.

- One of the things that jumps out to me,

I see a little bit of a line.

This was cast as two halves.

♪ ♪

- What have we got?

- We've got a sled from the movie "Citizen Kane."

- Rosebud. - That's right.

This is the ultimate prop of all time.

- Some people consider this the greatest movie ever.

That's so arguable because

I believe it's either "Godfather Part II"

or "Anchorman."

[laughter]

- I'm at the pawn shop today to sell my Rosebud sled

from movie "Citizen Kane."

About 10 years ago, I was at an estate sale

in Beverly Hills when I saw the sled.

And what made me curious about this particular sled

is there was a famous auction house that

I saw that sold one in 1996.

And this one looked similar to that one

that I saw in that auction.

I would like to get $100,000

for this particular Rosebud sled.

- This is interesting.

You know Rosebud, right?

- I think I pretty much know what the movie's about.

- It was a really good movie for its time.

It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, 1941.

So the movie was about Charles Foster Kane,

gazillionaire and everything,

and his dying words were "Rosebud."

In the end of the movie, you realize the one time

he was really happy when he was a child with his sled, Rosebud.

- OK, I get it.

You got the Holy Grail of movie props here.

You got to tell me how you got it.

- I did get it at an estate sale in Beverly Hills.

It was from a high-end executive from a movie studio.

And from what I researched,

there's three of these that exist.

There's one in the Academy Museum

that Steven Spielberg donated.

There's one that sold at Christie's,

which I believe this one to be that one.

About 30 years ago, it sold for over $200,000.

And then there's another one,

which I have no idea where that one is.

- So you're saying this was the one

that sold at Christie's for over $200,000?

- There is a reason that I say that because

this is a picture of the one

that sold at the Christie's auction.

And if you notice, there's a broken

right tip that matches exactly this one

that you have in front of you.

- OK.

So how much are you looking to get?

- I'm looking to get $100,000.

- All right, I'm just letting you know,

if this is the real Rosebud, it would go

for probably a couple million dollars.

But here's the big problem.

This is different than the picture you showed me.

Pull that out. I'll show you real quick.

No pin striping on the side.

It's different.

- I just thought it was real because of where I got it.

- I wish it was real. We would make a deal.

We'd both get rich off this thing.

But, like, it's-- it's not the one.

I appreciate you bringing it down, though.

It was really cool. - Have a good day, man.

- All right, have a good one, man.

- Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Hello. - How are you?

- I'm pretty good. Hold on a second here.

That looks heavy. - It's heavy.

- There you go.

Well, you don't have to be a genius

to know this is a cannon.

But tell me what you have here.

- I have a Civil War era Parrott cannon.

- Parrott cannon?

I don't know exactly what it is,

but I'm not an expert on cannons.

Are you like a cannon guy or do you just like all cool stuff?

- I like all cool stuff.

I'm an impulse buyer. [laughter]

- Aren't we all?

- I'm here to sell a Civil War Parrott cannon.

The cannon weighs roughly between 45 to 55 pounds.

It's solid bronze.

I purchased the cannon about seven years ago at an auction.

My asking price is $10,000.

- OK, that's pretty cool.

So, I mean, cannons are definitely

an important part of history.

They served many different purposes.

This one looks like it was probably mounted up somewhere,

like right here by this and on a swivel mount

so you could project it the way you wanted to.

At first glance, I would think it's maybe a little bit

older than Civil War, you know, maybe 1700s, instead of 1800s.

So it's definitely got some good weight to it.

I do have a few concerns about it, mostly the patina,

that it's very patinaed on this side,

and it's very, very shiny on this side.

When you get an old cannon like this,

you really want to see the patina on it.

Especially if this is, you know, several hundred years old,

I want to look at it and know it's several hundred years old.

So when you bought this,

what information did you get about it?

- Basically, they just said it was in the Civil War era.

- OK. And have you ever fired it?

- Never have. - OK.

I would love to know if it fired.

- I would too.

- So do you have a price in mind?

- I have a price of $10,000.

- Well, I don't know if that's a good price or a bad price.

I've definitely seen cannons sell for less than that

and much, much more than that.

If you have time, I'd love to have my antique firearm expert,

Alex, come down, take a look at it, and after he evaluates it,

he's going to be able to give us a price.

- Sounds great.

- All right, give me a few minutes.

I'm going to call him, and I'm sure he

can be down here pretty quick. - Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Hello.

What are those?

These are the biggest shoes I've ever seen.

- Those were worn by Shaquille O'Neal

in the 2002 finals against the New Jersey Nets,

where he won MVP, highest average,

almost 40 points per game.

He dominated. - This is really cool.

I just never realized that he would have shoes that big.

This is where little Mother Hubbard lived.

[laughter]

- I'm here at the pawn shop to sell my 2002 finals

game-worn shoes by Shaquille O'Neal.

They're size 22.

They're huge.

They must weigh close to five pounds each.

I've had the shoes for over 20 years now.

And they're in a glass case when you walk

into the entry in my door so everybody can see them.

My asking price for the Shaquille O'Neal shoes

is $15,000.

- This is pretty cool, man, Shaquille O'Neal.

I mean, like, the guy is the GOAT, yeah,

just incredible businessman, incredible basketball player,

MVP multiple times.

He was on the Lakers, won the National Championship

three times.

You can just go on and on about this guy,

I mean, like storied life.

I mean, and I've never met him,

but I know people who have met him and said

he's like the sweetest guy in the world.

And I'm still absolutely amazed at the size of these shoes.

And what size?

Are they just--is it just size ginormous at this point?

- Size 22.

- And what brand are they?

- I believe they're made by Reebok.

- They're kind of epic.

- To me, it's like the eighth wonder of the world.

I've never seen anything like it.

I had to have them.

- Where did you get these?

- I got these at a memorabilia show in LA.

- And this is the paperwork you have on them?

- Yes, sir. - Can I take a look at it?

- Absolutely.

- I mean, you have paperwork here saying that they've

been photo matched.

I'm not real big on photo matching shoes,

just due to the fact that, you know,

how do you really photo match shoes

when all shoes look alike?

You know what I mean?

I mean, the amazing thing is there's--

I mean, how many pairs did they make in this size?

Which I'm assuming, like, next to none.

And so how much do you want for them?

- $15,000.

- OK.

All right, let me call up my sports guy

to take a look at them, all right?

I just want to make sure everything is legit, you know?

And also, size matters.

[chuckles] All right, give me like five minutes.

I'm going to go call my guy.

And we'll get this figured out.

- OK. Sounds good.

♪ ♪

- There's a guy in the shop with what

he claims is a Civil War Parrott cannon,

and he's asking $10,000.

I don't know exactly what it is.

So Alex Cranmer is heading over to help me

gather some more information before

I think about making an offer.

Here we go, Alex.

- I'm Alex. - I'm Jim.

Nice to meet you. - My pleasure.

- So, Jim, why don't you tell Alex what you have here?

- I have a Civil War Parrott cannon.

- OK.

- A little bit of concerns I had

was the different color on the top and the bottom.

But other than that, Alex, I got nothing for you.

- Where did you get it?

- I bought it at an auction.

- OK, so during the Civil War, there was

an American officer named Parrott who developed

a type of cannon that was rifled.

So inside the bore, there's literally a channel.

And when the projectiles move through it, they start to spin.

A projectile that's spinning will tend to go straighter.

So Parrott developed the Parrott rifle,

which was really a cannon in 1860

and patented in 1861.

And it became more or less the standard cannon

of the American Civil War.

But this has nothing to do with the Parrott gun.

So a Parrott gun would be much larger.

It would be made of iron.

And this is made of bronze, from its appearance,

and it's much older.

So the style of this cannon is really

much more of an 18th century cannon

from the Revolutionary War.

The question is, is it authentic?

It's OK to pick it up?

- Yes, sir.

- I just want to get an idea of the weight.

- So one of the things that jumps out to me about

this piece is if I look from the breech,

which means the back, I see a little bit of a line

right across the breech.

And then that line continues.

And you can see it here at the first reinforcement ring.

And then I can see it again here.

So what this is indicating is this was cast as two halves.

You've got the lower half, and I slap the top half on top.

And that's not how cannons were made.

A real cannon would have been made solidly.

And then they would have drilled out the bore

and then drilled in the touch hole.

- Right. - It would make it stronger.

If you tried to fire this with

two pieces being fused together,

chances are it would blow right apart.

So what we have here is a reproduction cannon.

This could have been made from the late 19th century

all the way up into the 1980s.

I'm sorry to break that news to you.

- Yeah.

- All right, if this was a, you know,

authentic time period cannon, what do they go for?

- You're certainly in the many thousands of dollars range.

As it is, it's a few hundred dollars.

- All right, thanks, Alex.

- All right. Nice to meet you.

- Thank you. - Good luck.

- All right, well, I'm going to have to pass on it today.

And if you like it, keep it and display it at your home.

But thanks for coming out today.

- Well, thank you very much. - My pleasure.

[lively music]

♪ ♪

- A guy came to the shop with a pair of size 22 sneakers

that he says was worn by Shaquille O'Neal

during the 2002 NBA Finals.

And the seller is asking for $15,000.

I have my sports expert, David Kohler,

coming down to take a look.

And he's going to let me know if this deal

is a slam dunk or a foul.

- Hello, hello. How are you, Rick?

- Doing fabulous.

Hello, I'm David. - Hi.

Rich. - Nice to meet you.

- Just so you know, these are not the Jolly Green Giants.

[laughter]

He says they're Shaq shoes.

- They're very large.

What a player-- four-time champion,

three times with the Lakers in the three-peat,

that team with Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher.

They won in 2000, and 2001, and 2002,

probably one of the best big men

in the game that's ever played, without a doubt.

- OK. So are these his shoes?

- Can I touch them? - Absolutely.

- Can I look at them? - Yeah.

- These are his--

yes, these are his shoes, like we said,

very large, size 23, probably, 22.

This is his line, which we call Dunk.

So he had his own line that was getting made, Shaq did.

A lot of times, he'd have his number on the bottom,

number 34, which he was.

They don't make replicas and things like that.

So examining these, definitely,

those are game-worn, game-used Shaquille O'Neal shoes.

- Yeah, I mean, he's got paperwork.

It's a photo match paperwork,

not real confident on photo matching on shoes,

but like, he does have some paperwork there.

- The one thing that does hit me here, it does say here,

attribution to the finals.

You know, that's not 100% guaranteed.

These could have been worn in the finals.

I wouldn't bet my life on that.

But at a minimum, they're real.

They're authentic.

But I could not say 100% confidence

that these were actually worn in the finals.

- So what do you think they're worth?

- I think these are worth probably about $5,000.

If you had a conclusive photo match,

I would say the values would be, you know, north of that.

But in my opinion, they're worth about $5,000.

- I don't-- [laughs]

I'm just blown away because I have

hundreds of pictures from the finals with him in those shoes.

When I bought them from the Lakers directly,

they wrote in the finals on the certificate.

There's no question.

- So do you have any paperwork from the Lakers with you?

- No.

The group that was selling them had the Lakers banner

and they said they were contracted or whatever.

They had a lot of Lakers memorabilia in there.

- I haven't seen any paperwork from the Lakers

and all that, too.

So if there is that paperwork, then that obviously would help

with a lot of this evaluation.

- All right. Thanks, Dave.

- All right. Thanks, Rick.

All the best. - All right, thanks.

- Thank you.

- It's a third party saying that it happened.

So, I mean, unless you have something directly

from the Lakers, it's going to be

really hard to prove that these were worn in the playoffs.

And I'll give you, like, $3,000 for them.

- Wow. I'm speechless.

I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of pictures

that they're identical to what's in the finals.

Photo Match is one of the biggest companies out there

that do this.

- Right here, they're saying attributed.

- Mm-hmm. - They're saying most likely.

They're not saying 100%. - Right.

- There's a difference.

We're talking-- we're talking maybe

a thousand-dollar difference if they were in the finals.

Obviously, we're not going to make a deal.

But thanks for bringing them in.

- Sure.

I'm very disappointed we weren't able to make

an offer or a deal.

It wasn't even close to what I know

they're really, truly worth.

♪ ♪

- Hello. - Hi.

- How can I help you today?

- Well, I don't know what I'm looking at here.

I bought these at a antique store.

And I just thought I'd make, like, a really cool

art installation with them-- and you know how that goes.

You never get around to it.

- Well, I agree with you.

They would make a really cool art installation here.

These are tsubas.

And they would go on, like, a Japanese sword.

- A what-a? - So basically,

it's a piece that would go between the handle

and the blade.

And it would have a few different functions.

One would be it would protect your hand

from someone else's sword.

And also it was kind of a connection point

to make everything secure and just keep it,

you know, put together without moving around.

But these ones are actually pretty cool.

These all look to be made out of iron,

which is what you'd expect.

You've got some really interesting stuff

going on here.

A typical motif you'd see on these

would be animals, religious figures,

or mythological creatures,

which I see kind of some mythological creatures here--

some really cool stuff going on here.

What are you looking to do with these?

- I mean, I have no use for them.

- Do you have an idea what you're looking to get for them?

- You know, I was kind of hoping around, like, $350.

- $350?

- Yeah.

- All right, I'll be honest with you.

There's a possibility at $350,

I'd be ripping you off just a little too much.

- Really?

- I think you have some good stuff here.

With that being said, I could be wrong,

but I would like to have someone come down

and take a look at them. - OK.

- Give me a few minutes.

I'm going to make a phone call,

see if I can have Mike Yamasaki come down.

He's basically my samurai sword expert.

- OK. That'd be awesome.

- All right, I'm going to give him a call,

and I'll be right back. - Sounds good. Thank you.

♪ ♪

- There's a guy in town with what he calls

his music man cave, and it's near the shop.

He said he has a few guitars he would like to sell,

so I'm swinging by to see what he has

and hopefully strum up a deal.

[door bell jingles]

Larry?

- Hey, Rick.

- So these are the guitars?

- Yeah.

Welcome to my little slice of heaven.

This is my studio and workshop, where all the magic happens.

- Yeah, I got a pawn shop that's sort of like that.

- Yeah. [laughter]

I reached out to the guys at the pawn shop

because I have three guitars that I think they'll

really be interested in.

The Gibson B-bender is one of only 400 ever made.

The Mosrite Celebrity is 50-something years old.

It's hard to find them in this kind of shape.

And a custom-painted Fender Stratocaster,

there's only three of them in the entire world.

I'd love to walk away with $24,000 for the three.

If I'm able to sell these guitars,

I will immediately start building

my dream recording studio.

- These are really cool.

I mean, like-- this is a B-bender, right?

- Yes, and as far as I know,

the only B-bender that Gibson made.

A B-bender mechanism actually pulls the B string tighter,

raising the pitch,

most likely used in country music.

However, Gibson guitars were mostly used in rock and roll.

- I mean, I've heard of these things.

I've never actually seen one.

- Yeah, so the Gibson is a 2013.

- And that was done by the factory?

- Yes, that's a--that's a factory Gibson mechanism.

Then we have this 1967 Mosrite Celebrity here.

- That is a cool brand.

It was started by a guy named Moseley,

and then he got financial backing

from a guy named Boatright, so they made Mosrite.

- You know, I did not know that.

- Yeah. That's how they got together.

I mean, the company was just jamming in the 1960s.

I mean, like they were making a thousand guitars a month.

- No kidding.

- And the way I understood it was this

is the guitar of the Ventures and even into the Ramones.

They love that heavy reverb dripping,

like made you feel like you're hanging 10 on a longboard.

- OK.

- And then this is a guitar commissioned by Fender.

- I mean, everybody knows about Fender,

I mean, started by Leo Fender.

First guitar was the Broadcaster

and then the Stratocaster, you know.

- Yep.

- The original rock and roll guitar, you know, Jimi Hendrix.

It's cool, but like--

but that's a factory Gibson paint job?

- No, no.

This is a custom hand-painted paint job by Justin Bower.

So Fender found Justin's art.

He paints paintings and actually pottery.

And they commissioned him to do three guitars.

One belongs to Axl Rose.

The other one is in a gallery in Japan.

And we have the third one right here.

- Interesting. - I thought so.

- Yeah.

All right, the big question--

what do you want for these things?

- The Gibson's $2,500.

The Mosrite's only $1,500.

But the Fender is $20,000.

- All right, I'm going to get a hold

of my guitar guy because you have

some very non-standard guitars.

- I specialize in it.

- Let me get him down here, and let's get his opinion,

and then we'll go from there.

- Sounds great.

♪ ♪

[rock music]

- I'm at a guitar workshop here in town

where the owner has three guitars he's looking to sell.

He wants $24,000 for them.

And I do not know if that's a good price.

So I've called in Mike Ball, my guitar expert,

and he's going to tell me if it's a rocking deal or not.

So what do you think?

- It's not often you get to see one of these--

- Yeah.

- --a Gibson B-bender with a Joe Glaser B-bender setup.

They only made 400 of these.

This guitar is so weird.

Looks like some-- some natural patina.

This would have had a satin finish.

We can still have a lot of it on the back,

but a whole bunch of it's missing

on the face of the guitar.

But that's rock and roll.

What are you going to do?

- And then we got the Mosrite.

- This is an oddball in the Mosrite pantheon.

I mean, it's not the solid-body like the Ventures played

or the Mark II, like Johnny Ramon played,

a much more limited appeal, but has all the ingredients--

has the Moseley tailpiece,

has the hotly wound single coil pickups, has the roller bridge.

I'm into it, man. I love it.

- Good. That's what I like to hear.

- Yeah.

And you don't see that every day.

- No.

- Well, I mean, the Stratocaster

has been such an enticing platform for artwork.

You've got, you know, Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop.

And then in the '90s you have Crash,

the artist that made those really evocative

art guitars for Eric Clapton.

So there's a good lineage of make your Stratocaster

as weird and as wild as possible.

- Sure.

- What do you think these two would go for?

- Well, on the Gibson, in its current condition,

around $1,800.

And on the Mosrite Celebrity, I feel really good

about $1,500 for that one.

And this--what was the asking price on this guitar?

- $20,000.

- I can tell you that if the only thing I can index this off

of is the Eric Clapton Crash Stratocasters,

which were played out by Clapton,

so there's a whole extra layer attached to that--

but those I've seen priced at around $30,000.

- So can you even put a number on it?

- Rick, I can't confidently put a number on that.

- Thanks, man. You're the best.

- Absolutely. Any time.

- Thanks, man.

- Larry, pleasure.

- All right, so refresh my memory

on what you wanted for these.

- So if we're taking the Stratocaster

out of the equation, I wanted $1,500 for the Mosrite,

$2,500 for the B-bender Les Paul.

- I'm thinking like $2,000.

- $2,500.

- I'm thinking $2,000.

- $2,350.

- $2,200.

Sweet. We got a deal.

Bring the to the shop. I'll get you paid.

- You got it. - Thanks, bro.

- See ya.

♪ ♪

- There's a woman in the shop with a collection

of tsubas, which are mountings for Japanese swords.

She's asking $350 for the lot.

But I want to make sure they're authentic.

I've asked Mike Yamasaki to come take a look

and give me his opinion on them.

Why don't you tell Mike how you got this stuff?

- I was antiquing and came across these

and thought I could make a really cool

art installation piece with them,

but I never really got around to it.

And honestly, I didn't know what they were.

- Can you take a look at them and let

me know what you're seeing?

- Well, at least you made the right choice.

These are what look to be genuine Japanese tsubas,

not Chinese reproductions or anything like that.

With your permission, I'd like to take a look at them.

- Absolutely, please.

- This piece is very nice.

It's a classic piece, and it's of a Japanese flower.

This was actually a solid plate like this.

But then they carved away and left the design.

So that's a lot of work.

So this is actually one of the nicer pieces.

And you can see how heavy this piece is here.

- I did hold that one.

[dings]

It's got a good--

- A nice ring to it.

So this is a very well-made piece.

- OK. - And--

it also--did you notice the writing on it?

- I did. A couple of them have--

- Right.

And that tells us where it was made and who it was made by.

- Are you familiar with that name?

Yes.

I actually know this maker.

He worked quite often in the 1800s.

It's Namitoshi.

And he's actually a well-known tsuba maker.

And then the rest of these have condition issues,

like this has damage on the back right here.

So unfortunately, that kind of degrades the value.

- How much do you think this collection is worth?

- Well, you have quite a varying bit

of quality and condition,

but I would say $5,000 would be--

- What? - Yeah.

- Are you serious? - Yeah.

- I change my offer.

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

- Hey, anytime. - All right, thank you.

- Thank you. - I'll see you.

- Nice to meet you.

- All right, so $350 it is.

- I think we could do a little better than that.

- How about I add a 0 to it and give you $3,500.

I think that seems pretty fair.

- Would you go to $4,000?

- I'll go 4,000 on them.

We got a deal. - Awesome. Thank you.

- You can just come up here, and I'll get you paid.

- OK.

[rock music]

♪ ♪

[ding]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

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

- Well, we have flatware here.

Is it silver? - Stainless steel.

- Stainless steel. - Japanese stainless steel.

- This was the set of flatware that you bought

because you didn't want to be like your parents.

- Which I can relate to. - [laughs]

- I'm at the pawn shop today to sell

my 1950s Carl Aubock flatware.

I found my set of flatware at a thrift store in my area

in Southern California.

They look great, but actually using them

wasn't the most functional, so I figured,

why not try to get some money for them?

Based on my research, I would like to maybe get

around five grand for the set.

- This is pretty cool.

I mean, in 1950, you were really,

really cool if you had this.

You know, people didn't have cell phones

and app stores and stuff like that

to waste their money on.

They had dinner parties.

And the more elaborate your flatware set was,

was the bigger status symbol that you had.

I mean, I've seen it all the way down to the onion

and the pickle fork, you know, the salt spoons and everything

like that, where, I mean, it just goes on and on and on,

to where you got, you know, 27, 37 pieces

in an entire dinner set.

Do you mind if I pick a piece up and take a look at it?

- No. Go for it.

- And they're Aubock, right?

- Carl Aubock is the designer.

- Stainless steel from Japan, definitely 1950s,

mid-century modern.

So how many pieces total?

- 46 total.

- OK.

What are you trying to get out of this?

- Well, I did a little bit of research

to figure out what they were.

And I did find a couple listings for a full set

going for around five grand.

- All right.

It doesn't look like a full set because there's

no serving spoons.

I mean, I've seen full sets go for around $1,200

and actually sell for that.

That being said, if I'm going to sell flatware,

it's going to have to be the silver stuff

because that's the only stuff I've ever

been able to sell in my life.

It's just way too much of a niche market.

I do appreciate you bringing it in, though.

- Yeah. - Well, have a good day.

- Thank you. - Take care.

♪ ♪

- Hi. How are you doing today?

- Pretty good.

- Good.

- It looks like a definitely old pair of golf clubs.

- Yeah, just an old pair of golf clubs sitting around.

- OK, all right.

I see the name.

Tell me about them.

- This right here is a set of General Eisenhower's clubs

that my father-in-law got from him.

My father-in-law was a golf pro at Fort Meade,

where President Eisenhower came and golfed several times.

- You know, my dad once told me,

find out what you're not good at in this life

and don't do that.

So I just stopped playing golf. [laughter]

Really cool.

I mean, it's Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A five-star general is the highest rank you can get.

And that rank only exists during wartime.

I mean, he was the supreme commander.

This is the guy who defeated Germany in World War II.

And he was a pretty amazing president.

I mean, we have the interstate highway system because of him.

He's definitely in the top 10 presidents we ever had.

The clubs are even cast with his signature

in it and the five stars.

- Yeah.

- Now, tell me exactly how your father-in-law got these.

- My father-in-law was a golf pro at Fort Meade in Maryland.

President Eisenhower used to go there and golf quite a bit,

got to know my father-in-law, and turned around

and gave it to him as a gift.

- So this is your father-in-law?

- That's my father-in-law.

There's President Eisenhower.

And that right there is retired General Parks.

- OK. I believe they're his.

- Yeah.

- I wish we had some more documentation and the history

on them and things like that.

- How much do you want for them?

- $100,000. - $100,000.

That'd be tough.

He had one set that sold for over $100,000.

But that was his custom-made set that was at Augusta.

And there's all this documentation on it.

This is not that set. - No.

- When you have something like this, it's one-of-a-kind.

- It is. - People buy the story.

And I got to have the story.

And I got to prove the story.

I mean, if there was a letter or something like that,

it'd be kind of a game-changer.

- Yeah. - But my number is, like,

$20,000. - OK.

Rick, I'll have to pass on that.

But I definitely appreciate the offer.

- Thank you for coming in.

- Thank you. - I really appreciate it.

There you go. - Thank you.

- Presidents are people just like the rest of us.

And at the end of a long day of running the free world,

they need to kick back and clear

their heads as much as anyone.

Since the dawn of the presidency,

these guys have each managed to squeeze

in time for their secret or not-so-secret hobbies.

For instance, the OG, George Washington,

when he wasn't putting in place the pieces of a new democracy,

he was probably busy cutting some serious rug.

Firsthand accounts claim he was

"Dancing With the Stars" level good,

always the center of attention at a party.

Since childhood, FDR was a serious

stamp-collecting addict.

And when he fell ill with polio,

working on his stamp collection helped pass

the lonely hours spent by himself.

As president, he spent up to an hour a day

looking at and adding to his collection.

Richard and First Lady Pat Nixon

loved bowling so much that they had

a one-lane bowling alley installed in the

White House basement in 1969.

Tricky Dick sported an average of 170

and would roll up to eight games a night,

a number that would make the Big Lebowski proud.

President Barack Obama was a serious hooper.

He regularly scheduled pick-up games at 1600 Penn,

including a game at his 50th birthday celebration

that included WNBA player Maya Moore

and NBA players Chauncey Billups

and Chris Paul.

Talk about a star-studded affair.

You know, I look pretty presidential.

I don't think there's ever been a motorcycle riding,

avid collector,

Oregon mountain man, prodigious pawnbroker.

Harrison, 2024. [laughs]

[rock music]

♪ ♪

Kind of impressed. - Thanks.

- Tell me about it.

- It's a 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.

- OK.

You know, this is a boxing town.

- I'm in trouble. [laughter]

I'm here to sell a 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.

This game is two fighters in there,

and you're basically trying to hit the other under the chin

to knock him down.

My asking price is $14,000 for my 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ.

- This is cool.

Mutoscope, the name is called scope

because they used to make short films

for the coin-operated machines they used.

A lot of old fairs and stuff used to have them.

Basically, it's they're all cast iron.

You put your face into it.

You turn the crank. [imitates clicking]

And the pictures move, and you see a little movie.

It's like a minute or two minutes long.

And the company saw the writing on the wall

and said, like, you know, this short little movie thing

is not going to last.

And they started making different mechanical games.

And this was one of their cooler games.

What year is this one?

- 1955.

It's sort of like Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots--

- That's what I've heard.

- --but way before that.

Where did you get this?

- Well, I purchased this from a dear friend of mine.

- I mean, did you just fall in love with the game, or?

- Yeah, I mean, look at it.

How can you not fall in love with that?

- OK. Does it work?

- It does. It works great.

- All right, can we play it?

- Absolutely. [bell dings]

♪ ♪

[dinging]

- Aww!

♪ ♪

Ah-ha!

- And the timer just ran out, so you're good.

- I cheated a little bit. I used to box.

[laughter]

- Well, that's got to be what it is.

- All right, so how much you want for this thing?

- $14,000.

- OK, that sounds like a lot of money.

How did you come up with that number?

- Just going off what they've sold

at auctions for unrestored machines

and the cost of the restoration work.

- OK.

Let me call in a friend of mine.

She will way more about this game than I do

and she'll know what it's worth, OK?

- Yep.

♪ ♪

- Hey, how's it going?

- Hey, how are you?

- What do we got here?

- So I have a Rarities Mint metal Snow White coin.

It has a mint error designation--

- OK. - --and a Congo coin.

- Who's on the Snow White coin here?

We have-- - Happy.

- Happy, OK.

So there's Happy, Sleepy, Dopey,

Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy--

- And Doc. - Doc, OK.

I'm really impressed that I know that still.

- That's pretty good.

I'm here at the pawn shop to sell a Rarities Mint

Snow White coin and a Congo coin.

The Snow White is extremely rare.

It's the only one in the world.

The Congo coin has a 50-year calendar,

which is very interesting because the coin rotates.

It has a functionality.

The Snow White, I'm asking $10,000,

and the Congo is $3,000.

- This is interesting.

Basically, this was a commemorative coin.

It's commemorating, what,

the 50th anniversary of "Snow White."

It's like, what, it was their first feature film, right?

- That's right.

- Disney loves a good collectible.

- That's right.

- OK, so where'd you get them?

- From another dealer.

- Anything particular about these ones that

made you have to have them?

- Absolutely.

The Rarities Mint Snow White metal has a mint error--

a wire struck into the metal, into the silver.

It's between the letters A and the N.

And the Congo coin, there's only

three of those in the world.

- And so your Congo one is a 50-year calendar coin. OK.

So, yeah, what I'm assuming here

is, you know, you got to have some kind of mechanics in here

to make this thing spin so you can change the calendar around,

different dates and whatnot--

obviously, 50 years after they got their independence.

And it's 10 francs.

OK, definitely pretty cool.

I mean, I haven't seen one before,

but you said there's only three in the world,

so why would I, right?

So I'm assuming you brought them down here to sell them

to me, right? - Yes, sir.

- What are you looking to get out of them?

- I'm looking to get $3,000 on the Congo coin

and $10,000 on the Snow White.

- You are mighty proud of these things, man.

- That's right.

- OK, so I don't know if there's

anybody out there really collecting Snow White coins.

And I get it's got a mint error,

but a mint error really only matters to me

if it's on American currency.

You know, now, this Congo one,

I get the fact that it's functional,

it's cool, it's super rare.

But once again, it's a commemorative coin.

I hate to say it, man.

I mean, I'd give you silver weight on it,

about $25 a piece.

- I can't do it. - I mean, what you got is cool.

And I know they're really rare,

but just because they're rare doesn't mean

they're worth a lot of money to me.

But I do appreciate you bringing them down, man.

- Thank you.

- So you don't want to sell them for $50 total?

- No.

- OK, well, I have to thank you very much.

- Thank you so much. - Take care.

♪ ♪

- A customer brought in the shop

a 1955 Mutoscope KO Champ coin-operated boxing game.

The seller is asking for $14,000.

And it works and is in excellent condition.

But I don't know what something like this is worth.

So I've called in Dani, our pinball expert.

And she's going to tell me if this is a knockout deal or not.

Dani. - Hey, Rick.

Thanks for having me.

Hi, there. - Hi.

- I'm Dani. Nice to meet you.

- Kevin. Nice to meet you.

- This is a really fancy machine you have here, Kevin.

- Thank you.

- Rick, what can I tell you about the machine?

- Everything.

- Everything?

Well, this company, International Mutoscope,

started in the early 1900s.

Towards the end of their run in the late 1950s,

they were mostly just doing arcade machines.

This was one of the last games that they produced.

So how long have you owned this machine for?

- A couple of years now.

- And then did you buy the machine restored

or did you have it restored yourself?

- I bought it restored. - OK.

Well, it looks like it's in really great shape.

So can I take a little bit of a closer look at the machine?

- Absolutely. - OK, great.

So I can see just a couple things

on the graphics here that obviously have been redone.

The "KO" that's in the boxing gloves, slightly smaller font

than the original version, and then the "champ"

is also a little bit fatter, more bubbly.

The biggest thing that I'm noticing on this machine,

however, is the domed top.

So the original machines came with a circular dome.

So a lot of times when you do find these machines,

the original dome tops will be broken,

cracked, yellowed with age.

This machine is close to 75 years old.

So they obviously reproduced this top for this one.

- OK.

So what do you think it's worth?

- Looks like everything's, you know, in very clean shape.

I would put the value of this machine

in today's market at $11,500.

A collector is going to want that original bubble.

- OK. Thanks, Dani. You're the best.

- Thank you so much. Good luck.

- Thanks. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- All right, you heard Dani.

And I'll give you $7,000.

It's very small market.

It's tough selling this stuff.

When I do sell it, I got to pay guys to make a crate.

There's a lot of money involved in selling one of these things.

$7,000.

- $10,000.

- I'd go $7,500.

I mean, hopefully, they'll sell right away.

But if it doesn't sell right away,

I might run into problems a year from now, so...

- I'd probably do $8,000. That's about as low as I'll go.

- $7,700.

- $7,800.

- $7,800. - Deal.

- Sweet.

I will meet you right up front and I'll get you paid.

- All right. Thank you, sir.

- This is my new boxing workout.

[chuckles]

♪ ♪

Earlier at the shop, I looked at a set of golf clubs

that may have been owned by President Eisenhower.

They actually made me reminisce about me

trying to play the game in my younger years.

So I've asked Corey and Chum to meet me here

to tee off my reintroduction to the game of golf.

- There's your pops.

- Hey, guys. What do you think?

- What's going on here?

So we had President Eisenhower's golf clubs

in the shop.

I started thinking about this place.

It's right down the street from the shop.

We have drinks. We have golf.

It's brand new. They have amazing food.

We can relax, hit some balls, and we can have a blast.

- All right. - OK?

- So how long have you been here

practicing before we got here?

- I haven't practiced at all.

This is not a competition.

We're just here to have fun.

- I heard it's a competition. - All right, so I'm up.

♪ ♪

God!

- Just swing slower, Rick.

Take a baby step forward, though, I promise.

- You know what?

I will do great, if you guys could just

be quiet for a minute, OK? - All right.

♪ ♪

- Whoa. There you go.

- All right, here you go, Chum. You're up.

♪ ♪

Good job, Chum. - Look at that.

I beat you with an 8-iron, Rick.

- I just need to practice more.

- All right, Big Hoss, you're up.

- All right.

All right, son.

[club thwacks]

See right past-- that goes shade.

- Oh, Corey beat you! [laughs]

- But that was a massive slice.

- All right, Big Hoss. Good job.

- You've never heard of Harrison, the great golfer?

- You did come in last place.

- You know, I just need a little practice.

It's been a long time.

- You know what? I think you did good.

But you're definitely better at eating tacos than golf.

So why don't you stick to that, and I'll take your turn?

- OK. [laughs]