1 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,440 This is a known missing gun. 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,040 So, what, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000? 3 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:12,340 I like that price. 4 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:14,580 What are those? 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,220 Whole axes. I can tell you this is real. What do you think they're worth? 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,360 You think you can find these on the Internet, knock yourself out, because 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:21,360 it's not going to happen. 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,800 What's $50 a month? New acquaintances. That's the same question I would ask. 9 00:00:27,220 --> 00:00:28,220 Whoa. 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,980 It's a Japanese antique rifle. 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:36,080 This is craziness right here. This one being so weird makes it worth even more. 12 00:00:36,780 --> 00:00:40,680 A Filipino bolo knife from the insurrection war. 13 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:43,000 Try chopping up some coconuts with this thing. 14 00:00:43,460 --> 00:00:46,280 See, I've come off so much, and you're just not bringing it up enough. 15 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:47,199 That's cool. 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,760 You don't want to see it somewhere else and get Rick all mad. 17 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:50,140 I'm going to get fired for this. 18 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:52,600 They're whaling harpoons. 19 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:54,600 Damn, the horror she blows. 20 00:00:55,420 --> 00:00:56,420 Fire in the hole! 21 00:01:11,690 --> 00:01:15,290 Hey, how's it going? Great. How are you doing? I have an old Civil War rifle 22 00:01:15,290 --> 00:01:18,450 with a coffee grinder built into the buttstock. 23 00:01:19,330 --> 00:01:23,810 Really? Which I'm assuming grinds fairy dust, because these things don't exist. 24 00:01:24,430 --> 00:01:27,390 You never know. And the rifle's pretty simple itself. 25 00:01:27,610 --> 00:01:29,910 You know, you've heard the term sharpshooter? Yeah. Came from this 26 00:01:29,910 --> 00:01:31,870 rifle. You were a sharpshooter if you shot a sharps. 27 00:01:33,310 --> 00:01:34,550 And where did you get this? 28 00:01:35,050 --> 00:01:36,950 I inherited it from my grandfather. 29 00:01:37,650 --> 00:01:38,970 Okay, because you know... 30 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,240 There's a million pictures of the one in a museum. 31 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,100 One has never been on the market for sale. 32 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:46,300 Never, ever, ever. 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,240 Well, here it is. 34 00:01:49,820 --> 00:01:53,780 As far as I know, there's only one of these carbines that actually exists, and 35 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:55,940 it's in the Springfield Armory Museum back east. 36 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,580 As a matter of fact, I'm thinking about maybe calling up the museum back east 37 00:01:59,580 --> 00:02:00,660 and see if it's still in the showcase. 38 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:07,320 The story is with this gun, I believe it was a colonel who came up with the idea 39 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:08,380 that one person... 40 00:02:08,990 --> 00:02:13,170 And every company should have this in the stock of his gun, and that way you 41 00:02:13,170 --> 00:02:14,670 could grind corn, you could grind wheat. 42 00:02:14,870 --> 00:02:18,030 It was the Civil War. A lot of times these guys were fending for themselves 43 00:02:18,030 --> 00:02:18,809 for food. 44 00:02:18,810 --> 00:02:22,530 You come across a silo, you grab some grain, you can grind this down, and you 45 00:02:22,530 --> 00:02:24,970 can make yourself some bread. It was real common back then. When you made 46 00:02:24,970 --> 00:02:27,990 your bread, you kept a little piece of dough, you wrapped a piece of cloth, 47 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:31,290 threw it in your backpack, and then the next day you took that piece of dough 48 00:02:31,290 --> 00:02:34,590 and you put it in your next batch of dough and took a little piece off. You 49 00:02:34,590 --> 00:02:36,250 keep the yeast that way, and that's how you make sourdough bread. 50 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,880 And that was the story with it. This one colonel wanted, like, one person in 51 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:46,540 every company to have one of these in their gun, and they never did it. Want 52 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:47,540 to see how the grinder works? 53 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:50,880 I imagine you put the knob in there, and then you put the grain in there, and it 54 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,880 would probably fall at the bottom. 55 00:02:52,980 --> 00:02:55,000 Doesn't fit in too tightly, but it does work. 56 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,920 It comes out the bottom. 57 00:02:59,029 --> 00:03:02,730 Okay. You probably have nothing like this, I'm sure. I've had sharps carbines 58 00:03:02,730 --> 00:03:06,050 before like this, and these are worth very good money, especially a Civil War 59 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:11,410 with Civil War markings on it. But the coffee grinder, I don't think there's 60 00:03:11,410 --> 00:03:15,190 any way it could actually be real, just due to the fact that this is fairy dust, 61 00:03:15,270 --> 00:03:18,810 as far as I know. It's been in the attic, you know, for how many decades, I 62 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:22,110 don't know. But maybe that's why it wasn't on the market. 63 00:03:22,430 --> 00:03:26,390 How much do you want for it? I think I'd like $10,000 for it. 64 00:03:30,830 --> 00:03:33,750 Let me have someone look at it. I mean, it's really neat for a Civil War 65 00:03:33,750 --> 00:03:35,750 carbine, okay? Sure, that'd be great. 66 00:03:36,230 --> 00:03:37,109 It's very dust. 67 00:03:37,110 --> 00:03:38,110 Very dust. 68 00:03:39,090 --> 00:03:42,750 I'd like Rick to call in an expert. Maybe it's worth more than I think, and 69 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:46,130 the expert will tell us that, and then maybe I can sell it for more. 70 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:56,190 Can I help you? 71 00:03:56,350 --> 00:03:59,890 Yeah, I got a pair of Scottish percussion pistols, 1840. 72 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:05,300 They're called saw handle because it looks like the handle of a saw. 73 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,460 I bought them from a little old lady that did all kinds of military stuff. 74 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,600 She had guns and medals and clothing, and I was just intrigued by them, and I 75 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,320 bought them from her. She loved military stuff because she said she was always 76 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,339 sweet on guys in uniform. 77 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,740 They look pretty cool. I've heard about these before. 78 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:25,780 A.Henry Edinburgh. 79 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,080 What do you know about him? 80 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,200 I looked him up and I thought, could that be the same Henry from the Henry 81 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:35,420 rifles? You know, I thought, ooh, okay, worth a fortune. But I couldn't 82 00:04:35,420 --> 00:04:36,680 necessarily make a connection. 83 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:40,860 I don't know much about him either, but how much are you looking to get? 84 00:04:41,140 --> 00:04:43,060 Somewhere in the low 8,000 range. 85 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:48,860 Okay. I mean, they look in fair condition. 86 00:04:49,380 --> 00:04:53,140 There's a lot of wear on them, considering that this handle used to be 87 00:04:53,140 --> 00:04:56,100 nickel-plated at one time from what it looked like. 88 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,540 You can still see a little bit down here. 89 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,640 And the barrels have rust and even pitting, and you've got a dent right 90 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:04,640 here. 91 00:05:04,780 --> 00:05:06,180 It's a patina of age. 92 00:05:06,780 --> 00:05:10,320 I wouldn't call rust patina. You bought an old car with rust on it, would you 93 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:11,320 call it patina? 94 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,860 It's a pretty thick barrel. I doubt that rust goes all the way through. 95 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:17,560 Well, unfortunately, I don't know. 96 00:05:17,980 --> 00:05:18,980 No, I don't know either. 97 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,740 I'm going to have to call my gun expert Alex down to see. 98 00:05:22,330 --> 00:05:23,089 What, he think? 99 00:05:23,090 --> 00:05:25,930 Okay. Hopefully you have enough time to hang out for a little while. Sure. 100 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:27,350 That'd be great. Thank you. 101 00:05:28,330 --> 00:05:32,950 I want Jim to call in an expert on the guns because it's difficult to get 102 00:05:32,950 --> 00:05:37,770 information on them. So I'm hoping that his answer will be close to my asking 103 00:05:37,770 --> 00:05:38,770 price. 104 00:05:40,790 --> 00:05:41,790 What's up? 105 00:05:42,050 --> 00:05:46,310 Earlier, a guy came in the store with a gun that is not supposed to exist. It's 106 00:05:46,310 --> 00:05:47,310 like pixie dust. 107 00:05:47,690 --> 00:05:52,190 Here we have a Sharps Civil War carbine with the coffee grinder. But if this 108 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:54,890 thing is real, it's worth tens of thousands of dollars. 109 00:05:55,250 --> 00:05:58,590 So I called my buddy Alex to see if he has any insight on this at all. 110 00:05:59,250 --> 00:06:00,590 Yeah, they're pretty much all fake. 111 00:06:00,870 --> 00:06:01,910 So I'm going to go. 112 00:06:02,270 --> 00:06:03,270 Okay. 113 00:06:04,830 --> 00:06:07,430 Let me just tell you a little bit about the Sharps. 114 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:12,730 Standard 1859 model sharps. This was a cavalry weapon. 115 00:06:12,950 --> 00:06:16,750 Here's the issue. There are more of these on the market today than they were 116 00:06:16,750 --> 00:06:19,730 ever made, which implies that they're all fake. 117 00:06:19,970 --> 00:06:24,230 So let me check out the gun first, and then we can talk about the mill. Here is 118 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:26,850 the serial number, which is 62835. 119 00:06:27,610 --> 00:06:31,670 So here's another story. The commander of the Springfield Arsenal in the 1920s 120 00:06:31,670 --> 00:06:35,250 goes to one of his employees who works there, and they want to recreate. 121 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,220 a Civil War carbine with a mill in it. 122 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:42,840 They have the carbine, an original one. They have the original parts from the 123 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,500 mill from St. Louis from 1864, 1865. 124 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:52,700 And the serial number was 62835, which means this gun is a known gun. 125 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,060 The mill is completely correct and built from original parts during the Civil 126 00:06:57,060 --> 00:07:00,160 War, but it was put together in the 1920s. Okay. 127 00:07:00,380 --> 00:07:01,680 And it's documented. 128 00:07:02,060 --> 00:07:04,920 It's basically been off the radar since the 1920s. 129 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,940 Okay, so what's it worth? 130 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,460 There's not a precedent. This is a known missing gun. 131 00:07:12,820 --> 00:07:15,260 So, what, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000? 132 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:17,020 $50,000. 133 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:18,200 I like that price. 134 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,700 I'm just shocked that this thing actually makes fairy dust. 135 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:24,240 Thanks, man. You're welcome. 136 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:25,580 Thank you very much. 137 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:30,220 I think it's a great buy for the shop because anything with provenance like 138 00:07:30,220 --> 00:07:33,580 this is going to be a popular item on the collector's market. 139 00:07:34,830 --> 00:07:35,930 Don't we write the check for $10,000? 140 00:07:38,530 --> 00:07:39,530 You're a funny guy. 141 00:07:40,070 --> 00:07:41,230 We heard the expert. 142 00:07:41,530 --> 00:07:42,690 It's worth $50,000. 143 00:07:43,370 --> 00:07:46,010 I could probably come down to $40,000. 144 00:07:46,850 --> 00:07:47,850 I'll give you $30,000. 145 00:07:50,670 --> 00:07:53,970 I'm taking a pig in a poke here. 146 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:58,470 I mean, we have this incredible gun, but no one has it been to auction. 147 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:02,110 So... How about $35,000? 148 00:08:06,380 --> 00:08:08,880 I live in Vegas and I don't normally do this, but I'll take a gamble. 149 00:08:09,180 --> 00:08:10,840 All right. Thank you. Hey, we have a deal, man. 150 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,420 Leave this right here. I'll have some guys like rapid and very productive. 151 00:08:14,980 --> 00:08:15,980 All right. 152 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,300 Certainly, I feel like dancing. 153 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:21,980 And I think that's very fair because he has to take the risk of selling it. And 154 00:08:21,980 --> 00:08:25,260 I'd like to just cash out and use the money elsewhere. 155 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,740 Hey, what's up? How you doing? I have a samurai sword that my family's had for a 156 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:35,740 long, long time. 157 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,919 I really don't know much about it. 158 00:08:37,580 --> 00:08:38,700 Why is it made out of wood? 159 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,880 Got me on that one. I mean, it wouldn't really do a lot of damage. 160 00:08:42,380 --> 00:08:43,380 Giant toothpick. 161 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:49,720 So it looks like you have a scabbard here, but not the sword. I mean, the 162 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,420 handle looks pretty legit. 163 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,820 Do you know much about it at all? 164 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,580 No, just from my grandfather. He picked it up during the war, and I really don't 165 00:08:57,580 --> 00:09:01,440 know anything more than that. I deal with samurai swords all the time, but 166 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,440 I've never really dealt with just a case and a handle for one. 167 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,300 It definitely looks Japanese. 168 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:10,160 But, you know, one of the big problems with stuff like this is these things 169 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,280 were passed down from generation to generation. It could be 500 years old. 170 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,380 It could be 100 years old. I have no idea. 171 00:09:16,580 --> 00:09:20,420 They really do range from that kind of time period. 172 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,340 I really don't understand why there's not a sword attached to it. I mean, it 173 00:09:25,340 --> 00:09:29,920 definitely looks like a mounting for a actual sword. I just want to know where 174 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:30,920 the real sword's at. 175 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,240 The handle looks like it's made of silk. The scabbard, I don't know what material 176 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,240 it is that they used. 177 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,780 I mean, it looks like wood maybe. 178 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,240 So we don't know how old it is. 179 00:09:42,780 --> 00:09:45,540 It looks like it could actually be something here. I just don't know 180 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:46,540 exactly what it is. 181 00:09:47,220 --> 00:09:48,740 So what are you looking to do with it? 182 00:09:49,140 --> 00:09:50,140 Sell it. 183 00:09:50,180 --> 00:09:52,560 Okay. Any idea what you're looking to get? 184 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:54,300 $8,000. 185 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,880 Would you mind if I have a buddy come in and take a look at it? No, you're 186 00:09:58,880 --> 00:09:59,699 welcome. It'd be great. 187 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,140 Okay. Hang out. I'll be right back. 188 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,220 I'm totally fine with someone coming in today, look at the sword. I really would 189 00:10:06,220 --> 00:10:09,400 like to have more information about where it came from, how old it is, and 190 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:10,400 what its value is. 191 00:10:15,820 --> 00:10:16,820 Hey, how you doing? 192 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,260 Good, Tim, how are you? I'm good, how you been? I'm alright. Earlier, a guy 193 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:23,520 brought in a pair of saw-handled pistols. They're in pretty rough shape, 194 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,080 and they're old, but they seem like they might have some historical significance. 195 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:30,540 So I called in Alex to help me figure out if I should buy them. 196 00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:31,780 Very nice. 197 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:37,700 These are what we refer to as saw-handled pistols. What's interesting 198 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:41,060 about these is the name on them. 199 00:10:41,380 --> 00:10:45,740 So that would be Alexander Henry, who had a shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. 200 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,600 This is like the most famous gun maker during the Victorian era. 201 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:53,360 So it looks like it's the same Henry. You were concerned about that. 202 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:56,240 Yeah. I was hoping for that. 203 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:58,640 So what kind of value do you put on these? 204 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:05,400 Well... The condition of them really drags the value down. When these were 205 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,940 made, this thing looked like a bar of silver. 206 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,640 What brings the value back up is Alexander Henry's name. That's a nice 207 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,640 pedigree for this. 208 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,000 So at auction, the way they are today, 209 00:11:19,780 --> 00:11:20,820 $5,000 to $6,000. 210 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,280 Okay. All right. Well, that's what I needed to hear. 211 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,200 All right. Good luck, Bill. Thank you. 212 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:30,080 So are you still interested in selling them? 213 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,420 Depends what we negotiate on price. 214 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,380 Well, how much would you like to get for him? 215 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,920 I'd probably settle for 42. 216 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:44,600 Would you take 28 for him? 217 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:45,839 No. 218 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,820 No, that's, I mean, that's a giveaway price. 219 00:11:49,780 --> 00:11:52,400 3,500 would be my bottom. 220 00:11:53,589 --> 00:11:56,890 And if you want to, we could gamble a Las Vegas flip a coin. They come with 221 00:11:56,890 --> 00:11:58,210 two different numbers, yours and mine. 222 00:11:58,470 --> 00:12:01,250 Fortunately, I live in Las Vegas, and I know better than to gamble. 223 00:12:02,850 --> 00:12:06,350 I'll tell you what. I can do 33, but I can't go a dime higher. 224 00:12:07,590 --> 00:12:10,250 They're cool guns. I do want to get them. I want to make a deal with you. 225 00:12:10,610 --> 00:12:14,490 And I think I'm pushing it at 33, but I'm hoping that could work for all of 226 00:12:14,490 --> 00:12:16,090 us. 33.50. 227 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:19,210 I really... 228 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,420 What's $50 amongst new acquaintances? That's the same question I would ask 229 00:12:23,420 --> 00:12:24,420 you. 230 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:33,000 It's below what I was expecting to take, but I'll accept your deal on a 231 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,400 handshake. All right, let's go over here and write them up. All right. 232 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,040 I would have liked to have walked away with maybe in the $4,000 range, but 233 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,620 based upon what I learned from the expert and Chum's negotiating skills, I 234 00:12:46,620 --> 00:12:48,340 took a little bit of a hit, but I'm still okay. 235 00:12:51,410 --> 00:12:54,530 I have a guy in here who's brought in something I've never really seen before. 236 00:12:54,830 --> 00:12:59,730 He has a sword handle and a scabbard, but he doesn't have the sword itself. 237 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:03,230 From what I can tell, it looks like parts from a samurai sword. 238 00:13:03,590 --> 00:13:07,030 So I called Mike, who's an expert in stuff like this, to see if he can come 239 00:13:07,030 --> 00:13:08,150 down and take a look at it for me. 240 00:13:08,890 --> 00:13:11,430 Hey, Mike, what's going on, man? Hey, what's up, Corey? How you been? 241 00:13:11,650 --> 00:13:12,650 Doing good. 242 00:13:12,790 --> 00:13:13,830 Oh, what you got today? 243 00:13:14,070 --> 00:13:17,170 A weird one. It's what appears to be an old scabbard. 244 00:13:17,590 --> 00:13:21,260 Okay. Well, actually, this is common, believe it or not, in Japan. 245 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:25,560 After World War II, the occupation, MacArthur ordered all the swords to get 246 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:29,100 collected. So that means all the blades were turned in. 247 00:13:29,740 --> 00:13:33,420 But the mountings were okay to keep because these were not against law. 248 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:34,460 They're not a weapon. 249 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:35,540 Okay. 250 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,520 And this is quite old, actually. 251 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,020 How do we know how old it is? 252 00:13:39,420 --> 00:13:44,800 Well, this style of mount is made in southern Japan, and this is known as a 253 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,260 Higo mount, which is from the area of Kumamoto, modern-day Japan. 254 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:53,180 And they were very particular to make this style of gold inlay work. 255 00:13:53,420 --> 00:13:59,300 Judging from the style, we can pretty much determine that this whole package 256 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,660 was from the early 1800s. Oh, wow. 257 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,200 So what else can you tell me about it? 258 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:06,680 Interesting. 259 00:14:08,970 --> 00:14:10,370 This is very interesting. 260 00:14:15,770 --> 00:14:18,030 Maybe you get lucky. 261 00:14:21,210 --> 00:14:22,230 No way. 262 00:14:28,170 --> 00:14:29,170 Whoa. 263 00:14:33,610 --> 00:14:36,270 That is gnarly. 264 00:14:37,130 --> 00:14:38,830 Japanese antique rifle. 265 00:14:39,250 --> 00:14:41,230 It weighs a good 40 or 50 pounds. 266 00:14:41,570 --> 00:14:42,830 It's heavy. 267 00:14:43,150 --> 00:14:47,250 This is like a workout tool gun. 268 00:14:48,750 --> 00:14:50,170 This is really nice. 269 00:14:50,530 --> 00:14:55,990 This is probably late 1700s, early 1800s. Where in the world did you get 270 00:14:55,990 --> 00:14:58,690 this? Well, my family is Japanese. 271 00:14:58,970 --> 00:15:02,890 Okay. My great uncle and my uncle and my father, they were all in the military, 272 00:15:02,970 --> 00:15:05,330 so it's been passed down from generation to generation. 273 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,160 You just don't see a lot of them. I really do dig it. 274 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,460 This is craziness right here. This kind of mechanism. 275 00:15:13,140 --> 00:15:18,100 What kind of mechanism is that? This is called a matchlock, okay? And this right 276 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:19,520 here clamped onto a piece of rope. 277 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,180 It had a little red cherry on the end of it. It was burning, always smoldering. 278 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,460 There's some gunpowder right here, and you would splash that smoldering rope 279 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:32,620 into the gunpowder right there, which would send a spark through there, and 280 00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:34,700 out came the barrel, came the bullets, and everything else. 281 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,300 But the big problem with that is when you open this up and there's just a 282 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:40,700 little pile of gunpowder there, there's a breeze. It's gone. 283 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,820 If there's a drop of rain in the sky, it's wet. And if a little cinder falls 284 00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:49,020 off this and lands in that, you're shooting too early. 285 00:15:49,340 --> 00:15:54,080 In Europe, they stopped using this type of firing mechanism 200 years earlier. 286 00:15:54,820 --> 00:15:59,940 Japan was basically a closed society until the 1860s. They knew about most of 287 00:15:59,940 --> 00:16:03,420 the technical innovations going on in the world. They just didn't embrace it. 288 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,900 That's why matchlock guns like this were still being used by the Japanese after 289 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:11,420 everyone else in the world had stopped 200 years earlier. There's a big market 290 00:16:11,420 --> 00:16:16,900 for antique Japanese guns, and this one, being so weird, makes it worth even 291 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:17,900 more. 292 00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:19,400 How much did you want for it? 293 00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:25,580 I looked online. I think I found some similar things that are selling for 294 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:26,580 about $5,700. 295 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:27,960 Okay. 296 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,200 Let me call someone up, take a look at it. 297 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,780 It might be worth $10,000. It might be worth $500. 298 00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:38,920 I know it's something I could sell. I just got to figure out what the market's 299 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,320 doing on them. So if you don't mind hanging out a little bit, I've got a 300 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,099 friend down here. 301 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:44,760 He'll look at it, and we'll come up with the price. 302 00:16:45,140 --> 00:16:46,220 I'd love that. Okay. 303 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:48,020 Well, hang out. I'll be right back. 304 00:16:48,260 --> 00:16:52,300 Okay. I'm really excited to talk to this expert today because I don't know much 305 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,320 about the gun, and it's part of my history, so I'm really interested to 306 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,460 hear what he has to say. 307 00:17:00,689 --> 00:17:01,689 Interesting. 308 00:17:03,730 --> 00:17:05,329 This is very interesting. 309 00:17:11,589 --> 00:17:13,630 Maybe you get lucky. 310 00:17:18,130 --> 00:17:19,670 The hidden coin pocket. 311 00:17:20,150 --> 00:17:21,150 No way. 312 00:17:22,550 --> 00:17:25,250 These are very rare to find intact. 313 00:17:26,130 --> 00:17:29,570 Now, I am a little bit of an expert. Those aren't gold. 314 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,640 No, no, these are definitely not gold. 315 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,440 Unfortunately, somebody put some reproductions in here and obviously kept 316 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,440 the real gold. 317 00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:41,500 So why would they hide it inside their sword like that? 318 00:17:41,740 --> 00:17:43,820 You would be afraid to get robbed. 319 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:48,580 So this was the best place to actually hide your money in that sense. 320 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Gotcha. A little holder like this could hold up to $10,000 worth of coins. 321 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:58,700 Okay, well, too bad we didn't get that lucky, right? 322 00:17:59,970 --> 00:18:05,810 But because of the rarity of this, this makes this set very highly collectible. 323 00:18:06,410 --> 00:18:08,390 Okay. How collectible? 324 00:18:08,710 --> 00:18:12,310 Well, I mean, in excellent condition like this, especially with the addition 325 00:18:12,310 --> 00:18:16,430 of the hidden coin pocket, now you're talking something very, very rare and 326 00:18:16,430 --> 00:18:20,230 special. So this thing would be worth an easy $8,000. 327 00:18:21,750 --> 00:18:25,150 All right. Well, appreciate it, Mike. All right. Take care. Thank you. See you 328 00:18:25,150 --> 00:18:26,150 later. 329 00:18:28,170 --> 00:18:31,410 Well, I mean, you kind of hit the nail on the head of what it was worth. 330 00:18:32,530 --> 00:18:34,450 That being said, I've got to make some money. 331 00:18:35,730 --> 00:18:36,750 I'd like to give you four. 332 00:18:38,490 --> 00:18:40,110 Could you come up a little bit more than four? 333 00:18:40,850 --> 00:18:41,950 Can you go down from eight? 334 00:18:43,970 --> 00:18:44,970 Six and a half. 335 00:18:47,830 --> 00:18:48,830 Tell you what, I'll do five. 336 00:18:52,330 --> 00:18:53,710 Five seems fair. All right, deal. 337 00:18:53,970 --> 00:18:55,730 Thank you. Meet me over there. Let's do some paperwork. 338 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,280 I am thrilled to make a deal today for $5,000. 339 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,040 It wasn't quite the $8,000 I was asking for, but I will certainly be able to 340 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,260 take my family on a nice vacation. 341 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,040 A woman came in with a really cool Japanese matchlock rifle. I know this 342 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,360 thing's worth money, but I have no idea how much. So I called in my buddy Sean 343 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:17,700 to help me figure this thing out. 344 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:21,800 Hey, Rick. How are you? How's it going? I'm Sean. Myra. Holy crap. 345 00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:24,520 Wow. Do you mind? 346 00:19:24,820 --> 00:19:25,820 Please. 347 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:28,419 Oh, yeah. 348 00:19:28,420 --> 00:19:29,780 It feels a good 40 pounds. 349 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,520 I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, this is impressive. 350 00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:35,700 You don't see something like this every day. 351 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,700 When do you think this was made, 1700s, 1800s? 352 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:45,400 Just the form of it, I'm going to say between 1750 and about 1800s. The design 353 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,820 that actually originated from the Portuguese. 354 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,740 This was a huge game changer for the battle tactic. 355 00:19:53,210 --> 00:19:57,310 for all of Japan because the samurai, their weapons were blades. 356 00:19:57,650 --> 00:20:02,310 I mean, this is a true piece of history. When the guns came into play, it changed 357 00:20:02,310 --> 00:20:06,950 everything. You would have your samurai forces, but you could also bring in 358 00:20:06,950 --> 00:20:09,930 local farmers and train them how to fire these weapons. 359 00:20:10,310 --> 00:20:15,410 Now they weren't the samurai. They were just another faction of their military 360 00:20:15,410 --> 00:20:19,300 unit. It was like a defensive gun they used back then, right? Oh, yeah. You 361 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:23,760 wouldn't be running around, you know, with this thing. This is a wall gun that 362 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,900 would be on a defensive line. 363 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,500 Those guys weren't going anywhere. And I want to see what the... You know, you 364 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:35,020 would think it would even have a bigger caliber, considering how big this thing 365 00:20:35,020 --> 00:20:40,680 is. But, you know, you could actually utilize this for longer range, because 366 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,340 this barrel has a tremendous amount of meat around it. 367 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,810 So... What's it worth? 368 00:20:46,510 --> 00:20:51,330 Because this is a wall gun, there's very few of these around. 369 00:20:52,830 --> 00:20:56,630 Easily $3,000 to $6,000. 370 00:20:56,850 --> 00:21:00,930 You know, it's a big spread, but that's where it's going to fall. 371 00:21:01,130 --> 00:21:02,250 This is a whole filler. 372 00:21:02,890 --> 00:21:03,890 Okay. 373 00:21:04,030 --> 00:21:05,690 Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Absolutely. 374 00:21:06,170 --> 00:21:07,250 Thank you. Take care. 375 00:21:08,410 --> 00:21:11,910 There's actually quite a large collector base for this type of a weapon. 376 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:16,680 But this in particular is very desirable because it's a wall gun. They just 377 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,740 didn't make a whole lot of them. So this is going to be much more desirable, and 378 00:21:19,740 --> 00:21:21,780 I think Rick is really smart to buy it. 379 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,220 I'm thinking I'll give you like two grand for it. 380 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:27,440 It's a fair price. 381 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,580 He said you can get $6,000 for it. 382 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,140 No, he said I can get between $3,000 and $6,000 for it, depending on the market. 383 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:40,420 The $6,000 is sort of la-la land, but it can happen. It's happened to me before. 384 00:21:40,890 --> 00:21:44,530 And then again, I might put it in an auction, and I'll get $3,000, and by the 385 00:21:44,530 --> 00:21:46,990 time I pay the auction fees and everything else, I make nothing. 386 00:21:49,290 --> 00:21:52,230 Can you do at least $35,000? 387 00:21:54,050 --> 00:21:56,530 No, I mean, because I would not make any money that way. 388 00:21:57,110 --> 00:22:01,010 Well, he said it's rare. There's not a lot of wall guns. 389 00:22:01,690 --> 00:22:05,530 I'll tell you what. I'll give you $2,200, and that's going to be my final 390 00:22:05,530 --> 00:22:06,530 price. It really is. 391 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:11,700 How much did you say? 392 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:12,940 I said $2,200. 393 00:22:13,260 --> 00:22:14,260 You didn't say $2,500? 394 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,280 No, I said $2,200. 395 00:22:16,140 --> 00:22:18,000 Okay. Deal. $2,200. 396 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,460 I'll meet you right over there. We'll do some paperwork, and I'll get a strong 397 00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:23,960 young employee to pick this up. Okay. Thank you. 398 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,100 The $2,200 will help with moving expenses. 399 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,600 Hopefully, I'll have enough left over to where I can go buy a 9-millimeter pencil 400 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,880 that I can take out to the range. 401 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,800 Whoa. What are those? 402 00:22:39,909 --> 00:22:40,909 All access. 403 00:22:41,490 --> 00:22:43,570 Okay, put that down? Yeah, go ahead and set them over here. 404 00:22:45,490 --> 00:22:47,350 Where did you get these? The Renaissance Fair? 405 00:22:47,610 --> 00:22:51,670 No, I got them in southern Germany. A town called Dinkelsbühel. It's a walled 406 00:22:51,670 --> 00:22:52,670 fortress city. 407 00:22:53,190 --> 00:22:55,110 From Dingleberry, Germany? 408 00:22:56,670 --> 00:22:58,310 Dinkelsbühel. Dinkelsbühel, okay. 409 00:22:59,510 --> 00:23:00,349 Halberds, huh? 410 00:23:00,350 --> 00:23:02,710 How old are they? They're about 500 years old. 411 00:23:03,820 --> 00:23:06,500 500 years old. What makes you think they're that old? 412 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,300 The way they're made, these are hand-forged on an anvil, so they're 413 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:11,960 really light, but they're really strong. 414 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,340 My research, this one right here is Austrian, and this one's actually 415 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:16,340 Italian. 416 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,620 It was a pretty kind of high-tech weapon when it came out. I mean, pretty much 417 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:24,020 what you would do is the guy would go rolling by on the horse, and you'd take 418 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:26,620 that into him and yank him off of it. I mean, it was... 419 00:23:26,990 --> 00:23:30,410 And then once he was on the ground, you had all this leverage to swing over your 420 00:23:30,410 --> 00:23:33,830 head and, you know, get right through his armor. And he had this nice little 421 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:39,170 pointy part to get in between things and poke him. And it's a pretty versatile 422 00:23:39,170 --> 00:23:44,010 weapon. These axes are in amazing shape. If we can prove these are real, I know I 423 00:23:44,010 --> 00:23:45,750 can easily sell them to a military collector. 424 00:23:46,310 --> 00:23:48,470 So how much are you looking to get for these halberds? 425 00:23:48,690 --> 00:23:50,330 I need $7,500 each. 426 00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:54,010 $7,500 each. All right. 427 00:23:55,460 --> 00:23:57,880 Have you ever had them looked at or appraised by anybody? 428 00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:01,680 I've collected medieval weapons for quite some time. I've done my research, 429 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,200 so I'm very confident in what they are. 430 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:08,880 You know, there's people who have their whole houses decorated in this style of 431 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,320 stuff. I'm sure I could sell it to somebody. 432 00:24:10,780 --> 00:24:17,640 But I couldn't tell you if they're real or fake. I couldn't tell you if they're 433 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,920 500 years old or if they're 300 years old. I really just don't know. For that 434 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,340 kind of money, mind if I have a buddy of mine come down and take a look at them? 435 00:24:24,590 --> 00:24:27,730 No, absolutely not. I welcome it. All right. Thank you. 436 00:24:28,010 --> 00:24:31,310 If he's bringing in somebody that really understands medieval weapons and 437 00:24:31,310 --> 00:24:33,710 blacksmithing, then we're probably about to make a deal. 438 00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:38,710 Damn. What do we have here? 439 00:24:40,570 --> 00:24:46,270 They're a whaling harpoon from 1849 and 1853. 440 00:24:46,730 --> 00:24:47,730 Do you have dates on them? 441 00:24:47,790 --> 00:24:50,130 Yeah, they're stamped here on the iron part. 442 00:24:50,430 --> 00:24:52,750 Okay. I mean, that's the time period for them. 443 00:24:54,350 --> 00:24:56,110 Thing to carry around and check into a hotel. 444 00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:57,370 Yeah. 445 00:24:59,010 --> 00:25:01,010 They would have to thrust these into the whale. 446 00:25:01,530 --> 00:25:04,730 I know it's gnarly now and everything like that, but they would take this, 447 00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:05,870 they would throw it in the whale. 448 00:25:06,030 --> 00:25:08,470 But when you pull on it, it's not coming out. 449 00:25:08,910 --> 00:25:14,830 And then they would have like 500 or 1,000 feet of rope on the boat. Because 450 00:25:14,830 --> 00:25:17,310 they didn't do it from the ship. It was like from a rowboat. They did it. And 451 00:25:17,310 --> 00:25:19,870 once they ran out of rope, it would be tied off and the boat would just start 452 00:25:19,870 --> 00:25:20,870 going flying. 453 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,840 They held on until the whale came back up, and they could throw more harpoons 454 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,040 into it, or the whale died. 455 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,160 The reason why whale oil was so important, it provided the world with 456 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,580 light. I mean, the big problem has always been lighting things up, and it's 457 00:25:32,580 --> 00:25:33,580 always been really expensive. 458 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:39,620 Candles were expensive, oil was expensive, but whale oil was an 459 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:42,880 inexpensive source of lighting, and then it burned brighter, it burned cleaner. 460 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,180 That's what everybody wanted, huh? 461 00:25:45,420 --> 00:25:46,500 That's what everyone wanted. 462 00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:49,600 It was an insane business. 463 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,660 He would leave from the East Coast, and you had no idea when you're coming back. 464 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:57,920 Sure. You might fill up the whole ship with whale oil in three months, or it 465 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,400 might be a year and a half or two years. 466 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:06,420 I mean, actually, they're in great shape, and they're real, because 99% of 467 00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:09,720 the ones you see are completely fake. Sure, they do some good replicas, but... 468 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,980 Yeah, I mean, just everything's right about them. This is all the original 469 00:26:12,980 --> 00:26:15,040 lashing, original wood. 470 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:16,960 How much do you want for these things? 471 00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:19,060 I want two grand for the pair. 472 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,280 Okay. 473 00:26:20,430 --> 00:26:24,150 They're not exactly politically correct, sort of, you know what I mean? But there 474 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:25,170 are collectors for these things. 475 00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:27,250 They tell a story. They really do. 476 00:26:27,690 --> 00:26:30,990 I can't imagine living back then because these guys were like iron men, you know 477 00:26:30,990 --> 00:26:31,429 what I mean? 478 00:26:31,430 --> 00:26:32,430 Tough guys. 479 00:26:32,770 --> 00:26:34,030 I'd give you $1,000 for the pair. 480 00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:37,270 I mean, I've got to resell them. 481 00:26:37,630 --> 00:26:40,610 You know, I think, I mean, I'd do $1,800. 482 00:26:41,390 --> 00:26:44,790 If I pay $1,800, there's no money for me. If I pay you $500 a piece and I sell 483 00:26:44,790 --> 00:26:46,550 it for $800 or $900 a piece, I'll do all right. 484 00:26:47,070 --> 00:26:48,070 So I'll give you $1,000. 485 00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:49,860 And you don't have to lug them around. 486 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,140 Because, I mean, if you do walk down the street with this, I think you can arrest 487 00:26:54,140 --> 00:26:55,320 a freak carrying a deadly weapon. 488 00:26:56,860 --> 00:26:58,560 I've got some funny looks, that's for sure. 489 00:27:00,340 --> 00:27:01,340 $16. 490 00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:02,460 Okay, I'll give you $1,200. 491 00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:04,060 I'm not going to go no more than that either. 492 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,600 $1,250. 493 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,180 Deal. Cool, man. 494 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,280 I'll meet you right up front. We'll do some paperwork. 495 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,480 Cool. Thank you. 496 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,040 Bars, she blows. 497 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,300 A guy came in with two pole axes that he said were made over 500 years ago. If 498 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:25,360 they're genuine, they can be worth a lot. So I called up Craig to see if he 499 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:26,360 can authenticate them. 500 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,100 So we got some Halberds here. What do you think? 501 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,320 Yeah. 502 00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:34,220 Very nice Halberd. Very nice. Thank you. How old do you think that is? 503 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,820 Well, about 500 years. 504 00:27:38,420 --> 00:27:40,700 I'm going to put it back down again. That would make me more comfortable. Let 505 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:41,820 me put the Halberd down. 506 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:45,280 Yeah, this is a very nice piece. What do you know about it? I believe this one's 507 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,200 Austrian because of the pattern and also this particular outline. 508 00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:50,220 And you also have these dots here. 509 00:27:50,540 --> 00:27:54,160 Typically, the halberds that were made in Austria will have these little vent 510 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,119 holes in them. 511 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,980 And you'll also see these little side hooks as well on the Austrian designs. 512 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:00,460 This is definitely Austrian. 513 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,360 Tell me what you know about the other one. I believe the other one's Italian. 514 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:05,360 Okay, you would be right. 515 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,040 This is more ornate, a little more gaudy, if you will. 516 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,100 All right, so you're fairly sure they're from the 1500s. 517 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,320 Actually, I'm not. 518 00:28:14,740 --> 00:28:20,380 These are halberds, and halberds were used during the 1500s. The wood on these 519 00:28:20,380 --> 00:28:22,020 break and are repaired and replaced. 520 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,580 This is not original wood. 521 00:28:23,860 --> 00:28:28,480 So it's made in the style, but that's not a big deal. The real question is, 522 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:29,860 are the heads real? 523 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,400 The Victorians were famous for building classic production of older weapons. 524 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:38,580 Okay. 525 00:28:39,530 --> 00:28:44,290 The thing that really concerns me about this piece is that the steel is really 526 00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:48,570 flimsy. I wouldn't want to be hit by this, but, you know, you whack somebody 527 00:28:48,570 --> 00:28:50,810 wearing armor with this thing, it's liable to bend or break. 528 00:28:52,130 --> 00:28:58,230 I'll conclude that this is probably from the Victorian period and is what I call 529 00:28:58,230 --> 00:28:59,230 the decorator piece. 530 00:29:00,410 --> 00:29:01,410 I disagree. 531 00:29:01,510 --> 00:29:05,190 You think it's not original because it's flimsy, but that thing is hand forged, 532 00:29:05,250 --> 00:29:08,310 and I believe it's original based on what I've studied. They were hand 533 00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:10,720 forging. Things in the Victorian period, too. 534 00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:16,160 So what about this one? Okay, this one. Taking a close look, it does have a 535 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,160 foundry marking on it. 536 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,400 The Victorians really didn't worry about foundry markings because that's not the 537 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,740 point, okay? They were building something for you to hang up on your 538 00:29:24,740 --> 00:29:31,040 wall. Steel is very strong. I mean, that's very strong steel. It's not 539 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,300 bendy at all. This is a weapon. This is not something you'd hang on the wall 540 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:36,300 just to look cool. 541 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,020 I can tell you this is real. 542 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,380 So give me an idea. What do you think they're worth? 543 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,880 This one is, again, not for you. If you wanted to buy this, I'd pay no more than 544 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:46,880 $600 or $700. 545 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,820 This one, if you want one of these, I can get you one for $1,500. 546 00:29:53,780 --> 00:29:57,800 No, they're worth a lot more than that. If you think you can find these on the 547 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,080 Internet for $1,500, knock yourself out because it's not going to happen. 548 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,220 If you're not exposed to the market and don't know where to find a piece like 549 00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:08,480 this, you know, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000, not out of the question. 550 00:30:08,830 --> 00:30:10,210 but the value, about $1,500. 551 00:30:11,050 --> 00:30:13,950 Well, I disagree with you. Good luck finding something of that quality. 552 00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:15,330 Okay. Hey, Corey. 553 00:30:15,670 --> 00:30:16,670 Appreciate it, man. Pleasure. 554 00:30:16,990 --> 00:30:20,070 Chumlee, take care. Sir, have a great day. Disagree, but good to see you. Hey, 555 00:30:20,070 --> 00:30:21,070 good to see you, too. 556 00:30:21,710 --> 00:30:23,370 Craig's not afraid to mix it up a little bit. 557 00:30:23,590 --> 00:30:26,090 Sometimes he pisses people off, but he never steers me wrong. 558 00:30:26,350 --> 00:30:29,530 And even though they're not as valuable as we originally thought, I'm still 559 00:30:29,530 --> 00:30:30,530 interested. 560 00:30:31,730 --> 00:30:35,650 His pricing is not correct at all. They're worth a lot more money than 561 00:30:35,650 --> 00:30:38,710 that. If they were everywhere, you'd have seen them before. 562 00:30:38,930 --> 00:30:39,930 They're not. 563 00:30:39,950 --> 00:30:43,010 I mean, if I were to make you an offer, I'd make you an offer of around $1,500. 564 00:30:43,670 --> 00:30:44,670 Are you talking a piece? 565 00:30:45,250 --> 00:30:46,390 No, I'm talking total. 566 00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:47,990 No, I'm not interested at all. 567 00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:53,530 Well, if I were you, next time I'd buy one, I'd call Craig, too. 568 00:30:53,730 --> 00:30:55,870 All right? Appreciate it. All right, thank you. Bye. 569 00:30:56,810 --> 00:30:57,810 You couldn't... 570 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,640 Buy that for $1,500 if you just found it in the ground rusted. 571 00:31:01,980 --> 00:31:05,580 I'm absolutely fine keeping them, or I can trade them with other people that 572 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:06,880 actually know what they're talking about. 573 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,440 A good friend of Corey and I's found a weapon on his property. He wanted to 574 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,800 meet us out here at the gun range, so I can only assume we're going to be 575 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:19,800 shooting at something today. 576 00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:24,860 Well, Sean, what did you do? Bring me out here to show off? I thought we were 577 00:31:24,860 --> 00:31:25,860 shooting guns. 578 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:26,920 How you guys doing? 579 00:31:29,899 --> 00:31:32,080 That's a really big gun. 580 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,600 Yeah. 581 00:31:33,980 --> 00:31:37,160 I'm thinking it's an 18th century mortar. 582 00:31:37,580 --> 00:31:40,760 Where in the world did you get it? I bought some property, and this was in 583 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,680 one of the sheds on the property. It was just covered up. 584 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,320 Someone used it for home defense? 585 00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:50,820 This has got to be one of the most random things in the world to find. 586 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,980 I mean, it looks like a mortar. Is there any marks on it or anything? 587 00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:58,300 I did not see any marks on it whatsoever. 588 00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:01,680 Well, it doesn't look like a Civil War mortar because they were a lot shorter, 589 00:32:01,780 --> 00:32:04,620 and they were like iron. This is obviously bronze. 590 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,280 I know they came out with mortars right around the 1700s. They were crazy 591 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,280 devices. 592 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,060 Basically, they lobbed shells and hopefully timed it right where it blew 593 00:32:14,060 --> 00:32:15,360 up right before it hit the ground. 594 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,240 You're looking to sell it, right, Sean? 595 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,720 Yeah, yeah, I don't need it. 596 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,980 And I really don't want to take it anywhere else. 597 00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:27,200 Okay, any idea what you're looking to get out of it? I'm trying to get like 50 598 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,840 for it. I think that's a pretty fair price. 599 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,760 $50? $50,000? 600 00:32:31,420 --> 00:32:32,420 $50,000. 601 00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:33,580 Yeah. 602 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,540 I mean, I don't know. I mean, we've bought smaller versions of this and made 603 00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:38,540 plenty of money, right? 604 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,020 No, I've had a mortar before, but it was like not nearly that big. 605 00:32:43,850 --> 00:32:46,570 I knew we were going to shoot something when we came out here. I didn't really 606 00:32:46,570 --> 00:32:47,570 know it was this. 607 00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:51,090 Realistically, the only person I'm going to trust to fire this thing off is going 608 00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:52,330 to be Alex. I'll be right back. 609 00:32:53,130 --> 00:32:58,630 I'm hoping the expert can give us a good date on the mortar, and I'm hoping that 610 00:32:58,630 --> 00:33:00,650 we can fire some rounds out of it if possible. 611 00:33:09,010 --> 00:33:10,850 Hey, what's going on, man? Is Rick here? 612 00:33:11,430 --> 00:33:12,590 Thank God, no. 613 00:33:13,670 --> 00:33:14,950 Well, maybe you can help me with this. 614 00:33:15,290 --> 00:33:19,550 A Filipino bolo knife from the Insurrection War. 615 00:33:19,990 --> 00:33:20,949 All right. 616 00:33:20,950 --> 00:33:25,270 Definitely has some weight to it. You're probably chopping up some coconuts with 617 00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:26,270 this thing. 618 00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:30,290 Normally I'd call Rick, but he really doesn't want me bugging him right now. 619 00:33:30,630 --> 00:33:31,630 It's pretty cool. 620 00:33:31,990 --> 00:33:33,490 I don't know too much about it. 621 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,460 And what's really cool about this is it's got an original label here by 622 00:33:37,460 --> 00:33:41,180 whoever captured it stating where this was found and who it was given to. 623 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:45,960 My insurgent war bow taken at the Battle of Balintang, Philippine Island, 624 00:33:46,060 --> 00:33:49,600 November 21st, 1899 by the 26th Infantry. 625 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:50,800 That's pretty cool. 626 00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:54,640 A lot of people don't know that we were in the Philippines at all. I find it an 627 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:55,599 insurrection war. 628 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,180 Yeah, unfortunate war. 629 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,660 We were in the Spanish-American War, and it ended. 630 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,020 And due to the Treaty of Paris, we got control of the Philippines. But we got 631 00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:08,159 there, and we weren't really welcomed. They had over 20,000 deaths on their 632 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:11,800 side of the military. We had a little over 4,000. But there was a couple 633 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,000 hundred thousand civilian deaths, which was pretty sad. It was definitely a 634 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,699 little dark part in American history for sure. 635 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:18,300 Where did you get this? 636 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,000 Well, this came out of an estate sale. 637 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:22,920 What are you looking to do with it? You know, usually bring stuff in here for 638 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,980 Rick, and he's not here. But I figured $1,000, man. I mean, something like 639 00:34:26,980 --> 00:34:27,980 this, that's hard to price. 640 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,639 And you can't find, there's no comparables out there. 641 00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:34,940 First off, I don't know too much about it. I normally call someone, but I'm 642 00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:39,260 guessing it's probably worth somewhere in maybe like the $500 range. Yeah, a 643 00:34:39,260 --> 00:34:40,659 little more than $500, man. 644 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,719 $850. 645 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:44,659 $500, that's the most I'm going to give you. 646 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,100 $700. See, now I'm getting hard. Now, see, I've come off so much, and you're 647 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,219 just not bringing it up enough. 648 00:34:50,810 --> 00:34:53,389 That's, you know, still going to be a lot. My wall, 649 00:34:54,429 --> 00:34:56,469 $600. That's it. I'm walking. 650 00:34:59,370 --> 00:35:00,049 Let's call. 651 00:35:00,050 --> 00:35:01,610 You don't want to see it somewhere else and get Rick all mad. 652 00:35:02,850 --> 00:35:05,950 All right. I'll give you $600 for it. All right, man. You're tough. You're 653 00:35:05,950 --> 00:35:06,649 tough, man. 654 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:07,649 No, you're tough. 655 00:35:07,650 --> 00:35:10,290 I'm going to get fired for this. I just bought something for what it's probably 656 00:35:10,290 --> 00:35:13,430 worth. No, man. I think you guys are going to do great with this. All right. 657 00:35:13,510 --> 00:35:14,510 All right, man. I'll see you up front. 658 00:35:15,130 --> 00:35:17,090 In the end, $600 is great. 659 00:35:17,390 --> 00:35:19,310 This knife is really unique. 660 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:22,520 I don't know what the true value will be. I'm sure these guys will figure it 661 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:23,520 out and do good with it. 662 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,060 Corey and I are out here at the gun range taking a look at what appears to 663 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:32,060 be an old mortar. 664 00:35:32,140 --> 00:35:36,980 A friend of ours found on his property, and he's asking $50,000 for it. So, 665 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,800 Alex, my weapons guru, he's going to come down, take a look at it, and 666 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,800 hopefully give us some information. 667 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:43,920 Go on, Alex. 668 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,380 How you doing, Corey? Hey, Rick. 669 00:35:45,620 --> 00:35:46,620 How's it going? It's big. 670 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:47,720 Wow. 671 00:35:48,060 --> 00:35:49,420 This thing is giant. 672 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,400 So we're guessing it's a mortar? 673 00:35:56,980 --> 00:35:59,480 Well, technically, it's called a howitzer. 674 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:02,920 But it looks like a mortar. It's short, fat. 675 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,460 The difference between a mortar and a howitzer are that the trunnions are the 676 00:36:06,460 --> 00:36:10,200 arms. On a howitzer, they're in the middle. On a mortar, they're at the very 677 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:15,200 bottom. The idea behind these is that you would take iron cannonballs that are 678 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,410 hollow. fill those with black powder. They had their own fuse and timing. 679 00:36:19,630 --> 00:36:23,990 You would then load it in here. The thing would shoot, and when the 680 00:36:23,990 --> 00:36:28,910 exploding cannonball got towards the earth, they would try to time it so it 681 00:36:28,910 --> 00:36:32,890 would explode just before it hit, so it would do the maximum amount of damage. 682 00:36:33,730 --> 00:36:35,730 Can I check it out? Yeah, go ahead. Be my guest. 683 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,000 It's made of solid bronze. 684 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,380 I mean, this thing's got to be a couple thousand pounds. I think it's from about 685 00:36:42,380 --> 00:36:48,340 1800. And the way in which it's cast, this is very European in design, 686 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,940 possibly in England, possibly in Scandinavia, maybe Denmark. 687 00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:58,120 Are there any markings at all? I have not seen any markings on it. Nothing. So 688 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,200 that's pretty odd, actually, on something of this quality. 689 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:07,140 Whoever made this would have put some type of identification on it. So really 690 00:37:07,140 --> 00:37:11,520 the only reason that it wouldn't be marked is that it was stolen. 691 00:37:12,660 --> 00:37:17,940 Ordinance from the 18th and 19th century typically was marked, but it's 692 00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:22,860 understandable if it was a spoiled war. If countries lost a ship or they were 693 00:37:22,860 --> 00:37:27,720 defeated in battle, privateers and weapons dealers, if they didn't want 694 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,420 anyone to trace the origin of something, they would remove markings as well. 695 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,600 Okay. Is it fireable? 696 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,380 Looking at it, these are simple devices, right? You have the chamber, powder 697 00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:42,460 chamber, and a touch hole. And this thing is massive. 698 00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:46,940 There's nothing about this that I look at that says it's not safe to fire. I 699 00:37:46,940 --> 00:37:48,680 could launch a bowling ball a couple hundred yards. 700 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:53,580 Okay. Well, that sounds good to me. So we're going to blow something up. Yeah. 701 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:55,580 Perfect. 702 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,040 All right. 703 00:37:57,340 --> 00:37:59,600 I'm going to use a pound of black powder. 704 00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:04,240 That chamber is large enough for about five pounds. So we're going to see about 705 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:05,240 one-fifth charge. 706 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,060 But the surprise is, if you look downrange, there's an old car. 707 00:38:10,260 --> 00:38:15,020 And I really wanted to simulate the idea that these things used to shoot 708 00:38:15,020 --> 00:38:16,180 exploding balls. 709 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,360 So the car has been rigged that if we can hit it with a bowling ball, the car 710 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,360 will explode. 711 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,020 All right. So I'm going to stand right over there. Yeah. 712 00:38:26,660 --> 00:38:30,120 And hit the deck if something comes towards me. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about 713 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,820 that. Cool, let's lob some bowling balls. 714 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,220 All right, this is going to be a little scary. 715 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,320 The good news about this howitzer, it has almost three-inch thick side walls. 716 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,100 And I have looked at it and inspected it well, so I'm confident it'll be fine. I 717 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:49,140 wouldn't fire it if I wasn't. 718 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,000 Here we go. Here we go. 719 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,080 Fire in the hole! 720 00:38:56,230 --> 00:38:57,230 Is it going to work? 721 00:38:57,390 --> 00:38:58,390 Let's hope. 722 00:39:00,410 --> 00:39:01,970 It's the calm before the storm. 723 00:39:06,490 --> 00:39:09,090 Come on. 724 00:39:10,590 --> 00:39:11,590 Oh! 725 00:39:14,050 --> 00:39:15,770 That was awesome. 726 00:39:17,570 --> 00:39:19,230 This thing fired perfectly. 727 00:39:20,030 --> 00:39:23,670 The coolest thing is when that bowling ball went up into the air and had this 728 00:39:23,670 --> 00:39:24,670 like... 729 00:39:24,940 --> 00:39:26,280 Whistling sound from the hole. 730 00:39:27,380 --> 00:39:29,120 And bang, right on the car. 731 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:30,680 Oh! 732 00:39:32,820 --> 00:39:34,420 Thankfully it hit it. 733 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:37,920 Car's gone. 734 00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:39,980 It obviously works. 735 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,238 It worked great. 736 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,760 All right, so the Howitzer is not in a million pieces. We're still alive and 737 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,900 the car blew up. So what do you think it's worth? 738 00:39:47,740 --> 00:39:51,840 Well, you have the added functionality of it. I think at auction, I've seen 739 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,280 pieces like this sell for up to $50,000. 740 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:56,700 All right. Good luck. 741 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,700 Thanks a lot. That was fun. Appreciate it, Alex. All right. 742 00:40:01,020 --> 00:40:03,100 I'm not going to give you a 50 if that's what they go for at auction. I 743 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:04,100 understand. I understand. 744 00:40:04,460 --> 00:40:05,880 Let me give you $25,000 for it. 745 00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:09,720 Literally, to move it around, you need a forklift. 746 00:40:10,220 --> 00:40:13,440 There's a lot of expenses with buying it and trying to sell it. And just 747 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,400 remember, you're going to have to run a forklift to take it home. 748 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:16,880 Yeah. 749 00:40:18,549 --> 00:40:19,790 35. We got a deal? 750 00:40:20,590 --> 00:40:21,590 I'll go 32 grand. 751 00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:24,010 Nah, I'm firm with 35. 752 00:40:24,490 --> 00:40:27,670 I wouldn't mind shooting it off like four or five more times before I sold it 753 00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:30,710 anyway. So I think I'm just going to keep it for now. 754 00:40:31,410 --> 00:40:34,230 All right. If you change your mind, let me know. All right. Sounds good, guys. 755 00:40:34,730 --> 00:40:35,730 Thanks. 756 00:40:36,090 --> 00:40:39,050 I should have recorded that, man. You jumped like you were a scared little 757 00:40:39,050 --> 00:40:40,610 girl. It was a giant bomb that went off.