Pawn Stars Review: February 4, 2013

Well, it's back to the early edition of the Pawn Stars review.  I happened to have the day off from my 2nd job.
I hope everyone, win or lose, enjoyed the Super Bowl yesterday.  Las Vegas was a hopping place to be with all bars and casinos hosting Super bowl parties.
From the Examiner: Some readers may be familiar with "Pawn Stars", a reality TV show depicting certain operations of Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show has proved to be popular to wide audience. I have referred to a video of the owner, Rick, before in which he discusses sterling and silver plate acid-testing, Acid testing silver.
The show often features questions for the TV audience to consider during a commercial break. Mostly, they are multiple-choice questions with the potential answers listed. Recently, a question was posed that might interest those who like silver pieces. The question was, "What is the most common bad news the Pawn Stars give to customers?" The answer was, "The customer's 'Sterling Silver' flatware is actually plated."  http://www.examiner.com/article/most-common-bad-news-for-customers-of-pawn-stars

 



In the first episode, the first guy brought in a 1918 $1000 Federal Reserve Note.  There were only 150 of these notes produced.  The guy wanted $6,000and Rick offered $2000.  The guy went down to $3500 and Rick offered $2500 and that was the sale price.  Rick had the bill graded and the grader said the bill was graded at 25 and worth about $7000.



The next guy brought in an antique 3-D viewfinder/ 3-Ddstereoscope.  He also had 535 pictures that went along with them  The guy wanted $600 and Rick offered $250 and then $400 and then $425 and that was the selling price.
The next guy brought in some Spider Man sketches signed by Stan Lee.  Stan Lee helped create Marvel Comics and the Spider Man cartoon.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee  His studio is suing Disney for $billions: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/10/entertainment/la-et-ct-stan-lee-disney-lawsuit-20121010
The pictures were just some black and white sketch pictures of Spider Man and he signed them in1991 and 1992.  Corey said the that autographs of Stan Lee were not rare but maybe the sketches were not.  Time for an expert, Johnny from the Toy Shack in Las Vegas.  H thought the sketches and autographs was worth about $800-1000.  Corey offered $500.  There was no sale.


The next guy brought in a type 89 machine gun camera used in World War 2.  It was used to help fighter plane pilots train to shoot real machine guns.  The guy wanted $2000.  Time for an expert, Mark.(his beard is getting much greyer)  He said the film was 35mm and it was slow about 10 frames a second.  He didn't know if the camera worked and it was missing some pieces.  The site was missing from the top of the camera, for example.  Rick offered $750.  The guy went down to $1500 and Rick offered $1000 and that was the selling price.
In the 2nd episode, the first guy brought in a court room drawings of the Sam Shepard murder trial.  http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/samsheppardtrial.html
He was on trial for killing his wife and the movie and the TV show, "The Fugitive".  The pictures were of his wife and himself and some pictures inside the main picture included a house and some sayings.  Burris Jenkins Jr.  http://www.original-political-cartoon.com/gallery/artist/jenkins-jr-burris-1897-1966_106.html and the pictures were autographed.  The guy wanted $5500 for the 35 drawings.  Time for an expert.  Brett, is a fine art appraiser and is from The Art Encounter, came in to look at the pictures.  He said the group of pictures were worth $10,000.  Rick offered $4000.  The guy wanted $4000 and $1000 in trade.  No deal for that, and then $4500 and the guy went to $4300.  He bought it for $399.  Nice profit.
The story line of the show was Chumlee calling in sick for work. And Olivia is still on the show (after being fired last month) and Corey was going to check to see if he really was sick.  Corey went to an apartment, not Chumlee's in real life because you could look right in the front window.  Chumlee had 2 dogs, probably pit bulls in the apartment.  Corey was walking with a limp.  So, in the end, both of the guys played some video games.  Chumlee, of course was not sick.  But Corey lied to the Old Man and Rick about Chumlee being sick.
The next lady brought in a national telephone book from October 1895.  The telephone numbers were 3 digits and sometimes 4 digits.  The lady wanted $6000 and the Old Man offered $200 and there was no sale- surprisingly, no expert.
The next guy brought in a American League 1962 All Star baseball.  http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1962as.shtml  The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago.  Some players signing Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Al Kaline and Mickey Mantle.  There were 30 signatures on the ball and the guy wanted $2000.  Time for an expert, Jeremy.  Jeremy said some of the signatures were good but others were not.  He said the most valuable signature, if not fake, was Roger Maris and it was real, but the signature was on the stamp.  Jeremy said the ball was worth $600-800.  The guy asked for $650 and Rick offered $400 and then $450 and that was the selling price.
The next guy brought in a motorized toy tank that was homemade.  It was on wheels and was about 6 feet tall and maybe 5 feet long.  The tank had a turret that turned and it shot potatoes.  The guy wanted $5000 and the Old Man offered $100.  The guy went to $2500 and there was no sale.  Olivia got to drive the tank out of the shop.
That ends another week of new episodes of Pawn Stars.  As always, thanks for stopping by and seeing you next week on the late night version of Pawn Stars Review.  Next week, there will be 2 new episodes.