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No one challenges me to a duel.
It's only money.
BILLY: Thousands of dollars are at stake at this auction.
Let's go.
I cannot believe what's inside this [bleep] box.
[ Laughs ]
Does it work?
Yee-hoo!
...$5,000 and up.
That's how I make money -- on people's misery.
NARRATOR: Every day, $40 billion in property
travels around the world.
1% of that gets lost or left behind.
When this property goes unclaimed,
it's put up for public auction.
Yo!
AUCTIONEER: Sold!
SALLY: We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
NARRATOR: This is "Baggage Battles."
-- Captions by VITAC --
Closed Captions provided by Scripps Networks, LLC.
BILLY: We're in the Denver area.
This Rocky Mountain auction house
is perfectly placed,
because it's right in the middle of the frontier
and the rich up in the Rockies.
This auction house -- Their past catalogs
have a lot of antiques, and that's not really my forte.
So, what I'm gonna be looking for is boxed lots,
any kind of quantity I can get my hands on.
This auction house is so busy
they don't even put the catalog out
until the day of the auction.
LAURENCE: They don't even know what they're selling themselves,
so, you know, you got a fair chance out here
of finding something that hasn't seen the light of day
in 20 years or more!
MARK: As soon as I walk in, I see militaria, Americana,
and my favorite, sealed boxes straight from a storage unit.
Unisonic.
I'm either thinking that's sonic toothbrushes,
maybe some sound equipment, maybe some medical equipment.
There's 100 units inside.
If the units are worth 5 bucks apiece,
we got a $500 box.
And if profit is what I'm all about,
this box has me interested.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
Oh, these look pretty cool.
SALLY: These are Vargas.
You know, he did a lot of art
for Esquire Magazine and for Playboy.
SALLY: Vargas stuff is hot.
If we frame these up, we can get 100 bucks apiece.
Pretty cool.
"Man cave."
At my house, I have my man cave.
I have my room with all my guns, my taxidermy.
So when a box is marked "man cave,"
it's got my interest.
Ho-ho! A box!
But this is not just any box.
"Garage."
Well, it's not just "garage," honey.
Look. It's "garage star."
Any time you put a star on something,
it means it's good.
I totally love this box.
SALLY: Laurence thinks if there's something good,
you don't put it in the garage.
I think there could be something really cool in there.
So, I don't know.
What are you gonna give me if I'm right
and there's something really good inside?
Well, I might get you breakfast in bed!
How about that?
With flowers and a fan
and grapes and everything.
That I'll take.
This is great -- a giant zebra rug.
You never see these at auctions.
Designers absolutely adore zebra rugs.
And this guy is huge.
This, in New York City, is worth $1,500 -- minimum.
There's two notable marks on this box.
One says "den." The other says "man cave."
Either one of those, I really want it.
Every guy who loves sports
or just loves drinking beer in his own man world
needs stuff out of this box.
I know Billy's been eyeing up this box,
but now we're gonna see who the real man is.
Whoa! A mangal!
I've never, ever seen one of these in life.
A mangal is a heating device
they used in the tents way back in the 1800s in Morocco.
It just goes to show
you can find anything from anywhere.
It's The Dallas Morning News
with the announcement of the killing of Bonnie and Clyde.
SALLY: This is awesome.
[ Accordion plays ]
This is a $1,000 accordion.
MARK: What makes these really rare?
They have the connections for the heated gloves.
German pilots would plug these gloves into the cockpit
and it would keep their hands warm
at high altitudes on long missions.
If you didn't know, you could walk by
and think they're a $5 pair of winter gloves.
Mark, why are you whispering?
Know that those are World War II Nazi gloves?
Are you gonna go for the gloves?
They're cool. They're vintage.
I didn't like them before, but now I like them.
Listen, do you really want these gloves?
Yeah!
Do you still want these gloves?
No one challenges me to a duel.
Do you still want them?
At dawn, you and me.
I don't know what that means.
Is everybody ready?
[ Calling ]
$200.
[ Calling continues ]
Sold! Sold! Sold!
$65 right here to the buyer...
WOMAN: 267.
Thank you very much.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, look what we've found here.
We have this sealed, unsearched box right here.
Unisonic Products Corporation.
Who knows what's in this box, but we're gonna sell it.
SALLY: Unisonic sounds just like audio.
If there are 100 microphones in this box at $50 apiece,
we're talking cha-ching.
Let's go here.
MARK: Quantity is my game.
I'm all over this box.
I need $150.
$140.
Yeah.
How much?!
Let him buy it.
$185. $185.
Now $200.
$205.
MARK: The auctioneer is costing me money.
Please sell it already.
[ Auctioneer calling ]
Sold! $205.
MARK: I spent a lot more than I wanted to on this box,
so 100 pieces better be 100 awesome pieces.
Unsearched box.
I have no idea what's in there. Nobody else does.
Somebody's either gonna probably get a wonderful deal or...
something else.
Who knows?
BILLY: "Garage" means nothing to me,
but when you see a star,
that means something valuable could be inside this box.
LAURENCE: So, that Billy thinks he's the box king,
but we're going home with this one.
It's only money.
Make 'em pay.
No! What do you mean!
Three!
I really want this garage box,
but the bidding is insane.
[ Calling continues ]
Yee-hoo!
Sold, $300!
If this garage box doesn't have
something really great in it,
we have just blown $300.
World War II -- beautiful Luftwaffe gloves right here.
MARK: Nobody knows what these gloves are
except this guy.
I'm gonna get it for a song.
AUCTIONEER: Thank you.
Billy, back off.
[ Slow motion ] No one challenges me
to a duel.
BILLY: I want these gloves, but more importantly,
I never back down from a duel.
MARK: Billy wants to meet me at dawn?
Well, it's sunrise.
Let's go.
[ Auctioneer calling ]
I want them, but not a $150 want.
Sold, 135 bucks!
That was a great buy.
Every dog has its day.
This one is labeled "man cave."
MARK: This "man cave" box has my name all over it.
No one's getting in my way.
[ Auctioneer calling ]
$500. And $1,000?
$5! Whoa!
Whoa, that pony, all right!
How much did he say?
$5!
500 bucks? Nice try.
BILLY: Guess what, Mr. Man Cave?
Not this time.
Yeah!
Oh, no!
This box is going through the roof.
AUCTIONEER: $225?
Mark is going down.
AUCTIONEER: $225?
Mark's getting upset, and that makes me happy.
AUCTIONEER: $210?
Sold!
$200 to buyer...
WOMAN: 267, Thank you!
BILLY: Mark might start crying.
[ Laughs ]
Good job, bonehead.
Here we go then. You ready?
1, 2...
SALLY: We just spent $600 at this auction.
We got a sealed box from a storage unit
and a beautiful heater from Morocco.
Whoa, honey! That was something else, wasn't it?
Look at this! Whoo! Majestic!
That's pretty awesome. Good find, honey.
It's called a mangal,
and what they use it for is, like, in the tents,
they burn some coals of some kind,
and this part here is filled with water.
Creates steam.
Yeah, so the heat boils the water,
and then the steam comes out through these holes
and makes the whole place warm.
This could go as much as $2,000, I think.
[ Grunts ] All right, honey.
Ready?
Careful.
Sheets, honey!
Holy sheet! Put them aside. Okay.
Well, that's 50 cents.
Okay. Well, this is --
Syracuse, is it?
Yep. Cereal bowls.
I mean, we're talking a dollar or two
Here you go.
I'm getting tired of these blankets and sheets.
[ Laughs ] Honey, lookit!
The Lone Ranger!
Hey, hi, ho, Tonto!
A vintage Lone Ranger radio, and it looks amazing.
Kick ***, honey.
We don't really know
how many of these were manufactured.
It could be a really, really rare piece.
Let's take it to an appraiser,
and we'll get somebody to help us
know a little bit more about it.
We tracked down Dawn Moore.
She's not just an antiques expert.
She's the daughter of Clayton Moore,
none other than TV's first Lone Ranger.
You must be Dawn.
Hello.
Laurence, a pleasure.
Pleasure.
We have this amazing radio.
This is spectacular.
Majestic produced these in 1951.
You have original wiring.
You have original antenna.
Now, really, does it work? Do we know?
We have not plugged it in.
So, Dawn, if we plug this little radio in
and it doesn't work,
what's the value on that?
Maybe $150.
Mnh.
What we're looking for is does it light up?
The fact that the character lights up
made it also a night-light for children's rooms, right?
Then it also needs to turn on.
So, let's see.
SALLY: This radio is really cool,
but if it doesn't light up,
we are gonna lose money on this box.
Okay, so, we're plugged in.
[ Radio clicks ]
Okay, so, we're plugged in.
[ Radio clicks ]
Whoo!
We have light.
MAN: Get after the...
[ Laughs ]
[ Radio warbling ]
Now that we know that it's working,
tell us what it's worth.
This is actually
one of the most sought after character radios.
[ Chuckles ]
It's in beautiful condition.
All the colors are on the front.
Everything is original.
I would safely say...
$1,000 to $1,200.
Whoo!
Hi-ho, Silver, away!
Hi-yo, Silver, away.
[ Laughs ]
Hi-yo, Silver, away!
At this auction, I spent around $500.
I got a zebra skin rug and this "man cave" box,
which I can't wait to open.
VoilĂ ! Zebra skins are very, very rare.
100 years ago, they loved having the face.
Today, you find it with the face cut out,
but here, you have the little ears, the eyes.
A lot of people would find this creepy,
but there's nothing creepy about making money.
In New York City, I can sell this zebra skin rug
all day long for $1,500.
I paid $200 for this box.
I'm dying to open it.
Ugh -- a towel. Great.
Well, let's see.
Oh, interesting --
Playboy shot glasses.
Oh, this is great.
A Playboy ashtray.
More Playboy stuff.
Ah, Playboy beer mug.
Oh, it says the "Playboy Club."
The Playboy Club,
back in the '60s and '70s, was kind of a big deal.
It was hard to get into --
You couldn't just waltz in there.
The girls were beautiful, and...
it wasn't *** -- Let's put it that way.
Oh, boy. We got, uh, Playboy magazines.
[ Chuckles ] Playboy magazines are like stamps.
Some issues are worth a lot of money.
Some are not.
I'd say they're about $5 to $10 apiece today.
A box within a box.
Either I'm gonna make a profit on my $200 or lose money.
Let's look inside.
Oh, wow.
This is great.
Oh, my God.
If I'm correct,
this is what Playboy Bunnies would wear.
And this looks like an original Playboy Bunny's outfit.
These Playboy outfits are pretty rare.
They don't just give them to the general public,
so I have to bring this to an expert
to find out the real value of it.
I'm praying this is not some sort of knock-off.
'Cause if it's real, it's a major score and very rare.
Am I sexy?
With items like these,
I like to go straight to the source.
But since Hef doesn't return my calls,
I got the next best thing.
I'm going to the former Playboy Club in Denver
and I'm meeting the 1986 Playboy Playmate Ava Fabian.
Hopefully she can tell me if this is the real thing
or just a bust.
Hi, Billy.
Thank you so much for agreeing to meet me here.
With pleasure.
I brought something really cool.
Okay, I'm very excited.
Let's see.
Oh!
This is very interesting.
I'm not sure exactly what it is, how official it is.
Billy, it appears that this is a product of Playboy.
Oh! Oh!
This has never been worn by a Playmate.
This has not even been finished or been fitted for a Bunny.
This is a work in progress.
Does that make it rare?
I think so. I do.
I think it's very rare.
Rare means money.
Ava, I'm dying to know. How much is this worth?
Now, if this was a vintage one,
they have been auctioned for $5,000 and up.
Unfortunately, this one isn't.
The lining is white in this.
This is what tells me that this was made within the last decade.
Ava, you're breaking my heart.
I would say this is worth...
$500.
500 bucks?
$500 is not the 5 grand I would have made
with a vintage uniform,
but I still doubled my money.
And you know what?
I think Ava might have a thing for me.
MARK: I spent almost $350 at this auction.
I got German pilot gloves
and a box full of 100 pieces of I don't know what.
These are German Luftwaffe gloves.
The insignia on the inside, it says "L.B.A. 43,"
which dates this to 1943,
and "L.B.A." was basically the German air force.
These have electrical connections,
so when they plugged it into the aircraft,
that way, over a long period of flight,
your hands wouldn't be freezing.
If these were American gloves, they might be worth $50 to $100.
But because they're German, $300 to $400.
I'm a man who loves to buy quantity,
and it says over here, "Quantity -- 100 Units."
This is the one box I am most excited about.
Well, there's a box in a box.
Awesome to break the seal on a box.
[ Laughs ]
I cannot believe what's inside this [bleep] box.
Oh, baby! I love quantity.
And this is quantity.
You want to see more of what we got?!
Tune in to...
MARK: If I open this box up and I find
a bunch of cheap Chinese doodads for the dollar store,
this auction is wiped.
[ Laughs ]
This is awesome!
Oh, baby! I love quantity.
And this is quantity.
It says "The Dukes of Hazzard LCD Quartz Watch"
from 1981.
Oh, this is mint!
This is a fantastic find.
What's better than finding one "Dukes of Hazzard" watch?
Finding 100.
Oh, yeah!
I'm showing my age,
but I don't know that much about "The Dukes of Hazzard".
Two redneck boys that like evading the law, and, uh...
Uh, Daisy. Yeah.
I have to find out exactly what they're worth.
I got a lot of questions.
I got to take it to someone who can answer them.
Unfortunately, Daisy Duke is not available,
so I got to go see the next big thing --
Craig at Hero Headquarters.
I got some "Dukes of Hazzard" stuff
I really want you to take a look at.
Wow, it looks like a factory case.
All right.
Whoa!
Wow!
A "Dukes of Hazzard" watch from 1981.
Hey, I've done this for over 25 years,
and I've never seen a case of these watches like this ever.
It's amazing.
This was probably stashed in a warehouse somewhere
and forgotten for the past 30 years.
So, you think these are authentic?
Oh, I can guarantee it.
These are not new or refurb or anything like this.
This is definitely the authentic, genuine article.
So, you look a little young for "Dukes of Hazzard".
Do you really remember "Dukes of Hazzard"?
No. What makes "The Dukes of Hazzard" so appealing?
You had two cool guys, Bo and Luke Duke,
and they were always on the outs with the law.
And you also had a very hot cousin in Daisy Duke.
Her outfit was iconic.
Of course, the car.
The General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger.
It's one of the most recognizable cars in TV history.
MARK: Craig's telling me a lot about the history.
The only general I care about is the one on a $50 bill.
So, the real reason why I came, Craig --
I want to know how much this box is worth.
If you took your time selling them,
it may take you a couple years,
but I think you would be able to get...
$15 each.
$1,500!
Yep. That was a great find.
Yee-haw!
Seven times my money on this little box --
Who's the Boss Hogg now?!
NARRATOR: Laurence and Sally banded together
to find a rare Lone Ranger radio,
profiting to the tune of more than $2,600.
Billy was turned down by a beautiful Playmate,
but he got turned on by sexy vintage collectibles
and nearly 1,600 bucks.
Mark may be too young to appreciate Daisy Duke,
but he knows profit when he sees it,
driving off with nearly $1,600.
How did your father get the role?
Dad had been a stunt man.
He had been, also,
the king of the serials at Republic Studios.
He was in "The Ghost of Zorro."
George Trendle, the producer, saw him in that,
and the piercing blue eyes, right?
That's all you have with a Zorro mask over your face.
Called him in for a reading, and after the reading,
he asked him, "Mr. Moore,
do you want the role of the Lone Ranger?"
And my father said,
"Mr. Trendle, I am the Lone Ranger."