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Pawn Stars: 7 INSANELY HIGH APPRAISALS (Huge Profits For Rare Items!)

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Pawn Stars: 7 INSANELY HIGH APPRAISALS (Huge Profits For Rare Items!)", an episode of Pawn Stars published October 14, 2022 (43 min, about 7,619 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Cross Keys, Babe Ruth, Napoleon, 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar, Versailles.

What this episode is about

In this Pawn Stars episode, a seller brings in a rare 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar, a coin so scarce that only about a dozen are known to exist. After an NGC expert authenticates it and values it at $50,000 to $100,000, the shop negotiates a deal that brings in a substantial profit. The episode highlights the excitement of uncovering valuable rarities and the importance of expert verification before any transaction.

Key takeaways

  • A poker-winning 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar can be worth far more than the $20,000 asked, selling for around $80,000.
  • Experts like NGC graders are essential: verify authenticity through trusted sources before pricing or buying rare coins.
  • High Relief designs were artistic triumphs but technical failures, which is why so few survived and why they're so rare today.
  • Rare coins aren't just about metal value; historical story, grading holders, and provenance can multiply an item's worth.
  • Antique Boutet shotguns, made for royalty and inlaid with gold, show that luxury collectibles can be valuable beyond their function.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar
  2. – 10:00: Napoleon
  3. – 15:00: Pottery Duck, Versailles
  4. – 25:00: Cross Keys, William Ellery
  5. – 30:00: Cross Keys
  6. – 35:00: Babe Ruth
  7. – 40:00: Babe Ruth, Elvis Presley, Stamp Act of 1765

Notable quotes from "Pawn Stars: 7 INSANELY HIGH APPRAISALS (Huge Profits For Rare Items!)"

  • For sure Dave Rick how you doing I am doing absolutely fabulous and this is it wow it isn't every day a 1922 High Relief peace dollar walks in the door this guy got an a poker…
    about 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar · at
  • The both of them you had to be really wealthy to have a gun like this he was Napoleon's gunsmith yeah I think he was like an armor for Napoleon there was lots of these guns out…
    about Napoleon · at
  • Barel is marked boute and then the other side it's marked manufactured in Versailles and it has a serial number 322 so that actually might be traceable which is really nice to…
    about Versailles · at
  • Years to get one hey how's it going what do we have a pottery duck from kma Mexico all right pops you know anything about ducks from kma Mexico a little bit you liked rubber duckies when you were a kid filled the bathtub up with him he.
    about Pottery Duck · at
  • Wow this is absolutely amazing back here Earl Butler hero saved my life at Cross Keys Robert M Scott that's something good that is something good I'm assuming that's a Civil…
    about Cross Keys · at
  • Assemblage here this guy has over 250 autographs from the 1940s and 50s wow so far it's everything from Babe Ruth to maryn Monroe it's pretty rare you see like a you know just…
    about Babe Ruth · at
  • Seen awesome yeah I can't tell you how rare this stuff is I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Elvis Presley but he's here too did you know that no Alvis Presley made an…
    about Elvis Presley · at
  • Citizens need to pay a paper tax whether they lived on this continent or in Britain so they imposed this Stamp Act of 1765 and if you lived on this continent at the time it wasn't America everyone was from England so you still had to pay.
    about Stamp Act of 1765 · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Babe Ruth — Person · 3 mentions · first at
  • Napoleon — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • William Ellery — Person · 1 mention · first at
    It and it looked cool so well I can tell you a little bit about it a William Ellery that's an American watch company that later became walam watch company AB Lincoln actually carried a walam watch wow this is absolutely amazing back here.
  • Elvis Presley — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Chris Dave — Person · 1 mention
  • King Louis XVI — Person · 1 mention
  • Marilyn Monroe — Person · 1 mention

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Full transcript with timestamps

hi there hey how's it going good got a uh 1922 proof High Relief matte finish coin okay where did you get this I won it at a poker game believe it or not this is like one of the Holy Grails of American coins and you want in a poker yep whoa came down to the pawn shop today to uh try to sell a 1922 proof coin I don't know a lot about it but uh the guy who lost it to me said it was really valuable so hoping to get 20,000 out of it this is cool in 1921 we brought the silver dollar back and The Story Goes is they were going to try and make some really high relief ones what this means by high relief right here is the image really comes off the coin okay it's much higher detail and I don't know the exact story but there was like some problems and they got melted down and most people didn't even know they existed for like 15 years and then all a sudden some stories came from the meant that they

actually existed so there's like a dozen of these things in the world it's pretty rare oh well it's beyond rare the 1922 Hy relief peace dollar is one of the rarest coins in American history it definitely shocks me that people will walk up to my counter and pull out an item wor 50 or $100,000 or more I definitely want this thing but I have to make absolute abolutely sure this is the real deal silver dollars is what every coin collector collects everyone collects silver dollars and maybe they collect half dollars in nickels but they all buy silver dollars I mean that's the main stay of collectable coins oh okay so how much you want for it 20,000 what you want 20 for it 20,000 do you think it's worth it sure no problem let's go no um no this is worth a lot more than 20 grand oh that's pretty awesome do you mind if I call a friend to take a look at this I have a few mega mega concerns here okay I've never seen

one in person and I just want to make sure everything's legit I mean if someone was to fake a coin this is the one they would do it on um I'm actually friends with a guy who works at NGC he's one of their best coin graders and if everything's legit um maybe we'll do some business sounds good all right hang out all right I think there's a good chance it's legit obviously nothing in this world is 100% but I'm happy with an expert coming in for sure Dave Rick how you doing I am doing absolutely fabulous and this is it wow it isn't every day a 1922 High Relief peace dollar walks in the door this guy got an a poker camp Oh my God it's always nice to get called in on an exciting coin this coin is particularly interesting historical and it's rare as hen teeth now what exactly is the story with this coin I mean this was the coin the government mented but no one knew they mented it for like 15 or 20 years that's

correct none of these had transacted until 1937 these were more less unknown and They carried over the high relief of the 1921 issues all of which by the way were stuck in a onewe period at the end of 1921 the high relief design was sort of a Triumph of Art and a failure of Technology because although they were beautiful they couldn't strike them with enough pressure to get a lot of them out so they ended up early in 1922 having to reduce the release of the design okay so I assume your main concern is is it real yeah okay definitely it is in an NGC holder which is wonderful the holder is completely intact and genuine and the coin is perfectly legitimate it's one of very few known okay so the big thing is what's it worth one of these sold very recently that that brought a touch over 100,000 it's a little bit nicer than this but not too far apart I think this coin is worth something north of 50 but less

than 100 okay thanks manam super rare no problem thank you congratulations thank you thank all right there you go all right all right um I'll talk to you soon man sounds good I'm quite excited that this is the real thing uh very few Specialists have had the chance to actually handle them but finding one of these especially walking into a pawn shop is really extraordinary I should have just gave you the 20 grand and I called him Dave uh I'm happier now I'll give you $65,000 what about 90 I think 90 is fair you were willing to take 20 grand for you weren't willing to offer me a 20 grand for it I think 75 is fair meet me in the middle at 80 and you got a

deal it's a deal all right okay all right let's go up front I'll write you up I made 880,000 on the coin super excited about it definitely going to keep playing poker uh hopefully I get another coin like this sometime hey how's it going good how you doing what do we got looks like something fancy it's uh very fancy oh wow well I mean it definitely looks French that's about my extent of knowledge on this thing let me grab my dad real quick sure pops you want to come take a look at this for me what do you got something's catching my eye on it I just don't exactly know what it is okay let's take a look oh this is really fancy boute or boutet boutet I'm not really good at pronouncing French I'm not really good at pronouncing English I'm here at the pawn shop to try and sell my bdet shotgun I got this shotgun from my father he was a collector of antique fire rooms I'm getting rid of it now because my wife is

getting tired of seeing it just mounted on the wall it's rare it's beautiful and it's very very well kept that's really really nice Hout he started doing this right around 1800 is he was like the rim Brant of guns I mean before Hout there was the art and then there was the function and then this guy was like the first one to really combine the both of them you had to be really really wealthy to have a gun like this he was Napoleon's gunsmith yeah I think he was like an armor for Napoleon there was lots of these guns out there that were super inla and they're made for royalty but they really weren't that great of a gun because the Royals were probably never going to fired anyway this is really fancy that is gold inlay where they would literally keep on pounding the gold into the steel till it's stuck this is a burled walnut hand checkered all these pieces down here are really high quality steel and high

quality steel like this was really expensive to make I mean just everything about this is just like crazy quality and there's probably some other stuff about it I don't know should I give Alex a call well how much do you want for it cuz if he wants 50 bucks I'll just give that now we'll it's not going for $50 um I'm looking at 10 grand okay yeah give Alex a call I mean it's most likely worth at least that it could be more I just got a lot of questions on it and we'll go from there all right I'll call Alex they're bringing in an expert and I think it's a really good idea because I'm guessing at what the value of this firearm is I'm hoping he will up the Ane period what do you think holy moly can I pick it up please this is stunning so boute was the gunsmith in France in the 18th century and into the beginning of the 19th century he was so good that he was the royal gunsmith to Louis the 16th who was the final King

before the Revolution and Not only was he his gunsmith but Napoleon made him his gunsmith so the guy had a long career as basically the finest gunsmith certainly in France but many people would argue in the world okay let me just see the so it's it's about probably a 50 or 60 caliber which doesn't really mean anything in shotgun terms but for people like today you would say this is about a 20 or 22 gauge it's muzzle loading it's flint lock I'd like to just see the oh yeah so what I'm doing there is just making sure that the Springs are still good and they certainly are yep and so it's a double trigger so one trigger fires one [ __ ] the other fires the other so you see boutes in some of the finest museums in the world there's a series of boutes at the Met in New York they are all over Europe so basically what we may have here is a one-off piece by one of the best gun makers of all time the best French gun

maker of all time arguably the best gun maker in history okay um any idea what it's worth so simple boutes will start easily about $10,000 one like this on a scale of 1 to 10 as far as decorative this is about a six so they get very very decorative the one thing I'd like to do is I'd like to test it if it fires how I believe it would I'd be more comfortable valuing them do you mind meeting us out at the range with it so we can test it out sure and we'll meet you out there okay see you at the range man let me grab a piece of paper I'll write down the address for awesome I think my wife would get really mad if I came home and said I saw a really nice boute at work today hello boys hey so the boute looks all polished up and ready to go the boute is shiny yeah one of the things I have found in this direct sunlight is actually the barrels are also marked which so this barel is marked boute and then the other

side it's marked manufactured in Versailles and it has a serial number 322 so that actually might be traceable which is really nice to see on the barrels so all right that's an added bonus I brought some shot I've got some trip F black powder we're going to load about 50 grains which is a pretty light load for this but just to be safe with it and uh I set up some uh fruit targets let's do this this shot gun is like a piece of art typically I wouldn't fire this gun but collectors search for firearms like this and if it's successful uh I do think it'll help the value all right so I think I should shoot it I I'll shoot it I have waited half of my life to shoot a boote let me try it Alex is going to shoot it okay all right here we go

there we go that was good so it fires it works it's everything's perfect on it it function exactly as it should function and I'm not surprised cuz boute is the finest gun maker of all time what do you think it's worth I think if this went to auction in this condition I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell up for 30,000 damn that much it's really nice do you see the smile on my face all right well thanks man I'll talk to you later very welcome and it was a pleasure Dennis thank you for letting me fire it my pleasure all right see you guys good luck take care bab all right so you were asking T I'm assuming you want a little bit more now no I want a lot more all right 20 I think that's a pretty fair to offer I'll give you 15 grand for it 18 okay I'll tell you what I'll give you 16 grand for it and normally I'd pay you a little bit more but something like this I'm not going to see money back for

a year or two and I'm I'm going to be on the level with you it's it's a lot more than I thought I would get we'll do 16 all right sweet all right all right um bring it back to the shop we'll do some paperwork and uh I'll get you paid so I now own a fine boute not that I haven't always had one it took you 50 something years to get one hey how's it going what do we have we have a pottery duck from kma Mexico all right pops you know anything about ducks from kma Mexico um a little bit um you liked rubber duckies when you were a kid filled the bathtub up with him he he had a blast with them when he was like three I'm at the pawn shop today to sell my old pottery duck I got the duck from an antique shop in Scottdale Arizona and ever since then just weird things you know happening around the house and couldn't figure out what it was until everything started falling around the duck so that's why I'm looking to sell

it I'm asking $4,000 for the duck because it looks pretty old I mean it does have magic powers I actually think it's kind of cool it looks old it looks like the pottery they made you know like a couple thousand years ago the indigenous people of Mexico were incredible artist when it came to Pottery so I mean what do you think it was used for were you supposed to drink out of it or something um it was probably something ceremonial they truly believe that the animals after you passed away they would guide you to the next World so that's why they did a lot of pottery with animals what religion is the duck in probably an ancient religion that doesn't exist anymore ever since I've had it it's just some weird things have been happening around the house well what kind of weird stuff happens well things like fall off the shelves I hear weird noises I'm going to go ahead and say it's probably not the duck's

fault now the craftsmanship is amazing you can still see where's in the Kiln burn marks and everything on the bottom so it went into a Kil like this and it came out with those beautiful finishes on it I mean if you looked at this from 3 or 4 ft away it looks like wood I mean that's how beautiful they did it I think it's kind of amazing how much you looking to get out of this about 4 ,000 okay um it's got me intrigued because it could be very very old but it's an incredible condition which is kind of scary because usually there's chipped and you know if it's 2,000 years old like you know you have kids playing with it and everything any place you go in Mexico there's like you know counterfeit versions of stuff like this I'd like someone to look at it if you don't mind I don't know can you give Bob a call I have a friend who will know a lot about this all right hang out I'll be back in a little bit okay I'm hoping the expert

can value it to my asking price because I just I want to get rid of it what's up Bob how you doing hi there how are you that is quite the duck I can tell you a couple things about it 2,000 years ago they made animals to go into a tomb and they'd lay the body and they'd place these animals around all of the animals that they would put in the Tomb had a function they'd be companions they'd be Spirit guides but most of them were to be eaten in the afterlife a big fat duck like this was going to be somebody's dinner in the afterlife it would have only gotone to somebody fairly important and this form very rare can I take a look at it yeah go right ahead one of the things that I'm noticing it's got the burnishing lines so they would use a stone and they would polish this EX extensively before it would go in the Kil got nice maganese blooms but I see a repair here I see that there repairs in the body they're

almost invisible so whoever restored this they did a fabulous job so you think this is 100% real yeah 100% real 300 BC to 300 ad ancient so what's it worth it's authentic it's old it's rare it's stunning 8,000 okay you're not going to whip out like your X-ray machine or anything on it I don't need to it's got all the signs you want to see well Bob I appreciate you coming down my pleasure it's amazing to see anything that's 2,000 years old but it was in a tomb that has been protected from the elements and the ages so of all of the ancient cultures kma seem to survive the best so you w 4,000 for it I mean give you for because it it does take a long time to sell it okay awesome please you want to go write her up all right um luckily I'm not superstitious I'll meet you up over there all right and he's going to pay her in $100 bills Hi how are you I'm good how can I help you so I am trying to sell this

leather biker jacket I'm thinking it's from either World War I or World War II I don't really know much about it right is your hard parked out front oh yeah I'm at the pawn shop today to try to sell my vintage leather biker jacket that I believe is from either World War I or World War II I'm hoping to get $1,000 for this jacket especially since vintage clothing is coming back and the jacket is in such good condition if I make the sale today I'll probably save some of the money give some of it to my dad and maybe buy him a new record player the jacket's really cool so where did you get it I found this when I was cleaning out closets in my house my dad has always collected vintage leather jackets and this one was just in there well it's definitely a cool jacket all right let's take a look at it here um all right we definitely got leather it's showing some good age that leather would show as well it's got the word Mac on

the front which maybe was a name it has the Airborne patch on it with the Eagle right there then the other patch over here it says Allied Airborne some writing on the back The Battered Bastards of Baston so I definitely do agree with you a wartime jacket probably from the 40s or whatnot but looking at the patches I don't think this would have been like a motorcycle jacket this looks like it would have been maybe like a pilot's jacket or something like that I have some concerns though I don't feel like the writing and the patches match up with the cut of the jacket looking at this jacket it's cut more in the style of a European jacket an American jacket would have come down more kind of more flat this is more typical of a European cut how much are you looking to get for it I was thinking a thousand I mean that's not out of the question honestly if it checks out I could probably give you more than a

th000 for sure and still leave room to make some money be great but I have some questions about this jacket can I have someone come down and take a look at it they specialize in you know military memorabilia you have a little time to wait yeah for sure no problem give me just a few minutes I'm going to make a phone call and get someone done okay no worries my main concern is that we don't know the history behind the jacket so it could be fake and not worth anything well here is Alex hi Alex nice to meet you he should know a lot more about this jacket than you or I okay perfect wow there's a bunch going on with this jacket The Battered Bastards at Bastone that's referencing the Battle of the Bulge the 326 jumped at Normandy and uh the eagle is of the 101st Airborne Division if you're going to have something from World War II that is referencing an American victory it's a stone or Normandy but this is both this

jacket has some really cool history The Battered Bastards of Bastone so these guys would surrounded by the German troops very little ammunition very little food no winter clothing December and January 1944 and 45 the German Commander at the time sent a letter to the American Commander demanding their surrender they were going to be annihilated and the American Commander just wrote one word back nuts from that point on the German troops retreated all the way to the final end of the war now you don't see anything like this often it's actually really classic German pilot leather jacket a lift Waffa pilot uh would have had this it's got that high crop so the way this would have come about is an American Soldier would have captured the German pilot and taken his jacket and then ENT ually he made this a momento of the war so I know that these are faked often what are the steps we can take to figure out if this jacket

was painted war time all right so we start here and zoom in now you can see here on this A and B you see all that spidering of the paint M and you see how the leather itself has little Peaks and valleys mhm if it were newly painted you would see the paint inside all the little valleys and nooks and crannies and so I am completely sure that that paint is authentic to the World War II period how much is it worth it's a one-of aind piece and it is fantastic I would not be surprised to see this thing sell at 12,000 wow all right well thanks for coming down all right good luck thank you see you CH all right I'll give you a thousand bucks for it well now that we know it's worth a lot more than that what do you think about raising the price it's cool as it is when you're talking about you know $112,000 it's going to take a very special person to buy this I just don't think that it's a good fit for me right

now put this in an auction you'll probably get the 12,000 maybe even more and you can come back and thank me later all right well I appreciate you thank have a good day yeah you too I'm pleasantly surprised that the expert told me the jacket is worth $122,000 I hope to jack it up and sell it online what can I help you with I have a watch here okay apparently it's an old watch I hope so where did you get it a garage sale really cool watch do you mind me asking what you paid for it $20 I came into the pawn shop today to try to sell my antique pocket watch I'd like to sell it cuz I don't collect pocket watches if I get 500 if I get 800 I'll be happy anything works for me do you know much about it I don't know anything about it I just discovered it and it looked cool so uh well I can tell you a little bit about it um a uh William Ellery that's an American watch company that later became walam watch

company AB Lincoln actually carried a walam watch wow this is absolutely amazing back here um Earl Butler hero saved my life at Cross Keys Robert M Scott that's um something good that is something good I'm assuming that's a Civil War the watch is probably 1870s 1880s pretty easy to date them first off it's a key wind in a key set by the 1890s they were almost all going to stem wines that would make it right around the right time period it has to be the Civil War you just increase the cool Factor by like 10 times okay because this actually belonged to a Civil War veteran okay okay that was given to that person by another civil war veteran okay who saved his life at Cross Keys which I'm assuming was a battle one of the greatest gifts you could give in the 19th century was a pocket watch imagine someone gave this to a friend who saved his life during the Civil War I have never seen anything like it do you know

if it runs no it's wanting to work it's working that's positive right yes I mean the great thing about this watch is it's an amazing shape it works great the case is in amazing condition we have a a porcelain dial on it that doesn't have one crack these things are notorious for cracking there's a huge market for civil war stuff and a pocket watch in this condition with engraving on the back could be worth a fortune collectors would line up out the door to buy this thing I mean this has got me really fascinated right here though I'd really like to find out who these people are these could be important people from the battle okay um I'd like to find out more about the Battle I have a buddy who knows just about everything we were to know about the Civil War there's something special here you might have a lot more money okay all right I'll be right back thanks since he's calling in the expert that must mean something good

I hope so anyway how you doing Mark how's it going doing all right the guys normally call me down here when they've got an historical artifact I have this watch here and the engraving says that it's from the Battle of Cross Keys the Battle of Cross Keys was an interesting one this was early on in the Civil War and this was Stonewall Jackson one of the best known General on the southern side and Cross Keys was one of the battles with Union forces and the Confederates had about 5,800 men in this battle the union side had over 11,000 men in this battle and the Union lost we able to find out anything about those names or anything like that well there are a number of Robert M Scotts out there there are a number of Earl Butlers out there they don't don't show up in the historic record um individually that I could find I mean the watch is really cool I mean it seems like it's from the right time period and everything like that do

you think it's legit okay do you mind if I take a closer look at it please okay oh yeah the time period would be probably the late 1880s so the name on it and the serial number both fit that's all good and if you were going to fake a piece like this you would pick a battle that everybody's heard of you know it' be thanks for saving my life at Gettysburg or something and that the engraving is all hand done in looking at it I think that this is this appears to be correct to me I think it's a very nice memorial from the Civil War you know this is somebody in post-war years and said I want want to say thank you hopefully that helps thanks man not a problem thank you very much what do you want for it 2,000 I mean the two people on there are really not known so 700 bucks but the battle's known 1,800 if it didn't haveen that engraving on it is literally worth 4 or 500 bucks let me give you $1,000 for it come on

you're going to make a profit either way how about 15 I just don't know what I'm going to get out of it I'll go300 not a dime more 13 will work okay 1300 all right I'll meet you right up front over there all right thanks bought it for $20 and I'm walking out with $1,300 I'm ecstatic I couldn't be happier hey how's it going good how you doing I brought you some autograph Hollywood postcards from the 1950s we have uh bab Bru whoa the great Gambino it's Bambino oh the collection is over 250 vintage Hollywood autograph postcards some of them are hard to read some of them have a really bad Penman I am hoping to get 2500 for it today and I think I'll take around $11,000 let's start here where did you get up my great uncle was a grip in uh Hollywood in the ' 50s and he would have him sign them and then to my mom and uh she gave him to me okay um he must have done this for a long time juding by this

a good while 1948 all the way up to 56 this is incredible we got John Wayne Lucio ball I can understand it you know how we would be able to get him an actor is less likely to say no to an autograph if they have to work and see somebody every day it looks like most of them were personalized what was your mom's name uh Susan Susan okay okay some are a little more than others some are just you know too Suzy or good luck or best bles all right God who else do you have Elizabeth Taylor yeah Elizabeth Taylor um did you know she was born with some disease where she was covered from head to toe with hair some people are just born with this luckily uh all hers fell out after a few weeks of being born but could you imagine if Elizabeth Taylor was the harriest woman on the planet that's Dean Martin right there and the list just goes on and on Gary Cooper we have uh Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis Vincent Price Lauren McCall it's

been a while since something left me speechless what you have here is really really amazing I don't even know where to start normally I get someone bringing in a signature not this many at one time the thing with this collection is that there's so many of them I don't know if some all or none of these are real and if they are real I don't know if they're worth more than the others without knowing a bit more I don't know how to price this before we go any further how much do you want for him I was thinking 2500 from all of them okay um basically I need to make sure your uncle wasn't just trying to impress your mom every couple months by sending her one of these um understandable you mind if I call someone in to take a look he's probably one of the best signature experts you're going to get okay sounds great all right M when it comes to celebrity autographs this guy might have a gold mine on his hands or it could be

a huge pile of white lies from his uncle either way $2,500 is a lot of money so I'll let Steve be the judge earlier a guy came in with a huge collection of celebrity signed postcards from the 1940s and 50s I'd never seen a collection quite like it so I called up my buddy Steve to come down and take a look hopefully he'll be able to tell me if they're legit and what they're worth that was like a pretty crazy assemblage here this guy has over 250 autographs from the 1940s and 50s wow uh so far it's everything from Babe Ruth to maryn Monroe it's pretty rare you see like a you know just a whole collection like this you know obviously this wasn't gotten overnight or whatever I mean that's just a massive stack tell me a little bit about the history my uncle was a uh a grip in Hollywood during this time and he would have them sign it to Susie or Susan my mother and then he would address to her in Brooklyn and

sent it to her and that went on for about 8 10 years was it just sitting like in a shoe box packed away in a closet somewhere it was sitting in a shoe box for as long as I can remember you took it out of the shoe box you put it in these containers and here we are today that's it um wow I mean I'm kind of Blown Away about all this just the fact that they all they're all dated yeah makes it great I mean actually I think that's probably the the more cool thing the dates on each one that's pretty awesome I you could you could chart these things exactly to when they were signed it's okay if I have a look some okay all right maybe you'll be able to recognize some of them you guys know who this is Jimmy Stewart that's Jimmy Stewart Liberty Valance yeah it's a wonderful life one of the most famous actors of all time you guys know who that is Paul Newman we talking about the dressing Paul Newman yeah the dressing uh the

salsa but the great actor Paul Newman one of the toughest autographs to obtain in person there's no doubt that his uncle was pretty well liked on the set to be able to approach someone like Marilyn Munroe Babe Ruth I mean this guy must have been really popular whoa you guys know who that is Marlon brandoo I mean this is about one of the strangest guys you're ever going to come across and one of the best actors of all time you know back in his later years I mean I'm talking like ' 80s 90s if you were lucky enough to approach this guy in the street and even ask for his autograph he used to give you a set of trivia questions you have to answer and if you answered one wrong didn't matter you wouldn't get his autograph but if you got all five right he'd sign for you but with Marlon brand when he signed especially later in life it was like instant gold I'm seeing some great names in here Susan Hayward Joe deio it's

pretty amazing I just keep pulling more and more and more it's just an amazing assemblance we're looking at a bunch of deceased celebrities stuff that you're not going to get signed anymore and the most important thing to collectors that's a vintage dated signature and that's a really big deal so Steve what do you think what do we got here um I think you've got a pretty phenomenal collection here if it all checks out you know I don't need the pr scope today I mean I could tell you know we've got real writing on this it's all different kinds of ink I want to be able to go through my examples figure out what's here figure out if anybody you know by any chance if there's a secretary signing for somebody that day okay but the bad thing is is I can't tell you right now you guys got time today is that all right I got you my man whatever you need if you want to borrow Chumley or the conference

room whatever you need I know it's a lot to ask do you mind no be my guess okay right on you might want to grab some lunch or something cuz it's going to be a minute man okay how you doing doing good good so what do you think this stuff is all no good it was a big waste of my time to stand here and go through this stuff I mean that's the unfortunate part about it really no actually it it's probably one the best collections I've ever seen awesome yeah I can't tell you how rare this stuff is I don't know if you guys have ever heard of Elvis Presley but he's here too did you know that no Alvis Presley made an appearance in here um great example the guy's not an autographed guy he didn't get him in person so he really had no idea that someone like Elvis Presley was just sitting at the bottom of the stack that is incredible Frank Sinatra do you even know Frank Sinatra was in here no no see you're learning something new every day

yeah for 1954 this is that basically get the height of frankon Aron Babe Ruth the great Babe Ruth um this one I really enjoyed a lot it's dated May 3rd 1948 you know 3 months later Babe Ruth was dead the great thing about this roof signature is in ballpoint pen Babe Ruth had a heavy hand like to sign him fountain pen now I've had a chance to certify 3,000 4,000 authentic babe Bruce signatures in my time at PSA I've seen maybe 10 sign a ballpoint pen that's how rare they are wow well he came in here one and 25 00 bucks for all of them what do you think they're worth that's that's pretty good um but an amazing collection when I look at the signatures in here it's pretty crazy we're talking Humphrey Bogart I saw Boris Carlo Jerry Lewis Willie Mae I could just keep going on and on you're looking at anywhere from about $8 to $12,000 wow still on 2500 no I really really appreciate it course anytime man

usually I'm the guy who gives the bad news so today I gave some good news and it felt really good so we found out a lot my man what do you want for him now um start at 8,000 then I'm going to be really honest with you I'm going to get a lot of money for these when I sell them but it's going to take years and it's going to take money as great as it is to have bab signature it's really hard to sell it on a postcard in a stack you it's going to have to be a displayed put it in a frame I mean we're talking it's going to cost me 2 to 300 bucks for each one of these I sell you want a 2500 I'll give you six grand you going to take six grand um yeah I think so that works I'm sure my mom will be really really surprised that we got $6,000 for it although I might keep it a secret hey can I help you hello um Yes actually I have this all right um are you a stamp collector I'm not but they do appear to be very valuable they're

extremely old all right the stamp that lost us the American colonies stamp of 1765 issues in accordance with the Greenville Stamp Act and the attempt to tax the American colonies oh wow I think this is a stamp in relation to the Stamp Act too bad my boss isn't here cuz he would really want to nerd out on this right now I'm here to sell some old stamps that I have they're definitely unique I know they're not like the stamps that we use today that's for sure I'm asking $250 for the stamps I feel like they're worth some value because how old they are this is pretty cool I mean basically what the Stamp Act was is the British Parliament deciding that all British Citizens need to pay a paper tax whether they lived on this continent or in Britain so they imposed this Stamp Act of 1765 and if you lived on this continent at the time it wasn't America everyone was from England so you still had to pay

that tax and this little stamp right here had to be on every single piece of paper if I remember correctly otherwise there was some type of legal consequence oh wow it says America on it too actually on here American colonies yeah we weren't quite America yet this is right before you know we fought the Revolutionary War to become free they're pretty interesting they almost look embossed they kind of look Royal you know you know it kind of looks like something the British Parliament would make it's these deep blue colors how much are you looking to get for it I'm thinking probably like $250 Well normally i' just go get my boss but he's not going to be back for a few hours if you have a few minutes to hang out though I can call my buddy and he knows the value of all this kind of stuff okay yeah I've got a couple minutes it could be worth a lot of money I'd like to hear what the expert has to

say because I'm confident they're valuable but I'm not exactly sure how much I'm just taking a while guess on this so this is what I called you about I thought it was pretty interesting but Rick wasn't around and I figured even if he was he'd call you down anyways he would love this yes you're right these are really really interesting uh this is something that a collector has put together who collected British Revenue stamps these ones up here are from the 1694 series which was for General use by the British however this one here appears as a stamp issued by the British in line with the Stamp Act well the Stamp Act was a way for the British crown to raise money in the colonies in America remember they had just come out of fighting the French and Indian War they emerg Victorious but it was very expensive and they wanted to recoup some of that money so they came up with a stamp act which specifically targeted

the Americas it mainly affected items on paper although it also affected dice I mean who knew no gambling without aack exactly I'll make sure it says America um the British issued all sorts of Revenue stamps in the 18th century if it says America we're in business yes it does yeah this one says America this is wonderful so this is an important stamp seems like there'd be a lot of these if you had to stamp it on every piece of paper you would think it was a relatively short-lived act it was introduced in 1765 and just a few months later repealed so there wasn't a lot of opportunity for their use what kind of value would you put on it uh well the basil value is about $4 $500 if you're buying it in a Stamp Auction but this also has some other stamps I think to any advanced collector um it's easily a $1,000 item awesome yeah okay well appreciate it all right all right congratulations thank you all right looks like someone's happy

with what they heard yeah I had no idea I'm working with 1,000 now how does that sound to you it sounds like a little too much to me would you take 450 450 that I think maybe if it was just these but what are you thinking well I don't want to sell them for half what they're worth so how about 650 you think you could do 600 I don't think so that's a little too low that's almost selling them for half what they worth 250 to 650 huh um I could just take him back with me I really want to show them to my boss so I'm going to make a deal $650 $650 all right uh meet me right up here at the counter I'll take these I'm leaving here with $650 for those stamps and that's more than I was looking for and that's awesome

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What is "Pawn Stars: 7 INSANELY HIGH APPRAISALS (Huge Profits For Rare Items!)" about?

In this Pawn Stars episode, a seller brings in a rare 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar, a coin so scarce that only about a dozen are known to exist. After an NGC expert authenticates it and values it at $50,000 to $100,000, the shop negotiates a deal that brings in a substantial profit. The episode highlights the excitement of uncovering valuable rarities and the importance of expert verification…

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