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This is a known missing gun.

So, what, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000?

I like that price.

What are those?

Whole axes. I can tell you this is real. What do you think they're worth?

You think you can find these on the Internet, knock yourself out, because

it's not going to happen.

What's $50 a month? New acquaintances. That's the same question I would ask.

Whoa.

It's a Japanese antique rifle.

This is craziness right here. This one being so weird makes it worth even more.

A Filipino bolo knife from the insurrection war.

Try chopping up some coconuts with this thing.

See, I've come off so much, and you're just not bringing it up enough.

That's cool.

You don't want to see it somewhere else and get Rick all mad.

I'm going to get fired for this.

They're whaling harpoons.

Damn, the horror she blows.

Fire in the hole!

Hey, how's it going? Great. How are you doing? I have an old Civil War rifle

with a coffee grinder built into the buttstock.

Really? Which I'm assuming grinds fairy dust, because these things don't exist.

You never know. And the rifle's pretty simple itself.

You know, you've heard the term sharpshooter? Yeah. Came from this

rifle. You were a sharpshooter if you shot a sharps.

And where did you get this?

I inherited it from my grandfather.

Okay, because you know...

There's a million pictures of the one in a museum.

One has never been on the market for sale.

Never, ever, ever.

Well, here it is.

As far as I know, there's only one of these carbines that actually exists, and

it's in the Springfield Armory Museum back east.

As a matter of fact, I'm thinking about maybe calling up the museum back east

and see if it's still in the showcase.

The story is with this gun, I believe it was a colonel who came up with the idea

that one person...

And every company should have this in the stock of his gun, and that way you

could grind corn, you could grind wheat.

It was the Civil War. A lot of times these guys were fending for themselves

for food.

You come across a silo, you grab some grain, you can grind this down, and you

can make yourself some bread. It was real common back then. When you made

your bread, you kept a little piece of dough, you wrapped a piece of cloth,

threw it in your backpack, and then the next day you took that piece of dough

and you put it in your next batch of dough and took a little piece off. You

keep the yeast that way, and that's how you make sourdough bread.

And that was the story with it. This one colonel wanted, like, one person in

every company to have one of these in their gun, and they never did it. Want

to see how the grinder works?

I imagine you put the knob in there, and then you put the grain in there, and it

would probably fall at the bottom.

Doesn't fit in too tightly, but it does work.

It comes out the bottom.

Okay. You probably have nothing like this, I'm sure. I've had sharps carbines

before like this, and these are worth very good money, especially a Civil War

with Civil War markings on it. But the coffee grinder, I don't think there's

any way it could actually be real, just due to the fact that this is fairy dust,

as far as I know. It's been in the attic, you know, for how many decades, I

don't know. But maybe that's why it wasn't on the market.

How much do you want for it? I think I'd like $10,000 for it.

Let me have someone look at it. I mean, it's really neat for a Civil War

carbine, okay? Sure, that'd be great.

It's very dust.

Very dust.

I'd like Rick to call in an expert. Maybe it's worth more than I think, and

the expert will tell us that, and then maybe I can sell it for more.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I got a pair of Scottish percussion pistols, 1840.

They're called saw handle because it looks like the handle of a saw.

I bought them from a little old lady that did all kinds of military stuff.

She had guns and medals and clothing, and I was just intrigued by them, and I

bought them from her. She loved military stuff because she said she was always

sweet on guys in uniform.

They look pretty cool. I've heard about these before.

A.Henry Edinburgh.

What do you know about him?

I looked him up and I thought, could that be the same Henry from the Henry

rifles? You know, I thought, ooh, okay, worth a fortune. But I couldn't

necessarily make a connection.

I don't know much about him either, but how much are you looking to get?

Somewhere in the low 8,000 range.

Okay. I mean, they look in fair condition.

There's a lot of wear on them, considering that this handle used to be

nickel-plated at one time from what it looked like.

You can still see a little bit down here.

And the barrels have rust and even pitting, and you've got a dent right

here.

It's a patina of age.

I wouldn't call rust patina. You bought an old car with rust on it, would you

call it patina?

It's a pretty thick barrel. I doubt that rust goes all the way through.

Well, unfortunately, I don't know.

No, I don't know either.

I'm going to have to call my gun expert Alex down to see.

What, he think?

Okay. Hopefully you have enough time to hang out for a little while. Sure.

That'd be great. Thank you.

I want Jim to call in an expert on the guns because it's difficult to get

information on them. So I'm hoping that his answer will be close to my asking

price.

What's up?

Earlier, a guy came in the store with a gun that is not supposed to exist. It's

like pixie dust.

Here we have a Sharps Civil War carbine with the coffee grinder. But if this

thing is real, it's worth tens of thousands of dollars.

So I called my buddy Alex to see if he has any insight on this at all.

Yeah, they're pretty much all fake.

So I'm going to go.

Okay.

Let me just tell you a little bit about the Sharps.

Standard 1859 model sharps. This was a cavalry weapon.

Here's the issue. There are more of these on the market today than they were

ever made, which implies that they're all fake.

So let me check out the gun first, and then we can talk about the mill. Here is

the serial number, which is 62835.

So here's another story. The commander of the Springfield Arsenal in the 1920s

goes to one of his employees who works there, and they want to recreate.

a Civil War carbine with a mill in it.

They have the carbine, an original one. They have the original parts from the

mill from St. Louis from 1864, 1865.

And the serial number was 62835, which means this gun is a known gun.

The mill is completely correct and built from original parts during the Civil

War, but it was put together in the 1920s. Okay.

And it's documented.

It's basically been off the radar since the 1920s.

Okay, so what's it worth?

There's not a precedent. This is a known missing gun.

So, what, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000?

$50,000.

I like that price.

I'm just shocked that this thing actually makes fairy dust.

Thanks, man. You're welcome.

Thank you very much.

I think it's a great buy for the shop because anything with provenance like

this is going to be a popular item on the collector's market.

Don't we write the check for $10,000?

You're a funny guy.

We heard the expert.

It's worth $50,000.

I could probably come down to $40,000.

I'll give you $30,000.

I'm taking a pig in a poke here.

I mean, we have this incredible gun, but no one has it been to auction.

So... How about $35,000?

I live in Vegas and I don't normally do this, but I'll take a gamble.

All right. Thank you. Hey, we have a deal, man.

Leave this right here. I'll have some guys like rapid and very productive.

All right.

Certainly, I feel like dancing.

And I think that's very fair because he has to take the risk of selling it. And

I'd like to just cash out and use the money elsewhere.

Hey, what's up? How you doing? I have a samurai sword that my family's had for a

long, long time.

I really don't know much about it.

Why is it made out of wood?

Got me on that one. I mean, it wouldn't really do a lot of damage.

Giant toothpick.

So it looks like you have a scabbard here, but not the sword. I mean, the

handle looks pretty legit.

Do you know much about it at all?

No, just from my grandfather. He picked it up during the war, and I really don't

know anything more than that. I deal with samurai swords all the time, but

I've never really dealt with just a case and a handle for one.

It definitely looks Japanese.

But, you know, one of the big problems with stuff like this is these things

were passed down from generation to generation. It could be 500 years old.

It could be 100 years old. I have no idea.

They really do range from that kind of time period.

I really don't understand why there's not a sword attached to it. I mean, it

definitely looks like a mounting for a actual sword. I just want to know where

the real sword's at.

The handle looks like it's made of silk. The scabbard, I don't know what material

it is that they used.

I mean, it looks like wood maybe.

So we don't know how old it is.

It looks like it could actually be something here. I just don't know

exactly what it is.

So what are you looking to do with it?

Sell it.

Okay. Any idea what you're looking to get?

$8,000.

Would you mind if I have a buddy come in and take a look at it? No, you're

welcome. It'd be great.

Okay. Hang out. I'll be right back.

I'm totally fine with someone coming in today, look at the sword. I really would

like to have more information about where it came from, how old it is, and

what its value is.

Hey, how you doing?

Good, Tim, how are you? I'm good, how you been? I'm alright. Earlier, a guy

brought in a pair of saw-handled pistols. They're in pretty rough shape,

and they're old, but they seem like they might have some historical significance.

So I called in Alex to help me figure out if I should buy them.

Very nice.

These are what we refer to as saw-handled pistols. What's interesting

about these is the name on them.

So that would be Alexander Henry, who had a shop in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This is like the most famous gun maker during the Victorian era.

So it looks like it's the same Henry. You were concerned about that.

Yeah. I was hoping for that.

So what kind of value do you put on these?

Well... The condition of them really drags the value down. When these were

made, this thing looked like a bar of silver.

What brings the value back up is Alexander Henry's name. That's a nice

pedigree for this.

So at auction, the way they are today,

$5,000 to $6,000.

Okay. All right. Well, that's what I needed to hear.

All right. Good luck, Bill. Thank you.

So are you still interested in selling them?

Depends what we negotiate on price.

Well, how much would you like to get for him?

I'd probably settle for 42.

Would you take 28 for him?

No.

No, that's, I mean, that's a giveaway price.

3,500 would be my bottom.

And if you want to, we could gamble a Las Vegas flip a coin. They come with

two different numbers, yours and mine.

Fortunately, I live in Las Vegas, and I know better than to gamble.

I'll tell you what. I can do 33, but I can't go a dime higher.

They're cool guns. I do want to get them. I want to make a deal with you.

And I think I'm pushing it at 33, but I'm hoping that could work for all of

us. 33.50.

I really...

What's $50 amongst new acquaintances? That's the same question I would ask

you.

It's below what I was expecting to take, but I'll accept your deal on a

handshake. All right, let's go over here and write them up. All right.

I would have liked to have walked away with maybe in the $4,000 range, but

based upon what I learned from the expert and Chum's negotiating skills, I

took a little bit of a hit, but I'm still okay.

I have a guy in here who's brought in something I've never really seen before.

He has a sword handle and a scabbard, but he doesn't have the sword itself.

From what I can tell, it looks like parts from a samurai sword.

So I called Mike, who's an expert in stuff like this, to see if he can come

down and take a look at it for me.

Hey, Mike, what's going on, man? Hey, what's up, Corey? How you been?

Doing good.

Oh, what you got today?

A weird one. It's what appears to be an old scabbard.

Okay. Well, actually, this is common, believe it or not, in Japan.

After World War II, the occupation, MacArthur ordered all the swords to get

collected. So that means all the blades were turned in.

But the mountings were okay to keep because these were not against law.

They're not a weapon.

Okay.

And this is quite old, actually.

How do we know how old it is?

Well, this style of mount is made in southern Japan, and this is known as a

Higo mount, which is from the area of Kumamoto, modern-day Japan.

And they were very particular to make this style of gold inlay work.

Judging from the style, we can pretty much determine that this whole package

was from the early 1800s. Oh, wow.

So what else can you tell me about it?

Interesting.

This is very interesting.

Maybe you get lucky.

No way.

Whoa.

That is gnarly.

Japanese antique rifle.

It weighs a good 40 or 50 pounds.

It's heavy.

This is like a workout tool gun.

This is really nice.

This is probably late 1700s, early 1800s. Where in the world did you get

this? Well, my family is Japanese.

Okay. My great uncle and my uncle and my father, they were all in the military,

so it's been passed down from generation to generation.

You just don't see a lot of them. I really do dig it.

This is craziness right here. This kind of mechanism.

What kind of mechanism is that? This is called a matchlock, okay? And this right

here clamped onto a piece of rope.

It had a little red cherry on the end of it. It was burning, always smoldering.

There's some gunpowder right here, and you would splash that smoldering rope

into the gunpowder right there, which would send a spark through there, and

out came the barrel, came the bullets, and everything else.

But the big problem with that is when you open this up and there's just a

little pile of gunpowder there, there's a breeze. It's gone.

If there's a drop of rain in the sky, it's wet. And if a little cinder falls

off this and lands in that, you're shooting too early.

In Europe, they stopped using this type of firing mechanism 200 years earlier.

Japan was basically a closed society until the 1860s. They knew about most of

the technical innovations going on in the world. They just didn't embrace it.

That's why matchlock guns like this were still being used by the Japanese after

everyone else in the world had stopped 200 years earlier. There's a big market

for antique Japanese guns, and this one, being so weird, makes it worth even

more.

How much did you want for it?

I looked online. I think I found some similar things that are selling for

about $5,700.

Okay.

Let me call someone up, take a look at it.

It might be worth $10,000. It might be worth $500.

I know it's something I could sell. I just got to figure out what the market's

doing on them. So if you don't mind hanging out a little bit, I've got a

friend down here.

He'll look at it, and we'll come up with the price.

I'd love that. Okay.

Well, hang out. I'll be right back.

Okay. I'm really excited to talk to this expert today because I don't know much

about the gun, and it's part of my history, so I'm really interested to

hear what he has to say.

Interesting.

This is very interesting.

Maybe you get lucky.

The hidden coin pocket.

No way.

These are very rare to find intact.

Now, I am a little bit of an expert. Those aren't gold.

No, no, these are definitely not gold.

Unfortunately, somebody put some reproductions in here and obviously kept

the real gold.

So why would they hide it inside their sword like that?

You would be afraid to get robbed.

So this was the best place to actually hide your money in that sense.

Gotcha. A little holder like this could hold up to $10,000 worth of coins.

Okay, well, too bad we didn't get that lucky, right?

But because of the rarity of this, this makes this set very highly collectible.

Okay. How collectible?

Well, I mean, in excellent condition like this, especially with the addition

of the hidden coin pocket, now you're talking something very, very rare and

special. So this thing would be worth an easy $8,000.

All right. Well, appreciate it, Mike. All right. Take care. Thank you. See you

later.

Well, I mean, you kind of hit the nail on the head of what it was worth.

That being said, I've got to make some money.

I'd like to give you four.

Could you come up a little bit more than four?

Can you go down from eight?

Six and a half.

Tell you what, I'll do five.

Five seems fair. All right, deal.

Thank you. Meet me over there. Let's do some paperwork.

I am thrilled to make a deal today for $5,000.

It wasn't quite the $8,000 I was asking for, but I will certainly be able to

take my family on a nice vacation.

A woman came in with a really cool Japanese matchlock rifle. I know this

thing's worth money, but I have no idea how much. So I called in my buddy Sean

to help me figure this thing out.

Hey, Rick. How are you? How's it going? I'm Sean. Myra. Holy crap.

Wow. Do you mind?

Please.

Oh, yeah.

It feels a good 40 pounds.

I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, this is impressive.

You don't see something like this every day.

When do you think this was made, 1700s, 1800s?

Just the form of it, I'm going to say between 1750 and about 1800s. The design

that actually originated from the Portuguese.

This was a huge game changer for the battle tactic.

for all of Japan because the samurai, their weapons were blades.

I mean, this is a true piece of history. When the guns came into play, it changed

everything. You would have your samurai forces, but you could also bring in

local farmers and train them how to fire these weapons.

Now they weren't the samurai. They were just another faction of their military

unit. It was like a defensive gun they used back then, right? Oh, yeah. You

wouldn't be running around, you know, with this thing. This is a wall gun that

would be on a defensive line.

Those guys weren't going anywhere. And I want to see what the... You know, you

would think it would even have a bigger caliber, considering how big this thing

is. But, you know, you could actually utilize this for longer range, because

this barrel has a tremendous amount of meat around it.

So... What's it worth?

Because this is a wall gun, there's very few of these around.

Easily $3,000 to $6,000.

You know, it's a big spread, but that's where it's going to fall.

This is a whole filler.

Okay.

Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Absolutely.

Thank you. Take care.

There's actually quite a large collector base for this type of a weapon.

But this in particular is very desirable because it's a wall gun. They just

didn't make a whole lot of them. So this is going to be much more desirable, and

I think Rick is really smart to buy it.

I'm thinking I'll give you like two grand for it.

It's a fair price.

He said you can get $6,000 for it.

No, he said I can get between $3,000 and $6,000 for it, depending on the market.

The $6,000 is sort of la-la land, but it can happen. It's happened to me before.

And then again, I might put it in an auction, and I'll get $3,000, and by the

time I pay the auction fees and everything else, I make nothing.

Can you do at least $35,000?

No, I mean, because I would not make any money that way.

Well, he said it's rare. There's not a lot of wall guns.

I'll tell you what. I'll give you $2,200, and that's going to be my final

price. It really is.

How much did you say?

I said $2,200.

You didn't say $2,500?

No, I said $2,200.

Okay. Deal. $2,200.

I'll meet you right over there. We'll do some paperwork, and I'll get a strong

young employee to pick this up. Okay. Thank you.

The $2,200 will help with moving expenses.

Hopefully, I'll have enough left over to where I can go buy a 9-millimeter pencil

that I can take out to the range.

Whoa. What are those?

All access.

Okay, put that down? Yeah, go ahead and set them over here.

Where did you get these? The Renaissance Fair?

No, I got them in southern Germany. A town called Dinkelsbühel. It's a walled

fortress city.

From Dingleberry, Germany?

Dinkelsbühel. Dinkelsbühel, okay.

Halberds, huh?

How old are they? They're about 500 years old.

500 years old. What makes you think they're that old?

The way they're made, these are hand-forged on an anvil, so they're

really light, but they're really strong.

My research, this one right here is Austrian, and this one's actually

Italian.

It was a pretty kind of high-tech weapon when it came out. I mean, pretty much

what you would do is the guy would go rolling by on the horse, and you'd take

that into him and yank him off of it. I mean, it was...

And then once he was on the ground, you had all this leverage to swing over your

head and, you know, get right through his armor. And he had this nice little

pointy part to get in between things and poke him. And it's a pretty versatile

weapon. These axes are in amazing shape. If we can prove these are real, I know I

can easily sell them to a military collector.

So how much are you looking to get for these halberds?

I need $7,500 each.

$7,500 each. All right.

Have you ever had them looked at or appraised by anybody?

I've collected medieval weapons for quite some time. I've done my research,

so I'm very confident in what they are.

You know, there's people who have their whole houses decorated in this style of

stuff. I'm sure I could sell it to somebody.

But I couldn't tell you if they're real or fake. I couldn't tell you if they're

500 years old or if they're 300 years old. I really just don't know. For that

kind of money, mind if I have a buddy of mine come down and take a look at them?

No, absolutely not. I welcome it. All right. Thank you.

If he's bringing in somebody that really understands medieval weapons and

blacksmithing, then we're probably about to make a deal.

Damn. What do we have here?

They're a whaling harpoon from 1849 and 1853.

Do you have dates on them?

Yeah, they're stamped here on the iron part.

Okay. I mean, that's the time period for them.

Thing to carry around and check into a hotel.

Yeah.

They would have to thrust these into the whale.

I know it's gnarly now and everything like that, but they would take this,

they would throw it in the whale.

But when you pull on it, it's not coming out.

And then they would have like 500 or 1,000 feet of rope on the boat. Because

they didn't do it from the ship. It was like from a rowboat. They did it. And

once they ran out of rope, it would be tied off and the boat would just start

going flying.

They held on until the whale came back up, and they could throw more harpoons

into it, or the whale died.

The reason why whale oil was so important, it provided the world with

light. I mean, the big problem has always been lighting things up, and it's

always been really expensive.

Candles were expensive, oil was expensive, but whale oil was an

inexpensive source of lighting, and then it burned brighter, it burned cleaner.

That's what everybody wanted, huh?

That's what everyone wanted.

It was an insane business.

He would leave from the East Coast, and you had no idea when you're coming back.

Sure. You might fill up the whole ship with whale oil in three months, or it

might be a year and a half or two years.

I mean, actually, they're in great shape, and they're real, because 99% of

the ones you see are completely fake. Sure, they do some good replicas, but...

Yeah, I mean, just everything's right about them. This is all the original

lashing, original wood.

How much do you want for these things?

I want two grand for the pair.

Okay.

They're not exactly politically correct, sort of, you know what I mean? But there

are collectors for these things.

They tell a story. They really do.

I can't imagine living back then because these guys were like iron men, you know

what I mean?

Tough guys.

I'd give you $1,000 for the pair.

I mean, I've got to resell them.

You know, I think, I mean, I'd do $1,800.

If I pay $1,800, there's no money for me. If I pay you $500 a piece and I sell

it for $800 or $900 a piece, I'll do all right.

So I'll give you $1,000.

And you don't have to lug them around.

Because, I mean, if you do walk down the street with this, I think you can arrest

a freak carrying a deadly weapon.

I've got some funny looks, that's for sure.

$16.

Okay, I'll give you $1,200.

I'm not going to go no more than that either.

$1,250.

Deal. Cool, man.

I'll meet you right up front. We'll do some paperwork.

Cool. Thank you.

Bars, she blows.

A guy came in with two pole axes that he said were made over 500 years ago. If

they're genuine, they can be worth a lot. So I called up Craig to see if he

can authenticate them.

So we got some Halberds here. What do you think?

Yeah.

Very nice Halberd. Very nice. Thank you. How old do you think that is?

Well, about 500 years.

I'm going to put it back down again. That would make me more comfortable. Let

me put the Halberd down.

Yeah, this is a very nice piece. What do you know about it? I believe this one's

Austrian because of the pattern and also this particular outline.

And you also have these dots here.

Typically, the halberds that were made in Austria will have these little vent

holes in them.

And you'll also see these little side hooks as well on the Austrian designs.

This is definitely Austrian.

Tell me what you know about the other one. I believe the other one's Italian.

Okay, you would be right.

This is more ornate, a little more gaudy, if you will.

All right, so you're fairly sure they're from the 1500s.

Actually, I'm not.

These are halberds, and halberds were used during the 1500s. The wood on these

break and are repaired and replaced.

This is not original wood.

So it's made in the style, but that's not a big deal. The real question is,

are the heads real?

The Victorians were famous for building classic production of older weapons.

Okay.

The thing that really concerns me about this piece is that the steel is really

flimsy. I wouldn't want to be hit by this, but, you know, you whack somebody

wearing armor with this thing, it's liable to bend or break.

I'll conclude that this is probably from the Victorian period and is what I call

the decorator piece.

I disagree.

You think it's not original because it's flimsy, but that thing is hand forged,

and I believe it's original based on what I've studied. They were hand

forging. Things in the Victorian period, too.

So what about this one? Okay, this one. Taking a close look, it does have a

foundry marking on it.

The Victorians really didn't worry about foundry markings because that's not the

point, okay? They were building something for you to hang up on your

wall. Steel is very strong. I mean, that's very strong steel. It's not

bendy at all. This is a weapon. This is not something you'd hang on the wall

just to look cool.

I can tell you this is real.

So give me an idea. What do you think they're worth?

This one is, again, not for you. If you wanted to buy this, I'd pay no more than

$600 or $700.

This one, if you want one of these, I can get you one for $1,500.

No, they're worth a lot more than that. If you think you can find these on the

Internet for $1,500, knock yourself out because it's not going to happen.

If you're not exposed to the market and don't know where to find a piece like

this, you know, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000, not out of the question.

but the value, about $1,500.

Well, I disagree with you. Good luck finding something of that quality.

Okay. Hey, Corey.

Appreciate it, man. Pleasure.

Chumlee, take care. Sir, have a great day. Disagree, but good to see you. Hey,

good to see you, too.

Craig's not afraid to mix it up a little bit.

Sometimes he pisses people off, but he never steers me wrong.

And even though they're not as valuable as we originally thought, I'm still

interested.

His pricing is not correct at all. They're worth a lot more money than

that. If they were everywhere, you'd have seen them before.

They're not.

I mean, if I were to make you an offer, I'd make you an offer of around $1,500.

Are you talking a piece?

No, I'm talking total.

No, I'm not interested at all.

Well, if I were you, next time I'd buy one, I'd call Craig, too.

All right? Appreciate it. All right, thank you. Bye.

You couldn't...

Buy that for $1,500 if you just found it in the ground rusted.

I'm absolutely fine keeping them, or I can trade them with other people that

actually know what they're talking about.

A good friend of Corey and I's found a weapon on his property. He wanted to

meet us out here at the gun range, so I can only assume we're going to be

shooting at something today.

Well, Sean, what did you do? Bring me out here to show off? I thought we were

shooting guns.

How you guys doing?

That's a really big gun.

Yeah.

I'm thinking it's an 18th century mortar.

Where in the world did you get it? I bought some property, and this was in

one of the sheds on the property. It was just covered up.

Someone used it for home defense?

This has got to be one of the most random things in the world to find.

I mean, it looks like a mortar. Is there any marks on it or anything?

I did not see any marks on it whatsoever.

Well, it doesn't look like a Civil War mortar because they were a lot shorter,

and they were like iron. This is obviously bronze.

I know they came out with mortars right around the 1700s. They were crazy

devices.

Basically, they lobbed shells and hopefully timed it right where it blew

up right before it hit the ground.

You're looking to sell it, right, Sean?

Yeah, yeah, I don't need it.

And I really don't want to take it anywhere else.

Okay, any idea what you're looking to get out of it? I'm trying to get like 50

for it. I think that's a pretty fair price.

$50? $50,000?

$50,000.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, we've bought smaller versions of this and made

plenty of money, right?

No, I've had a mortar before, but it was like not nearly that big.

I knew we were going to shoot something when we came out here. I didn't really

know it was this.

Realistically, the only person I'm going to trust to fire this thing off is going

to be Alex. I'll be right back.

I'm hoping the expert can give us a good date on the mortar, and I'm hoping that

we can fire some rounds out of it if possible.

Hey, what's going on, man? Is Rick here?

Thank God, no.

Well, maybe you can help me with this.

A Filipino bolo knife from the Insurrection War.

All right.

Definitely has some weight to it. You're probably chopping up some coconuts with

this thing.

Normally I'd call Rick, but he really doesn't want me bugging him right now.

It's pretty cool.

I don't know too much about it.

And what's really cool about this is it's got an original label here by

whoever captured it stating where this was found and who it was given to.

My insurgent war bow taken at the Battle of Balintang, Philippine Island,

November 21st, 1899 by the 26th Infantry.

That's pretty cool.

A lot of people don't know that we were in the Philippines at all. I find it an

insurrection war.

Yeah, unfortunate war.

We were in the Spanish-American War, and it ended.

And due to the Treaty of Paris, we got control of the Philippines. But we got

there, and we weren't really welcomed. They had over 20,000 deaths on their

side of the military. We had a little over 4,000. But there was a couple

hundred thousand civilian deaths, which was pretty sad. It was definitely a

little dark part in American history for sure.

Where did you get this?

Well, this came out of an estate sale.

What are you looking to do with it? You know, usually bring stuff in here for

Rick, and he's not here. But I figured $1,000, man. I mean, something like

this, that's hard to price.

And you can't find, there's no comparables out there.

First off, I don't know too much about it. I normally call someone, but I'm

guessing it's probably worth somewhere in maybe like the $500 range. Yeah, a

little more than $500, man.

$850.

$500, that's the most I'm going to give you.

$700. See, now I'm getting hard. Now, see, I've come off so much, and you're

just not bringing it up enough.

That's, you know, still going to be a lot. My wall,

$600. That's it. I'm walking.

Let's call.

You don't want to see it somewhere else and get Rick all mad.

All right. I'll give you $600 for it. All right, man. You're tough. You're

tough, man.

No, you're tough.

I'm going to get fired for this. I just bought something for what it's probably

worth. No, man. I think you guys are going to do great with this. All right.

All right, man. I'll see you up front.

In the end, $600 is great.

This knife is really unique.

I don't know what the true value will be. I'm sure these guys will figure it

out and do good with it.

Corey and I are out here at the gun range taking a look at what appears to

be an old mortar.

A friend of ours found on his property, and he's asking $50,000 for it. So,

Alex, my weapons guru, he's going to come down, take a look at it, and

hopefully give us some information.

Go on, Alex.

How you doing, Corey? Hey, Rick.

How's it going? It's big.

Wow.

This thing is giant.

So we're guessing it's a mortar?

Well, technically, it's called a howitzer.

But it looks like a mortar. It's short, fat.

The difference between a mortar and a howitzer are that the trunnions are the

arms. On a howitzer, they're in the middle. On a mortar, they're at the very

bottom. The idea behind these is that you would take iron cannonballs that are

hollow. fill those with black powder. They had their own fuse and timing.

You would then load it in here. The thing would shoot, and when the

exploding cannonball got towards the earth, they would try to time it so it

would explode just before it hit, so it would do the maximum amount of damage.

Can I check it out? Yeah, go ahead. Be my guest.

It's made of solid bronze.

I mean, this thing's got to be a couple thousand pounds. I think it's from about

1800. And the way in which it's cast, this is very European in design,

possibly in England, possibly in Scandinavia, maybe Denmark.

Are there any markings at all? I have not seen any markings on it. Nothing. So

that's pretty odd, actually, on something of this quality.

Whoever made this would have put some type of identification on it. So really

the only reason that it wouldn't be marked is that it was stolen.

Ordinance from the 18th and 19th century typically was marked, but it's

understandable if it was a spoiled war. If countries lost a ship or they were

defeated in battle, privateers and weapons dealers, if they didn't want

anyone to trace the origin of something, they would remove markings as well.

Okay. Is it fireable?

Looking at it, these are simple devices, right? You have the chamber, powder

chamber, and a touch hole. And this thing is massive.

There's nothing about this that I look at that says it's not safe to fire. I

could launch a bowling ball a couple hundred yards.

Okay. Well, that sounds good to me. So we're going to blow something up. Yeah.

Perfect.

All right.

I'm going to use a pound of black powder.

That chamber is large enough for about five pounds. So we're going to see about

one-fifth charge.

But the surprise is, if you look downrange, there's an old car.

And I really wanted to simulate the idea that these things used to shoot

exploding balls.

So the car has been rigged that if we can hit it with a bowling ball, the car

will explode.

All right. So I'm going to stand right over there. Yeah.

And hit the deck if something comes towards me. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about

that. Cool, let's lob some bowling balls.

All right, this is going to be a little scary.

The good news about this howitzer, it has almost three-inch thick side walls.

And I have looked at it and inspected it well, so I'm confident it'll be fine. I

wouldn't fire it if I wasn't.

Here we go. Here we go.

Fire in the hole!

Is it going to work?

Let's hope.

It's the calm before the storm.

Come on.

Oh!

That was awesome.

This thing fired perfectly.

The coolest thing is when that bowling ball went up into the air and had this

like...

Whistling sound from the hole.

And bang, right on the car.

Oh!

Thankfully it hit it.

Car's gone.

It obviously works.

It worked great.

All right, so the Howitzer is not in a million pieces. We're still alive and

the car blew up. So what do you think it's worth?

Well, you have the added functionality of it. I think at auction, I've seen

pieces like this sell for up to $50,000.

All right. Good luck.

Thanks a lot. That was fun. Appreciate it, Alex. All right.

I'm not going to give you a 50 if that's what they go for at auction. I

understand. I understand.

Let me give you $25,000 for it.

Literally, to move it around, you need a forklift.

There's a lot of expenses with buying it and trying to sell it. And just

remember, you're going to have to run a forklift to take it home.

Yeah.

35. We got a deal?

I'll go 32 grand.

Nah, I'm firm with 35.

I wouldn't mind shooting it off like four or five more times before I sold it

anyway. So I think I'm just going to keep it for now.

All right. If you change your mind, let me know. All right. Sounds good, guys.

Thanks.

I should have recorded that, man. You jumped like you were a scared little

girl. It was a giant bomb that went off.