- On this episode...
I think it's the coolest thing I've ever driven.
Whoa.
Corey, Chum, and I take a look back
on our epic trip across the nation.
- TT for Chumlee!
Hey!
[cheering]
- From phenomenal finds...
- It's a treasure map.
I got to get at least a million dollars.
- To incredible collections.
- There it is.
- It hung behind home plate the night
the Atlanta Braves won World Series.
- And we'll check out a whole bunch
of never-before-seen moments.
- One day I'll take you somewhere
and show you what real fun is. - [laughs]
[cheering]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, guys. - What's up, Pop?
- Oh, you got the sign. - Just in time.
You haven't seen this, have you?
- No, what is it?
- It's pretty epic.
♪ ♪
- What does your dad love more than his name?
His face. - [laughs]
- So... - And food.
- I absolutely love this thing.
- This used to be an old sign for an Italian eatery
I purchased in Boston on the roadshow.
When it came in, it was a pile of junk, Corey.
How old do you think this is? - Probably 1940s.
This is, like, the golden age of neon,
it looks like to me.
- Pretty cool, huh?
So, to celebrate all we've done in the past year,
I've hired a chef to make a multicourse meal,
to take us down memory lane for all the cities
and places we visited.
So follow me, guys.
- All right. Show me where it's at.
- All right, well, I'm glad I dressed up today.
♪ ♪
- Well, guys, here you go.
So just sit back.
Enjoy the food.
Enjoy the view.
- View of the pawn shop. - Yeah.
- Where I've worked for 22 years.
- Yeah.
[laughs] - Welcome.
I figured we'd start you off with some margaritas.
- Thank you.
- Not exactly the amazing nitro margaritas
that we had in Dallas.
- We freeze it all with liquid nitrogen.
- Are you getting cold right now?
- Yeah, like goose-bumps cold.
- Well, it is minus 320 degrees.
[laughs]
Yummy.
We had margaritas in Texas. We had margaritas in Arizona.
- And now we're having margaritas at the pawn shop.
- Well, it's technically not the pawn shop.
- Nothing like drinking at work.
- Kind of tasty, huh? Southwest was fun.
♪ ♪
- This thing is phenomenal.
I can tell by the shape of the snout
and the basic anatomy of the skull
that it's a dyrosaur, which is an Eocene crocodile.
Honestly, it's the best one I've ever seen.
- OK.
You're asking 8,000, and it's worth more than that.
I mean, I'll give you 9,000 just for the skull.
- Can you do 11?
- If I didn't call the guy in, you'd still be wanting 8.
- Good thing we called him. [laughter]
- No, 9's the best I can do. It really, really is.
- Yeah, we got a deal.
- Very unique.
I've never heard of Stetson making a sombrero.
Sombreros are a festive hat, and the decoration on this
is pretty cool.
How much are you looking to get for it?
- I want 3,500.
It just doesn't leave me any room at all to make a profit.
- Totally understand.
- That's a 1944 Warther commando knife
from World War II.
- I mean, they're really, really kind of special.
Each one of them's handmade.
Basically, what you got here is, like, we would say,
the Tiffany of knives. [chuckles]
Would you take 6,000?
- I could do, like 8,500.
- I'll go 7,000.
- I can do 7,000.
- You just never know where the stuff's going to be.
That's why we traveled.
You know, Austin was absolutely amazing.
I loved the town.
I mean, all the bands, the bars, just the nightlife,
it was great.
- Yeah, Austin was great.
I mean, I got to see stuff
from the Armadillo World Headquarters.
♪ ♪
Next up.
- Hey, how are you doing? - I'm doing all right.
So what do you got here?
- It's a belt buckle of the Armadillo World Headquarters.
It was a club in Austin.
100% bronze and made by the artist Jim Franklin.
- And I know they were a concert hall in the '70s
up until the '80s, right?
- Right, uh-huh. Exactly.
- They only lasted about 10 years.
One of the things about them is that they had a big venue--
- Right.
- So that's how they got Bruce Springsteen.
- Yeah, uh-huh.
- Bruce Springsteen plays stadiums.
- Yeah.
- To get him at a small venue like this,
probably on a Wednesday-- - Right.
- OK, do you mind if I take a look at it?
- Absolutely. - All right.
So where did you get this?
- My uncle was super into the '70s rock scene
in Austin and collected a lot of artifacts.
He gave this to me when I was 18.
It's one of my favorite pieces from him.
- So what are you trying to get for it?
- Ideally, 1,100.
- [sighs] I mean, I would give you about 100 bucks for it.
- 100 bucks?
That's a low starting point, my friend.
- But it's pretty obscure.
It's not CBGB's. - Right.
- It's a Austin, Texas, version of CBGB's,
but it stayed in Austin, Texas, and it just really
didn't get out that much. - Mm-mm.
- It's just one of those things--I don't need it.
- Well, you just don't know you need it yet.
- And I'm sorry.
Being that we're in Austin, I mean, I was really hoping
for, you know, some Austin music stuff.
- I don't know if I can let it go for just 100,
but thank you so much. - All right, I appreciate it.
Yeah, Austin was really cool.
I mean, it's probably one of my favorite stops that we had.
- I liked Mesa and Phoenix.
- No, Mesa was really fun.
- Remember the Big Willy?
- Yeah, that was a extremely large Jeep.
- It was cool, though, wasn't it?
You know what the great thing about that Jeep was?
I felt like a five-year-old driving a regular Jeep.
- You looked like one. - [laughs]
♪ ♪
So you decided to make a giant replica Jeep.
- Yeah, so it's a World War II replica Willys MB.
- So it's 1.648 to 1, I'm assuming?
- Yeah, that's the scale number.
65% bigger.
- It's monster truck-ish. [laughs]
- Yeah, I mean, it's Big Willy mutant Jeep.
It's like a superhero Jeep. - Yeah.
It was the Willys-Overland company
that came up with the design. - Right.
- They came out with these in 1941, so when they came out,
they were designated the general-purpose vehicle.
So everyone started calling them the GP...
- Uh-huh. - Which turned into Jeep.
That's where we got the name Jeep.
- Yeah. - I'm deeply impressed.
How long did it took you to build it?
- It was about seven months.
- This was a crazy amount of work.
[laughs] - It was. It was.
It consumed my life.
- It's really cool. I really like it.
So how much you want for it? - 150,000 is what I'm asking.
- Pops, you want to climb in this thing,
and we'll go for a ride? - All right, I'm ready.
I'm assuming the seat's not adjustable.
- It's not, and we've got blocks on the pedals
for your comfort. - OK.
[laughter]
[engine turning over] - All right, here we go.
This is great.
Whoa.
[laughs]
It's like, where can you drive this thing?
Anywhere.
- What do you think, Rick?
- I think it's the coolest thing
I've ever driven, is what I think.
Isn't this the coolest vehicle you ever drove in?
- Absolutely.
- Sort of feel like a GI Joe.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
This thing's amazing, dude.
Amazing. - Thank you.
- Need, like, a parachute getting out of this thing.
[laughter]
All right, dude, the thing drives incredible.
You got the suspension completely dialed in on it.
I mean, it drove like a champ, but...
I don't have a place to put it. [laughter]
- But I have a few guys that I'll get ahold of.
I think they might be interested in it,
so I'll get them in touch with you.
- Thank you.
- But for 150 grand, I'm not going to buy it.
I just don't know if I can sell it.
- Sure.
- But just an amazing evening, dude.
Thanks so much, man. This was great.
- Yeah. Thank you.
- I kind of feel inadequate now.
- Story of your life, right?
- That was really fun.
Oh, yeah, also in the Southwest, remember
the state of Texas proclamation declaring it ZZ Top Day.
♪ ♪
We have ZZ Top Day.
- The official Texas proclamation.
- That's pretty amazing.
It is that little old band from Texas.
[laughs]
- My favorite little old band from Texas.
- So how much you want for it? - About $5,000.
- Let me take some pictures, send them to my guy,
and we'll do a little video chat.
- Super.
- Billy, how's it going? - [laughs]
- Oh, my buddy, Rick, I'm doing fine.
- Do you remember getting the proclamation,
getting ZZ Top Day in Texas?
- Yes, sir.
It got us out of having to rehearse for several hours.
- So is that your autograph?
- Yes, indeed.
I guess you'd use the word "legit."
Is that-- - [laughs] Yeah.
- Not only my signature but signatures
of Dusty and Frank Beard,
of course, our man with no beard.
You've got the real deal. It's all there for you.
If you decide to get rid of that document, let me know.
You got a real fine piece there, man.
- Thanks, Billy. I'll talk to you soon.
- Cheers. Good to see you. - Bye-bye.
- OK, so it's all original.
- I knew it.
- I'll give you 2,000 for it.
- 4.
- All right, 36.
- 37.
- 3,700 bucks.
We got a deal. - It's yours.
- 3,700.
Just go to the building over there,
and my cashier will get you paid.
- Good. Thank you.
- It was pretty cool.
- These are pretty amazing margaritas.
- They're good. - Yummy.
They're made exactly the way I like them.
- That's why they're the best. - [laughs]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- All right, well, this is a little bit fancy.
The margarita was good, but where's this food
you keep talking about?
- There is a multicourse meal coming
that is going to bring us down memory lane.
- I can smell it already.
- Which one is this, Pop?
- Wait for it. Wait for it.
♪ ♪
- Round chicken fingers? - Crab cakes?
- Think again.
- Mozzarella sticks.
- Fried green tomatoes.
- Oh, I get it--for Savannah.
- Yeah.
- All right, well, I'm ready for a fried green tomato.
- That does sound delicious.
- You can't just cut me. - Yes, I can.
- We got to get some shrimp and grits going here, too.
Southern food is quite delicious.
- I got to tell you, I forgot my wallet.
- I don't make enough money to afford this dinner.
♪ ♪
That was the first time I tried fried green tomatoes.
They were delicious.
This is going to be my second time.
We'll see if they can hold up.
- I mean, the South.
I love the Southern cooking,
and we saw a lot of really interesting items.
♪ ♪
Is that Winston the bull? - Yes, sir.
- This was out in front of Staley's Steakhouse
in the 1950s.
It was just the thing to have giant statues made
to grab people's attention.
How much do you want for it?
- I think I'd have to have 45 grand for it.
- That's a lot of steaks.
- Yes, it is, yeah. - [laughs]
- It is definitely not for me,
and I am definitely not pulling this thing
all the way back to Vegas. - I understand.
♪ ♪
- A fireplace cover?
- A haunted fireplace cover. - A haunted fireplace cover.
- Well, this came out of a haunted 1880s house,
and we're living in the haunted capital.
- It's classic, late 19th-century cast iron.
How much you want for it? - I'm asking 4,000.
- I'm thinking more like 400 bucks.
- The least I can take is 3,100.
- You don't have a ghost of a chance.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- Rick, what he brought you here
is Prohibition-era whiskey crates.
During Prohibition, this was sold for medicinal purposes.
So, like, whatever you had, they prescribed whiskey.
Hell of a time to be sick. - I can only imagine.
They're pretty cool. How much you want for them?
- $20,000 for all of them.
- I mean, I could go, like, 1,400 bucks.
- I'd probably have to pass
and hope they go up in value one day.
- OK.
♪ ♪
- These are all vintage tractors
that have been gone through from top to bottom.
- Stock, this thing was probably
60, 70 horsepower, right? - It's 150 now.
- And how much do you want for this one?
- About 45. - Let's hook this thing up.
I want to see it. - All right.
[engine revving]
- I think that'll handle a big old tree.
- You think? [laughter]
- Would you take, like, 25 for it?
- I can't do that.
- All right, not the tractor for me,
but thanks for showing us your farm.
- Thanks, man. - Thank you.
- You're welcome. We'll see y'all.
- So the South was amazing. - Lots and lots of good times.
- All the collectibles we got down there.
This guy had a banner from the sixth game
of the World Series signed by all the Atlanta Braves.
♪ ♪
So what have we got here?
- This is a banner that hung behind home plate
the night the Atlanta Braves won the 1995 World Series.
- OK, incredible World Series.
The Atlanta Braves, last time they won a World Series,
I think 1957. - Correct.
- And how did you get all the signatures on it?
- I've met 25 different Atlanta Braves,
and each one of them signed this banner.
- And I see you have the big one right there.
- Greg Maddux, and he's the hardest one to get.
- It's great that you got Greg Maddux,
because if any signature on here would be faked,
it would be Maddux.
My autograph expert's got really fancy things.
I have less fancy things, but they sort of do the trick.
This is a felt tip pen, so, obviously, it's going
to darken up when you cross paths
because you have two coats of ink there.
But everything about it is correct.
This is exactly the way he signs his name.
OK, and, like, since this is the rarest autograph
on this whole thing right here, it more or less guarantees
that the rest of them are real.
I mean, why would you have a real Greg Maddux
and fake the rest?
So how much you want for it?
- Well, $5,000.
- I'll tell you, I'd give you, like, $1,500 for it.
- Oh, Rick.
- I'm thinking this thing would probably sell
for, like, 2,500 bucks the way it is, OK?
- Well, I'm afraid we can't make a deal.
- Well, if you change your mind, let me know.
- All right. - OK.
All right, have a good one. - All right.
♪ ♪
- Savannah was so cool.
I mean, all the collectibles we got down there--
I mean, it's beautiful. It's historical.
It's the perfect city for the setting for the book
and the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
And remember we saw the etching of that statue, the Bird Girl?
She's on the movie poster and on the cover of the book.
- It was pretty cool.
♪ ♪
How you doing? - Good.
How are you? - Pretty good.
What do you have here?
- It's a print of the cover
of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
It's a pretty famous statue in Savannah.
Be kind of hard pressed to find someone from Savannah
that's not familiar with it.
- Do you know what this is? - Actually super world famous.
There was a book out in the early '90s,
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
Ended up being just a massively popular book,
over a hundred editions of it.
And there was this very haunting photograph
by Jack Leigh of this statue that's in a Savannah cemetery.
And then Clint Eastwood comes along and says,
hey, I want to produce a movie about this book.
[laughs] It got so popular, they actually had to end up
taking the statue out of the cemetery.
They were afraid it was going to get damaged
or something like that.
Because the statue is from the 1930s,
and it just became super iconic.
I mean, the statue would probably sell
for, I don't know, probably half a million dollars
at this point, it's so famous.
How much you want for it?
- I was hoping to get 100 bucks for it.
- So this is not the photograph.
It's from an artist.
It's no one you're going to get a lot of money out of.
I'm not going to give you 100 bucks,
but I'll pay 40 bucks for a souvenir from Savannah.
[tense music]
- I'll take that. - All right.
Just go right over there, and they'll get you paid.
- Great, thank you. - OK.
- Oh, you bought me a souvenir. - No, I bought me a souvenir.
♪ ♪
I just love local history.
I mean, the South. - Tampa.
- Tampa. Yes.
- Argh, you mean.
Argh!
- [laughs]
Do you remember the guy in Tampa
who thought he had a pirate map?
♪ ♪
What have we got?
- It's something rare. It's a treasure map.
- OK, got my attention.
♪ ♪
So you're saying this is a treasure map.
What kind of treasure is supposedly there?
- I believe that this could be the treasure trove
that everybody's been talking about,
the Gasparilla treasure.
This could be a $300 million treasure.
- You need some help reading the blueprints?
- [laughs]
So how much do you want for the maps?
- I got to get at least a million dollars.
- OK, treasure might be there,
but I'm not willing to risk money to buy a map
that I have no idea about.
- OK.
- Is that why you guys dragged me
to go look for pirate treasure? both: Yeah.
♪ ♪
[device beeping] - Corey, you find anything?
- Not yet.
- I found an old candy-bar wrapper.
- [laughs]
- I wish I would have known.
- We're going to take your share
and make you walk the plank. [laughs]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- I can't wait to see what the next course is.
- Pacific Northwest salmon.
- All right, well, dig in, guys.
- This reminds me of, you know, Seattle, Pacific Northwest.
- Yeah, Seattle--remember we went to Pike's Market,
had coffee there? - Yeah.
They were like, hey, do you want to catch a fish?
- It was kind of funny.
- Here's the apron to keep you protected.
You're going to get right up here next to the counter.
- OK.
- Hands away from your face. - OK.
- Fish is going to come flying in,
and you're going to grab it out here.
- All right, Chum, you better catch it.
- He's ready. He's got it. - TT for Chumlee.
all: TT for Chumlee!
- Hey!
[cheering]
- Yeah.
Right on, dude.
- Is it hard to catch a fish? - For me, it's not.
For you, probably.
- No, I catch fish all the time.
- Not in your hands, though. This thing was big.
- [laughs]
- The West Coast was fun.
I mean, you kind of sort of know what to expect,
what kind of items you're going to get in each city,
but it's just also that just wild stuff, too.
♪ ♪
- I have some San Francisco 1906 earthquake material here.
- Super cool.
In April of 1906,
they ended up having 500 blocks burnt to the ground.
These are one-of-a-kind photos in here, I guarantee you.
How much do you want for this? - I'm asking 2,700.
- This is something that's only going to sell in San Francisco,
so I'm just going to pass on those.
♪ ♪
- All right, the Reverend Horton Heat.
But we are in Seattle,
and you have a Soundgarden poster right here.
And minus Nirvana, probably one of the biggest bands
to ever come out of this area.
And these are all done by famous artists.
These guys are considered the biggest names
when it comes to silkscreen.
How much are you looking to get?
- 750 for the three.
- If these were Nirvana ones,
they would probably be worth a lot of money.
I'd be a buyer at about 200.
- I think I might hang on to them for that.
♪ ♪
- The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was where
the Summer of Love happened in 1967.
75,000 kids descending on this one intersection.
The thing that really jumps out at me are these block numbers.
So San Francisco street signs--
these were made separately, as separate plates.
Somebody made these
maybe as a tribute to Haight and Ashbury,
but they're not original street signs.
- Woody, I appreciate it, my man.
Take them home. Enjoy them. They're really cool.
They're just not going to be for me.
♪ ♪
- I played with many LEGOs in my days,
but never have my skills got anywhere close to this.
- It's that famous scene from "Empire Strikes Back."
- It's definitely beautiful.
- We basically said, hey, let's build a Batcave.
- What are you asking for each of these individually?
- For Cloud City, $18,000.
- And for the Batcave, we'd like to get 20.
- Holy LEGO, that's a lot of money.
What I'm running into is that if I break them,
it leads me to believe that there's only two guys
in the world that could rebuild these,
and I think those two guys could charge me whatever
they wanted to fix them. - [laughs]
- So I don't think I'm going to be
able to make an offer on them.
Thank you, guys. - Thank you.
- Lots of cool stuff.
- Chum, wasn't it fun we got to go to Oracle Park and check out
the San Francisco Giants collection?
- It was awesome.
- So you guys got to go see a Giants collection?
- Inside of the VIP members-only club.
- I always miss out on all the fun.
♪ ♪
- So what all do we have here?
- What you're looking at are some game-used jerseys
from the 2001 and 2002 season.
Jeff Kent, who was an MVP, and JT Snow, a longtime Giant.
Liván Hernández,
one of the Giants' star pitchers of the World Series,
this was his jersey from the game.
It is signed and inscribed.
And then you can't forget Dusty Baker, one of the best.
- Yeah, the Giants had quite the run
for the early 2000s right there.
- We have a 2002 World Series ball
signed by the whole Angels team,
and we have a 2002 World Series ball signed by the Giants.
- This is a cool collection.
What are you looking to do with it?
- You know, I think it's time to part with it,
if the price is right.
- And how much are you looking to get for it?
- I'm looking to get $200,000.
- OK, that's a lot of money.
- I'm thinking about 50.
- I don't know. I'm going to have to think about that.
- If you ever change your mind, I'll tell you
how to get a hold of Chumlee. - [laughs]
- Take care. - All right, I appreciate it.
Thank you. - Thanks, guys.
- The West Coast was fun. - You remember Seattle?
The grunge collection?
Yeah, I mean, I called you. We had the Kurt Cobain stuff.
- Yeah.
- What's more Seattle than that?
♪ ♪
- Hey, Chumlee. Hi.
- So I hear you have quite the grunge collection.
- Yeah, I can't wait to show you.
- So what exactly do you have here?
- I went to Pearl Jam's record-release party,
and Eddie Vedder was wearing this hat,
and this is Eddie wearing that hat.
And he gave it to me.
- OK, that's pretty cool.
- This is the only photo pass
from the "Nevermind" 1991 Seattle show
and a Nirvana ticket that's never been torn.
This is a photo of Pearl Jam's first concert.
It's the first time I've ever printed this negative.
No one's ever seen it until right this minute.
- Pretty cool.
Well, this is a very unique collection.
How much are you looking to get for everything?
- I don't know, maybe, like, $5,000.
- I would love to buy the collection maybe for, like...
2,500.
- Think I'll just keep it all in Seattle.
- Well, if in the future you ever decide
to sell it again, give me a message and let me know.
- Absolutely.
Thanks for stopping in. - Take care.
♪ ♪
- Isn't it really cool to see all these local items to come
to the events in each city? - Yeah, it was really cool.
In San Francisco, a guy brought in a block book.
- You mean a plat book
with all the property measurements on it?
- Exactly what it is.
♪ ♪
- So what have we got here?
- This is the 1901 San Francisco Block Book.
- OK.
The San Francisco Block Book.
October 1901.
Price $25.
Do you know how expensive that was in 1901?
- Exactly.
- So tell me what really you know about it.
- OK, so it has these maps in the beginning
that are an index to the different neighborhoods.
And then there's a guidebook to where you see the owners
of each one of them,
whether it's an entire block or a lot on the block,
and then the measurements for each lot.
- All right, definitely pretty cool.
Definitely valuable information to know if you're
a real estate agent back then. - Right.
It's really the only complete ownership of land
before the 1906 earthquake and fire.
- All right.
- After this, this all changed because of the earthquake.
- OK.
Any idea of what you're looking to get out of it?
- I'd really like to get 2,300,
and I think that's a really fair offer,
considering the scarcity of it.
- Well, I mean, I'll give you scarcity,
because it did come out
in 1901. - Mm-hmm.
- But I don't see a massive market out there
for people that want it or need it or have to have it.
I mean, it's cool, but it's cool to guys like you and me.
- Right. OK. Fair enough.
- So I don't think I can give you an offer
that you're even going to like. - Try me.
- $300. - No, I can't do 300.
- I don't blame you. It is pretty cool.
- Yeah. - But hang on to it.
Maybe you could do the legwork
and find somebody that has to have it.
It's just not really
in my wheelhouse. - OK.
- I appreciate you coming down here, though.
- OK, great.
- Thank you. - All right. Thanks, Corey.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- You know what?
I think I should set up
a fine-dining establishment out here.
- I think you should call it Rick's Fine Dining on a Budget.
I can't wait to see what your next course is.
- Remind you of someplace?
- D.C. jumbo slices,
when me and Rebecca shared pizza together.
- Mark Hall-Patton was there, too.
- Was he? I didn't even notice.
- [laughs]
- You guys, we have had some good times
together over the years. both: Mm-hmm.
- Rebecca was just a baby when we first met her.
- One of you aged better than the other.
I can tell you that. [laughter]
- Well, Mark got to the point
where he stopped curating dinosaur bones,
and he's about to be one. - [laughs]
- Definitely we ate really well on the East Coast.
- I know. Lobster rolls.
- Chowder.
- Lots of chowder on the East Coast.
I feel like every single city had good chowder.
- No, but the East Coast-- I mean, they got
so much history there compared to, like, Vegas.
I mean, this city's been around just a little over 100 years.
I mean, back there, it's 400 years of amazing history,
and we saw a lot of really amazing items.
♪ ♪
- I want to show you some of these Lincoln items.
These are Mary Todd Lincoln's opera glasses
that were held by Mary Todd Lincoln
when her husband was assassinated.
- No way.
- This is the deathbed of Lincoln.
Littlefield, the person who did this lithograph,
wrote to Charles Leo the surgeon,
and this is a letter that Leo sent to Littlefield.
- What are you asking for, for Mary Todd's opera glasses?
- I'd be thinking probably $100,000.
- The lithograph? - $2,000.
$50,000 for the letter.
- $152,000.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to go
any higher than 100. - I understand.
Well, anyway, I'm glad I could show them to you,
so I appreciate it.
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- This is what would be referred to
as a "witch door" that would have held a woman
accused of being a witch.
- So you're saying this was a door
that was around during, like, the Salem witch trials?
- Essentially, yeah.
- Yeah, I mean, it's definitely odd.
So how much were you looking to get out of it?
- $130,000.
- It's a great story, you know what I mean?
But I don't see it that old.
Besides that, there's no way to prove any of this.
- Fair enough. - All right.
Thanks, anyway, man.
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- I was wondering when I was going to see something
from the Patriots here. - Yeah, right?
[laughs] You're in Boston. Yes.
- OK, so we're looking at what appears
to be an original Brian Fox painting
that her husband had brought around
and had the Patriots sign.
- Brian Fox is a big deal.
I have a couple of issues with respect to condition.
They're minor, but they're here.
- So it being a one-of-one, what do you think it's worth?
- At auction, it's worth $25,000.
- OK.
I would like to pay you $6,000 for it.
- Is there any way you can do 7?
- I'll tell you what-- I'll do 7,000.
- OK. Thank you. - Come with me.
I'll get you written up.
- I mean, just the history of the East Coast--
we saw a lot of really interesting items.
- Oh, yeah, in Boston, this guy came in
with a whole bunch of really cool Ted Williams stuff.
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Hey, how's it going? - All right.
- Oh, wow, Ted Williams. - Yes.
- That's a rally cap, right? - Correct.
- All right, so I had the honor of being
at Ted Williams' last game, September 28, 1960.
After that, we left, and out comes Ted Williams.
And then he got in his limousine,
but my mother, she jumped into the limousine
and sat on the jump seat.
She said, Ted, one more signature,
and he signed it and gave it to her.
So we've got the cap and the banner.
- Yeah, remarkable story.
Great guy.
What I like about this is, this isn't just
a Boston Red Sox pennant from the '60s.
This is one specific game that they gave these out.
It was Ted Williams' last game.
There's not an entire plethora of these out there.
What are you looking to get out of it?
- You know, it's so personal to me, but if there
was any kind of amount of money,
it would have to be in the range of $1,500.
- [sighs] I'd be willing to do about 800 bucks.
- I think I'm going to keep it. - You know what?
You should. You should. - All right.
- You got way too cool of a story.
- All right. OK. - I appreciate you coming down.
- Thank you very much, Corey. - Appreciate it.
- Yeah, the East Coast was fun.
- It's always nice hanging out with Rebecca,
looking at books, like this one book someone
brought in that we looked at-- "The History of Man."
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I don't know how you find the time to read here.
- [laughs] Hi, Chumlee, how you doing?
- Pretty good. What do you have here?
- I have a very interesting book from 1704.
- OK, do you mind if I check it out?
- Sure, absolutely. - Let's see here.
"The History of Man; or, the Wonders of Human Nature."
Wow. [chuckles]
It looks like it might have a repair here.
This tape looks much more modern than everything else.
How much are you looking to get, though?
- About 5,000. - OK.
Rebecca, do you have a second?
Hey. - Hey, what do you got?
- Well, I have this really cool book here.
- OK. - "The History of Man."
- This book is meant for, like, practical use for people.
It was created by this country clergyman in the 1600s,
and then this was, like, another popular reprint
in the early 18th century.
And if you go through it, it's kind of fun,
because you see recommendations
based on how Julius Caesar did X, Y, and Z,
and how you can apply that to your life.
- One day I'll take you somewhere
and show you what real fun is.
- [laughs] This isn't fun to you, Chumlee?
- Well, I guess anytime I get to talk books with you,
it's a good time. - There you go.
- So what value would you put on the book?
- So this is not a first edition.
- Mm-hmm.
- And it's had a number of repairs to it.
I would put this in a retail environment at $500.
- OK. - OK?
- All right, well, I appreciate you.
Thank you. - Yeah. All right. Thanks.
- Thank you very much. - Uh-huh.
- All right, well, Rebecca says it's worth one less zero
than you were asking for. - [laughs]
- What are you thinking?
- I think I'll just hang on to it
and just keep passing it down in the family.
- All right, well, thanks for bringing it by.
- Most definitely. - Have a good day.
- Awesome. Thank you very much.
- East Coast was definitely a blast.
- Love it out there.
- You want some mustard? - No.
That's so weird.
- It's not weird.
- I'm just saying it's odd that you put mustard on it.
- It's odd that you don't.
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- We definitely need to go back to the East Coast.
- It was a blast. - It was a lot of fun.
- All the antique weapons on the East Coast was so fun,
all the times I got to go to the shooting range with Alex.
- Shooting guns with Alex is always fun.
- It was so cool.
Like at Valley Forge we shot a Civil War musket,
which was amazing.
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Alex. - Hey, Rick.
There's a lot of good stuff out there.
- Yeah, and in here, too. - Oh, wow.
So this is a model 1842 Harpers Ferry musket.
They made 275,000 of these things in two arsenals--
Harpers Ferry and Springfield.
So it's collectible because this would be
the fourth known to exist today.
- Wow.
- You think it's all good to shoot?
- I think so. I say we go to the range.
- OK, sounds like a plan. So meet you guys out there?
- Sounds good to us. - OK, cool.
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Hey, guys. Are we ready to fire it?
- Yeah, I'm all set to go. I've got black powder.
I've got the mini balls.
And I set up a hanging set of tiles,
so if I hit that, it should shatter.
- All right, let's go for it. - All right.
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- [laughs] - Yes.
- Nailed it.
- You hit it.
- [laughs] Don't sound so surprised.
- It shoots. - It's beautiful.
- So everything works, right? - Yes.
- Yeah, OK. I'll give you 2 grand for it.
- Sorry, I think I got to stick to my guns.
Got to get 25.
- All right, well, if you change your mind, let me know.
Alex, I'll see you tomorrow.
Thanks for doing all this for me.
- Yeah, it was fun. I enjoyed shooting it.
Thanks, guys. - You better hurry.
- See you guys. - Take care, Rick.
- See you, Rick.
- Are we still enjoying our jumbo slices of pizza?
- No, I think we're done.
There's a lot of courses coming.
We just don't want to fill up on pizza.
- And the rest will be out here shortly. Thank you.
- Out of all the places we visited,
you can't forget about the Midwest.
- All the fans that came out to the event,
they had a lot of local items.
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- So tell me what you have here.
- Minnesota Vikings Purple People Eaters jersey,
signed by all four of them.
- OK, this is pretty cool.
The Purple People Eaters were a nickname given
to the Minnesota Vikings defense.
- Yep.
- They were so good in the late '60s, and in the '70s,
people started calling them the Purple People Eaters.
I'd be a buyer at 150, if you're interested.
- No, I got to have a little more than that.
- OK, how much are you thinking is your bottom?
- I'd come down to $300.
- Well, I guess for 300, I'm going to pass on this.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
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- Motown Mondays.
- We started in 1964 here at the Roostertail
where every Monday night a new Motown artist
would perform right in this room.
We do have this flyer autographed
by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.
That's worth $5,000.
Tony Bennett when he performed here--
one of his first hand-drawn sketches
of the Roostertail, that would go for 25,000 or more.
Mr. Showbiz himself, Wayne Newton.
We do have a few autographed albums.
We're looking at about $1,000. - OK.
The Supremes and the Tony Bennett,
that's part of your history here and everything.
You should keep that.
But Mr. Las Vegas, it's Wayne Newton.
Would you take 500 bucks for all this?
- We're going to say 750.
- I think we got a deal, - All right.
- Sweet. - Sounds good.
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- Well, we are in Michigan,
and this actually is authentic game-used turf
from the famous M of Michigan Football Stadium.
- The Big House? - This is from The Big House.
- [laughs] Michigan Football--
it's the biggest thing in college football.
The largest stadium in the United States.
- A lot of NFL guys have made their career
right on this turf right here.
- If I was to buy this off you,
I would probably cut it up and sell it as individual pieces.
- I get it. - So 8 grand?
- So I can do 12.
- 10 grand. - 10 grand?
That makes me happy. - All right, we got a deal.
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The Midwest was fun.
- Minneapolis had a lot of great things.
There was a cuckoo clock that I looked at.
It was awesome.
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What do you got here?
- A German, three-weight musical cuckoo clock.
- OK, it's pretty cool.
I can see the three weights down here.
- Correct.
One's time, one's for the chime,
and one's for the second hand. - OK.
Cuckoo clocks have been around since the 1700s.
A lot of people associate the cuckoo clock
with, like, Switzerland.
But, actually, to the best of our knowledge,
we do believe that they originated in Germany.
Cuckoo clocks were very popular late 19th century,
early 20th century.
And people still do have them around in their house today.
But they're not as predominant as they would be.
Tell me where you got it.
- I buy clocks from all over the country,
and this one came out of Northeast Minneapolis.
- OK, this one is kind of cool.
Do you know how old this one is?
- It's probably from the '70s.
- It looks like it's in pretty good condition.
Can I hear it work? - Absolutely.
[clock chiming] - [laughs]
There it is.
How much are you looking to get for it?
- You know, I'd like to get 600 out of it.
- It's really cool, and I do like it, but...
would you take 250 for it?
- How about we do 300?
- Would you do 275?
- I'll hold at 300, please.
- All right, I had to try. We got a deal. 300.
- Thank you. - All right, come with me.
I'll have someone get this.
I'll show you where to get paid.
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- So there was a ton of good buys in the Midwest.
- All right, I got my miner gear on.
I see why you need the hats in here.
- You surely do.
- Pretty cool. It opens right up in here.
- Isn't that nice?
This is the original shaft back here.
- This is pretty cool.
- This is a Taylor-Dunn mine trammer.
- This replaced the donkey. - This replaced the donkey.
[laughter]
- All right, let me get out of the way.
- Oh, this is pretty fun. Beep.
Watch out, Big Hoss. I don't think this thing will stop!
- Nice ride, man.
So what are you looking to get out of it?
- I'm looking to get 6,900.
- I'm just going to have to pass for now.
If I ever change my mind, I'll give you a call, though, OK?
- I understand.
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- You must have heard me click my heels three times,
because you just appeared.
Judy Garland. "Wizard of Oz."
- So this was Judy Garland's dress?
- Yes, from her private collection.
- She was so popular,
she ended up getting casted for "Wizard of Oz,"
which was kind of crazy, because they didn't have,
like, a 17-year-old in such
a big, expensive production. - Right. Yeah.
- How much you want for it? - I'm asking $2,000 for it.
- I think it's incredible
but unless I got a picture of her wearing it,
it makes it really, really difficult to sell,
even a big star like Judy, but thanks for bringing it in.
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What have we got?
- Fernando Tatis pre-rookie one-of-one autographed
gold refractor card. - This is definitely cool.
- He's now the third highest paid
baseball player in the history of baseball,
and the card is amazing.
The fact that it's graded a 10 with an autograph on it,
I know it's got to be worth some money.
- This Tatis card, I'm looking to get 45,000 for.
- What I can tell you, man, is what you're asking
is not out of line, and it's a lot more work
than I'm going to be able to do right here.
I'll be in touch with you, and maybe we could make
a deal further down the line. - Sounds like a plan.
- I mean, I'm not a big sports guy,
but I love my sports business.
And it seems like every city we went to,
there was cool sports items. - Oh, definitely.
- But a guy did come in with two really cool
Detroit Tigers baseballs.
Fortunately, I was able to, like, video chat with Steve.
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What have we got here?
- So we got two baseballs signed
by some legendary Detroit Tigers.
So I think this ball is 1934, and I think this ball is '68.
- So where did you get these?
- Yeah, so I actually own a small junk-removal business,
and someone was throwing these away.
- It's amazing what they'll throw in the trash.
- It is.
- So, yeah, 1934, I mean, this was when the Tigers
were just dominating baseball.
How much did you want out of them?
- I was hoping I'd get at least $1,000 for them.
- OK. That one's fake.
You can just, tell those are stamped signatures.
They would style these in, like, the gift shop
in the stadium, and it would be, like, 7 or 8 bucks.
- Ah. - OK?
This one right here, just let me have my autograph guy
look at it. - Sure.
- So I'm going to have to text him pictures.
I got a whole little video conference room
set up in there. - Sounds good.
[device beeps]
- Steve, how's it going? - Hey, what's up?
Rick, the 1934 Tigers,
best team in the American League that year.
Actually, that's the best year gives the Tigers
statistically have ever had.
Unfortunately, they went up against the Gashouse Gang.
The Gashouse Gang was the '34 Cardinals.
They lost in the World Series that year,
but they were stacked.
Player/manager was Mickey Cochrane,
one of the greatest catchers of all time.
You know, he had Hank Greenberg,
Charlie Gehringer, Goose Goslin.
All those guys are Hall of Famers.
- OK, so what do you think it's worth?
- The signatures, they're all good.
Now, great condition ball,
something that, you know, is, like, an eight or nine,
you're looking at $5,000 or more.
Unfortunately, the condition really hurts this one.
I think we're looking closer to about an $1,800 baseball.
It's still very sellable and especially
about a team like this, which was one of the greatest
in their history.
- OK, man, I really appreciate it.
Talk to you soon. Bye-bye.
- See you, buddy.
- So Steve said it's worth around 1,800, so 1,000 bucks
sounds like the right number. You got a deal.
- Thank you. - Sweet.
- Follow me. I'll get you paid.
- We've been reminiscing about the Midwest,
but there's no food, Rick.
I thought this was, you know,
supposed to be a taste down memory lane.
- Yeah, what's for dessert? - You'll see.
- All right, dessert is served. - All right.
- Oh.
- Rocky Mountain oysters. - Cow balls?
- His favorite. - [laughs]
- We got you oysters.
- Do you think I don't know
what Rocky Mountain oysters are?
I know exactly what they are.
So you guys came here.
You ate dinner, got all the way to dessert,
and just ordered me bull testicles?
- Yeah.
- I want both of you guys to eat one.
- I'm full. - I'm full, too.
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- Why do you always have to laugh at my expense?
- You guys laugh at me all the time.
Do you want some dipping sauce,
like, ranch or horseradish?
- I'm good. - Salsa? [laughs]
- I'm glad you find it so funny.
- [laughing] Guacamole?
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