Japanese sword video on pawn star

[daishobohi]

One of my fav shows but when I saw this it confirms my suspitions that these guys do make up alot of jibberish take a look

Yitzy

 

 

[loui]

Nice, by his calculations I have 49 million dollars worth of swords on my wall, and I want to know who the guy in oregon is that charges 6K for a polish -I need to up my price per inch.

 

I'll be in Vegas this december - I'll go check it out.

[John A Stuart]

I've seen the show a few times. I watch most shows that deal with antiques and collecting. This is not uncommon when the people involved have only a cursory knowledge of any particular subject. Usually they bring in 'experts' when it is specialised appraisals needed. We must remember they are doing a show with all that is negative about that and they're out to skin as much profit as possible pleading all kinds of secondary expense and potential disasters. Anyone who would deal with pawn brokers is desperate anyway. John

[Stephen]

I like all the fingerprints hes adding to it.

[sensei215]

I have watched the show for over a year. It is typical of a lot of their performance. If you don't know "Make it up as you go along" . I even have a few questions about some of their " Experts". It can be very entertaining but not to factual. I really want to take a 300 year old gun out and fire it. Trust me must collectors don't no more then a sword collector wants to try to cut something with a good sword. What can you say when Chumlee works for them ?

 

Tim S

[sanjuro]

Stephen.

 

Didnt we do turkeys in another thread?

[ububob]

C'mon Keith, tis the season for turkeys! :D

[xxlotus8xx]

I am actually surprised that he (the pawn shop owner) said anything at all. He only accomplished looking like a "know it all".

But then again I am sure a very small part of their audience would know anything at all...

[sanjuro]

I just love the comment that if he sent that sword to Japan to be fixed it would be confiscated as a national treasure..... What an utter RUBE!...... Really the whole show borders on the ridiculous! Mind you, based on his quirky valuations then my collection has made me a very wealthy man.

[ububob]

The really funny thing is these people are allowed to vote.

[Wickstrom]

Sheesh! Almost makes me want to load up on the sea of wakizashi on e-bay and stop by his store, I'll give him a good deal for $10,000 a piece :lol:

[sanjuro]

Bob

 

Not only allowed to vote, but given the notion and the support of others like him he could become a congressman. Now there's a frightening thought for the future.

 

Fear not...... when I become Emperor of the world, I'll do something about such people.

 

Thankfully, he's not about to set the Nihonto world on fire any time soon.

[loui]

The really funny thing is these people are allowed to vote.

 

 

Of course, how do you think Bush was elected?

 

[Justin Grant]

Hi Guys-

 

A friend of mine is a good friend to the family that owns the shop. Remember this is a "TV" show, and thus, they are looking for ratings. Austin... AKA Chumley, is an act.... Ever see the sword on the shelf in the show? It is a 17th Century Katana, they want 8K for it, and don't know much about it.

 

Rick once purchased several "Fossil" Megaladon teeth (prehistoric Great White) for several hundred per tooth. I have thousands of dollars in them if that is the going rate! I called, no; he is not interested in them. RATINGS....

 

Ever see the American Pickers show where Mike Wolfe buys the “WWII Samurai” swords from Leland? He paid $200 for them and sold them for $400. Thought they hit the jackpot!

 

Thanks

 

Justin

[huntershooter]

Disgusting pigs. Perhaps a tutorial on sword handeling etiquette is in order.

Never seen an entire show, only trailers on commercials.

With what is on television here in the USA, it is not too difficult to see why the Jihadi's refer to us as "The Great Satan".

To each his own I suppose.

[w.y.chan]

Pawn Stars is one of my favourite shows on the History Channel. They are jack of all trades but master of nothing so I'm not surprise Rick the "now it all" in fact knew little about Japanese swords and proceed to run his hands all over the blade.

I recall an episode were Rick very nearly paid $4k for a British WW2 baby gas mask that you can buy for £30, if the seller said $3k he may have pay for it Obviously the show don't show the major howlers and usually show them in a good light.

 

BTW Rick earlier in the year visited the UK as an intro to the UK version of the show which centres around a pawn dealer call Regal Pawn near Chester just south of the Wirral peninsular. The show was shown last night and the UK version premier tonight. Last night's show had Rick visiting London and ended with him touring Liverpool but imagine him in Bill Tagg's shop running his hands over his collection

[IanB]

We see some of these shows over here in the UK. Most are obviously set-ups where a guy or a small team 'discover' a treasure and make money selling it. Who they are supposed to entertain I know not. I can only think that it is to give the population some faint hope that they too can become rich rather than just function as a 'crop' to be harvested by the politicians and bankers. However if you think that is bad, our own BBC commissioned a whole historic series about the women who influenced events during the dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (16th century). After a couple of episodes they then felt obliged to put out a programme pointing out all the historic inaccuracies in the series! You couldn't make it up.

Ian Bottomley

[w.y.chan]

Hi Ian,

You mean "The White Queen"? Much the same way the BBC gave womens football all the pomp and ceremony to promote what is an amatuer sport watched by a few sheeps :lol:

The BBC is well known for spins and pandering to the PC brigade. My regret is funding them via license fees for their activitities.

There is about as much fiction in "The White Queen" as there is in the "Game of Thrones" but at least the latter did not pretend to disguise itself as fact to please the PC idiots and actually more watchable.

[mas4t0]

BTW Rick earlier in the year visited the UK as an intro to the UK version of the show which centres around a pawn dealer call Regal Pawn near Chester just south of the Wirral peninsular. The show was shown last night and the UK version premier tonight. Last night's show had Rick visiting London and ended with him touring Liverpool but imagine him in Bill Tagg's shop running his hands over his collection

 

I just watched this one. £1.2 million for about 50g of rusted iron from the hull of the Titanic! Considering that they've pulled up well over 15 tonnes of the stuff, does that put the total value of the hull at £360 BILLION?!

[Surfson]

There was an episode a few years ago where a guy brought in a Yasutsugu with Kikumon in samurai mounts that they bought for $1500 or so (the guy wanted $5K). They brought in their friend and expert - who was none other than Mike Yamasaki. Mike had it restored for them (which cost $5K or so and took a few minutes on the show), and told them it was worth $15K or so (I may have these numbers off a little, but that was the gist). No mention about papers, but I thought it was a pretty decent episode and it was great to see Mike on the show.

[Rich S]

The really funny thing is these people are allowed to vote.

 

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Bob H.

 

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Allowed to vote! I'm surprised they are even allowed to reproduce. Some gene lines

just shouldn't be preserved.

 

Rich

[w.y.chan]

Was it Mike Yamasaki who appeared in an episode of "Steven Seagal: Lawman" viewing a collection of swords?

[w.y.chan]

There was an episode a few years ago where a guy brought in a Yasutsugu with Kikumon in samurai mounts that they bought for $1500 or so (the guy wanted $5K). They brought in their friend and expert - who was none other than Mike Yamasaki. Mike had it restored for them (which cost $5K or so and took a few minutes on the show), and told them it was worth $15K or so (I may have these numbers off a little, but that was the gist). No mention about papers, but I thought it was a pretty decent episode and it was great to see Mike on the show.

 

Dread the thought of Rick then ran his hands all over the blade, spat all over it, put it away for 12 months and then it is worth $1500 again just for the mount

[Surfson]

Many collectors don't worry too much about incidental touching when a blade is completely out of polish. I'm sure that Mike explained to Rick that touching an in-polish blade is verboten! I've never been to the shop, but they seem to have a handful of blades on display, some with sayagaki in what appear to be new saya, so I suspect that they do know how to handle restored blades.

[Dr Fox]

So thats what a National treasure sword looks like! A few more rubs with the fingers before putting it away, should increase its value some more.

Denis.