- This is what I love right here.
The honey man, look at them!
- The honey man. - And he's got peanuts.
- What you want to see? You're in cajun territory.
- I love it. - Wow!
- Ramcharger!
- What's going on with these? Where did these doors come off of?
- They need to go with you. - Three grand.
I love my gas and oil.
- All that treasure hunting.
- There's one with a sword in it.
- A little of everything. - Wow!
Wow, you've been holding out for the day,
What is going on in here?
(♪)
(honking)
(chuckling)
- Okay, jersey.
Work your magic, baby.
Alright!
Hey! - Hi!
- Hey, you mary? - I sure am.
- You talked to dani on the phone?
- I sure did. - Hey, I'm mike.
Nice to meet you, hi. - Nice to meet you.
- This is jersey jon. - Hi, I'm jon.
- Hello, jersey jon. - Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you, mary. - Nice to meet you.
- What year is your house? It's gorgeous!
- It's 1898. - I love these columns,
These fluted corinthian columns, they're beautiful.
- Aren't they gorgeous? I love it, thank you so much.
- This is the stuff we're looking for.
- Oh. My name is mary, and I live in lafayette.
- She said you had a bunch of old paintings, some rugs.
- I really believe in the investment quality of antiquities.
- What you want to see? You're in cajun territory.
- I love it. When you look beyond
The ragin' cajun sweatshirt,
You can obviously see that mary is a renaissance woman.
I mean, she's standing in front of a home from 1898.
If you live in a home like this,
You're going to be somebody that appreciates the culture,
The history, and the architecture.
- These were the first streetlights in bowdoinham, maine.
- Wow.
- How are the lenses? This one's cracked.
- The glass is cracked?
- Yeah, I mean, it's that's not that big of a deal.
- You can find that stuff, you can find that stuff.
I mean, you-- - oh that breaks my heart.
I love them. They've been with me for so long.
They live right there. - I mean, to be honest with you,
The lenses don't bother me that much,
But what bothers me is this piece here.
- Broken piece here. - I mean, that is not something
You're going to find. But the lenses aren't that big a deal.
So what were you going to do with these?
- I bought it from an auction, and I wanted to use them.
I had a shop at that time.
- Oh you had an antique shop? - Yeah.
- How long did you have an antique shop?
- A few years. I opened it in '95, and then...
- Was that here? Where at? - I'll show you pictures of it.
Here in town. - But these are from maine.
- Yes, sir. Everything that you're going to see today is from maine.
- So you have a home in maine as well?
- Yes. - Okay.
- So when you had your antique shop here then,
You were pulling from there... - I drove it down.
- So she was taking maine antiques and bringing them to the south.
Brilliant. - She geographically hit
The lottery when it comes to collecting, buying, and selling.
She grew up in maine, and she moved south,
So she traveled back and forth, so she lived in both worlds,
And she loved the history from both worlds.
What were you going to do with these?
- My shop was the first methodist church in lafayette,
Louisiana from the 1880s, I believe.
- Ooh... That sounds awesome. - And it was just,
It was just like the house. It was just adorable.
And so, I was going to put these outside there.
They have been sitting on that barbecue table for an awfully long time.
And it's not very nice of me.
- It's a cast iron base, the box is cast aluminum.
So what do you think, '30s? - I was thinking '20s.
- '20s? - This one doesn't want to open,
There it goes. But see the reflectors?
It's kind of like the motorcycle reflectors, the same thing.
It's got the bulb in the middle.
- Yep. See the lens here?
How it's broken, it's missing a piece right there?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - A chunk of it.
- You know, depending on how you display them, I mean,
Obviously... That's not really that big of a deal.
Once it's raised up, you're not going to see that as much.
I'm looking at these because I love old cars and I love old motorcycles.
Mary is looking at them like they're a piece of art, which is really cool.
Can I make you an offer on them? - Of course you can.
One that I can't refuse.
- Two-and-a-quarter apiece.
I think to the right guy, they're probably 450, 500.
Can you scooch any closer to 250 then...
200?
Scooch north.
- Scooch... Okay. (chuckling)
235.
- 235, it's sold.
- That's cool. Thank you, mary.
- Thank you, mary. - You're very welcome.
- Appreciate you. These are an easy sell.
They're transportation-related,
And all of this stuff is getting harder to find.
- Can't you peel the peel in one peel?
You just chomp into it and peel the whole thing, like this.
Once it starts, then you got to get the outside ring
Like that, see how I'm doing that?
Can't get the peel in one peel,
It's god... Geez, it's not that hard.
- Maybe... Maybe not. I mean, if you can do it, anyone can do it, right?
- Oh whatever. (laughing)
Challenge yourself, woman.
- Alright, so we're going to go meet a guy named kevin.
Now his dad passed away roughly about a year ago.
- Alright. - He's got model ts,
He's got studebakers, he's got an el camino, he's got chevys.
- So it's just cars? - From what I can see,
Just a big long massive room
Stuffed to the gills with bicycles and signage and...
- Okay. - It's a, it's a...
- Menagerie of everything that we all like.
- There you go, yeah.
Yeah, this is it right up here.
- Right here? - Right here, right here.
Pull right on in.
(honking) exciting.
- Got a flyer? - Yep, got it right here.
- You kevin? - Yeah, how's it going?
- What's going on?
How're you doing? - Good.
- Rob wolfe, good to see ya. You've been talking to danielle?
- Yeah. How are you doing? - Nice to see you.
- My name's kevin johnson.
My grandfather collected, my dad collected.
So there's 60 or so years
Of collection of stuff
That's related to automobilia
Or almost any kind of transportation things.
If it has wheels and you can drive it, then... My family likes it.
- She said you got one of everything on this property.
- Or 5 or 6... Something like that.
I'm not sure what it would be like not to collect stuff.
It's just always been around me.
My parents always told me on the way home from the hospital,
They stopped in an antique store.
I mean, for me it was almost, I guess, day one.
There's stuff everywhere.
That swap meet yesterday.
- You were at a swap meet yesterday?
You're buying more stuff. - Of course.
- I absolutely love seeing younger guys involved in the hobby.
So yeah, I see you got some, these aren't pre-war,
But you got a lot of bicycles here?
- Yeah, one or two. - Yeah?
- Yeah, I started buying them when I was pretty young.
I think in fifth grade or so, I found a stingray
And I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
- So what's the deal with all this in here?
I mean, you've got how much... This is all your dad's stuff in here?
- Umm... No.
A lot of it's probably mine.
- What did this start out as?
- A ford explorer.
A '91 ford explorer.
I bought it as a project, like this.
- Oh it was already... So everything was done to it.
- Yeah, yeah. I haven't done anything to it.
I just have too many projects and too many other things that
So many things just sit like this.
This is too much stuff.
Hard to walk around, it's hard to work on anything.
Moved down here from oregon... Seven, eight years ago.
My brother and his wife already lived down here.
- Okay. - And I always wanted
To come down here. My friends were like,
"well, you know how much stuff we have."
- So this is when, this is when your dad was still with you.
- Yeah. - You helped your dad
Move down here? - Mm-hmm.
My dad passed a year ago, and...
That changed things.
Kind of realizing that there is way too much stuff,
There's way too much stuff for him.
He had a hard time being motivated to come out
And work on stuff, because he was the same thing,
There's too much stuff in here. Where do you start?
- Was your dad building cars?
That's where all these parts came from?
- Yeah. A lot of that, yeah.
If he had a car, when he was ever out and if he saw
A part for it, he'd buy it.
Everything he bought, he wanted to get done
And do and enjoy and...
And love, and...
A lot of them didn't happen.
And I think that's kind of, partly too, it's pushing me
On getting rid of some stuff.
So I can get those projects done.
A lot of this stuff can go. There's a lot of stuff here
That's for vehicles that we don't even have.
He would bring stuff home and be like,
"hey, look at what I bought, this is cool, this is awesome."
I'm like, "yeah it is." then kind of be like,
"can you find a place to put it?"
A lot of the car parts, like the hubcaps,
There's kind of a deal where, hey this is a great deal
On a whole bunch of them that,
Hey, I can sell these individually and make some money.
- Looking at what's in here, I mean, he was the hubcap king.
- There's two.
Yeah, this one's got a little dent in it.
25 bucks for the pair.
- Yeah, I'm cool with that. - That fair? Alright.
Appreciate it. - Cool.
- These hubcaps go to either '58, '59, or '60 impala.
- Check that out.
- Don quixote. - Isn't that beautiful?
Don quixote was written by miguel de cervantes in the early 1600s.
See now, this would have had some sort of fabric behind here.
- Yeah, something like, probably to diffuse the light or something.
(gasps)
- Did you see that? Woof!
- Yeah, that's arizona.
You live out here in the desert and...
A dirt road and...
- You know, if you look right here,
There's a little mark, and I think it says 1925.
In 1925, when this lamp was made, the legacy
Of don quixote had been around for 300 years.
What do you think? - I don't know,
You want to do 50 for that?
- I'm going to say 80 feels more fair than 50.
- Yeah. - Alright, that's it.
- I'm happy with that. Cool. - 80. Okay.
- Awesome. - Oh, what a good way
To start the day.
- When you're a collector, you appreciate properties
With so much story and history.
I just want to see the bottom, you got it?
- I got it, bro.
- This is the way you want to find stuff like this.
You want to pull it out, you want to preserve it,
And you want to resurrect it. It's coming apart.
- Yep. - Yeah, be careful, careful.
- They're beautiful.
- These were cooper's columns. These are all individual pieces.
The coopering is coming apart. It's a glue joint
And it's got a v that goes into a male and a female.
- So this would have been glued. - Yes, it would have been glued.
They would glue it, and they would nail it,
And the glue would dry. - What time period?
- These are 1880. These are cypress too, aren't they?
- Yes. - The fact that they're cypress,
I mean, they're going to be around forever.
I mean, these things are like keith richards,
They're going to outlive us all.
- This is cathedraling, and that's typical of cypress.
- And that's the grain? This is what I love about picking with jersey.
Anytime we find anything architectural, especially wood, we both geek out on it.
This thing hasn't seen the sun in a while.
- No, it needs the sun.
It's amazing that they're in that good a shape.
- It really is. - These should have a new life,
They should be repurposed. The white paint makes it too.
- Yeah, the white paint is great.
- I love the way the paint looks.
- Yeah. - 225 apiece.
- Say 260 apiece.
I mean, you might leave mad at me, or you might leave
'cause you don't like anything.
- We're not getting mad at you. - I'll do 260.
I'll do 260.
I'm never going to be mad at you, mary.
- Thank you, sir. - No, they're beautiful.
Thank you for selling them to us.
- They can make them beautiful,
And they can sell them or use them,
And have them be what they were meant to be.
I haven't been able to do that.
- What's going on with these? Where did these doors come off of?
- They need to go with you. - They need to go with me?
- Yeah, they really do. I don't have any place to put them.
I love all that stuff, I don't know how it can be resisted.
- Feel this right here. They're like the veneer's coming off or something, feel that.
- Yeah. See how they're laminated?
- Yeah. That's not the end of the world.
No. I mean, they've got great...
- Somebody could bring that to me and I could fix it.
- Oh, you're a woodworker? - Yeah.
- That's what jersey does. - Yeah.
- I refinished for years.
I appraised antiques for insurance purposes,
And I was paid for that. I was working for engineering
Companies, and just did antiques on the side,
Refinishing and appraising etc.
- Ah, it's too bad these have got some rot to them, these are gorgeous.
- Are they screen doors? - Yeah, look at the ging...
- Those were my pride and joy in their...
- Look at the gingerbread on those, man.
- They are gorgeous. - They are, but they're just...
Look at that, look at this side.
There's two of them, but look.
- Yeah, but what a nice decoration though, mike.
These doors have been sitting outside for so long,
The bottom of them is completely gone.
So when I'm looking at these, jersey's right,
They're decorator pieces. You know, they're not functional anymore.
No one's going to use them for a door anymore
Unless they spend the money on them,
Especially the screen doors.
That green paint and that sawtooth cut,
Hang it on the wall at an old diner or something.
That's the kind of stuff that grabs your eye.
I can poke my finger through this whole thing.
I know they can be fixed.
- I'm with you, I support you, whatever you do.
- Well, I appreciate that. - I do.
I do, I don't want to buy something I don't like.
- They have to be really reasonable.
- Well, how reasonable? - Like 200 bucks.
- Each? - No.
Because the thing is, at the end of the day, it's like...
- Did you get spanked a lot as a kid?
(laughing)
- Yeah. Probably.
Um, I'm looking at the hardware, the hardware's great.
- Even the screens are brass.
Look at this. - Yeah.
- I love that. - Yeah.
- You're buying the hardware, mike.
- Yeah. - 275.
Oh, look at you! - Yeah, nice.
- Oh you are so kind! - Very cool.
- You had me at "I support you either way."
- Thank you very much.
I meant it. - Alright.
I just think that these things are precious.
So... And I want other people to be able to enjoy them.
- Do you know where did these come out of louisiana?
- No sir, they came from maine. - Did they really? Okay.
- Let me tell you what I did one year.
- Okay. - I bought from the fairfield
Antique market 400 doors.
- Oh... How'd you transport them?
- Big box trucks. It was a kick.
- Yeah, and you're driving down the road with a smile
On your face... - I love it. And I'm by myself
And I have a stuffed beaver, a taxidermy beaver as my sidekick.
- All of these stories add up to what I've always said,
And that is, we have got the best job in the world.
Because we get to experience so much of this stuff, for the first time.
You know, and those are things that never leave you.
And they add up to a life well lived.
- Oh my god, it's so fun. - You know what it's all about.
- Finding, conquering, and bringing it home is so much fun!
- All that treasure hunting.
- That's exactly what you're doing.
That's exactly what you're doing.
- That's what we're all doing.
- Don't you remember this as a kid?
- Ahh...
Okay, don't go faster!
(laughing)
- I am not responsible if you hurt yourself.
So I do see a lot of model t.
And that's stuff that all came from your grandfather?
- No, I've started collecting a bunch of that stuff.
More or less to build into just kind of yard art stuff,
Like this stuff here.
- It looks perfect with the landscape.
- The vehicle's sitting outside, it's nice being here in arizona.
It's mostly dry 90% of the year.
So this stuff doesn't rust out like it does
Back in the rust belt on the east coast.
- How many buildings you got on this property, kevin?
- Uh... Couple buildings and then carport.
- Couple, two, three buildings.
- Yeah. - Wow.
Holy toledo! - Holy monkey.
- How do you find any parts in here?
- Uh... It's somewhat organized.
I mean, this is pretty much all model ts right here.
And... - Wow.
This building is packed to the gills with model t parts.
- This was supposed to be a workshop where we could work on things. But...
- And it became... - That kind of disappeared.
- I can see the work bench here.
This is exactly what my work bench was...
- That would be a nice good big work bench to work on things...
- They turned into tables. - All the bicycles parts on it.
- I'm looking around here and I'm thinking to myself,
You got plenty of projects, but there is no rhyme to the reason here.
- There's some, but...
That kind of goes out the window once you get a certain amount of stuff.
Stuff just kind of starts getting piled onto other stuff, so.
- There's stuff everywhere.
Wow, holy cow!
Are you a smalls guy like me?
It's a pile of killer smalls.
It's got the shift knobs, he's got the carburetors,
He's got license plate toppers.
This is what I've been looking for.
- Holy cow, look at that!
- I love smalls.
Holy toledo.
- This is kind of where I just put all the coolest stuff
I've found that... - Kevin.
- I'm like, this looks cool.
Kevin. - Bought that yesterday.
- You bought it yesterday? - Uh-huh.
- You knew I was coming.
(laughing) look at that.
- That's cool as can be.
- Mee-oww! - That is totally you.
- It says, "what's new pussycat" and it has this incredible female figure on it.
You into selling it? - I guess I could sell it
Before I fall in love with it.
- Are you falling in love with her?
A little bit.
- It seems like she liked it more than I liked it.
- I got her and then there's some other incredible plates.
The phoenix road gents. - Mm-hmm.
- They would just be amazing in the shop, for sure.
So, road gents and what's new pussycat.
- 130 bucks.
- Yeah. - Cool.
They're yours. - Thank you.
Thank you. I love it.
- Y'all want to go play? - Absolutely.
- Absolutely, let's go check it out.
- Let's go inside.
The air's not as fresh.
(laughing)
The personalities aren't as great.
- Okay. - Let's go do it.
- I think it's going to be awesome.
From the outside it looks good.
When you walk inside the house, this is where it all starts.
This is really neat. Look at this chair, jersey.
- Yeah, that's a cool chair. - Do you see a date
Or anything on it? - I can tell you
From the construction, it definitely looks civil war
Or right around civil war, for sure.
But the patina on this thing is fantastic.
- Would you sell this? - To you?
- Yeah. - I do love it.
I do love it. I'm very sentimentally attached to it.
- Well, it needs to stay here. - That's been in my kitchen
Since day one when I moved in here.
- So when you went back to maine all the time, I mean,
For antiques, did you go back because you also had family?
- My daughter now lives there, but she didn't then.
- So you always had the plans to do it.
- It's the attic of the united states of america.
Have you ever picked in maine? - Oh absolutely.
I love maine. Mary is not wrong.
Maine is the attic of america.
And if you're an antique dealer, it's a place that you dream about going, okay.
Once you're there, it's everything that you thought it would be.
Because the east coast is where this country began,
It's where america got started.
The ports were there, industry was there,
There was money there, jobs.
And then you crawl all the way up to maine, and it's more rural,
The industry leaders of this country built homes there.
So a lot of the things that were brought there, stayed there.
That's what she's talking about when she says
It's america's attic.
- Alright. So kevin, a couple of things.
So the two reflectors and a mirror.
- Umm... $60?
- Okay, I'll do that. - 20 bucks apiece.
- I'm trying to sqoosh through here without falling down here.
- Or knocking eight-billion other things down?
- Yeah, 8,000 other things down here.
You got a damn good eye.
What about this one?
- Yeah, it's some kind of light or reflector or something?
- It was a reflector. It's early.
- Yeah. - What do you want for that one?
- 40 bucks?
- 30.
- How about 35?
- Okay.
It's insane how much stuff is in here.
- And this is supposed to be the workshop where I could work on things.
- When was the last time you were out here working on a project?
- It's been a while. It was the '15 studebaker there.
- Oh you and your dad were working on this.
- Yeah. He liked early stuff. He bought that car specifically
'cause he wanted a horseless carriage.
And a horseless carriage is 1915 or older.
- Right. - It's a cool-looking car.
I would really like to finish all of the projects,
Like he wanted me to. But... That's not reality.
So, you know, I want to prioritize, you know, some...
Some ones that kind of have a meaning to me as well.
- Was this car ever on the road? - Yeah.
- What is this, a '20... - '22 chevy.
I rode in that a lot as a kid. - Yeah?
- I remember dad going to a few different car events, chevrolet stuff and that.
The '22 chevy, that is a project that's close to being done,
That I want to get done, 'cause I want to drive that thing.
I remember riding in my dad with... Riding in it with my dad.
And that got moved here into the workshop
Because I convinced him to get that moving again.
It's kind of like a memory for him. Hey, guess what, I got this project done.
This is what you want to get done and you didn't, but hey, I did it.
So... It's done.
- You want to take us in there? - Okay.
- Wooh. There's a lot in here.
- Yes. - Wow, this is crazy!
- Look at all this stuff in here, mike.
- I know.
Wow. Look at these, jersey.
That's for a massive fireplace, those andirons.
Take a look at grandma's rocking in here chair, it says,
"land sakes, I do believe I'll try one."
This is cool, brotherhood of locomotive engineers.
- Yeah, what is that, mike? That steam piece?
- Uh-huh.
(grunts) it's early, dude.
It's really cool.
- Oh yeah, look at that locomotive in the front.
This locomotive engineering diploma showcases
The importance of early american transportation.
I love this thing. - The colours are great.
- The locomotive in the middle there.
- Yes, there's locomotives all over it.
- The decoration on this diploma is pretty stunning.
Here's a diploma from a guy who actually went to school
To learn this new technology.
So this time in america, I mean,
This was the ultimate in technology. Steam power.
This changed america. - Absolutely.
- I mean, this got people all over the world,
And transported them, and also our goods and they built our country.
So something like this was a very, very, meaningful diploma.
- Life-changing. - Yeah, right.
- I think the piece is probably worth about $125.
- You can have it for 125.
- You got a deal.
(chuckling)
Mary. This is like an indian pouch or something.
- Yes. - Buckskin.
Hand-laced. Pretty early.
125.
- 137.13.
(laughing)
125 works. - 125, thank you, mary.
- Look at that jersey, look at that.
Baseball is america's pastime.
This is obviously the real deal.
It's an early mitt, but... - It's a wonderful mitt.
- Yeah. Let's do 70. - Okay.
- Alright, we'll do that, okay, thank you.
Sports memorabilia has always been hot.
Hell, half a honus wagner card almost brought
A half-a-million dollars recently.
I should be able to at least get 150 bucks for this.
Just to store cars and display stuff.
Automobilia stuff.
- Everything. - Everything, yeah.
- I see the everything.
- Wow!
- Shoot!
The photos didn't do this space justice at all.
It did not prepare me for the enormity of what I'm seeing.
- Holy cow!
Everything is in here.
There's toys, there's cars, there's trucks.
There's gas pumps, there's signs.
This is the stuff we've been looking for.
Wow, you've been holding out for the day.
What's going on in here? - Save the best for last, right?
- Holy cow! - Had to build up to it.
- Geez louise. - Who was the toy collector?
This is nuts!
- Oh, my dad really liked toys.
- He was into everything.
Charlie the majestic macarthur right there.
- Yeah, isn't that cool?
- Charlie mccarthy was one of the most popular
Dummies of the 1930s.
He was created by ventriloquist edgar bergen.
Their back-and-forth edgy off-colour jokes made them hugely popular.
They had a massive following, which led to merchandise like this radio.
This is around 1930s is what I would say.
Character radios.
Well, the pluses are that it's intact.
You typically see these radios retail for about 1,200 bucks.
The fact that the cord's frayed, it's missing the back,
It's going to need a little work, but you know what, there's no cracks in it.
Charlie mccarthy is intact, he still has his monocle.
350.
- Uh...
I know my mom's pretty fond of it.
I know she probably wouldn't want to go anywhere less than like $500 for it.
- 475.
- I'll do it, I'll do it.
(laughing)
- Oh wow... So this is all your like, favourite pieces?
- Some. That's my buck.
I have a lot of stags, yeah. - Here, come on in here.
So I would say, I mean, I just...
Meeting you and looking around, you specialize in art.
- I love everything. - Here's a cool light.
You only got the one? - Yeah.
- Oh man. See this?
Basically, someone dropped it, is what I think happened, from a pretty far spot.
You know, like... Pow!
Because the bottom of it's kind of exploded a little bit.
But overall, here's the deal, it's very old,
It's something that somebody would use for parts if they're doing a brass era car.
The brass era is a term that car collectors use that define
A time period from the late 1800s to about 1915.
Things were brass on cars, brass radiators, brass horns, brass lights.
I love it because it's self-contained, it's early automotive.
Okay, so this is a self-contained head-lamp.
Meaning the fuel source is in the light itself.
There is not a hose that comes off of the light
And goes to a fuel source like a tank.
I'd do, in the condition it's in, I'd do um... 200 bucks.
(sighing)
- That was a big breath.
- 225.
It's a good deal, huh. - It's cool.
I absolutely love it.
- World of wheels right here. - Yeah.
- There's just so many of them.
What's super cool about this collection of skateboards
That kevin has specifically, is that it shows
The entire early evolution of skateboarding.
We all love to collect what it is that makes us feel alive,
Feel excitement about life, right?
Who doesn't like to wake up and just cruise?
And skateboards give you that excitement even if your body is completely broken down,
You can't skate anymore, you can pop that sucker up on your wall,
And it reminds you of those exciting times
In your childhood every single time you look at it.
All these banana boards. You got 9, 10, 11.
And I haven't even looked around the corner yet.
- I see that there's some there.
All those skateboards, I started buying those
When I started skateboarding in middle school.
- Look it, that's 10 cents on that board right there.
- Got a pretty good deal on that one, right?
- Yeah. Banana boards were the inception of skating.
- Yeah, that was metal wheels.
- Yeah, these are the metal wheel ones,
Like we're straight off the roller-skates.
They were really uncomfortable, and usually it was just a pair
Of roller-skate wheels, the metal ones,
That were just stuck right onto the bottom of the board.
Would you be willing to part with 10 of them?
- You're talking the plastic banana board style ones?
- Yeah, I think each of them are probably like '70s, '80s.
Um... How about 10 for 100 bucks?
- Uhh... Really I was thinking probably more close to like 200.
- So that's about 20 bucks each. - Yeah.
- Before we agree on this, let's talk about the chalkies.
These ones, they're older.
And they have the chalky wheels here.
- Yeah, those are probably more '50s, '60s.
- Yeah, these are going to be older, these are going to be worth more money.
Okay, what about this? I'm good at 20 bucks per deck on the banana boards.
- Okay. - If I can get five of the chalkies
For... 50 bucks each.
- Yeah, yeah.
- That feels alright? - I'd be willing to do that.
Sure. - Love it.
Alright, sweet. - Cool.
- I'm in. - Awesome.
- This is an incredible stockpile.
There are still skateboard collectors out there
That would kill for these boards.
Want to see what's in here.
Yeah, it's like a... Silver. Sure.
Yeah, it's got like a silver coin in there.
Look at this one, it has a bone top,
With a mother-of-pearl diamond in the top.
Any old cane can help you walk,
But a nicely decorated cane
Was a symbol for a distinguished gentleman.
This is 1890s, the gilded age.
So a lot of these canes are coming from civil war soldiers.
I mean, they're walking with a cane for a reason.
They got a bad leg, they're amputees, whatever.
That cane is a swagger stick, it's also a symbol of wealth
Or importance for distinguished gentlemen.
There's one with a sword in it.
- Yep. - Look at that.
You want to sell me any of these canes?
- How much do you want to pay for them?
- Well, here's what I'll do. How about we do 800 for these?
- No, sir. I think I can get 800
For either one of these and that one.
- Well, um... These are nice canes,
But they're not the real valuable ones.
I sell canes all the time.
I know the value of these things.
I guess we're too far apart on these canes.
- I hate that. - And that's fine.
- Mary's pricing these things out like,
She's so close to retail, I'm going to have a hard time
Making any money on these things.
- I love them. - Yeah, I see that.
- No, I really do. - I see that.
- And I think I'm being fair.
To sell you... For you to sell it... Price.
- Well, we have a difference of opinion in that, so.
- I know. - And that's the way
It has to end. And that's fine.
I mean, I buy stuff for my shop all the time.
If she decides she wants to sell these canes,
We'd make a deal later on.
- This is an early piece of advertising
For old overholt bottled and bond.
A cardboard piece, would have stood on the counter.
And this probably would have went into a liquor store.
This is a large piece that has a lot of presence,
It's very big, it's an open book.
And it's the book of rye.
It's not in great condition, but anything spirits is hot right now, man.
- 265. - 200.
- And 10. - 210.
- 210! - 210.
- Dude, you were not kidding about the bicycles and the cars.
- Pretty much if it has wheels and it goes or...
- Yeah. - Wow!
- Ramcharger!
- My parents bought it brand new.
My dad ordered that special from the dealer.
He wanted this as an off-road vehicle,
So he could go to pismo beach with his buddies.
- Look at the condition of it. - The interior looks just fine.
- Yeah. - This ramcharger,
People used to think how ugly they were.
But now, they've just become crazy popular.
- It's a '72... - So it's like almost
The first year. - Yeah, this is the first year
'cause it's the early style. If you notice there,
There's no pillar around the door, it's part of the top,
Where the window rolls up to.
- Right. So when the top comes off, that whole piece comes off.
- That whole pillar piece goes with it.
They changed it half a year because they just didn't seal
Very well and they would leak.
It's been... Up and sitting and not driving now for... 20 years?
We used it to tow a couple of vehicles up to oregon,
And on some hills, it had some overheating issues
Pulling the trailer going up hills.
- I mean, is this something that you guys might sell, or...?
- Ugh... I don't know.
That would probably be something I would have
To check with my mom on.
- You think she'd want to talk?
- Yeah, probably.
- Bring mama! - Bring mama!
- I can go find her. - Mom ain't happy,
Ain't nobody happy, so. (laughing)
- Oh... So mary says she's not an art collector of any kind.
But this whole room is literally filled with art.
There's not a spot on the wall that doesn't have art,
On the floor, art stacked up against the walls like cord wood.
It's beautiful, it's awesome, but she just...
She can't acknowledge that she's an art collector.
And the thing is with collecting art,
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Look at this auto tire oldest goodyear service station.
- I know, that's totally me.
- Fairfield avenue. - That piece I'm interested in.
I'd love to frame that. - Okay.
- When you look around the room, you see all the hard work,
All the moments and the miles, all the discoveries,
All the digging and uncovering and finding.
You know, she's being a mentor to me, without saying a word.
Because I'm looking at all her hard work,
And I'm looking at everything that she's bought.
And she's got such a great eye.
You remember buying this?
It's a photograph, and it says right here...
- Godchaux's? That says godchaux's.
- Godchaux's, yeah, godchaux's. - 1912.
- So godchaux's was a department store.
- Good grief. - I like that.
I like that, 'cause it's automotive.
And then this is neat.
This speaks of maine to me.
Somebody stitched that.
- That's the old seaman.
I think these are good, good things.
- Well, I hope so.
I mean, you got a good eye, you work...
- Everybody freaks out over my stuff that I get and...
- You worked hard for it. - I did.
I loaded and unloaded...
- When people are freaking out over your stuff,
That's a compliment to you. I've always felt that.
- I have so much fun.
- What are you thinking on the tire piece, I mean?
- I don't know. - The top of the calendar says
"oldest goodyear service station."
This is for a service garage.
I mean, think about how early this is.
It's beautiful. It's ripped and torn, but man,
If it was framed and matted, it'd be an incredible piece.
Transportation history advertising.
This is a company that's been around since the turn-of-the-century.
In the early 1900s, they created the first tubeless tire for cars.
They made stuff for the aviation industry, the motorcycle industry,
The bicycle industry. This is a really premier piece to me,
Even though the condition's not great.
I'd pay two-and-a-quarter.
I mean, it does need to be preserved,
It needs to be framed-- - 280.
- Okay, 280. If I do 280 on that, how much is the picture?
- I don't know. 250?
- I'd do two. - I'll do two with you.
And what are you on the photograph?
- 175.
- Yeah, you can have it for that.
- Okay. I love it.
- Alright, I got my mom.
- Hey, what's going on? Mickie.
- Hi. - Hi.
- I heard so much about you.
Rob wolfe. Good to see ya.
- We've had a lot of fun today.
- Good. - Fred had one heck
Of a collection here. - Yes, he did.
- What did you collect?
- Well, vintage clothing for one thing,
So that I'd have some place to...
(laughing) - love vintage clothing.
- ...Something to wear in all the cars.
We would dress up for different cars.
The '28 and the flapper era.
- Ooh... Yeah.
- I did collect a lot, just hoping that we were gonna
Have some of the cars on the road, and it didn't happen.
- We see this incredible car out here, the ramcharger.
And we were talking to kevin about it.
Is this something that you really want to hold onto?
- Well, I think fred was more attached to it than I was.
But... There's a lot of memories involved.
We went to pismo a lot of years, went 4-wheeling and,
Had a lot of fun with friends.
- Would you guys even entertain an offer on it?
- Oh I think I'm just still too attached to it.
I don't think I'm ready yet to give it up.
- This thing is amazing. I wouldn't want to sell it either, honestly.
But you did say you had some clothes.
Can we look at it? - Sure.
- Is it out here? - No, it's in the house.
- Okay. Sweet! Outta my way! Outta my way!
That ramcharger still has a life to live there.
There's still memory attached to it.
And I really love that they won't let it go.
- Listen, I'm not leaving the space here, so I'm staying here.
- I'm good, I'm going to go with mickie then.
- What aboutfore I was bo.
- Hey, usually when you find these masonite board signs,
They're all busted up. The beauty of this sign is,
It's a signal gasoline sign, but it's made of masonite,
Which makes it a pre-war sign.
The paint usually is gone on them because they were outside
And the masonite wasn't meant to be outside in the weather.
This thing looks like it was taken out of a showroom, that's how nice it is.
Three grand.
- My dad really loved that sign.
I think the wall would look too empty with it gone.
- There's plenty of other stuff to hang up.
(laughing)
I understand where he's coming from.
That is a big void to fill.
What's the story behind this? - I think you found my dad's
Second favourite sign. Ok used cars.
- But it hasn't been hung up.
An ok dealership was chevy's brand for used cars and trucks.
They put their stamp, ok, right on them.
- I don't think I can let this one go either.
I think my dad will haunt me. - I'm 0-for-2.
- Is this a lab coat? - No, it's a car duster.
The ladies would wear them over their clothing.
- It's a car duster!
- Yes. - That makes sense.
- So these would have been from right around 1915.
- Horseless carriage era, everything was open.
- Open, yes. - All the splash up
From the road, which you can see little bits of here.
These are just, in really great condition for the age they are.
Both of these coats really emulate a workwear style.
But I loved that oilcloth accent on the darker brown coat.
Do you want to sell them, or do you want to hold onto them still?
I mean, they are rare.
- I think I'm ready to sell them.
I don't think we'll be keeping the cars, so...
They might as well go. - Okay.
225 for the both of them. - Yes. Sounds good.
- I'm so excited! Mike is going to flip when he sees these.
- What about the 850? - The mobil pump?
I could part with it.
That was something my dad bought when we lived in oregon.
- You know, it's got an amateur restoration on it.
But that's not a big deal.
I'm looking at a tokheim 850, with a clockface on it.
The clock face has such a great body to it.
And it's complete.
The innards are even in this thing.
That's a big plus. These guys want everything in there.
2,600.
I think it's probably...
3, maybe 32.
- Well, 3 is what I was thinking.
- Then we're not far off. - So come up to 3
And we're good. We can shake.
- No, can't do it.
(chuckling) how about...
I see you got the union over there.
That's a wayne 60.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah, those are awesome-looking pumps.
- Yeah, and it's not the narrow body, it's got the...
- It's got the hips to it.
- Hips on the bottom of it, it's art deco as can be.
The wayne 60, it's got that figure.
'30s art deco, drops down on both sides.
It still has the ad glass in it.
Looks like it still got original paint on it.
Five grand for the pair.
That's me coming up on this.
- Yeah, but it seems a little light on that one.
People love those pumps.
500 bucks more.
- I'd be paying... 25 for that and 3 is 5,500.
5,200.
- 5,300.
- Hey, he is a tough negotiator today.
- I am. - I'm doing it.
I know, I appreciate it. (laughing)
At 5,300 dollars, that leaves me enough room.
Not much, but enough to make something out of this day.
Was your dad like that? Was he a tough negotiator?
I mean, when you guys were set up at these swap meets?
- Oh my dad wouldn't have sold any of this.
You're getting off easy dealing with me.
- Okay. Alright, alright.
- Watching how kevin is interacting with us,
Prioritizing the importance of his father's collection.
I really felt like his dad would be so proud of him.
Ah thank you so much. I'm happy I got to meet you both.
It's beautiful to see an entire family collecting together.
And the collection bringing the family together.
(honking)
- Thanks, guys, see you soon!
- Bye! Bye! - See ya!
- Hey, what's this?
- It's a poster.
F. G. Congdon. 1944.
Hold everything, regular daily service to the following points.
This calendar says, "connections to all points in new England."
It's 1944, it's very large.
Incredible subject matter.
It's got great colour, fly-fishing.
This is a really, really cool piece.
And what takes it over the top for me, is its size.
- How much do you want to pay for it?
- $200. - Yeah.
- Alright, I like it. - A lot of things that
Mike left with, I was glad to see him.
Everything. I think he's preciously sentimental.
And he respects and loves the antiques.
- Alright... Mary. - Oh!
- Thank you. Mary has surrounded herself
With her collection.
Artifacts that she's not only found,
But pieces that are directly tied to her family.
She has an incredible eye, and is beautifully refined
With an east coast edge in negotiating.
- What fun it was!
(laughing) (honking)
- See you later, mary! - Bye!
- Ragin' cajuns!
- Thank you so much!
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