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Mike: All right, here's what I'm thinking.
I'm going to put this out here to you.
I'm thinking about growing a beard.
Frank: You're thinking about it?
I don't think that would...
Mike: I met a couple guys at a bar one night.
Well these guys had some bad to the bone beards.
I notice they're like getting special treatment.
You know, they're getting stronger drinks.
The ladies were all over them.
Frank: I don't know Mike, I mean,
having a beard looks easy, but there's a
lot of responsibility.
Frank: I'm like whoa, dude, growing it,
that's the easy part.
Frank: Remember when I had a mustache in 7th grade?
Mike: No I remember you had a mustache in 4th grade.
Frank: That a uni-brow I had, remember?
Mike: Oh yeah, that's right.
Frank: There's people that have misused the beard.
I mean, you've got Charles Manson, you got the devil,
Yosemite Sam.
Mike: Oh my gosh, I can already sense some jealousy in
your tone of voice.
Frank: Some hostility?
I'm not jealous.
Mike: Just think about it.
Frank: Some people just aren't ready for the power.
I don't think so, Mike.
Mike: Danielle's been working on the New England area for a
couple months now and those leads have led us to Vermont.
Mike: All right, grandma's calling.
Hey Dani, what's up?
Danielle: Hey boys, how you doing?
Mike: What's going on?
You got anything?
Danielle: So I'm sending you guys to a guy named Ken and
he's got pretty much everything you love.
Frank: What's that mean?
Danielle: Well you're in Vermont,
so maybe you'll get some maple bacon or something.
Frank: Mm. Maple flavored, baby.
Danielle: Okay. He's got bicycles and he's got oil cans.
Frank: Hey I'll tell you what, I've not seen that many oil
cans up here in Vermont.
Why does Ken want to sell? What's the deal?
Danielle: Well, I mean, he's a collector.
I think the exact words he used were, it's a disease.
Frank: Disease.
Mike: Frank's got that disease.
Frank: Been there and still there.
Danielle: Well you boys go give him some relief, okay?
Frank: All right.
Mike: All right. Here comes Dr. Fritz. Thanks, honey.
Frank: I'm ready.
Frank: Mike likes bicycles, and of course I love oil cans.
This sounds like a perfect pick.
Frank: All right, this is it.
Mike: This guy's off the beaten path.
Ken: Hello. Mike: Hey, you Ken? Ken: Yes.
Mike: Did you talk to Danielle?
Ken: I did.
Mike: All right, we're Mike and Frank.
Ken: Okay. Mike: Nice to meet you.
Frank: Nice to meet you. Mike: Hey, how's it going?
Ken: You too, yeah.
Mike: She said you're thinking about downsizing some stuff?
Ken: Yes. Trying. Hasn't worked yet.
Maybe you guys can help me out.
Frank: You got, Ken, you got to start somewhere.
Ken: Let's go down the back 40, what do you say?
Frank: All right.
Mike: He starts showing us around the property.
Right away, I could see this guy's got a storage problem.
Ken: That's an old Elgin in there.
Mike: That's kind of neat.
Mike: I mean, he's putting up like makeshift buildings to
store his stuff.
He's got like little tents.
Mike: This is pretty cool, it's like a scavenger hunt.
Mike: Ken's got a problem. I'm a problem solver.
Mike: Whoa. Whoa. This is cool. What about this?
Ken: Oh that's the rocket trike.
Frank: Rocket.
Mike: Oh yeah, yeah, it's got a head badge right here.
Mike: This is a late 1930s, early 40s red tricycle.
It's been repainted, but it's got a really cool frame on it.
Mike: It's just woo. Ken: All streamlined.
Frank: Air flow. Ken: Yeah.
Mike: Check that out, Franky. Ken: Just tilt.
Frank: That's cool.
Mike: It's got a rear steer mechanism,
it's from the right era.
And it's got the look, man.
It's weathered, but it's still solid.
Mike: What are you thinking on that?
Ken: I'm at 125.
Mike: 125. Well you know what I'm going to say then,
I'm going to say...
Ken: You're going to go more, but you don't have to.
Mike: I'm going to be generous.
100 bucks. 100 bucks.
Ken: You got, you got it. It's outdoors.
Mike: All right. Ken: Take it home with you.
Mike: I appreciate it.
Frank: That's a cool little piece.
Mike: What I like about picking bicycle guys like Ken
is we have something to talk about.
We love the same thing.
And in business today, it's all about relationships.
Getting to know each other.
Mike: Oh. Yeah, you do got some bikes.
This is a 60s model.
Frank: How did you get all these right here, Ken?
Mike: There's pedal cars too, Franky.
Ken: Well a lot of auctions. Frank: Auctions?
Ken: Swap meets.
Ken: It's all in the hunt, you know,
like deer hunting and bicycle hunting, same thing.
If I buy too many, I sell the other ones
to support my habit.
Ken: I sell a lot of 3 speeds to college kids.
Mike: Okay, yeah, exactly. Ken: You know?
Mike: I'm a bicycle guy.
But at the end of the day, it has to have a tank,
a springer, a light, something exciting about
it to make it desirable.
Mike: I don't see anything that I can't live without.
Mike: I'm like, do you have any other bicycles besides this?
And he's like, yeah, I got some other stuff.
Frank: Whoa. Elvis.
Ken: This is a...concert tonight at 8:30.
Mike: There you go.
Mike: So a guy walks into a trailer, he sees Elvis,
and elephant and an alligator...
Mike: What's the story on this dude?
Ken: That came out of an old amusement park along
with the alligator.
Mike: This is no joke.
This is actually what's going on here.
Ken: We had a flood here a couple years ago,
this big field just flooded...
Frank: And you put it out there?
Ken: Well it had been so much water come,
I'd have taken it out, then I tied it to a tree,
cause everybody was coming down,
coming down the ramp and taking pictures.
Frank: That'd be fun.
Ken: This friend of mine tears down old buildings.
And he finds a lot of unusual stuff.
He knows who to call. You know?
Mike: What are you asking for the alligator?
Ken: 500.
Mike: So what is the market on a 13 foot fiberglass
alligator?
I don't know that.
But I've got to have those unique different items in my
store for people to come in.
Mike: How much is the elephant?
Ken: I could do, uh, 150 on the elephant.
Mike: If I buy the elephant and pay 150 for it,
your full price...
Ken: Okay.
Mike: ...I'd do 3 bills on the alligator.
Ken: So that's 450, that's, uh,
how about another 25 and we can do it?
Mike: Ah, I don't know, I mean...
Mike: Ken is proud of these two pieces.
They are unique, I want to buy them,
but before I get out of this trailer,
I want to get Elvis in on the deal.
Mike: How much is Elvis? Just for the hell of it.
Ken: Elvis, I'd take, uh, 500.
Mike: I've got a store in Nashville, man.
Elvis sitting there in the window, if nothing else,
he's going to draw people in and somebody at some point in
time is going to pop on him.
Mike: Let me throw this at you.
Ken: Okay.
Mike: Again, I'll pay full price for the elephant.
Ken: Now how come you only pay full price
for the little item?
Mike: Well, is there a pattern here?
Ken: He wanted to pay full price on the cheaper model.
And discount the higher model.
Well, that don't always work, but it's a nice try.
Mike: So 300, 300, 150. Ken: No. Frank: That's 750.
Ken: I can do 4 on Elvis, that's the best I can do.
Mike: Ken has done the dance before.
I mean, he's been buying and selling for a while.
He knows what I'm trying to do,
I'm trying to put everything together to get my best price.
Mike: So if you'd do 4 on Elvis,
you'd do 300 on the alligator?
Ken: Yeah. Frank: That's 7. And 850.
Ken: Yeah. Mike: 825.
Ken: Let's do it.
Frank: Yeah, you guys, all right.
Ken: Elvis, Elvis needs to go south.
Mike: Elvis has left the trailer!
Mike: I just helped Ken clean out an entire trailer.
Mission accomplished for both of us.
Mike: You're Mr. Amusement Park ride.
Look at all these.
Frank: Little chairs.
Ken: These make good plant hangers.
Mike: Those do?
Ken: I had these on a little kiddie ride,
8 seats and I go by and it's tilted like this and it's
squeaking, I look and he's got three heavy kids in a row.
I go over and I say, hey, you cannot do that.
Okay boss.
So I go back half an hour later to check out.
Same thing.
You know what his explanation was?
I put them on the other side this time.
Mike: You used to work at a carnival?
Ken: No, I had one, had a carnival.
Mike: Oh, you had a carnival? Ken: Oh yeah.
Ken: The carnival business, it was interesting.
They used to call them gypsies.
I could be standing there and hate the guy next to me,
but if somebody came up and started punching him out,
I'd be the first guy to be there.
I was glad to get out of it.
Ken: You guys been around, what was this for?
Frank: Move your kid around?
Ken: Yeah, it's a stroller.
'64, '65's World's Fair, Hertz rented them.
Frank: You could rent these, put your kid in there,
push them around.
Ken: Yeah.
Frank: The 1964/ 65 World's Fair was in Queen's, New York.
Parents who showed up and needed rides for their kid,
could push their kids around in a cherry red Corvette.
Frank: It's kind of cool. Ken: Different.
Frank: What are you thinking?
Ken: I'm thinking maybe 50 bucks, what are you thinking?
Frank: I was thinking like 35.
It's got the big cruncho runcho up there.
Ken: Yeah. Let's do 40. Will that work?
Frank: 40 will work.
What's 5 bucks between friends, right?
Frank: There's a lot of collectors that remember that
World's Fair and this also has that Corvette appeal,
so that makes it really cool.
Ken: Come on down here, let's go look in here.
Mike: Whoa. Frank: Corvette.
Mike: You collect cars too, huh?
Ken: Yes that and...
Mike: Oh here's your good bikes, okay.
JC Higgins Air Flow...
Mike: This is where the guy keeps the stuff
that he's proud of.
He's got high end bikes, he's got pre-war bikes.
This is the stuff I'm always looking for.
Mike: This is an Orient.
What I like about picking out here on the east coast is you
see stuff like this.
Ken: Right.
Mike: You know, you're not going to find
this in a barn in Iowa.
Ken: Yeah.
Mike: When you say the name Orient to a motorcycle bicycle
collection, you have their attention right away.
Ken: Bit of a badge, isn't it?
Mike: Yeah, porcelain inlay. I love that fork too.
It almost looks early motorcycle.
It's heavy duty.
Mike: Orient was founded by Charles Metz,
he started making bicycles in 1893 and later on started
making motorcycles.
And they were actually called
America's First Motorcycle Company.
Mike: Now this is a tandem steer from the rear.
Mike: That always freaks people out when you're going
down on the road.
Ken: Oh, when I first brought that home,
I about broke my neck, I went down the hill...
Mike: You're riding, you're riding in the back.
Ken: I almost hit a tree, you know.
Mike: It's got a deluxe pedal, so that's a later pedal.
It's got a girl's seat on the front, a boy's on the back.
So it's got a woman's frame in the front,
but the seat is later, it's like balloon time era seat.
So they kind of upgraded this, so they could
ride it later in life.
Ken: Yeah, probably.
Mike: On turn of the century bicycles,
a lot of them are very simple.
The things that are there, they have to be correct,
you know, like the seats, the grips, the pedals, the rims,
all of that on this bicycle is incorrect.
Mike: What do you value this Orient at?
Ken: 600.
Mike: There was one just recently at an antique
motorcycle meet, it was an Orient,
it was a men's front and rear and the guy was asking like
15, but it had the correct seats on it and stuff.
Ken: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: And I've actually got some of the parts now,
I think I got a set of rat trap pedals.
Mike: Even with everything wrong on this bike,
it's still got a lot going for it.
It's got the original head badge, original frame.
Mike: I noticed when I came in here,
you had a woman's seat over there.
Ken: Right.
Mike: You had a woman's turn of the century seat.
If you throw in the woman's seat for the seat,
I'd do 4 bills.
Ken: Four and a half.
Mike: 425, you throw in the other seat.
Ken: You got it. Mike: All right, let's do it.
Ken: I'm happy that Mike bought it,
because he'll appreciate it and he knows what needs to be
done to it to bring it back completely
authentic and original.
Mike: I'm a sucker for anything Orient.
I'll do something with it.
Danielle: The store expansion is in full swing and there's
been a ton of progress.
Robbie: Trent, let's see if we can push some of this up here.
Danielle: I'm glad that Robbie's here and he's
overseeing the new parking lot.
But I left here Friday, we had a driveway.
I come back Monday morning and there's this.
Robbie: This is like our drainage field,
but it's going to look pretty.
We got all those pavers going in.
Robbie: My brother on this new building was going for an old
type garage look.
Robbie: We probably got about another three and a half,
four weeks.
Danielle: Of this?
Robbie: Before we get it all done.
Danielle: Okay, but where are people going to park for three
and a half or four weeks?
Danielle: I did not realize how much of a disruption this
project would be to our day to day business.
Robbie: I think you can stand out there with a flag in your
hand and wave traffic up and down, can't you?
Danielle: I'm probably going to have to, I think.
Mike: First step is admitting you're addicted to buying.
Ken said that.
And looking around his property, the guy's full on.
Frank: When you guys were in that bicycle heaven over here,
I had time to...
Ken: Okay. Okay. You had time to think. Okay.
Frank: ...look through some smalls.
What we got on this Merrimack motor oil?
Frank: You know, a lot of times I buy stuff just for the
graphics, you know, this has an Indian on the front.
Ken: That can? 20 bucks.
Frank: That's a 10 quarts. 20 bucks. All right.
Boom! We're done. Move on down the line.
How about these here?
Ken: It's raining, we got rainy day specials. 5 bucks.
Frank: I really love the decal, I mean, the guy,
I mean, he looks like a motorcycle racer,
he's got goggles on, he's got a hat on.
Frank: 5 bucks? Ken: Yeah. Frank: I'll take all three.
Ken: Okay.
Mike: What are you thinking on the Victor?
I did this because it's a large sized frame.
And it still has a spoon mechanism,
the brake works itself.
Mike: It's very straight.
The head badge is there.
The original pedals are there.
Mike: The first high wheeled bike I ever bought was a Victor.
And I still own it.
Ken: Really?
Mike: Everything's adding up to this being
a complete machine.
Mike: I'll stand tall, be able to make a little
bit of money, 250.
Ken: Going to a good home.
Mike: From a bike guy just as passionate
as you are, my friend.
Frank: Mike's freaking out about these bikes, I mean,
he is a geek when it comes to bicycles and on this pick,
he's getting his fix.
Frank: Hey, what about this light up here, Ken?
What you got on something like that? Plastic.
Mike: What's it say? Frank: Active.
Ken: Amalie.
Frank: Oil related signs, they really sell.
And to be able to find one that's in original condition
like this and has a rare oil on it, I mean,
I got to have this kind of stuff.
Ken: 60 bucks on it.
Frank: Make it 50, and I'll take it.
Ken: You got it. Frank: All right.
Frank: We're on a roll here.
Frank: Ken's been selling everything today.
Whenever a collector wants to sell his prized possessions to
raise some money, this is a golden opportunity for us.
Frank: What about the car?
Ken: '79, yeah. I got it about 12 years ago.
Frank: Who doesn't dream about cruising the highway
on a Corvette.
I could see myself T top roofs, got my hair,
what little bit's left blowing, come on.
Ken: The car I'm going to keep.
Frank: The car you're going to keep?
Ken: Yeah.
Frank: Hm. What do you value it at? I mean.
Take it!
Ken: Frank kept hounding me about the Corvette,
what are you going to do with it?
What are you going to do with it?
I'm going to look at it, Frank. Hey.
Frank: When we got here, you were talking about space.
Now getting this out of here...That's a lot of space.
Ken: I bought it and I'm going to die with it.
Frank: Well you need to get it out.
Frank: You know, when a guy starts talking about being
buried with it, that's when I got to throw in the towel.
Mike: What's that guitar over there you got?
Ken: I think it's an old Spanish guitar.
Mike: Whoa, it's even a bag.
Mike: Ever since we opened a store in music city,
it's got me checking out guitars.
Mike: I saw on the back, it says, V Tatay.
Ken: Vincent Tatay. Mike: Made in Valencia.
Ken: It was my girlfriend's, it's a Spanish classical.
She took to a guy that's well known in the music business
and he gave an estimate, $500 in the condition it's in.
Mike: Yeah, because the back here is completely separated,
it's coming off here.
Did she say what year it was?
Ken: She said she thought it was from the 50s.
Mike: Okay.
Ken: It's nothing she wants to keep, if somebody can use it,
make money with it.
Mike: Yeah, I mean, someone would be firing this thing up,
you know.
To be honest with you, this would have to be repaired...
Ken: Oh, exactly.
Mike: ...for us to get top dollar out of it.
Ken: Yeah, I understand that.
Mike: How about two and a quarter?
Ken: No I think 250 would be a pretty...
Mike: I'm going with my gut on this piece and I'm entrusting
Ken at the same time.
He's given me some information and I'm throwing my hat in the
ring on this deal.
But the detail and the quality of the piece
is making me want it.
Mike: All right, 250? Ken: No strings attached.
Mike: 250, no strings? No warranty?
Ken: 250. Mike: All right.
Frank: Cash and carry.
Mike: Thanks for working with us on it.
Mike: After we put a little bit of money in getting this
thing fixed, I'm sure there's tons of musicians in Nashville
that would love to add this to their collection.
Mike: What is this here?
Ken: Oh, that's just what you want to have.
Mike: It's all paper mache?
Ken: Yeah.
Mike: Think of the craftsmanship to make this, man.
Mike: You slipped it on, you know,
and you would have walked around,
has a curtain that dropped and you couldn't see your legs,
it looks like you're riding a horse,
you're the knight in shining armor.
Ken: That was in the 1955 Miss America Pageant parade.
Mike: That's awesome.
Mike: I love the story behind this piece.
1950S, Miss America, Atlantic City, the glitz,
the glam, the women.
Mike: Let's see, it's probably not very heavy.
Ken: No, it's not. Mike: Oh yeah.
Mike: And then you got the guys standing there in a paper
mache horse with a head on him.
It's brilliant.
Mike: What are you thinking on this?
Ken: I would do 3 and a quarter on that.
Mike: Three and a quarter.
This has been damaged pretty heavy here,
there's duct tape holding that on.
Mike: I'm starting to notice there's duct tape here and
there, there's, there's fiberglass that's been molded
into it, it's got some issues.
Mike: His tail's about ready to fall off.
Ken: Say something nice about it, Mike.
Quit downgrading it.
Mike: I love it, I already said I loved it.
Ken: Every time he opens its mouth,
I know it's going to cost me 10 bucks.
Time to clam up.
Mike: I said I love it.
Mike: To me condition is the issue.
You know, I don't want to get it home and it turns to dust.
But Ken doesn't want to hear that and I don't want to upset
the guy, so I'm going to put it on the back burner.
Mike: That's a cool bike, the roll fast,
that's like a falcon.
Where'd you find that at?
Ken: I bought that from a guy down
the southern part of Vermont.
Mike: After looking at all the bikes on this property,
I find one that I'm glued to, pre-war,
large tool box tank bike, stainless steel fenders,
it's a roll fast original paint, the seat is nice,
I mean, this thing is basically untouched.
Mike: What do you value this bike at?
Ken: If I'd to sell it, I'd have to get 600.
Mike: Yeah, I don't blame you.
It's about right.
Ken: Yeah, it's a straight old bike.
Mike: I love these hanging tanks.
Ken: Yeah.
Mike: Things like luggage hanging off there, man.
Mike: $600 is a decent number on this bike.
There's some meat on the bone there,
but in the back of my mind, I'm still thinking about that
parade costume.
Mike: All right, here's what I'm thinking.
You want 6 bills for this roll fast.
Ken: Right.
Mike: I'd do 500 on this and 200 bucks
on the paper mache thing.
That looks like a pinata that somebody smacked around for a
while.
Doesn't it?
Half of it's held together with duct tape.
Ken: Shut up!
Mike: Ah.
Ken: Enough punishment for one day.
Frank: I got it.
Mike: This is what I love about picking the northeast,
you got primitives to pinatas.
And hanging out with Ken is just a bonus.
Frank: I don't know what weighs more,
the alligator or Elvis.
Mike: Elvis doesn't have to spend the cold winter in
Vermont anymore.
I'm bringing him back to Tennessee.
Frank: Thanks Ken. We had fun.
Ken: Thank you guys. I enjoyed it.
Frank: We had fun.
Mike: To be around like minded people,
to talk about what you really love, what you really collect,
I think that's one of the reasons Ken was kind of
turning some of this stuff loose today.
He wants to sell something to somebody that cares about it
just as much as he does.
Mike: Call me if you find anything motorcycle though.
Ken: I will.
Ken: I freed up some space and, uh, freed up some money.
Mike: Sweet picking, buddy! Ken: Take care.
Ken: You're going to need a longer van
or a shorter alligator.
Mike: Frank and I are freestyling on the back roads
of upstate New York.
This is my favorite state to pick.
Mike: We are like twenty miles away from where I got that '13
Harley in Ovid, New York.
Frank: Really?
Mike: Everybody knows the industrial age of America
started on the east coast.
The farther people went west, the less they brought.
Mike: Slow down here, this guy's got a bunch of...
Frank: Oh there's a bunch of stuff.
Mike: There's a quad.
Mike: This is where everything is.
So every back road holds roadside relics.
Frank: Hey what about this guy right here, look?
Mike: Oh yeah, look at that truck.
Slow down, don't miss this.
Frank: Check it out. Wow.
Mike: I see this old rusty pickup truck with this
makeshift trailer box on the back of it.
Whoever created this truck has got a mind
that I can appreciate.
Frank: There's the lady right out from there.
Mike: She's sitting right there.
Frank: Now sometimes that could be great,
because this way you don't have to go up and knock on the
door, the person's already there.
Sometimes they're like, hey, what are you doing
on my property?
Mike: Hey. How you doing?
Joanna: Not interested in whatever you're selling.
Frank: No we're not selling. Mike: We're buying stuff.
Frank: We seen your trucks here.
Joanna: Oh yeah.
Frank: From the road, we love old trucks.
Mike: Love that camper.
Here's a list of the stuff we buy.
We're from Iowa.
What's your name?
Joanna: Joanna. Mike: Joanna. I'm Mike.
Frank: I'm Frank. Mike: Nice to meet you.
Joanna: Hi Frank. Mike: Did you guys make that?
Joanna: My husband did. Mike: Oh, he's very creative.
Joanna: We went camping everywhere with it.
Frank: It's pretty cool.
Mike: My brother would love something like that.
He's got 5 kids.
Joanna: We used to sleep up in the top part.
Frank: So it's fully contained then, huh?
Joanna: Oh yeah.
Frank: When you're out freestyling and you roll up on
somebody, you know, you have to find that common ground
right off the bat and show them that you mean no harm.
Mike: Is your husband around?
Joanna: No, he's passed away.
Mike: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
He looks like he was a very creative guy.
Joanna: He was.
He could build just about anything you ask him to.
Frank: You could see how her face lit up when she talked
about her husband.
Mike: We buy and sell a lot of stuff that you
see on the list there.
Joanna: I might be able to help you with a few things.
Mike: Do you have time to show us around?
Joanna: Uh, I'll have my son show you. Timothy?
Frank: Is he inside? Mike: Hey, how you doing?
Timothy: Hey. Frank: Hey, how's it going?
Timothy: What do you guys want?
Mike: We stopped, we saw your camper.
Timothy: Oh. Frank: How you doing, Tim? Frank.
Timothy: Hey Frank. Mike: Nice to meet you.
Frank: Pleasure.
Mike: Can I see the inside of it just for the heck of it?
Timothy: Oh sure, sure.
Joanna: My husband was very friendly, he was a jokester.
Bruce had been a collector since he was about 14 or 15.
Mike: So you used to camp in this thing when you
were a little kid?
Timothy: Oh yeah.
It's the top of an old school bus.
Mike: What was this?
Timothy: This was, uh, when you were camping, you would,
uh, lift this up.
Frank: That's for your... Mike: Like a chuck wagon?
Frank: Yeah, there you go.
Mike: This thing is like Little House on the Prairie
on wheels. It's very primitive.
And it's a cool way for us to get to know each
other right off the bat.
Mike: It almost looks like a circus wagon or something,
you know.
Timothy: My dad passed away about 5 years ago,
just been trying to make sense of everything.
And clean stuff out and make room.
Timothy: This was dad's workshop.
He used to make, uh, bird feeders and trellises and...
Mike: Oh really? Frank: Oh yeah.
Mike: Gosh, look at this place.
Mike: This is a guy that worked with his hands.
There's a lot of tools everywhere.
Mike: This was the genius at work right here,
this was his bench, man.
Timothy: Oh yeah.
Mike: Most of the stuff we're seeing is utilitarian.
I'm just looking for the right thing.
Timothy: There's actually an engine under there.
Mike: A car engine, or...?
Timothy: Yeah, it's hooked up. See all these belts and stuff?
So you...
Mike: Okay. The car engine...
Timothy: He had this place hooked up when
he was building bird feeders.
I still have cases of them upstairs still boxed up.
Mike: His father Bruce, he had everything running in this
building, just like it did back in the day in the old
factories, big pulleys on the ceiling, leather belts,
all driven with this car motor.
Mike: This is wild, man.
Timothy: Yeah, he was quite the inventor.
Frank: Hey Tim! What about this fan back here?
Mike: You know what that is? That's a, uh...
Frank: Like a drone motor. Mike: Yeah.
Frank: This looks like a fan that was converted from a
drone motor, you know, it's homemade, I mean,
I love stuff like this.
Frank: Have you ever had this thing fired up?
Timothy: No. Dad might have, 'cause that was his and I always
had the thought he was going to try and mount it
on the back of his canoe.
Frank: Yeah. That...
Mike: Really? I like the way your dad's mind works.
Frank: You know what?
There's this famous photo of Marilyn Monroe working
in a drone factory.
That's how she was discovered.
And I love anything to do with Marilyn.
Frank: Somebody's made this into like a fan,
kind of dangerous, there's no shroud over here.
I'm sure when this thing gets kicking...
Mike: You know what? I bet it would run.
Frank: Probably. You get your self-distributor hooked up,
and some wires hooked on to the back.
It's got compression.
Frank: This thing was built to fly.
I mean, it's super heavy duty, it's industrial and I love it.
Frank: How about, uh, I don't know, I mean, 100 bucks?
Timothy: Oh. My mom's kind of the ultimate decision
on selling some of this stuff.
Mike: If he can't put a price on his stuff,
this is going to be tough.
Timothy: Hey ma! Can I sell this fan?
Frank: This looks like a fan that was converted
from a drone motor.
I mean, it's super heavy duty, it's industrial and I love it.
Frank: How about, uh...I don't know, I mean, 100 bucks?
Timothy: My mom's kind of the ultimate decision on selling
some of this stuff.
Hey ma! Can I sell this fan?
Joanna: Yeah, go ahead, sell it.
Timothy: All right.
Frank: I'm glad Joanna gave Tim permission.
Now I know who's really in charge.
Timothy: How about 150?
Frank: Yeah, I don't think we're too far off.
Um...How about we split it?
A hundred and a quarter?
Timothy: Okay. Frank: That work? Timothy: I could do that.
Mike: Awesome. Broke the ice, man.
Frank: This is a great repurposed piece
with a lot of history.
What's even better?
It looks like Tim and Joanna are ready to sell.
Mike: What's this thing from, man?
Timothy: When the guys landed on the moon.
Mike: Uh huh.
Timothy: My dad took it down to the
local elementary school.
And they flew it across the ceiling and it came open and
stuff fell out of it.
Mike: Oh really? Timothy: Yeah.
Frank: Almost like a big pinata.
Mike: Your dad did that? Timothy: Yeah. Yeah.
Mike: Your dad sounds like he's a hell of a guy, man.
Timothy: He was, he could make something out of nothing.
Timothy: There was really no rhyme or reason to his
collecting, just I think what struck him is unique or
something he could make something out of.
He always can find a use for it in some way.
Mike: What's upstairs here? Timothy: More stuff.
Mike: Oh wow. Frank: There's a lot up here.
Mike: Who made this lion mask?
Is that yours for Halloween or something?
Timothy: No, that was my dad.
Mike: I see this really cool mask.
And I'm checking it out and the burlap is
like the lion's mane.
Timothy: Him and my mother used to, uh,
be in a canoe race over in Banebridge.
They always had a costume race.
Him and mom were always in it.
Mike: That's awesome.
Mike: Now you see children doing that,
obviously for Halloween and they like to play dress up,
but for adults to never lose that imagination
is super cool.
Timothy: He was Clarence, that's supposed to be
Clarence, remember Daktari?
The show Daktari?
Frank: Not so much.
Timothy: It was about people out in the jungle and there
was Clarence and Judy the Chimp.
Frank: Neither of us have seen the show that
he's talking about.
But this lion mask, it's one of a kind.
Mike: How much is this?
Timothy: That, we definitely would have
to ask my mother about.
Mike: Okay, we have to bring that down then.
I love that.
Mike: I mean, I can't see her wanting this anymore,
unless there's that really strong emotional attachment to
it, but I think if she sees somebody that can appreciate
it, she might sell it to me.
Mike: Whoa. Frank: Uh oh.
Mike: Was this yours when you were a kid?
Timothy: Yeah.
Mike: This was the bomb, man, the Mattel Vroom.
This made every little kid into a motorcycle
dude right away.
Mike: These things were made in the early 60s,
I was born in '64.
I can remember like the older kids having these
attached to their bike.
Mike: I love these things.
I never, I could never afford one.
Mike: It didn't do anything other than just look like a
motor and then you had your throttle.
Vroom, vroom, vroom.
Mike: Is this yours or your mom's?
Timothy: No, that's mine.
Mike: So I might be able to cut a deal with you?
Timothy: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: What are you thinking on this?
Timothy: 30 bucks.
Frank: If you go 30 bucks on it, I'll buy it for you,
so you can fulfill your dream.
Mike: My gosh, thanks Frank. Well are we doing 30?
Timothy: Yeah man, 30 bucks. Mike: All right. Okay. Cool.
Mike:If you're in that mode, I'm interested
in that lion's head.
Frank: I'll let you handle that, but I had,
I wanted to make your dream come true.
Mike: Thank you. Frank: No problem.
Frank: It's time to see the boss lady and talk money.
Mike: Joanna. Joanna: Oh.
Mike: Remember this? Joanna: Oh yeah.
Mike: Now did you make these or did your husband make them?
Joanna: We both made them.
Mike: So would he ever put this on and kind of come in
the room and scare you?
Joanna: When he first got it finished, yes.
Mike: I can imagine back in its heyday,
looks like he had a nose that's gone and then it's got
all these holes in it.
Frank: His teeth are still doing pretty good.
Mike: Yeah, the teeth are wood.
Is this something you'd even consider selling?
Joanna: Yeah.
Mike: What are you thinking on it?
Joanna: How about 50?
Mike: You know what? I'll do 50. Joanna: Deal.
Mike: Thank you for working with me on it.
Joanna: Okay.
Joanna: I thought Mike and Frank were really friendly,
and very nice and so I realized that I could trust
them to be fair with me.
Joanna: In the office, there's lots of stuff.
Frank: Can we look? Joanna: Sure.
Mike: Ooh, Frank. Frank: Oh my gosh.
Mike: Ever since we've been on this pick,
Tim is talking about his dad Bruce and all his
accomplishments, this is the man's office.
His desk is still there with everything piled up on top.
Mike: Oh. Frank: Oh.
Timothy: Yeah he was in the military.
He was a, a military police, and also a pilot.
Mike: Oh wow. Mike: That does that say?
Frank: Let me see. York.
Mike: There's another one.
Did you see your old man play these?
Timothy: Oh yeah.
Timothy: My father had those bugles for a very long time,
I think one of them was actually from when he was in
the drum and bugle corps.
Frank: Sounds like you're blowing your nose.
Frank: See, I don't have that much hot air.
Mike: I got to have this thing, man.
Just the fact to drive him nuts.
Mike: A lot of people collect militaria,
it's always been hot.
I'm looking for inventory.
These bugles are exactly that.
Joanna: I've got a little bit more downstairs.
Frank: Going crazy in here.
Mike: I'm interested in these two bugles.
Joanna: Right. Make me an offer on the bugles.
Mike: Um, how about 75 apiece for them?
Joanna: What do you think?
Timothy: Yeah, I think that's fair.
Joanna: Okay.
Mike: You should hear me too, I'm good.
Joanna: I heard you.
Mike: Did you hear me back there?
That's what called you in here?
Joanna: Yeah.
Mike: So we're in this room, it's packed with stuff,
but you still have to dissect it,
go through the layers and think about
what is marketable.
Mike: Look at that. Frank: With the ears.
Mike: Oh it's got the Spock ears on it.
Frank: Spock ears. Mike: Look at that.
Mike: What can you resell? What's relevant?
Mike: Look at this. This is a beer advertisement.
Iroquois. Very cool subject matter.
Mike: I'm an Indian motorcycle guy.
I like anything with that headdress, that profile,
that proud majestic look.
Mike: I think it's amazing that it's survived,
because one, it's very thin plastic,
and then the back of it is cardboard itself
and all of that is intact.
Mike: This brewery started in the mid-1800s,
it's not around anymore.
Mike: It's got neat color to it and it almost like when
it's on the wall, it looks like metal or plaster.
Mike: I'm not going to find this piece of advertisement in
Iowa or Illinois.
I'm going to find it here on the east coast.
Mike: I'd be interested in it for like, like $30.
Joanna: How about, uh, 40? Mike: How about 35?
Joanna: 35.
Mike: Okay. 35. All right, I'll do 35.
Mike: This thing's a hometown honey piece, I had to have it.
Mike: What else you got back here?
Joanna: Come on this way. Frank: Hey, show us the way.
Frank: You know, when you're freestyling,
you never know how things are going to turn out, but today,
we're at the right place at the right time.
Robbie: I'm overseeing the construction of the shop
expansion, and we're completely redoing the parking lot.
Robbie: He should be able to just back that in here.
Hug it this way, if you can!
Robbie: It's always hard to do business in a construction
area, so we're really trying to get this
thing done this week.
Robbie: One thing we can't do is can't screw this car up.
Robbie: This car is the iconic symbol of Antique Archeology.
If this thing gets damaged, I definitely don't want to be
the one to tell my brother.
Robbie: Have him drive in slowly.
Robbie: If we pick it up in the wrong spot,
it's going to break in two.
Robbie: Keep going. Hold, hol. Nice and slow.
Robbie: Out of all the things that I've had to do on this
job, this car being put back into place is the biggest
thing I can punch off my checklist.
And I'm getting it done.
Robbie: Forward. Hey! Forward this way.
Robbie: You know, it feels so good that I'll never have to
move that thing again.
Robbie: Tilt. Tilt. Down. Boom!
Mike: Woo! You guys got it piled up.
Frank: Sometimes it's tricky picking through people's
houses.
But it seems like Tim and Joanna have a lot of stuff
they don't know what to do with and we're here to help.
Mike: I remember this stuff, I remember this? Tang, man.
Frank: Astronauts. Lived on it.
Mike: I love this stuff.
This is what the astronauts drank.
Frank: Made, made you go fast. Mike: Tastes like crap too.
Frank: Look at this, it's a mechanical bank,
you could see his head.
ply it up as the penny shoots in.
Joanna: Right. We were out doing garage sales and
I fell in love with it and so my husband bought it for me.
Frank: Aw, thank was nice.
How long have you had it?
Joanna: At least 40 to 45 years.
Frank: That long? Joanna: Yeah.
Frank: This is a very collectible cast iron bank,
it's based on Teddy Roosevelt's famous bear hunt,
where he refused to shoot an injured bear tied to a tree.
Frank: The same thing with a lot of these mechanical banks,
all the paint's gone.
Would this be something you'd be interested in selling?
Joanna: Tell me how you'd give me for it.
Frank: Well I think if we had it in the shop,
I think we could maybe get about 350, 400 dollars.
I'd be in maybe at 200.
Joanna: Would you go 225? Frank: Sure. I'll pop.
Joanna: Okay. Frank: All right.
Frank: This has a lot of history to it,
plus it's a great example of a mechanical bank.
Timothy: I have a, an old gun of his.
Mike: Whoa.
Frank: What you got? Oh, that's pretty old.
Mike: Wow. What's the history with this?
Where'd you guys get this at?
Timothy: Not sure.
I dug out some stuff when he passed away.
Actually I was looking for a newer gun,
I was trying to kill some squirrels.
Frank: This is a little bit big for squirrels.
Mike: 1896, U.S. Springfield Armory.
Serial number 30408.
Mike: I'm looking over this gun, and to me,
it looks like it's in great condition.
It's made by Springfield Armory high quality stuff.
Mike: Would you entertain the idea of possibly selling it?
Timothy: Hm...It was my dad's.
Mike: I mean, it's kind of a nice rifle
for a varmint rifle.
Frank: Yeah, you could buy something a
little bit more modern.
Mike: Probably costs you $2 a shot.
Let me ask you this, I got a guy,
major heavy hitter gun expert.
We can give him a buzz and he can tell us
exactly what it is. Can I take some pics of it?
Timothy: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: I don't know enough about this gun to make him a
solid, fair offer, so I want to call my friend.
Mike: Let me get the serial number.
Mike: He is the authority on early American firearms.
Mike: Let me email him all these photographs.
Timothy: Okay.
Mike: I tell Tim even if I don't buy the gun,
I guarantee you, you will have more information
than you do right now.
Danielle: When the boys were in Italy Mike came across this
amazing mask and bought it from Stano.
Stano: That one is an English welder mask.
It's amazing. Okay!
Danielle: He paid 400 Euro, which translates
to like 535 dollars.
Now that this mask is on American soil,
we're going to find out more about it.
I invited Steve Ehrenberg to come and check it out.
This man knows his masks.
Danielle: Now I personally have never seen anything like
this before.
But it's beautiful, it's really cool.
Steve: Mind if I pick it up? Danielle: Go ahead.
Steve: I'm an artist, collector, and I'm a dealer.
I specialize in a lot of different industrial things,
but the core of my collection is industrial masks.
Steve: It's a smoke mask, it's a rescue mask.
Danielle: Oh. Steve: That firemen would use.
Danielle: That's just mind blowing,
because we were told that it's a welder's
mask from the 1920s.
Steve: No it's a rescue mask.
Steve: Every fire house had one and when they had to go
into a smoky building, this is what they would use.
Steve: It's probably from the late 1800s.
Danielle: This is not from the 1920s?
Steve: No, I think it's earlier.
These are pretty rare.
Danielle: All right, that's a surprise.
Steve: Not a lot of these masks were made
and not a lot survived.
Danielle: As Steve is telling me that this mask is even more
rare than we thought it was, my wheels are turning.
Steve: I started collecting these basically as artwork,
not as an artifact.
It's bridged over into the art world.
I mean, if you put it on a pedestal,
it has the feel of a piece of oceanic or
African or American Indian art.
It's really industry's tribal art.
Danielle: Ah. So we were high brow and we didn't know it.
Steve: Yes.
Steve: It has personality, it has features.
Just the way the front of a car has features- headlights,
grill, you see a face in it and that's how that car sells.
Same thing with this, there's a look and a personality to it
that people can identify with.
Steve: You had to be quite a hero to wear this thing.
Imagine going into a smoky building or the hull of a ship
where they couldn't go before.
Because there was no air supply at that time,
that only came later. This was a big deal.
Steve: It was a team that worked with this mask,
somebody would be outside the building pumping away on the
bellows to try and supply air to the rescuer.
It was like going into war.
They had to totally trust each other.
Steve: They do look, uh, very futuristic.
There's a little bit of a steam punk quality to it.
Danielle: When I looked at this,
I thought well that's a strange looking glass.
Steve: This is not glass. This is actually mica.
It's a stone. Because glass could crack.
Glass could shatter.
Even the aluminum, you didn't see that material used at the
turn of the century or earlier.
For them to use aluminum, it had to be
a pretty important piece.
Danielle: And they use the aluminum because otherwise it
would be too heavy.
Steve: Lightweight. Yes. It was state of the art.
I see a little bit of wear, but the wear is good.
It shows that it was used.
Uh, I'd say it's in excellent condition.
Danielle: When you look at this item,
you can definitely understand the words,
they don't make them like they used to.
Steve: You got the signature on there.
Siebe Corman.
Steve: Siebe Corman was a well known company at the time.
In fact, they're one of the largest manufacturers
of diving masks.
Steve: This was really the first production model.
Danielle: Okay.
Steve: There was so few of these made that they had to
make them by hand, certain things were cast and made on
machines, but all the leather was hand done.
Danielle: The most pressing question is,
what do you value it at?
Steve: People that would normally collect
fire apparatus, it's gone beyond that,
it's people who are just buying it
as a piece of artwork.
It's one of the hot collectibles now.
Danielle: The more we're talking, the more I realize,
we may have struck the big time on this one.
Steve: Based on the condition and the rarity of it,
I know that if I was selling it,
I would probably put between 2 and 2500 on it.
Danielle: No way. Steve: Oh for sure.
Danielle: That's fantastic.
Danielle: Who would have thought that
we were actually picking art?
The boys paid 400 Euro for this mask,
and even with shipping and tax,
we're still going to come out ahead.
This is why I come to work.
Danielle: Thank you so much.
Now I have a good story to tell the guys.
Steve: Oh I love stories. Frank: Oh my gosh.
Mike: Let's dig a little deeper back in here.
Frank: Oh it's a lure someone has made.
Mike: This is the kind of pick that's not predictable,
it keeps you guessing.
And that's what I love about it.
Frank: Oh my gosh.
Mike: What did you find, Franky?
Frank: Well there's some Confederate money here.
I got a 500 and a 100.
Me and Mike have picked some of this money before.
We picked for the Civil War Museum in Gettysburg.
Frank: That's from Richmond.
Man: This is a $500 Stonewall Jackson Confederate bill.
Extremely rare.
Frank: All right. Look at this one.
Man: Ooh, counterfeit.
Man: One of my concerns when I sent Mike and Frank out was
fakes and forgeries.
And they actually found a counterfeit
Confederate currency note.
But the fact that it was an old fake made it collectible.
Frank: One thing that would tell me these to be
reproduction would be if they were just
like totally black and white.
Now you can see these had some color at one time,
cause you can see a little bit of a faded color.
They're printed on the front and they're
not printed on the back.
And the one reason for that, was it was very expensive to
print on the back, plus they had to make money fast.
Mike: You're freaking me out.
I'm surprised on how much you remember.
Frank: Hey, when it comes to money, I'm on top of it.
Frank: Ever since the last time we picked Confederate
money, I've been kind of paying attention
to the market.
Frank: You know, there's some creases on this one.
There's a tear right at the top here.
But I think the money one would be the $500, I mean,
it has Stonewall Jackson in here.
Who carried around $500 ones back in the day, you know?
That was a pretty, pretty good size.
Joanna: Well, what are you going to offer me for it?
Frank: Well, last time I seen one of these at auction,
it was real nice, it was a couple guys really fighting
over it, it went at the very high end would be around $300.
The $100 ones, they go for around 50.
And that's the high end on those.
For me, I would probably be around maybe 125 on this one
and maybe 25 dollars on that one.
So it'd be about 150 for two.
Joanna: Hm, how about 150 on this on and 25 on that one?
Frank: You got it. Joanna: Okay.
Frank: All right. Mike: All right. Frank: Great.
Frank: I always love when we can find
real historical items.
And Civil War stuff is always going to be very popular.
Mike: Richard! Richard: Hi.
Frank: So we're loading up and the call comes in from the gun
expert that we sent the photos to earlier in the day.
Mike: Did you get those pictures?
Richard: Yes I did. It's a U.S.
Model 1896 Springfield Armory Krag Carbine.
They were made to be later issued in the
US Spanish American War.
Mike: Okay.
Richard: It was made famous by the 1st Cavalry which was also
known as the Rough Riders commanded
by Colonel Teddy Roosevelt.
Frank: Rough Riders. Mike: That's cool.
Timothy: Wow.
Mike: So that's the same type of gun that the
Rough Riders used?
Richard: Absolutely.
In fact, when looking at the serial number of the gun it
fell pretty close, it came within 1500 numbers.
Mike: Okay, so it's not one of the Rough Rider guns,
but the serial number fell close to the guns
that they owned?
Richard: Yes, which means that it most definitely served in
the Spanish America War just not in the
Rough Rider regiment.
Mike: Well how does it look condition-wise?
Richard: There was a slight modification on the left side
of the stock, which means it was just used later by
somebody for hunting.
This just slightly affects the value but in no way hurts it.
Mike: Well here's the biggie. Frank: Yeah.
Mike: What's it worth?
Richard: Retail number...two thousand dollars.
Frank: That's full blown Richard?
Richard: Yes.
Mike: All right, buddy, hey thank you so much.
Richard: Hope I helped you out.
Frank: When we buy guns, we're not really looking at them as
firearms, we're looking at them from a story aspect.
And this one has a great story behind it.
Mike: Okay, so if it's a retail number of 2000 bucks,
I'm thinking 1100 bucks on the gun.
Timothy: How about 15?
Mike: I want this gun. He's willing to work with me.
I just need to get the number down a little bit more.
Because if I put 2000 on it in my store,
probably going to take 17, 1800 for it.
Mike: What about 12?
That gives us a little bit of wiggle room...I,
I think it's incredible that the gun's got amazing history.
Timothy: Right. Yeah. And I definitely want it to
be enjoyed by someone else that...
Frank: Yeah, cause it'll go in somebody's collection or
somebody could even use it.
Mike: What do you think, boss? We're at 1200 bucks.
Joanna: That sounds pretty good.
Frank: Mom says it sounds good.
Timothy: I'll go with mom.
Mike: You go with mom? All right.
I'll go with mom too.
Frank: That's probably the best route.
Frank: I'm not sure if Tim's dad knew the back story on
this gun, but anybody that loves military history or
antique firearms is going to love this piece.
Timothy: Give it a good home. Mike: I will.
Frank: We will. Mike: I definitely will.
Frank: It'll get into somebody's collection.
Mike: Thank you so much.
This will be a great thing for people to see in the store.
Timothy: Oh yeah.
Mike: You know. And the connection with the Rough Rider, that's epic.
Timothy: That's awesome.
Frank: You know when you're on a freestyle,
you just never know what you're going to find.
Tim and Joanna were super nice.
Hopefully we can find some good homes for the stuff we
bought today.
Mike: All right, see you down the road.
Frank: See you Tim. Timothy: See you Frank.
Frank: Thank you. Bye Joanna. Joanna: Bye.
Joanna: In somethings they were being fair and other
things I kind of had to dicker with them over it.
If they wanted to come back and look for more stuff,
I would be more than happy to welcome them into my home.
Mike: See you guys! Timothy: See you guys later!
Joanna: Bye!
Robbie: Oh, can't get in here. Danielle: I can't get in here?
Robbie: Well you can come in, you got to walk.
Danielle: I show up at work today and I expect to have a
parking lot to pull into. But no.
Robbie: It's 4 days left. All has to be cured.
You can't, you can walk...
Danielle: But I thought you were done.
Robbie: The parking lot's done, but it's got to cure.
Everybody knows that.
Danielle: It's so cold.
Robbie: It's not that bad. You got a sweater on.
Come on.
Danielle: So I guess the thing that I'm taking away from this
about construction is that when it's done it's
not really done.
Until it's done.
And then sometimes there's something else to do.