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Frank: That's where we're going?
Mike: This is the place.
Frank: This is it? Showtime Costumes?
Mike: All right, I'm not saying nothing yet.
Danielle: So here's the deal. It's playtime.
Nikki: Hi guys. We're closed.
Mike: Hey are u Nikki?
Frank: Danielle said we were stopping by...
Nikki: Oh you're the, okay, all right...
Frank and Mike, come on inside.
Frank: All right. Mike: All right.
Frank: When I walk in, I'm seeing dresses,
I'm seeing animal costumes, I'm seeing silk scarves.
Why are we even here?
Nikki: Guys, it's all handmade.
All the sequins are put in place.
It's a three piece.
Mike: That's what we're here to pick?
Nikki: Oh yeah, this is what she ordered.
Frank: Hm. Frank: What the hell's that?
Mike: This is what we do. Nikki: Sure.
Mike: She went through this with you?
Nikki: Danielle and I spoke about it.
Mike: Okay. She said you guys had a barn to pick.
Nikki: We do.
Mike: Oh so during the process of all of this conversation,
you sold her this?
Nikki: Yeah. Frank: Did she pay for it?
Nikki: No. Danielle: Sorry.
Mike: Dani? Danielle: Hey, what's up?
Frank: I'll tell you what's up,
is we had to buy your dress, what's up with that deal?
Danielle: Oh you got the dress.
Ha, wish I could have seen your faces.
Frank: That, we don't think that's funny.
We had to pay the cash for it.
Danielle: Whoa, wait, hold on.
I'm going to pay you back, just, you'll thank me later,
'cause that dress was your icebreaker.
Mike: So anyway, now we're on our way over to the barn.
Tell us about the pick.
Danielle: Nikki you've met, Ronnie is waiting
for you at their barn.
And they have some really killer stuff.
Mike: What do they got?
Danielle: They have a lot of KISS memorabilia.
Frank: KISS? I heard that.
Mike: You should see Frank, he just did a whiplash.
Frank: I didn't hear much, but I heard KISS.
Danielle: Yeah, I thought you might like that.
Frank: KISS dolls? KISS flood? KISS Live 1, KISS Live 2?
Mike: Now I'm going to have to listen to KISS for friggin'
the next half an hour.
Frank: Dressed to Kill? You pull the trigger of my...
Mike: Thank you Danielle. Frank: All right, KISS!
Danielle: All right, have fun, let me know what else there is.
Mike: Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey!
Nikki: Hi. Mike: We made it.
Nikki: You did. Let me introduce you to my husband.
Mike: How you doing? Frank: How's it going?
Ronnie: Good.
Nikki: Frank and Mike, this is Ronnie, my husband.
Frank: Hey Ronnie, how you doing?
Ronnie: I know ya.
Nikki: Ronnie and I are the original pickers,
we've been picking for 34 years.
Frank: Are you a cat lover? Ronnie: Oh yeah.
Frank: I'm a cat lover too. Mike: Frank's a cat guy.
Frank: I can tell right away these are my kind of people.
Mike: Frank's jacked up because Danielle said
you guys had some KISS stuff.
Ronnie: Oh yeah. Nikki: We do.
Frank: Oh yeah, let's go, Ronnie, I'm ready.
Nikki: Okay.
Ronnie: A lot of stuff in there.
Nikki: Let's go. Mike: Show us the way.
Ronnie: Okay.
Mike: I see that there's only one building.
Right away I got to admit, I'm kind of discouraged.
Nikki: You're going to love this.
Mike: Whoa. Frank: Whoa.
Frank: You know, one thing I wasn't counting
on was all the toys here.
Frank: Wow, Ronnie, you got some stuff in here now.
Mike: Toys, man.
Frank: This place is packed to the brim.
Ronnie: I'm a hoarder. Nikki: It's so true.
Ronnie: I see things that I want.
If we go somewhere and I see something that I want,
if I have the money, I buy it. You know.
Nikki: And I never stop him. He can get whatever he wants.
Nikki: This will take you a while to go through this stuff.
Mike: You're into toys, huh?
Ronnie: Into toys a little bit, yeah.
Ronnie: Uh, I love to collect, uh, old and vintage toys.
I guess it reminds me of, when I was a kid.
Frank: Big ***, yeah. They're cool.
Who's into trains? You?
Ronnie: Yeah.
Ronnie: I got my first train when I was about 7 years old,
which I still have.
Mike: Leather chaps, oh yeah.
Were these yours?
Nikki: Not mine.
Nikki: I am a dressmaker and a seamstress.
I collect vintage clothing, vintage hats, vintage purses.
And primitives.
Mike: Frank- KISS.
Frank: Ronnie, you've been hiding it from me up here.
Frank: KISS is one of those bands you
either loved or hated them.
I mean they came out in 1973, they were
one the greatest performers.
I started listening to them when I was a kid.
KISS has sold over 100 million albums.
Frank: I already got these.
They were sold by Spencer Gifts.
Nikki: Yeah.
Ronnie: Yeah, I got the whole set.
Ronnie: I had a chance to buy them many years
ago at a good price.
So, um, I bought them and I just put them away, you know.
Frank: What I don't have, I don't have these though.
Frank: Ronnie has a set of the statues up here, I mean,
he's got one of every band member.
I've seen them before, but they don't come
up for sale very often.
Frank: Here's what they all four look like.
I don't have these.
They're made in 1999, so they got a little age to them.
Nikki: Is there four up there?
Frank: All right, I got the whole set.
I got Gene, I got Peter, I got Paul, and I got Ace.
The boxes are a little rough. They were 150.
Frank: Items that are mass produced,
especially from just 15 years ago don't tend
to hold their value.
Especially if they're not in mint condition.
Frank: What are you thinking on all four?
Nikki: 325. Frank: 325 for all four?
Nikki: No for each. Frank: For each?
Nikki: Yes.
Frank: Now where do you get 325?
Nikki: No it's not, that's what I get. I get 358.
Frank: You get 358, so what, you had like 10 of these
before, 10 sets of four?
Nikki: No just a few.
Frank: Well I'll tell you, I'm just going to tell you that
some of this KISS stuff, they made so much of it, I mean,
it was mass produced, there's a lot of it out there.
325 it's $1300.
Ronnie: What would you do?
Frank: I'd be at $600 on them, I mean, I know,
I know it's a ways off. I'm a KISS fan too.
I just wouldn't be able to pull the trigger.
I mean, the love gun would just be too high there,
I wouldn't be able to pull the trigger on it.
Frank: That was a KISS reference.
Frank: We're too far on there?
Nikki: Uh, 1200's the very least.
Frank: I feel like I'm God Of Thunder up here.
1200 seems a little bit a lot.
Mike: Frank, this might be your only opportunity to buy
something like that in your lifetime.
You can't go into big lot stores anymore and buy those.
Nikki: It's retired.
Mike: Yeah, they're retired, Frank.
Frank: You know what?
I'm going to put my best offer out there.
200 apiece, that'd be 800.
Ronnie: $1000, that'd be it.
Frank: $1000 would be it, huh?
Yeah, it's just, I just can't pull the trigger on that.
Ronnie: Yup.
Frank: All right. Thanks for putting a price on it though.
Frank: I guess KISS stuff's off limits.
I'm getting concerned with the prices here.
Mike: Heroic role playing game.
Mike: Ronnie a see a lot of stuff around here
I think I had when I was a kid.
Ronnie: Oh yeah.
Mike: What about this? There's a decal right here.
It's a Buddy L.
Mike: They started making Buddy L toys back in the 1920s.
Pressed steel large Buddy L trucks are some of the hottest
collectible toys out there.
Mike: These were made right across the river from
us in Moline, Illinois.
Nikki: Oh you're kidding? How wonderful.
Mike: Right across the river from us.
Ronnie: Oh they're beautiful.
Ronnie: That Buddy L truck I loved so much...
Nikki: He loves Buddy L.
Ronnie: Any old trucks, uh, metal trucks, I love.
Mike: What about this?
Ronnie: Uh, I'm thinking around 5.
Nikki: That's cheap. And you know it.
No I've seen them go for a lot of money.
Ronnie: I bought that a long, long time ago.
Nikki: Probably about 20 years ago,
25 years ago at the Norwood, uh, flea market.
Big major flea market.
Mike: What do you think on this, Franky?
As far as retail number?
Frank: I mean, if the paint was a little better maybe
650 to 750.
5, you're starting to get up there.
Nikki: Well 5 is the least we'll take. We paid 4.
Mike: She's tough man.
Nikki: Yeah, yeah, 5 is the bottom.
Mike: 450? Work with me a little bit.
Nikki: 490 and it's yours.
Mike: The prices we're getting today are kind of high.
Now Franky says this truck is worth 650,
so if I buy this thing, I'm going to make a little,
and that's better than nothing.
Mike: 475. Nikki: 491.
Mike: Oh you're going up now? Nikki: 491, it's a good piece.
Mike: It's a good piece.
Ronnie: It's a great, great piece,
but it's time to start letting things go, you know,
you can't hold on to things forever.
Mike: I got to be able to make a little bit of money on it.
Nikki: Okay.
Mike: This piece does two things for me,
one- I'm going to make a little bit on it.
Mike: Don't be afraid to leave some money on the table for us.
Mike: Two, I'm putting cash in Nikki's hand, which is huge,
because we're just trying to get to know each other still.
It's the beginning of an amazing relationship.
Nikki: I don't know where the heck I got that thing.
Mike: Wow, look at that, Frank.
That's pretty...
Frank: That's a big, it's battery operated.
Mike: That's a biggie, man.
Ronnie: That was something I bought years ago and, uh,
when I bought it, it worked.
Frank: I mean, it's in great shape.
Cause this stuff, over the years,
gets tarnished and stuff.
Ronnie: It's all deteriorated and eaten up.
Frank: Pretty cool.
Mike: So what does he do? He just flaps his wings?
Nikki: Yeah. And I think he talks too.
Mike: He talks, he talks.
He's got, his beak, looks like it moves.
Frank: This is a toy that's made by the Louis Marx Company.
It was made in the 1960s, it's a talking parrot called Pete.
His feet and his beak are made of plastic,
his body's made of tin, and then his body's covered with cloth.
His eye should light up, he's supposed to flap his wings and
he's supposed to squawk.
Frank: Ronnie, does this work?
Ronnie: I don't know for sure whether it does or not.
Frank: It's a biggie though.
Most problem with these battery operated toys is the
longer they sit, then the motor's just get,
they just gel up on them.
What would you have to have for this, Ronnie?
Ronnie: I have no idea.
Frank: No idea? I mean...How's 100 if it works?
75 if it doesn't?
Nikki: Come up a little on it.
Frank: Well if it doesn't work, I tell you what,
I can't come up too much, because then you have a
battery operated toy that basically just sits here.
Nikki: However, Ronnie can get it to work.
Frank: I'll tell you what, I'll come up.
I'll come up to 125 if it works, but if it doesn't, $50.
Nikki: Oh.
Nikki: I am sure that the parrot's going to work.
Frank: We'll find some batteries, try it.
Mike: You got batteries? Nikki: I think we do.
Mike: Frank is right about this toy.
The more these battery operated toys sit around,
the less chance they have of working.
This should be interesting.
Frank: A little tricky to get these things in here,
they don't leave you too much room for error here.
Nikki: Ooh, his eyes just lit. Mike: Did they?
Nikki: Yeah.
Mike: Awesome. Frank, you might be wrong, dude.
Frank: I could be, I hope I'm wrong.
Mike: All right. Here, put his tail right.
There you go.
Frank: So we were at 125 if it works, 50 if it doesn't.
You want to press it?
Ronnie: No, you go on. Frank: All right.
Frank: There's two buttons on the base
that activate the mechanism.
I reached down and I pressed the first button.
Mike: Ooh, it sounds like it wants to do something.
Frank: No.
Mike: Oh it was almost there.
I think that, you turn, no, see, it sounds different,
so you go like that and then...
Nikki: Can you hear something? Mike: Yeah, don't you?
Ronnie: Yeah it sounds like it's trying to...
Mike: He's trying to say something.
Nikki: Oh yeah.
Frank: I just want to make sure that you don't
consider that working.
Ronnie: I had my doubts. Nikki: You did?
Ronnie: Because, yeah, because, uh,
I knew at one time when I bought it,
that it worked great.
But it's been many, many years since I've run that.
So I had my, my, I really had my doubts that it would work,
you know.
Nikki: And I lost.
Frank: We're at 50 bucks. You got a deal. All right.
Frank: Louis Marx is a company that every serious toy
collector will know.
I mean this parrot's going to fly off the shelves.
Mike: We've been at Nikki and Ronnie's place
in upstate New York all day.
It's been tough getting deals going,
but we're making some progress.
Mike: Okay so this is like a Medieval suit.
Nikki: Yes, exactly. Mike: Oh that's cool.
Nikki: Odd Fellows Associations.
Mike: Oh this is Odd Fellows? Nikki: Yeah.
Mike: The Odd Fellows were a fraternal organization and any
time we find any of their memorabilia for sale,
we're always interested.
Mike: Look at all these clothes, Frank.
Yeah, you, you could go to a Renaissance Fair, man.
Mike: People have always been fascinated by the Odd Fellows.
I think it's because of the mystery,
the pageantry and the overall just the rituals
that these guys had.
Nikki: Yes this is all Odd Fellows.
Mike: Okay, this whole pile is?
Nikki: Yeah.
Mike: A lot of this Odd Fellows stuff that I'm looking
at dates back to the early 1800s.
There's some amazing pieces here.
Nikki: Mike. Hoodwinks. Mike: Oh yeah.
Mike: Now these were used to initiate the new members
during some of these rituals.
Mike: They would put this on your face and then they would
put a skeleton in front of you,
sometimes a real skeleton, other times a paper mache.
Do you have any paper mache skeletons from them?
Cause I've got some of that stuff, it's cool.
Yeah, it's nice.
Nikki: Nice, very nice.
Mike: It's like spooky folk art.
Mike: Dani and I picked an old semi trailer in Virginia and
I pulled out these really cool paper mache skeletons.
Mike: You know, you'd be like this,
and then they would put that skeleton right in front of
you, then they would flip this up and then the skeleton would
be confronting you.
They would say, this is what you will become.
Ronnie: Wow.
Mike: This is why you need to make a difference now.
Nikki: Oh.
Mike: It was a ritual, all of a sudden to face your mortality.
But while you're here, you have to do good.
You have to make a difference.
And that's what it was a part of.
Mike: What do you get, what do you got on these?
This stuff?
Nikki: I've sold these prior, years ago, I got $46, so to you...
Mike: $46 apiece?
Nikki: I'm going to say 25 for you.
Mike: I would do, I'd pay $20 apiece.
For all of them.
So you got 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 20, 40, 60.
You got 160 bucks here.
And then these, bam, bam, probably throw those in too,
wouldn't you?
Nikki: No. Mike: I got to try.
Nikki: Make it 175 and it's a deal and that's
giving them away.
Mike: I don't feel like you're giving them away.
Nikki: I do.
Mike: 170. I did the 490 on the truck.
Mike: To me, the leather hoodwinks represent the
mystery that's associated with the Odd Fellows.
Mike: All right. Whoa. Frank. That's Andre the Giant dude.
Ronnie: Andre the Giant. He's dead.
Frank: It's taking a lot of effort,
but we have been able to do a few deals here.
And you know what?
There's still a lot to look through.
Frank: All right, what about these kiddy cyclists, Ronnie?
Nikki: I bought them for Ronnie.
I bought one and then I bought another and I was going to
continue buying a lot more as many as I can
find to make them rare.
But, he said it's not going to work.
Ronnie: It isn't. Thousands of them on the market.
Ronnie: What do you think, Frank?
Frank: Let's see. That one works.
Frank: The Kiddy Cyclist was a tin toy made in the 1930s
manufactured by a company called Unique Art in New York.
They're all in pretty decent shape,
but one thing you look for on mechanical toys is the windup.
Usually that doesn't work.
Frank: That one ain't working.
Ronnie: No.
Frank: Usually I see these go for about 150,
200 dollars at the most.
And that's tops in great condition.
I mean, I could do probably about 100 apiece.
Nikki: That's too low. Yeah. Frank: It's too low?
Nikki: Much too low. Frank: What were you thinking?
Nikki: More like 300 for both of them.
Frank: Yeah, that's 150 apiece.
Frank: These toys used to be worth a lot more money,
but with the internet, they've really priced them down.
I mean, Nikki's pricing these things like
we're back in the 90s.
Frank: How about 125 each? That's 250.
Nikki: That's 250. I'm going to stick to...
Frank: I mean, the one doesn't work.
Nikki: Yeah, I'm going to stick to 3.
And that can be fixed.
Frank: You ever had toys fixed?
Nikki: Yeah, Ronnie.
Frank: Yeah, but you ever had them fixed...
Ronnie: Yeah, they're pretty...
Frank: Oh they're expensive, boy.
I mean, real expensive.
How about split it with me, we'll do 275?
Nikki: Make it 290 and you got it.
Frank: All right, 290 for both,
I still think there's a little bit of room.
Nikki: There's a lot of room.
Frank: All right, not a lot of room, there's a little room.
Frank: I can understand the frustration of the item losing
value over time, but you know, I mean,
there's not very much money to be made on these,
but hopefully they'll find a good home.
Mike: Oh. Look at that. Nikki: Oh yeah, you got it.
Mike: Oh. Ronnie: Is that ever nice.
Mike: This all came out of Odd Fellows stuff?
Nikki: Yes, except Ronnie's been piling toys on...
Mike: What do you get for these masks?
Like these two, you can actually still see the paint on it.
Nikki: There's a whole box of them, yeah.
Mike: Oh there's a whole box of them?
Nikki: Yeah. Ronnie: Yeah.
Mike: The more you dig, the higher chances of scoring.
I don't care if you're at a bar on a Saturday night,
or in the middle of a barn, waist deep in boxes,
sooner or later, it's going to happen.
Ronnie: Here you go. Mike: Oh yeah.
Ronnie: That beautiful? Mike: Oh that is beautiful.
Mike: On the side of this wooden ax is the heart in the hand.
It symbolizes philanthropy, charity and giving and it's
probably one of the most recognized symbols with the
Odd Fellows association that people connect to.
It's a very cool ax.
Mike: What are you thinking on this, Ronnie?
Nikki: Ha ha ha.
Mike: What's ha ha ha ha? Look at her.
Nikki: The minimum is 3. It sells for anywhere from 475 to 695.
Mike: This is a great statement piece,
even if you're not into collecting fraternal
organization stuff, just looking at it is spectacular.
Mike: Let me stew on that for a little bit.
3 bills on that?
Mike: I'm going to hold out for the masks,
because 300 dollars on the ax is way more than I want to pay.
And I'm thinking if we get some cash flowing here,
I could start buying in bulk.
Mike: Here's another box back here, oh! Mesh mask.
Nikki: Oh. Bravo!
Mike: It even says it.
Ronnie: I'm glad you found them.
Mike: Busting it open. Oh Santa Claus.
Oh. Look at that.
That one's really cool, look at him.
Mike: It's spooky, it's eerie, there's a lot of detail to it,
this is a very cool piece.
Mike: Ooh another one just like it.
So you got two, three...
Mike: These masks are tied into a secret ritual,
which is so secret, I have no idea what the heck it was.
But even if I knew, I couldn't tell you,
because it's a secret.
Mike: That is bad to the bone, dude.
Nikki: I know they're nice. Look at Ronnie.
Mike: Look at him. That's awesome.
Mike: This is a large quantity of these masks and I think
I can sell them pretty well.
Nikki: Very handsome, a major improvement.
Mike: Wow.
Mike: Nikki knows I'm jonesin' for the mask.
Mike: Here's the biggie, how much are they?
How much is the box? Treat me nice.
Nikki: I will. Mike: All right.
Nikki: I'm going to say 8. Mike: 8 what?
Nikki: Hundred. Mike: 800?
Nikki: Yeah. I get 49, 46 dollars apiece with the hair
I get 65. So calculate...
Mike: Here's what I'll do. Nikki: Okay.
Mike: All right. Nikki: Make it good.
Mike: Here's what I'm going to do.
500 bucks for all of them.
Nikki: Hm. 750.
Mike: I can't do that.
It's going to take too, it's going to take too long
to get the money back.
Ronnie: Is that just for this box?
Frank: He'd have to sell 10 of them.
Mike: You'd have to sell 10 immediately.
Nikki: 700 and that's the bottom line.
You can't do...? Okay.
Mike: I can't do it.
I, I tell you what though, I'll do the 500 on this
and I will pay you the 300 for the ax.
There's your 800.
500 bucks and 300 bucks, 800 bucks.
Nikki: Yeah. Frank: There you go.
Mike: All right. Thank you.
Nikki: The only reason being is cause I'm not going to live
long enough to list this stuff and sell it.
Mike: Who bought this? You or Ronnie?
Nikki: Ronnie bought it. Ronnie: I bought them all.
Mike: Ronnie, good eye, my friend.
Nikki: Are you kidding? This is all his.
Mike: Good eye.
Ronnie: I'm getting older now and, uh,
I can't keep up with all the stuff in, uh,
and I thought that it's time for someone else to enjoy it.
Mike: Wow. Soapbox derby? Ronnie: Yeah.
Mike: Wow, that's a nice one.
Nikki: Isn't that beautiful?
Works beautifully. Give it a hill.
Mike: Soapbox derby was a racing program for kids.
And it's been around since the mid-30s.
Okay, Prior to that, kids were taking soapboxes or orange
crates and nailing them to a skateboard.
This thing is much more elaborate than that.
Boat tail racer, it's a New York license plate
on the back of it.
It's very cool.
I've never seen one, I've got to try to buy it.
Mike: What's the history of it?
Nikki: It comes from Endicott, New York.
Ronnie: Probably about 3, 4 years ago,
we went to hunting like we usually do.
And we stopped at this antique place and, uh,
we saw it sitting on the porch there, I saw it was different,
took a person with a lot of, uh,
know how to build something like that, you know.
And it was built well, it wasn't cheap.
And, uh, we both liked it, so we, we bought it.
Nikki: We bought it.
Mike: I tell you what, it's the coolest.
Nikki: It's beautiful.
Mike: ...soapbox derby car I've ever seen.
Where you at on this?
What do you want for it?
Nikki: I would like 1200 for it.
Mike: 1200?
Nikki: It would sell for about 22.
Ronnie: No, not that high. Mike: How about 800?
Nikki: Nope. Got to come up a bit.
A decent amount, cause that's below what we paid.
Mike: What'd you pay? Nikki: 925.
Mike: She knows she paid too much for it,
now she's trying to get me to pay too much for it.
Mike: How about, uh...9 and a half?
Nikki: How about 11?
Mike: I got to have some room on it.
How about this? 1050?
Nikki: Deal.
Mike: All right, Franky, shake her hand.
Frank: We'll do it. You got it, Ronnie.
Mike: Very cool.
Mike: I think there's a little meat on the bone,
I'm talking maybe a couple hundred bucks,
but this is the kind of thing I want people to see when they
walk in my store.
I want them to be wowed just the way I was when I found it.
Mike: Ha ha ha!
Frank: Here, I'm going to push you down the hill.
Mike: Negative.
Nikki: It took a lot for him to say it's all for sale,
it took a lot.
Cause he loves it all.
Frank: So excited for my cat when I give him a brush out.
Ronnie: Like I say, now that I'm older and everything, I,
uh, I don't feel like I, I really need a lot of this
stuff in my life. I got my wife, you know?
Mike: Thank you so much for having us.
Nikki: You're very welcome. You're very welcome.
Frank: Thank you. Mike: Yeah.
Frank: Thanks for having us. Mike: God bless you.
Frank: This turned out to be a good pick.
Even though I didn't get any KISS stuff,
I still walked away from some great items.
Nikki and Ronnie were nice and Nikki turned out to be one of
the toughest negotiators I've dealt with in a while.
Nikki: Bye guys.
Mike: See you guys! Sweet picking!
Nikki: Thank you.
Danielle: A few years ago, Mike bought a 1911 Harley and
it has been his goal to rebuild this bike ever since.
Now the last piece to this puzzle was a motor that Mike
scored in New Jersey.
Mike: I've been looking for you for 4 years.
Mike: An amazing very rare mag model motor.
For being over 100 years old, this thing is in great shape.
Danielle: Hey. Dave: Hey girl. Danielle: How you doing?
Dave: Good, how are you? Danielle: I'm awesome.
Dave: It's great to see you.
Danielle: Really great day, cause guess what I have for you?
Dave: Tell me. Danielle: 1911 Harley motor.
Dave: Oh it's here?
Danielle: It's here. Yeah. I got it.
Dave: Well there's the project right there.
Danielle: Wow. This is beautiful, Dave.
Danielle: Mike has been working really hard to get all
of the parts to put together his 1911 Harley.
Dave: And that motor, from what he told me,
is nice and swaying and greasy, the way we want it.
Danielle: Yeah.
Dave: And that guy he got it from,
I'm shocked he got it from him,
he's tougher than boiled owl.
Danielle: Yeah he is.
Mike: We're talking like about me giving you three motors...
Frank: And three sets of tanks.
Mike: And all of this stuff for that motor.
Man: I'm going to do the deal with you.
Mike: Really? All right. Thank you. Woo.
Dave: This is one of my favourite Harleys right here.
Belt drive, they're just simple.
Dave: Mike and I both like these early bikes.
They're like an old tractor, they run good, they're smooth,
they're dependable, you can imagine these old belt drive
bikes going down these dirt roads with ruts and
everything, they didn't have these nice roads
that they have now.
They used them big time for delivering mail,
whatever, you know.
Dave: I'm pretty excited about it.
I think I've got everything now.
I've got to rebuild the rear wheel and build a fuel line
and an oil line and things like that.
But the hard part was that motor.
Dave: We've accumulated all the pieces that I need to
finish this thing.
And it's about time, cause it's been so long.
Danielle: I don't know if you're ready for this.
Dave: There it is. The condition looks really nice.
It's going to go with that bike perfectly.
Dave: And the fins were nice.
The motor's free, it turns over,
it's just a really nice piece.
Dave: Mike's going to be so excited about this thing.
Danielle: I know. Dave: Ah.
Frank: What's up with here?
It's like you got Bushkill, Slaughter Kill, Catskills,
everything's got the word kill on it up here.
Mike: Frank and I are freestyling on the east coast.
This is our favourite place to pick.
Mike: Kill out here means river.
Frank: Really? Mike: Yeah. Frank: Hm.
Frank: The best part about New York,
it's one of the oldest parts of the country.
I mean, it's one of the 13 colonies.
New York City was even the capital of the United States
for a while.
All that history here just waiting for us to find it.
Mike: It's pretty up here man. Frank: It's lovely up here.
Mike: It reminds me of Tennessee, they got corn, man,
but scrawny corn.
Frank: Oh it ain't nothing like our corn. Yeah...
Mike: We got to get off this paved road
and get on some gravel.
Frank: That's what I'm talking about.
Mike: Here's a gravel road right here. Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
Frank: There you go. Get off the beaten track here.
Mike: Get your mind on freestyling.
Frank: Check it out, I got my brand new battery,
brand new flashlight.
This is one of those super heavy duties.
Mike: Well let's find some place you can use it.
Frank: We can use it? All right.
Mike: Here you go. Here's an old car.
Frank: He's got a buggy right out front.
Frank: I don't see a no trespassing sign anywhere.
What I do see is a big barn, a shed,
and some signs displayed everywhere.
All we have to do is get our foot in the door.
Frank: Hello? My name's Frank.
Mike: Hey, I'm Mike. How you doing?
Nice to meet you.
Frank: Seen you had some signs over there.
Kyle: Yeah, I collect signs.
Frank: We were just cruising through,
this is some of the stuff we're interested
in buying stuff.
Mike: So we meet Kyle.
This guy seems friendly enough, but the biggie is,
he takes the flier and he's reading it and he's looking at
it and he's paying attention.
Usually that means we're not going to get kicked
off the property.
Frank: You ever sell any of the signs or anything?
Kyle: I never have, no. Frank: Oh okay.
Kyle: No.
Frank: You're just kind of a collector?
Kyle: Yeah.
Kyle: I thought it was two guys showing up from the city
they wanted to hunt.
I never expected they wanted to buy some of my stuff.
Frank: What you got going on here? Any...?
Kyle: This is my coop. Frank: Your little coop?
Kyle: Yeah this is where, I just kind of hang stuff from
the wall in here.
Frank: Oh okay, yeah, you got a bunch of stuff.
Frank: If you just talk to someone and get excited about
their collection, 9 out of 10 times,
people are going to want to show you their collection and
you know what?
That's way you get your foot in the door.
Mike: Frank, this looks like your place.
Frank: It does, just a little bit cleaner.
Kyle: I've been collecting for 30 years,
probably since I was 14.
I got into collecting advertising,
because I just really liked it and I liked to hang it on the
wall and hang it from the ceiling.
Mike: Is that local?
Kyle: Yes. There's, that's a very interesting picture, actually.
That is a, the guy in a powder mill making gun powder.
I'll tell you a little story about it, it blew up.
Wonder why it blew up with the wood stove and the gun powder
and the guns and...that blew up the whole
village of Ely Falls.
Mike: That's cool you collect a lot of local stuff.
A lot of people they learn about history,
like world history, national history,
they don't learn anything about what happened
in their own community.
Kyle: Yeah. Yeah, I've been nice, a lot big on local stuff.
Kyle: I've always been a local guy.
Our town, the local towns around here.
There was a lot of industry that's gone now,
like gas stations, and old mills,
and local history preserving it,
so it just doesn't get wasted away and forgotten.
Frank: What about this sign right here?
It's a, it's a fire insurance sign. 1958.
Frank: Nationwide is one of the biggest insurance
companies in the world.
The sign's from 1958 and the condition's solid,
but the best part of it, it has the Nationwide logo from
that era, that's the bird flying over the N,
that's what people are going to love,
it gives it that great throwback appeal.
Frank: Something you'd part with?
Kyle: Geez, I never really thought about it before.
What are you thinking?
Frank: Oh I don't know, I mean, you tell me.
Kyle: I'll think about it.
Frank: I can already tell he's got some good stuff here,
Kyle just needs to warm up to selling.
Kyle: 50 bucks? Two sided, I mean...
Frank: I'd do 40 on it. Kyle: All right.
Frank: It's insurance, I like it.
I used to be a fire guy, so I like anything that's got fire.
Frank: And just like that, I broke the ice.
Mike: Oh my gosh.
Frank: You can never tell by looking at the outside of a
building just what a complete junkyard it is inside,
we hit the mother load.
Mike: How about this RCA sign?
Kyle: Yeah, that's double sided. It lights up too.
Mike: Oh it still works?
Kyle: Yeah. I think I'm keeping that right now.
Frank: Kyle, what about this Pennzoil?
Kyle: That's one of the first things I ever got.
Frank: Really?
Kyle: When I, I got it up in Maine.
I was probably 12.
Mike: Oh that's awesome, man.
Kyle: When I got it, it was painted white.
And it said, sweet corn- 10 for a dollar.
Frank: No kidding.
Kyle: And I put some strip ease on it and it came right
off and it looks like brand new underneath.
Kyle: So that's like the first thing I ever got.
Frank: All right, you better keep that,
that's a little sentimental.
Kyle: That's what they used to do with signs.
They used to just cover them up with paint and put
something else on there.
You know, nobody really cared about it a lot,
it was so common back in the old days that they didn't
really collect signs like they do today.
Mike: Chairs. All right, Kyle, I see there's a problem here man,
this whole place is filled with chairs.
Kyle: I guess I got a thing for chairs.
Mike: I can see that there's stuff barricaded in the back.
All I need to do now is get through this
wall of chairs to get to it.
Mike: Whoa. Ah .
How much are the cigarette machines?
Mike: Smoking used to be cool, but now what's cool are the
smoking collectibles.
Lucky Strike, Chesterfield, Camel,
some of the machines even have the advertising key card in
the original slot.
These machines are art deco, they're probably from the late
20s, early 30s, they're beautiful.
The paint is faded, it's cracked, it's peeling,
and they've got those art deco arches on the side.
I can remember when I was a little kid going to the
laundromat and they had the cigarette machines sitting
right there next to the wash machine.
Kyle: I got the legs for them. Mike: Where?
Kyle: Uh, we just got to go find them.
Easier said than done.
Mike: See, cause this can sit on a counter too.
Kyle: Yeah.
Kyle: The cigarette machines I got when we were cleaning out
an estate, the reason I picked them up is because my father
was in the vending business.
And we thought maybe we'd have a little country store type
thing with them and paint them all up,
but that never happened.
Mike: If we can't find the legs.
Kyle: Okay. Mike: And I buy these four.
Kyle: Yeah.
Mike: What are you thinking on those?
Kyle: 250 apiece?
Mike: Oh. Here's what I'd do, I'd buy them all legs or not,
150 apiece.
Kyle: 4 of them? Or just... Mike: 4 of them.
Kyle: All right. Mike: All right. Bam!
Wait, 1, 2, 3. Ah.
Mike: There's four of these machines and once we get them
out, they look even better in the sunlight.
These are very cool.
I'm excited to own them.
Frank: You never know what you're going to get on a
freestyle pick.
This place so far is working out pretty well.
Frank: I just grabbed this on the way out,
they were sitting out below.
I got a menu board, 7-Up Menu board and then the Pepsi.
Frank: Here you got a couple soft drink items
from the 1960s.
You have the classic vintage Pepsi-Cola logo here,
it's on a blue metal picnic cooler,
you just fill it up with ice and you're ready to go.
Then you have a 7-Up on a colorful menu board with a
flower power looking font, both very classic,
very retro and very hip.
Frank: A little scratch there.
What you get out of this?
Kyle: Being Pepsi, couple hundred bucks.
Frank: Couple hundred?
How about a hundred and a half for both?
Kyle: I'm firm at 200 on the Pepsi.
Frank: 200 on the Pepsi? Kyle: Because of the color.
Frank: I think that's getting up towards the retail.
What you got on this, the menu board?
Kyle: 60 bucks.
Frank: 60 bucks? How about if I give you 200 on that,
you do 45 on this?
Kyle: 250.
Frank: 5 bucks ain't going to make or break me,
you got a deal.
Kyle: Yeah. Frank: All right.
Frank: You know, I always see Coca-Cola stuff out there on
the road, but when I come across Pepsi stuff,
I try to *** it up.
Kyle: You know what Socony stands for, right?
Frank: Standard Oil Company of New York.
Kyle: Yeah, says it right on it, yeah.
Frank: We're still at Kyle's in New York,
this has been a solid freestyle.
And there's still more to see.
Mike: Hey what about that stuff over there?
Are those original cast iron urns?
Kyle: Yeah, that came out of Troy, New York,
Fuller and Warren Stove Company, I think,
it's a tall one, lots of times they're cracked, you know.
Mike: Oh I know.
Frank: Most of them are cracked.
Mike: And they reproduce the hell out of them now too.
Kyle: No, that's not a repro. Mike: That goes in here.
Kyle: You break it, you bought it.
Mike: Hey, I'm interested in it.
Kyle: Okay.
Mike: Back in the day when you drove by the affluent
substantial house, the money shot standing in the front
yard was that cast iron urn.
If you can find them in pairs, that's good, but usually,
you only find one.
Mike: I'd knock that paint down some.
The paint's just too nice for the piece.
Hold on to it, Franky, so it don't fall,
let me stand back and look at it.
Mike: I still like the piece.
Decorators, designers, people that like basically live in
their gardens want to have something like this.
Mike: What are you thinking on this?
Kyle: 400 bucks.
Mike: I'd do 300 bucks. Now I got to strip it.
Kyle: Yeah, I'll sell it. Mike: You'll do 3 bills?
Kyle: Sure. Mike: All right, I'll take it.
Mike: That's a decent deal, I can easily double
my money on this piece.
Mike: Kyle's got fresh paint on this baby.
Kyle: Yeah.
Frank: Wow.
Mike: Dang man, you guys did fill this place up.
Mike: I thought the other barn was filled,
but this is what I'm talking about.
Frank: Oh.
Mike: Let's get some cash flowing here.
Kyle: Okay.
Frank: How much is the cran truck?
Missing a wheel.
Kyle: 20 bucks. Frank: 20 bucks? You got it.
Mike: You think he's got patches on it?
Oh there's one. Oh Buick.
50 bucks for the pair, I'd do that.
Kyle: All right.
Frank: How much for the Pepsi advertising sign here?
Kyle: With the little bottle cap?
Frank: Got the little bottle cap.
Kyle: Uh, 40 bucks. Frank: 40 bucks? I'm your man.
Kyle: I never really thought about selling stuff,
but I got to rid a lot of clutter and my daughter's
going off to college next year and I could use
a little extra cash.
Frank: Kyle, what about this coffee grinder?
Kyle: Uh, geez, I forgot I even had it back there.
Back number is is?
Frank: Number 3.
Frank: This is a model 3 grinder with a solid walnut
base and it even has some of the original red paint still
on it, which is amazing because this piece is well
over 100 years old.
Kyle: Does it say anything about the World's Fair or
anything on there?
Frank: No World's Fair, no, no,
this is made in Philadelphia.
Just the kind of standard one, you know,
Enterprise Manufacturing.
Frank: The Enterprise Manufacturing Company was
probably the most famous maker of cast iron grinders in
kitchenware in the 1800s.
It's a very well known name and a very collectible item.
Kyle: 300.
Frank: Yeah, I think we're off,
I was thinking more about 175 on them.
Kyle: 2 and a quarter?
Frank: I'd split it with you at 200.
Kyle: Okay Frank. Frank: 200?
Kyle: Yeah. Frank: All right.
Frank: With a little TLC, you could still actually use this
little thing.
But it'll probably just end up as a decorative item
for someone.
Mike: Look at that boat. It's cool.
Kyle: I think it's mahogany. Mike: Oh.
Frank: Oh yeah. Kyle: Model T.
Mike: Wow.
Mike: The next barn we hit is just as stacked
as the rest of them.
Lots of signs, lots of parts, lots of stuff.
Mike: That's cool, what's this? This cast iron piece.
Kyle: I think it was an island of an intersection.
Mike: Drive to right.
Mike: The thing that caught my eye in this barn the most was
the traffic signal and that's the thing that's been catching
everybody's eye for years.
Mike: Wow.
Mike: That's exactly what it was designed to do.
Mike: Look at that top of that thing.
Look how ornamental that is.
What do you value it at though?
Kyle: I have no idea.
Mike: Educate me. Do you have the lenses?
You could have some cut down, get some railroad
ones or something.
Kyle: I think they're red and green.
Mike: Yeah, it's bad.
Mike: This is very cool, I'm thinking that it would have
been in the center of a roundabout,
it's got porcelain signage on the bottom that
says drive to right.
It's transportation related.
And that is the category that I specialize in.
Mike: Let me ask you this, what's the I don't want to
sell it price on that thing?
Kyle: I don't want to sell it.
Mike: I've never seen this piece before,
I'm probably never going to see it again.
Mike: Let's move some of this stuff so we
can actually get at it.
Mike: I've got to try to own this thing.
Frank: What is it, electrified, you think?
Kyle: I think it was.
Frank: It's got a cool top. It's been re-welded on, you see that?
See the top?
It's been knocked off and been re-welded.
Mike: Did you put this top on here?
Kyle: No.
Mike: Tilt it this way. There we go.
Mike: You know, it's got some issues,
but this piece fits right into the category buy something
you've never seen before.
Mike: I'd do 1000 bucks on it.
I mean, this is the money shot here. This and this.
Kyle: The signs.
Mike: I do have some concern with that,
good eye on that, Frank.
Kyle: So you're at a 1000?
Mike: I'd do 1000 bucks on it, you know,
if that helps you out at all.
You feel like you're maybe not going to take
this to the next step.
Then you know, I'm your guy.
Kyle: Get it out of here before I change my mind.
Mike: I'm the same way. I know what you feel like.
Mike: I am pumped to own this piece.
I'm going to take it home, research it and try to get it
appraised.
Kyle: Getting rid of the traffic signal was definitely
hard, but I just didn't have a good spot to display it.
You need to have it in a middle of a room with a full
panoramic view of it to really appreciate it.
Frank: We both got some great stuff here today.
We were very lucky that Kyle invited us in to look around
and even more lucky that he was willing to sell.
As freestyles go, I'd call this one a success.
Mike: All right, you got it? Put it right there.
Frank: There's room for them right there.
Mike: Woo!
Kyle: I've still got enough stuff where I can wander
around tonight and say, well, I didn't get rid of that.
I still got that.
I got plenty more to look at.
And I think they were really fair.
Mike: Sweet picking, brother.
Thank you. Nice to meet you.
Kyle: Yeah, nice to meet you. Mike: We'll be back around.
Kyle: Yeah, come back some time with some more money.
Frank: See you Kyle!
Danielle: Mike bought this traffic signal from Kyle in
New York state for 1000 bucks.
The guys thought because of the new bolts and this
decorative piece on top that it might not be all original.
So they asked me to have it appraised.
For this, I found John Reedfeld,
he happens to be an Iowan and is one of the top collectors
in the country.
Danielle: It's right in here, I'll show it to you.
John: I've been collecting traffic signals
for over 30 years.
I have over 100 traffic signals and 300 road signs.
Danielle: This is our bad boy right here.
John: Wow.
Danielle: Yeah. It's beautiful, isn't it?
John: It is.
Danielle: I have a million and one questions about this light.
John: Oh this is a Crouse-Hinds TFA flashing
beacon, uh, it was produced in 1926.
It would have been one of the early, uh,
examples of traffic control of the day.
John: When I first came in and saw the piece,
I was awestruck.
The signal would be very early in the history time line of
traffic signals.
John: It's pretty rare, I've never seen one of these in
person before.
Danielle: Oh really?
John: Yeah, just in pictures.
A lot of the times these were recycled during the war,
you know, they needed the metal.
Danielle: This could be a good thing.
Danielle: So this one actually came from New York,
could this have been a New York traffic light?
John: Well the Crouse-Hinds Company was founded in
Syracuse, New York in 1897.
John: In the 1920s, they moved full time into
traffic light production.
John: They're a lot of different varieties,
different lens configurations, different stacks,
some had 4 lights, some had 2 lights.
There was no standardization back then.
John: It's a great example of a traffic lights in their
early heyday when things were not standardized yet and
everybody put their own spin on,
on building traffic control devices.
Danielle: Is a beacon essentially just a traffic light?
John: It would have had a mechanical flasher in it.
John: This signal would have been located in the middle of
a four way intersection a concrete pedestal.
The light itself would flash on and off a yellowish color
in all four direction.
Danielle: Would it have been an electric light
or would it have been a candle?
John: It would have been electric.
Probably four electric lamps with reflectors to
project the light out.
And this particular light also had a clear lens
at the bottom.
That would light up at night and light the pedestal
concrete base that it sat on, so that people
wouldn't run into it.
A few of the wing nuts are missing.
And it would help enhance it better if it had the lenses.
Danielle: This finial right up here is that original to it?
John: That would be original to the light, yes.
Danielle: Okay.
John: As far as the welding, I think it might
have been an after weld.
Danielle: Well it's good to know that at least it's the
original piece, right?
John: Yes. Yes.
Danielle: And then there's also this part down here,
these are so cool.
John: That would be porcelain enamel.
Danielle: So that's obviously good for the value.
John: That helps the value, yes.
So in fact, all four are intact, which is great.
Danielle: I'm somewhat concerned about the
desirability of the piece because it is incomplete.
Danielle: All right, so considering that it's not in
the best condition, without the lenses and there's been
repairs there and then some of these bolts are not original
to the piece, as it is right now what
do you estimate the value?
John: Uh, as is...Um, I would say...
Frank: I think you're getting a text, dude.
Mike: Danielle. The traffic signal, guess how much?
Frank: Um, I'd say 16, 1800? Mike: Get out.
Frank: 2000, I don't know.
Mike: Frank, that's exactly what the appraisal is-
16 to 1800.
Frank: No way! Mike: She texted you.
Mike: 16 to 18, baby! I paid a grand.
Frank: Hey dude. Mike: Woo hoo!
Frank: Hey that's almost double.
Mike: She didn't text, you didn't know?
Frank: She doesn't even know my number.
Mike: You just guessed that?
Frank: She doesn't even know my number.
Mike: All right, we're going to go buy a lottery ticket.
Mike: Does this thing still run?
Danielle: Yeah, I just put a new rubber band
in it last night.
Mike: Franky and Danielle and I are opening the shop.
Frank: You know, I mean, we're moving stuff out here and all
of a sudden I thought I hear, heard something,
thought it was a moped.
I look over, it's the 1911 coming around the corner.
Mike: No! No way! Frank: You got it going?
Mike: Oh my god, dude. Frank: Awesome, dude.
Mike: Frank.
Mike: This thing is sweaty, it's scarred, it's rusty,
I've been dreaming about it, finally we got
the heartbeat for it.
Now he's the first guy to ride it.
Mike: Dude. Four and a half years.
Dave: I wish I could say I was the only one that helped bring
these all back to life, but there's a community of guys
that have helped to do this, like Jim Long,
straightened the frame and fork.
Ben Ashelman straightened the fenders for me.
It's kind of neat how they all come together and help
resurrect these things and bring them back from the dead.
Mike: How do I look, Dani? Danielle: Hot.
Dave: I'm going to give you a quick lesson.
Mike: All right.
Dave: First of all, you know you got a pedal to start it.
Mike: Yeah, I know that. Dave: All right.
Frank: Put some tension on it.
Dave: Put some tension on the belt.
Mike: All the way over, right? Dave: Hang on there...
Mike: Wait, come on, get it on.
Dave: No. Stop, stop.
Dave: He hopped on that bike and he's all excited.
I thought, slow down there, slow down!
He's pedaling away and everything.
Dave: Tighten the belt all the way.
Mike: Okay.
Dave: All right? Make sure your gas is on,
your oil dripper's on. Wait a minute.
Mike: Now flap the spark
Dave: Yeah. Frank: There you go.
Danielle: Yeah! Yes!
Mike: I've sat on these things before,
but I've never actually ridden one.
Danielle: Oh! Mike: Woo!
Mike: I'm sitting on it, I'm like, okay fist
in the wind, baby.
Danielle: Mikey! Oh.
Danielle: Man: That was great.
Danielle: Man. So close.
Mike: I was almost there. Oh my god.
Frank: You'll get it down.
Mike: That thing is insane, man.
Dave: I'm friggin' awesome. Nobody can do what I do. Anyway.