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- On tonight's episode,

will Corey and I go full tilt on a deal?

That one seems to work pretty good.

And this one right here--

- He's going to blame the motor.

- Or is it game over?

[ball drain chime]

Then Corey gets jazzed about a super rare guitar.

- That's one hell of a guitar you got here.

- Thank you.

- So what do you think it could be worth?

- They're highly collectible,

but they also only speak to a fairly narrow range of players.

- And later, Chum discovers that some rare tribal gear

is worth fighting over.

- So boar tusks, cowrie shell, cassowary feathers.

- Cassowary.

- This is a bird the size of an ostrich

that will kill you in a heartbeat.

[bird squawks]

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

- Oh, I kind of know what you got here,

but tell me what you got here.

- This is a 1959 Chicago Coin "Jet Pilot."

That is Genco "Motorama."

- This is, like,

electromechanical wonderland right here.

- Yeah, this is awesome. Yeah.

I'm here to sell my 1957 Genco "Motorama"

and 1959 Chicago Coin "Jet Pilot" arcade games.

They have been restored professionally.

There are some original parts still in the games,

original graphics.

Acrylic fronts are still original,

so you'll see some markings, scratchings in them like that,

which adds to the value of the machines.

My asking price for both of the games is 24,000.

- This is cool.

Genco was sort of known for odd stuff.

They produced hundreds of different games.

The two you got right here are really cool.

This is like a design they had in the '50s.

- They were probably sitting right next to each other

in an arcade or something, right?

- Pretty much, yeah.

- I really dig the car one, though.

- Yeah, it's pretty cool.

- Do you know if that's the original body for the car?

- That is.

- Can I try one? - Absolutely.

- All right. All right, here we go, guys.

[machine clanks]

♪ ♪

- Do you have any idea what you're doing,

or are you just driving this thing around aimlessly?

- Ah.

Yeah, there's a few issues with it.

- Oh, yeah, they're electromechanical.

If you don't use them, they hang up.

- OK. I'm a pilot, so I can do this.

♪ ♪

[machine buzzes]

All right. - There you go.

[machine buzzing]

♪ ♪

- I mean, this one seems to kind of work.

- It's operator error.

- There's nothing wrong with it.

You're just not any good at it.

- No, there's some problems with it.

- OK. [machine buzzes]

- Yeah. OK, pretty cool, though.

I like it. How much you want for them?

- Asking 24,000 for the pair.

- 24,000 for the pair? - Yep.

- I'd really like my friend Dani to look at them.

She knows everything there is to know about the--

- Do you want to have Dani make sure that it was not

operator error and have her--

- OK, you know what?

Why don't you call Dani, get her down here.

I will inspect these machines some more, all right?

- So go play the games, OK? I'll call Dani.

- All right. Do you mind? - No, go ahead.

- OK.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

- Hi. I'm Steve. - Chumlee.

How can I help you, Steve? - Chum, pleased to meet you.

I got something that's really kind of cool

and I think you might appreciate.

- All right, what do you got?

- Take a look. - All right, a pen.

- Well, it's actually just a little bit more than a pen.

It's a butterfly knife.

- OK, do you mind if I take a look at it?

- Yes, please.

- All right, so it just swings open right here.

That's pretty cool.

And then--oh, there we go.

I actually remember as a young kid going to the swap meet

and buying the butterfly knife that had a dummy blade.

- Mm-hmm.

- And I would just be flipping it around all day,

practicing all this crazy stuff.

I don't want to try those crazy tricks with this, though.

♪ ♪

- I'm here at the pawn shop today

to sell a butterfly knife that disguised as a pen.

I've had it for quite a while, maybe about 30 years.

After my dad passed,

I was going through some of his boxes

of other war memorabilia and I found this in there,

just thinking it was a pen.

Wasn't till years later

that I started playing with it, opening it up,

and I was like, ooh, this is some kind of a knife.

I don't know exactly how old it is.

Can't find any markings or indication.

My asking price for the butterfly knife is $100.

- This is pretty cool.

Well, you know, I've seen many a butterfly knife in my day,

but nothing quite like this.

Butterfly knives kind of gained a little bit of popularity

after World War II when they brought some of these home.

They were kind of just cool, little keepsake items.

But somewhere around the 1950s and '60s,

they got really popularized in television

or movies and stuff like that.

And today, they're very popular,

and this is just a very unique one.

It's disguised as a pen,

and they did a really good job at it.

So tell me about it. Where did you get it?

- My father was in the Korean War conflict

back in the day, so after he passed away,

I was going through some more of his boxes

and I had come across that.

- It's definitely pretty cool.

It's much thinner than the typical butterfly knife.

- Mm. - It's very, very light.

And do you have a price in mind?

- I'm thinking maybe $100. - OK.

I actually do have a military expert

I would love to come take a look at this.

So if you have some time, I would love to get him down here

and see what he has to say about it.

- Yeah, that sounds great.

- All right, give me just a moment.

I'll call him and see how fast he can get down here.

- Great.

[suspenseful music]

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

- A guy came to the shop with two really cool

1950s coin-operated games.

They're both in working condition.

He would like to get $24,000 for the pair,

which is a lot of coinage.

So I have my mechanical game expert, Dani, coming over,

and she's going to let me know

if I should press the start button on this deal or not.

- How's it going? - There she is.

- Good to see you again, Rick.

Wow. Hi. I'm Dani. - Kevin.

Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- We have a Genco and a Genco Chicago Coin.

- So Genco was an arcade company

started in the early '30s.

They produced these types of arcade machines,

not so much the pinballs.

The "Motorama" came out in 1957 and is

the first car-themed game where the car moves freely

around the playfield and doesn't operate on a track

like other car machines of the past.

And then the "Jet Pilot" was produced by Chicago Coin

in 1959 after the Chicago Coin Company

took over the Genco operation.

- That one seems to work pretty good.

I'm just really bad at it. [laughter]

And this one right here--

- He's really bad at, too, but he's going to blame the motor.

- I think the motor in the car or maybe something

in there needs a little bit of help.

- The "Motorama" looks like it was restored

for a home collector, as you can see

by the wear on the machine.

The "Jet Pilot" does look like it was operated in the field

or maybe is a little bit older of a restoration.

- How collectible are these things?

I mean, it has to take up a lot of real estate.

- They are big games, obviously.

However, there was actually three games produced

in this series that all came in the same cabinet.

Genco put out a game called "Space Age."

Usually in a collection,

you'll see all three of those machines.

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

- The "Motorama" is a much more popular game.

You do see these in the market.

There was one that recently sold on auction

within the past few months.

I would value this machine at $10,000.

The "Jet Pilot," while being more rare of a machine,

is not as fun to play as the "Motorama."

I would put a value on this machine of 8,500.

- 18,500 all together? - For the pair, yep.

- And if I buy them, you can help me fix them up?

- I can definitely help you fix them up, Rick.

- OK. Thanks, Dani.

You're the best. - Thank you.

Good luck. Nice to meet you.

- Thank you. - All right. See you soon.

- Thank you, guys. See you soon.

- Right that way. Appreciate it.

- See you later. - All right.

You might have seen one go for 12,000

unrestored on an auction.

Auctions are a weird thing.

You never know what you're going to get out of them.

- Oh, yeah, they're up and down. Yep.

- Great items, it's just a lot more work

involved in selling it.

- Yeah, makes sense.

- I'd give you 12,000.

- No, I have to pass. - OK.

You have any more nickels? - I do not. [laughs]

You're cut off.

- Let me go get someone to help you, OK?

- Appreciate it.

- Ah-ha.

♪ ♪

You really should make a deal with me on this thing.

[bell clangs]

♪ ♪

- I have a customer in the shop with a butterfly knife

that is disguised as a pen.

The owner would like to get $100,

but doesn't know much about it

and there are no markings to help me determine a value.

I've asked Alex Cranmer to come down

and take a look at it before I sign off on a deal here.

- Hi. I'm Alex. - Steve.

Alex, pleased to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- Called you in about this pen. - Oh.

- That happens to also be...

a Chum Bond-like spy tool.

- Oh, that's cool.

Do you mind if I pick it up, Steve?

- Oh, yeah, please do. - All right.

- Have you ever seen anything like this?

- I mean, I've seen things like this,

but this is a bit different

and mostly because it is, like, precisely built.

And it's quite sturdy in your hand.

Like, if this was some tourist knockoff made overseas,

it doesn't have the same build quality.

So it's got an aluminum body and this is a steel blade.

It's single-edged.

It is razor-sharp with, like, a crazy stiletto tip.

This was made to do really terrible damage.

And it's concealable

because you could easily put this in your front pocket

and nobody would be the wiser

that you actually had a lethal weapon on you.

I mean, I would date this to probably the 1960s,

maybe 1970s.

The absence of any visual markings is telling.

So we would refer to this,

from a military collector's standpoint, as being sterile.

So why would something be sterile?

And the answer is because if you lost this,

you wouldn't want someone who found it

to know where it came from.

Now, why wouldn't you want to know where it came from?

So the idea of concealable, small weapons

that are sterile really began, for the Americans,

in World War II, the OSS,

the Office of Strategic Services.

This is the predecessor to the CIA.

So you're talking spy games things.

And so this does become the spy weapon that--

- I was hoping it was a spy weapon.

- Boom.

- Is this something that

that spy-type collector would collect?

- Yes.

So if you were to buy it and put it in the shop,

I think you might get up to $1,000.

- All right, Alex, as always, it's been a pleasure.

- All right. You're welcome. - That's great information.

Thanks, Alex. - All right, good luck.

- You still want 100 bucks?

- Ah, based on this new light of information,

my price has gone closer to 1,000.

- OK.

Alex is saying that's probably top of the market

for a retail situation

like we have here in the pawn shop.

Would you take 400 for it?

- Um...

- How about 800?

- How about 550?

- How about 650?

- I could do 575. That could be my max.

- 575.

Tell you what, that's a deal.

- All right, we got a deal.

You go ahead over there to the counter,

and I'll meet you right over there,

and I will write you up and get you paid.

- Thank you much. - I better take this with me.

I don't want to leave a knife on the counter.

- No.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

- How we doing today? - I'm good. How you doing?

- What do you have here?

- Couple "Planet of the Apes" items.

- So where did you get these?

- These were found at an estate sale.

- All right.

"Planet of the Apes" is a pretty iconic franchise.

I think they're releasing the tenth movie this year.

- Yep.

- I definitely haven't seen them all,

but I've watched a few of the movies.

Did you ever watch them?

- A few of them. The reboot, I guess.

And then I don't know what's happened

over the last few years.

[monkey chatters]

I have a "Planet of the Apes" Dr. Zaius doll

as well as two sealed "Planet of the Apes,"

like, a soldier and a Peter Burke.

The two action figures are men-on-card

and they're unpunched.

And the Dr. Zaius, it's very rare to find the box.

I would like to get $1,375

for the three items that I'm bringing in.

- This is definitely cool.

The basics of the first movie was that, you know,

the apes were from a planet

and this group of astronauts landed on the planet.

And the apes captured them and basically

all captured humans on this planet were slaves

working for the apes.

And obviously, the humans got away

and all kinds of stuff going on in the movie.

But the "Planet of the Apes" was a solid movie.

It had a good following right away.

But when they released the toys, you know,

people took to them really well.

The toys are pretty cool, though.

These look to be kind of older, maybe '70s-ish.

- I believe '74, from what I saw.

These two are unpunched.

Pretty good seals, especially this one.

And then this one was open, obviously, in the original box.

- Yeah, you know, a lot of times

what'll happen with these older toys

is the little film will come apart from here,

and it will start ripping.

You still have the box. That's still good, you know.

People would rather have this in a beat-up box

than just the naked figure without a box.

♪ ♪

Now, this green back looks pretty beat up.

But it is unpunched, so that's also pretty cool.

It's cool that you have two unpunched backs right here.

It's possible that these just sat in a box

and never got hung up on a rack or possibly just lined up

on a shelf in a store that didn't have a rack.

How much are you looking to get for this collection?

- 500 each on those, and then, that one, 375.

It's kind of hard to find the box, although it is beat-up.

- Yeah. No, the box is beat-up, but it is a box.

So I have some questions on condition and actual value.

- Sure.

- I don't doubt you did your research

and know how much these are worth,

but I want to have someone come take a look

and just kind of go over the condition

and see if he thinks those conditions

match what you're asking.

- Absolutely.

- Do you have a few minutes to hang out?

I can get someone down to take a look at them.

- Sure. Yeah, I'll look around.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ ♪

- What do we got here?

- A geisha cosmetic traveling box.

- OK. Do you associate with a lot of geishas?

- Not myself, no. - OK. [laughs]

[mysterious music]

- I'm at the pawn shop here today

to try and sell my geisha cosmetic traveling box.

The box itself is handcrafted with rosewood

and inlaid mother of pearl.

The hinges and all the handles are handmade metals.

I'm looking for $1,000 for my geisha cosmetic traveling box.

- Pretty cool.

Where did you find this?

- At an antique mall in Arizona.

- So do you know anything about it?

- I watched the movie "Geisha Girl,"

and there's models of that cosmetic box in that movie.

That sort of confirmed that it was a geisha girl cosmetic box.

- All right.

- I thought the craftsmanship was beautiful.

I really liked the hidden compartments in it, too.

♪ ♪

- Oh, OK. Not super hidden, but I like it.

I know my girlfriend, her makeup wouldn't fit in it.

[laughter]

Do you have any idea how old it is?

- Well, I believe it's about 300 years old.

- So there's a few things we can look at here

to date it, OK?

First thing is the mirror.

You can tell it's really thick, heavy glass.

That is commercial ground glass with a silvered back.

Late 19th century, early 20th century.

So 1850s, the United States sends some ships to Japan.

And by the late 1860s,

Japan more or less starts its whole modernization process.

And tourists can go over there, and there's a lot more trade.

And this stuff is the rage.

You know, this is definitely not something a GI brought back

that was there in the 1950s or something like that.

This is much earlier.

So this was most likely sold to tourists.

You can just tell the way it's made and everything like that.

The hardware, the glass.

♪ ♪

How much do you want for it? - I'd like $1,000.

- OK, too much money. - OK.

- All right. It's kind of a tough sell.

You know what I mean? It's just, who collects these?

Not a lot of people.

You're probably going to absolutely hate my offer.

I'd give you 100 bucks for it.

- Could you do 250?

- I'll give you 150 bucks for it.

- If you throw in a polo shirt, I'll take 150.

- Uh, throw in a polo shirt?

- One of your polo shirts, I'll take 150.

- Well, not one of mine. Maybe one out of the gift shop.

- Yeah, that'd be fine.

- Fine. 150 bucks and a shirt.

I'll meet you right over there, and we'll do some paperwork.

- OK, sounds good.

[upbeat rock music]

- May need to trim this up a little bit.

♪ ♪

- A guy came into the shop

with a "Planet of the Apes" Dr. Zaius doll

and two action figures from the 1970s.

All of them are in the original packaging

and in good condition.

But he wants $1,375 for all three.

There are certain "Planet of the Apes" toys

that are collectible, but I'm not sure which ones,

so I've asked Steve Johnston to come over

and take a look before I monkey around with any offers.

I have some "Planet of the Apes" toys here.

And basically, I want to know what you know about these

and go over the condition of them

with me here because these are really cool.

They're unpunched.

But this one looks a little beat-up,

but it's still a nice box.

- Well, you know the "Planet of the Apes" franchise

was and continues to still be really big.

It doesn't have the fanfare as some of those other franchises

that we might know, when you think

of, like, "Star Wars" or some of the stuff that came out.

During this time when these toys

started to be produced,

they were kind of behind the eight ball.

And what you had is you had manufacturers

who are starting to go to their superstars

and start to create, you know, toys around them.

And Mego was one of those companies

that really led the charge for that.

- So what do you think about the condition overall of these?

- Do you mind if I take a look? - Yeah, absolutely.

- This one, really nice condition.

You can see the sticker was removed off of here.

In fact, I can look at this

and I can tell you that this was a Toys "R" Us item.

- [chuckles]

- So this was actually sold or purchased from Toys "R" Us.

Overall, the card is nice.

And yes, the hanger tab is unpunched,

which is really great.

Now the Soldier Ape, this card has gotten

some type of moisture damage at some point.

We can see that from the waviness of it.

The great thing is if you're going to have a card

that's not in the better of conditions,

you'd rather it be the better character.

- Yeah.

- And any of the apes in this line are very desirable.

- OK, and then the Dr. Zaius.

- Yeah, box is in decent condition.

You got some break and separation here.

Just to find this in the box is pretty good.

And it does actually affect the value

on this overall quite a bit.

- So what value would you put on these?

- So I'll start with the Dr. Zaius.

In this condition, with that box,

I think that it would be fair for you to expect

to get $300 for that item. - OK.

This one, the Peter Burke this one, I would say you'd

expect to get 175 for as it sits.

I think the Soldier Ape,

you would expect to get $400 for it.

So for the three, I think 875 is a fair number.

- All right. Well, I appreciate you, Steve.

- No problem. Good luck. - Thank you. Appreciate it.

- All right, so I know you're valuing them a little more,

but, you know, I do have to take into consideration

what my guy said.

I would go about 500 on the trio of all three of them.

What are you thinking about that?

- May I ask if we just did the two?

- Maybe, like, 400?

- I would do these two at 450.

- Would you go 425?

- I kind of want to stay at 450 on this.

- All right, since you're leaving me

with the most desirable piece, I'll go 450 for you.

- Yeah. - All right.

You can take Peter Burke.

I'll meet you at the counter and we'll get you paid.

- Sounds good.

- What have we got here?

This is a nurse's hat signed by Louise Fletcher

from the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

And I have a certificate of authentication.

- Nurse Ratched herself? - Yeah.

- I mean, if you collect stuff from villains,

this is the one to have. [laughter]

- I'm here to sell a Nurse Ratched's hat

signed by Louise Fletcher from the movie

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

It was an iconic movie,

and everybody understands and knows Nurse Ratched.

After I got it autographed,

I went and got it authenticated

because I knew with the authentication

it would be easier to sell.

I'm asking $125 for my signed Nurse Ratched hat.

If I'm able to get $125 for it,

I'm going to buy my granddaughter Olivia

something here in Vegas.

- Really cool.

I mean, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," you know,

I don't think anyone expected it to be such an amazing movie

and do so well.

She actually won an Oscar for this movie.

I mean, she was absolutely scary.

Where did you get it?

- I was at a convention and she was present

and she signed it.

- Yeah, so we got Louise Fletcher, Nurse Ratched.

And this is a nurse's hat.

And I'm assuming it goes together, something like--

bam.

I'm old enough to remember when nurses wore hats like this.

[laughter]

♪ ♪

- It's a good look. [chuckles]

- I think nurses should bring these back.

I think they're kind of cool-looking.

I like it. How much you want for it?

- $125.

- Um, you know what?

That's probably what she charges for it, OK?

So I'd give you 75 bucks for it.

I can't pay you retail.

Cool movie, iconic movie.

If you're a movie guy and you collect movie stuff,

this is the thing to have.

But remember, I got to frame it up

and I got to do a bunch of other stuff.

75 bucks.

- 100 bucks, you got a deal.

- 75 bucks.

- 85, you got a deal.

- 75 bucks and you don't have to take the pills.

- It's an iconic movie. She's an award-winner.

85 bucks. It fit like a glove.

- 85 bucks. We got a deal.

All right, sweet. - All right.

- All right, I will meet you

right over there and get you paid.

- OK, thanks.

- Literally one of the scariest people in movies ever.

Creepy.

♪ ♪

- What have we got here?

- I have a very special guitar.

- All right, let's put it on this.

- It's a Ribbecke Monterey. - OK.

I know in, like, the early 1970s,

he built his first guitar in his dorm room.

I don't know how college really worked out for him

because he moved to San Francisco

and opened up his first guitar shop.

And the rest is kind of history.

- I am here to sell my Ribbecke Monterey

premium-grade jazz guitar.

This guitar has a number of special features,

including quilted maple back and sides,

ebony fretboard, tailpiece, and bridge,

and mother of pearl inlays.

This guitar is special because it is a one-off,

so there's no two guitars exactly the same.

I had open heart surgery a little less than a year ago.

I'm looking to make enough to have a little bit of a profit

and then also to cover my medical costs.

- Definitely really cool.

I mean, he's kind of like almost this mythical guy.

I mean, did he play in any famous rock bands?

Did he ever work for Fender or Gibson or anything like that?

- Not that I'm aware of.

- Kind of a hard market to get into and be one

of the best in the world at.

He's done so well in this business,

and he's such a good luthier.

You just kind of have to know somebody to know somebody

to get a hold of him, right? - Pretty much.

You know, one-off customs

basically for every single one he does.

The archtop guitars are what he's kind of really known for.

And when someone pulls one of these things out,

that guy's probably been working in the music industry

for a very, very long time and has probably made a very,

very large amount of money doing it.

- What do you do for a living?

How do you acquire something like this?

- I'm a retired teacher.

I do a little buying and selling of guitars.

I found this at the estate sale of the original owner.

- Do you have any idea what they would cost new?

- Last time I checked, it was about 30 grand.

- And what's the waiting list like to get one of these?

- It was about two years.

- It's a beautiful guitar.

I have never seen one of these in my life.

So what are you looking to get out of it?

- I'm looking for $15,000.

- I got 20 years in this business,

and I'm just pulling out little things

I've heard over the past 20 years about this thing.

It could be worth 20,000. It could be worth 50,000.

It could be worth 5,000. I have no idea.

My buddy Mike, he's here in town.

He's my guitar guy.

Could I have him take a look at it?

He'll really help me out.

- I would love to have Mike come and look at it.

- Well, hang out for a minute,

and I'm going to go grab him, OK?

- Sounds good.

- Sounds good.

- There's a guy in the shop

with a 1999 Ribbecke Monterey jazz guitar

that he's looking to get $15,000 for.

This thing looks incredible,

but I've never seen a Ribbecke before,

so I called our guitar expert, Mike Ball,

to come down and let me know if this is a good deal

to get jazzed about or not.

Saved by the bell, man. Help me out here, Mike.

- [chuckling] Hey, Corey.

- Thank you very much for coming down.

- What's going on, man?

That's one hell of a guitar you got here.

- Thank you. - It's a Ribbecke archtop 1999.

- You can't really broach the conversation

of archtop luthiery without talking about Tom Ribbecke.

Consummate innovator, 50 years in the game.

You go back to the very first splash

that he made in the 1970s with his Sound Bubble guitar,

I mean, nothing looks like this.

It's a flat-top acoustic guitar

that looks like it just won a hot dog eating contest.

And that would lead him to make his Halfling guitar,

which is really the big Ribbecke guitar

that you hear about.

If you're talking about Ribbecke,

you're talking about the Halfling.

Not only has he made incredible guitars,

but he's brought up another generation

of luthiers under him.

May I pick it up? - Please.

- Let's take a look here.

Beautiful hand-carved, quilted maple back and sides,

some nice birdseye in the neck,

ebony appointments as per usual for Ribbecke,

and graduated, hand-carved spruce top.

Beautiful example you have here.

- Thank you.

- So, Corey, what questions or concerns do you have for me?

- I mean, it's such a rare guitar that every one of them

is basically a one-off guitar.

I have no idea how to price this thing.

- They're highly collectible,

but they also only speak to a fairly narrow range of players.

You're talking professional jazz players

who are seeking a very refined sound.

They're going to go for Ribbecke.

- So what do you think it could be worth?

- There are Montereys on the market

that have roughly this feature set

and around $12,000 would be a comfortable median

for what these go for used.

- I appreciate you coming down.

I'll let you know what happens with it.

- Yeah, absolutely. Anytime.

- Mike, very nice to meet you. - Pleasure.

- OK, so I know you want 15,000.

I'm being told 12,000 is what I could sell it for.

I can't give you 12,000. I've got to pay the bills here.

- I understand.

- I'm feeling 8,000 because as cool as it is,

it's going to take me a minute to sell it.

- I could do 11,000.

- I can offer you 10,000.

- 10,500. Yeah.

- [sighs]

Fine, man. You got a deal.

All right, I'll do 10,500. - Let's it.

- Let's do it. - Thank you.

- Go ahead and pack it up. I'll meet you over there.

We got some paperwork we got to do.

- Very good.

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- How's it going, guys?

- Pretty good. How are you doing?

- Good.

- Let's go ahead and throw it up on here.

- Let's do that. - So what do you got here?

- So I have a signed photo of Rin Tin Tin,

and I think Lee Duncan's signature, his owner.

- OK.

Rin Tin Tin was one of the biggest stars in silent movies.

Rin Tin Tin would sign stuff.

- Paw print's right there.

- It's not--a paw print is not a signature.

- Tell Pinky that.

- [chuckles]

- I'm here to sell my signed photograph

of Rin Tin Tin and Lee Duncan.

The photo has been in our family for 80 years

and was handed down to me by my father.

The photo is in unbelievable condition.

We've taken fantastic care of it.

My uncle even handmade a frame for it.

I'm asking 7,500 for my signed photo of Rin Tin Tin.

- This is pretty cool.

Rin Tin Tin's first movie, blockbuster success.

So then they immediately want Rin Tin Tin

you know, to do a bunch more movies.

He was so popular,

thousands and thousands of people were writing in

for Rin Tin Tin's autograph. - Yeah.

- So Lee Duncan would personally

write out all this stuff on photos of Rin Tin Tin

and put his paw print on it.

- It's unbelievable.

I mean, I think it was, like, a million letters a year

that he received.

- So how did you get this?

- So my great-grandfather was friends

with a bartender in Boston

in a very famous bar that's still around.

And he would ask every famous actor that came in

to give him a signed photo to hang behind the bar.

- So you're telling me Rin Tin Tin was a drinker?

- He was. You never know.

- That's your kind of dog, Rick.

- [laughs]

- OK, it's pretty cool.

And is this signed to your grandfather?

- It's signed to the original bartender.

both: OK.

- So how much you want for it?

- I was going to hopefully get about 7,500.

- Where did you come up with that number?

- It was sort of a random number.

We were just doing research on Rin Tin Tin artifacts,

and they're hard to find.

- Yeah. Super popular back in the day.

Not that many people in the world left know who he is.

I mean, I'm sure when you originally got this,

you had no idea who he was, did you?

- My father had always told me the stories,

but I'm sure without that, no. - OK.

Yeah, I mean, I'd give you 200 bucks for it.

It's very, very obscure.

Quite frankly, there's not that many collectors for it left.

- I think we're a little too far apart.

- OK. All right, well, thanks for bringing it in.

- I appreciate your time, guys.

Thank you. - Thank you.

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- Hey, I got something really cool for you.

- I'm assuming they're Shania Twain boots

because that's the living legend right there.

- Yes.

- How would the world did you get these?

- It was a know somebody that knows somebody

that got us some amazing seats

and got invited to a private charity event afterwards.

So she signed them right there on the stage.

- I know that it's impossible to get tickets,

but I think I can pull some strings

and get some because I know somebody

who knows somebody who knows somebody.

And I'm known for that. [laughter]

[cash register rings]

- I'm here at the pawn shop today

hoping to sell my Shania Twain stage-worn concert boots.

Shania wore these boots in 2012

and I actually got to see her wear those boots.

And then a year later, I went to a charity event

where I got to buy the boots.

My asking price for the boots

is not nearly what I paid for them,

but I'm asking 1,500 for them.

- Pretty cool.

Shania Twain is the biggest-selling

female country artist ever.

I think she had one album sold over, like,

40 million copies or something like that.

Won a Grammy, nominated for multiple Grammys.

Sort of faded out for a while, comes to Vegas,

the comeback tour,

and Vegas is where you start every comeback tour.

- It was an amazing concert.

I think I did four or five of them with my wife.

It was an amazing moment for me.

- Those are little. - They're size 5.

She looks bigger on camera, but she's very tiny.

- So whose bed they've been under?

- So they-- my wife's worn them.

They've been under our bed for a while.

It's really weird that they have holes drilled in them.

- There's a story behind that.

- OK, what's the story behind the holes in the boots?

- So when she used to fly in on the motorcycle,

they had tassels that would be tied through the boots.

- They did not include the tassels, though?

- No tassels.

- All right.

I don't even really need to call on anybody

to, like, verify it.

I mean, you've got the pictures right here.

We have Shania Twain signing them

and you and Shania Twain with the boots.

- Absolutely amazing moment.

- Now, the big question. How much you want for 'em?

- Well, I paid a lot more than you will ever pay for them,

but I'm asking 1,500 for them. - OK.

You bought them at a charity auction,

so it's not about the price at the charity event.

It's about giving to a good cause.

- Yes. - OK?

And that's why the prices at charity auctions

mean nothing in the real world, OK?

- Yeah, I'm with you. [chuckles]

- OK? I would give you 500 bucks.

- I still would like, like, 650 for them.

- 500 bucks, and I'm being generous at that.

- I got it. - That's what I can do.

- OK, I'll take it.

- All right, sweet. We've got a deal.

- Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

- All right. - Thank you very much.

- I'll get you right over there and I'll get you paid.

- All right. Thank you very much.

- All right. OK. - Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Hello. - Hello.

I brought you in some Papua New Guinea

unusual breastplates to look at.

- OK. You don't see this very often.

This is obviously a necklace. - That is.

- OK. All right, so maybe this is, like, a headdress, or?

- I was thinking it was a tighter necklace,

but it could be a headdress.

It could even be worn, probably, as a front skirt.

- It could be a front skirt.

I was leaning maybe towards headdress just because,

you know, I don't think you'd want these up in your throat.

- No, not too high.

- No, possibly down here,

if you didn't have quite the tummy that I had.

- [chuckles]

I'm here to sell my two Papua New Guinea breastplates.

I collect unusual jewelry pieces,

and being I can't wear too much of it,

I usually try to decorate my house with it.

I'm willing to part with these because I just downsized

from a much larger townhouse into a smaller condo,

and I'm losing all my wall space.

For the two breast plates, I would like to get $250 each.

- This is interesting.

What can you tell me about this stuff?

- Well, I actually picked them up at a yard sale

here in Las Vegas about eight years ago.

The only thing that was told to me

is that the tusks are pig tusks.

There are some unusual shells, cowrie shells, I understand,

some parrot feathers.

I'm not quite sure what the long, fluffy feathers are.

They're old, but I don't know how old.

- Papua New Guinea's been inhabited for, I think,

you know, something like 50,000 years.

And they still live relatively off the land.

You know, they still would make stuff like this up into,

you know, modern times.

- Mm-hmm. - Maybe even still today.

And it's a small island

and there's a bunch of different languages on there.

So these people would settle in different tribes

and they all make really cool tools and, you know, jewelry.

These kinda look like ceremonial-type pieces to me.

- That's a good possibility they were.

- Do you have a price in mind? - I was thinking of 250 each.

- I mean, that seems pretty fair to me.

But I do have some questions.

I would like to have someone come down

and take a look at these, if you don't mind.

- I don't mind at all.

I'd love to have more information.

- Perfect. All right, give me a moment.

I'm going to call down a guy named Bob Dodge.

I've had him come down for Papua New Guinea stuff before.

I think he'll be able to help share some information

on these pieces with us.

- Oh, I'm anxious to hear him.

- Well, let me get him down here

and see what he has to say.

- That sounds great.

- A woman came into the shop with what she believes

to be a headdress and a breastplate

from a tribe in Papua New Guinea.

I do think they're authentic, but I'd like more information,

so I'm having Bob Dodge come over.

♪ ♪

Hey, Bob. - Chum, how are you?

- Pretty good. How are you doing?

- Hi. Bob. - Hi, Bob. I'm Day.

- Good to meet you.

- So Day has these two pieces here,

which she believes are from PNG.

- May I? - Do you mind, Day?

- No, please, please.

- So definitely Papua New Guinea.

Two very distinct pieces, both from the lowlands.

So Papua New Guinea is perhaps

the most remote area of the world.

There are 700 different tribes. - Wow.

- On any given day,

one tribe will want to kill their next-door neighbor

and the next day,

they may want to trade with their next-door neighbor.

So these are from the Abelam people.

This is called a karahut.

If you're getting ready to fight your neighbor,

it would be worn

in the mouth like this. - Oh.

- And this represents the life,

the tusks representing hanging your enemy off of the tusk.

And then it could be worn as a necklace

when you're in a more peaceful frame of mind.

This guy is a headdress. - Oh, OK.

- It would be worn in the front.

So boar tusks, cowrie shell, cassowary feathers.

- Oh, cassowary.

- This is a bird the size of an ostrich

that will kill you in a heartbeat, just a mean bird.

- So you think they're authentic?

- They are authentic-ish.

I mean, the height of PNG art was pre-1960.

That's when everything was tribally used.

After that, the natives discovered

they could start selling artifacts.

So this is kind of in that time period, 1960 to 1975.

You can see that this has been worn,

so there's nice sweat from being danced,

but maybe worn once or twice

and then sold to a missionary or a tourist.

The headdress shows much less wear.

You can see the string has probably never been tied.

You don't see signs of excessive sweat,

so more likely made for selling.

- OK. What kind of value do these pieces have?

- I would price this one at 600 bucks.

- Wow.

- And for the headdress, I'd put 400 bucks on that one.

- Oh, OK.

- So about 1,000 bucks' worth of value here.

- About 1,000 bucks.

- All right, well, appreciate you, Bob.

Thanks for coming out. - Thank you.

- [chuckles] Thank you, Bob. - Good luck.

- Nice meeting you. - You bet.

- Thank you.

- Would you still be willing

to take the 500 you're asking for?

- I think that's fair. Yes, I would.

- All right, we got a deal. - That's great.

- So you can leave these here.

Come follow me and I'll get you paid.

- OK.

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♪ ♪

- Steve Grad comes into the pawn shop every

once in a while to authenticate autographs for customers.

I have some very special signatures

that I have for him to look at and authenticate for me today.

- Thank you. - Sure.

♪ ♪

- Steve. - How are you?

- I'm good. Say hi, Pinky.

- Hi, Pinky. Good to see you.

- So I need your services.

- Oh, God.

- I need to get Pinky's autographs authenticated.

That way, people know it's her paw print.

- I--I don't really authenticate paw prints.

You can't. - You're good.

I know you can do it.

Look, I have her paw right here.

You can verify it with your ProScope.

- Yeah, being good and everything is one thing,

but, like, you can't really--

- All right, what are you guys arguing about?

- Well--

- Steve is refusing to authenticate Pinky's autograph.

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I need to get Pinky's paw print authenticated

so I can sell these things.

- To be fair, he wouldn't authenticate the Rin Tin Tin

autograph either because it's not actually an autograph.

It's a paw print. - Which is her autograph.

- Did Rin Tin Tin know Rin Tin Tin was doing this?

- Yeah. Pinky knows she's doing it.

- I get it. - Yeah.

- We understand how much you love Pinky.

But I think you're going to have to have

just a certificate of authenticity

not from an autograph person, but maybe from you.

- I don't think Pinky is leaving

until she gets the authentication.

- I think I got to get back to work.

I'm sorry, Chum.

This isn't going to work for anybody.

- Um, Chum, there's people in line.

- I was going to give you one of these pictures,

but I don't think so anymore, Steve.

- Next.

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- Are you shooing me?

- See you, Chum. Thanks, Rick.

- I've got to get back to work. [laughs]