1 00:00:04,471 --> 00:00:05,941 (loud traffic, honking and sirens) 2 00:00:11,011 --> 00:00:12,451 JERSEY JON: Whoa! You’re going to break an axle 3 00:00:12,546 --> 00:00:14,376 on this thing, dude. Then we’re going to be stuck. 4 00:00:14,481 --> 00:00:16,651 MIKE: I love picking New York City, I mean, this is basically 5 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:19,190 America’s attic. So many things were manufactured here, 6 00:00:19,286 --> 00:00:21,346 the ports were here. And you know, if you want to buy 7 00:00:21,455 --> 00:00:23,625 something old, you got to go to an old city, 8 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:25,594 and that’s New York. JERSEY JON: Just be careful, man. 9 00:00:25,692 --> 00:00:27,632 MIKE: Quit telling me- JERSEY JON: Wait, watch this car. 10 00:00:27,728 --> 00:00:28,828 And that dog with the lady. 11 00:00:28,929 --> 00:00:30,099 (sighs) 12 00:00:30,197 --> 00:00:31,497 MIKE: Alright, Jersey, where are we going? 13 00:00:31,598 --> 00:00:33,428 JERSEY JON: Dude, I’ve been coming up here for years. 14 00:00:33,534 --> 00:00:34,704 MIKE: Okay. JERSEY JON: And this guy 15 00:00:34,801 --> 00:00:37,801 has got this sewing machine slash motor repair place, 16 00:00:37,905 --> 00:00:39,275 and it’s packed full of stuff. 17 00:00:39,373 --> 00:00:41,413 He’s got all kinds of crazy stuff. 18 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:42,978 And it’s all small stuff, like packed in there. 19 00:00:43,076 --> 00:00:44,336 MIKE: Okay, what’s for sale? 20 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:46,514 JERSEY JON: Well, here’s the thing, I tried to get in there, 21 00:00:46,613 --> 00:00:48,753 but he won’t let you in. MIKE: He wouldn’t let you in the door. 22 00:00:48,849 --> 00:00:51,619 JERSEY JON: He’d let me in the door, so I could see what’s in there, 23 00:00:51,718 --> 00:00:53,688 but he wouldn’t sell me anything, he wouldn’t let you in to buy. 24 00:00:53,787 --> 00:00:54,787 MIKE: Like how long ago? 25 00:00:54,888 --> 00:00:56,118 JERSEY JON: It was about eight years ago. 26 00:00:56,223 --> 00:00:57,293 I heard from some other friends 27 00:00:57,391 --> 00:00:58,361 that he’s selling stuff now. 28 00:00:58,458 --> 00:00:59,988 JERSEY JON: Like a big soup of antiques. 29 00:01:00,093 --> 00:01:01,333 MIKE: A soup of antiques. 30 00:01:01,428 --> 00:01:02,758 JERSEY JON: Yeah, like a big soup, a pot, 31 00:01:02,863 --> 00:01:04,503 like a bouillabaisse of antiques. 32 00:01:04,598 --> 00:01:07,698 It’s like a paprikash of, of antiques. 33 00:01:07,801 --> 00:01:09,501 (Mike laughs) JERSEY JON: It’s like, 34 00:01:09,603 --> 00:01:12,273 it’s like a chicken paprikash, a goulash of antiques. 35 00:01:12,372 --> 00:01:15,212 Like they’re all mixed together. MIKE: Okay, I get it! I get it, okay. 36 00:01:15,309 --> 00:01:16,779 MIKE: Where’s it at? How far are we going? 37 00:01:16,877 --> 00:01:18,647 JERSEY JON: I don’t remember exactly where it is, 38 00:01:18,745 --> 00:01:20,945 it’s up this way... keep going uptown. 39 00:01:21,048 --> 00:01:22,248 (laughs) MIKE: Okay. 40 00:01:22,349 --> 00:01:23,379 JERSEY JON: You know what? It’s like... 41 00:01:23,483 --> 00:01:24,453 MIKE: No, I love it! 42 00:01:24,551 --> 00:01:25,651 JERSEY JON: It’s like the legend, man. 43 00:01:25,752 --> 00:01:26,752 So much cool stuff in there. 44 00:01:26,853 --> 00:01:28,463 MIKE: Is he more legendary than you? 45 00:01:28,555 --> 00:01:30,015 JERSEY JON: Well, I don’t know about that, but... 46 00:01:30,123 --> 00:01:31,293 (laughs) 47 00:01:36,697 --> 00:01:37,597 (vehicles honking) 48 00:01:39,866 --> 00:01:42,366 MIKE: Alright, so the guy barely let you in the door last time. 49 00:01:42,469 --> 00:01:44,669 You should let me lead on this, you know what I’m saying? 50 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:46,771 JERSEY JON: No dude, no, no, no. MIKE: Because obviously... 51 00:01:46,873 --> 00:01:48,643 JERSEY JON: No, dude... MIKE: You weren’t handling it last time. 52 00:01:48,742 --> 00:01:50,882 JERSEY JON: Listen dude, you’re a corncob, man, you are not gonna lead. 53 00:01:50,978 --> 00:01:53,148 I’ll take it, we’re in the city, dude, I don’t want to get hurt, 54 00:01:53,246 --> 00:01:55,676 I don’t want you to say anything stupid. I’ll take care of business, alright? 55 00:01:55,782 --> 00:01:57,552 Just let me lead. MIKE: Alright well, you know, 56 00:01:57,651 --> 00:01:59,121 I mean, if I see things going south, 57 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:00,549 I’m going to step in. 58 00:02:00,654 --> 00:02:02,094 JERSEY JON: No, if you see things going south, 59 00:02:02,189 --> 00:02:03,419 just step out. 60 00:02:03,523 --> 00:02:05,663 (Mike laughs) JERSEY JON: That means you pissed him off. 61 00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:08,289 We’re getting close here, man. Here it is. 62 00:02:08,395 --> 00:02:09,735 MIKE: This is it right here? JERSEY JON: Yeah. 63 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:11,460 Space is open, dude. MIKE: Look at that, 64 00:02:11,565 --> 00:02:13,305 I know, yeah this is legit! 65 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,470 JERSEY JON: This is legit. I told ya. MIKE: Get a flyer. 66 00:02:15,569 --> 00:02:17,869 JERSEY JON: Dude, we won’t need a flyer. We don’t need a flyer, alright? 67 00:02:17,971 --> 00:02:18,841 (sighs) MIKE: Alright. 68 00:02:18,939 --> 00:02:20,239 JERSEY JON: Now let me do the talking. 69 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:22,140 MIKE: Alright, alright... JERSEY JON: I got this under control. 70 00:02:24,878 --> 00:02:26,448 JERSEY JON: Now dude, c’mere. 71 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:28,954 Look... MIKE: What? 72 00:02:29,049 --> 00:02:30,049 JERSEY JON: This is my guy. 73 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,320 MIKE: When you say "my guy" 74 00:02:31,418 --> 00:02:32,518 that means I’ve cultivated 75 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:33,849 that relationship. 76 00:02:33,954 --> 00:02:36,364 So if I find a 1910 Harley motor, 77 00:02:36,456 --> 00:02:38,826 Jersey’s going to be like, "Nope, that’s mine." 78 00:02:38,925 --> 00:02:41,125 JERSEY JON: Hey. STEVEN: Hello. 79 00:02:41,228 --> 00:02:43,298 JERSEY JON: Remember me? MIKE: Hey, how’re you doing? 80 00:02:43,397 --> 00:02:45,567 STEVEN: Yeah... you look familiar. 81 00:02:45,666 --> 00:02:47,526 JERSEY JON: Eight years ago. I was in here trying to buy 82 00:02:47,634 --> 00:02:48,974 stuff from you, you threw me out. 83 00:02:49,069 --> 00:02:50,269 STEVEN: Yeah, maybe. JERSEY JON: Yeah. 84 00:02:50,370 --> 00:02:51,540 (Mike laughs) JERSEY JON: Definitely. 85 00:02:51,638 --> 00:02:53,368 JERSEY JON: The thing about these old New York guys, 86 00:02:53,473 --> 00:02:54,973 if they ain’t got the time for it, 87 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:56,285 they ain’t going to tell you about it. 88 00:02:56,376 --> 00:02:57,906 JERSEY JON: I heard you’re selling stuff now. 89 00:02:58,011 --> 00:02:59,381 STEVEN: Yeah, maybe. JERSEY JON: Maybe? 90 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:01,879 STEVEN: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Well, you mind if we look around? 91 00:03:01,982 --> 00:03:04,152 STEVEN: Yeah, why not? We’ll take a peek. 92 00:03:04,251 --> 00:03:05,251 JERSEY JON: Show me around this place, 93 00:03:05,352 --> 00:03:06,592 I’ve been dying to get back in here. 94 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:08,417 STEVEN: Okie-dokie. MIKE: Wow. 95 00:03:08,522 --> 00:03:09,592 Hey, how’re you doing? I’m Mike. 96 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:11,660 STEVEN: Alright, Steve, nice to meet you. 97 00:03:11,758 --> 00:03:14,228 MIKE: Heard a lot about you. JERSEY JON: My friend, Mike, Jon. 98 00:03:14,327 --> 00:03:15,597 MIKE: Do you remember him? 99 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:18,770 STEVEN: Eh... no. (Mike and Jersey Jon laugh) 100 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,225 MIKE: Jersey. JERSEY JON: What do you mean, 101 00:03:20,333 --> 00:03:21,503 man, we were standing here, we were talking. 102 00:03:21,601 --> 00:03:23,071 MIKE: I thought you said this is your guy. 103 00:03:23,170 --> 00:03:24,070 JERSEY JON: This is my guy. 104 00:03:24,171 --> 00:03:25,741 STEVEN: I’m the third generation owner 105 00:03:25,839 --> 00:03:28,809 of the Hecht Sewing Machine and Motor Company. 106 00:03:28,909 --> 00:03:32,779 My grandfather was a machinist in Austria 107 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:35,349 in the 1850s, and eventually 108 00:03:35,449 --> 00:03:37,219 he immigrated to the US. 109 00:03:37,317 --> 00:03:38,817 MIKE: How long have you guys been here? 110 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:40,619 STEVEN: Uh, about 130 years. 111 00:03:40,721 --> 00:03:41,921 JERSEY JON: You don’t look that old. 112 00:03:42,022 --> 00:03:43,792 (Mike laughs) STEVEN: Yeah, I age well. 113 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:45,590 Good lubricant, good... 114 00:03:45,692 --> 00:03:47,332 JERSEY JON: Yeah, it’s all about the oil, right? 115 00:03:47,427 --> 00:03:49,227 MIKE: All that machine oil... JERSEY JON: Machine oil, yeah. 116 00:03:49,329 --> 00:03:52,069 STEVEN: My grandfather, he set up under the name 117 00:03:52,165 --> 00:03:54,495 Imperial Sewing Machine Company. 118 00:03:54,601 --> 00:03:59,371 And he came in here around 1910, 1915. 119 00:03:59,473 --> 00:04:00,743 MIKE: So what do you got going on? 120 00:04:00,841 --> 00:04:02,811 STEVEN: Yeah, it’s the old machine and motor company. 121 00:04:02,909 --> 00:04:04,509 JERSEY JON: But for the garment industry. 122 00:04:04,611 --> 00:04:05,951 STEVEN: For the garment trade, correct. 123 00:04:06,046 --> 00:04:08,046 MIKE: Wow. JERSEY JON: This place has always intrigued me, man, 124 00:04:08,148 --> 00:04:09,248 this is like a great place. 125 00:04:09,349 --> 00:04:10,819 MIKE: Yeah, he’s been talking about it quite a bit. 126 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:12,347 JERSEY JON: Thank you for letting us in. 127 00:04:12,452 --> 00:04:13,952 STEVEN: Yeah, it’s un-renovated. 128 00:04:14,054 --> 00:04:15,864 (Jersey Jon laughs) MIKE: I see that. 129 00:04:15,956 --> 00:04:17,786 JERSEY JON: Yeah. I wouldn’t want to renovate this place. 130 00:04:17,891 --> 00:04:20,261 STEVEN: We use pretty much every inch of space. 131 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,660 MIKE: People like me dream about walking into 132 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:24,703 a generational business, 133 00:04:24,798 --> 00:04:27,328 especially a business that’s so mechanical. 134 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:28,704 MIKE: Can we look around a little bit? 135 00:04:28,802 --> 00:04:29,502 STEVEN: Yeah, why not? 136 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:30,603 STEVEN: Why sell now? 137 00:04:30,704 --> 00:04:32,174 Because I’m starting to get 138 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:36,282 a little crowded, literally bursting at the seams. 139 00:04:36,376 --> 00:04:39,206 STEVEN: That’s my delicate drill bit unit. 140 00:04:39,312 --> 00:04:40,752 JERSEY JON: Rosewood, it looks like. 141 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:42,247 STEVEN: Yeah, it’s in a beautiful chunk of wood. 142 00:04:42,349 --> 00:04:43,649 JERSEY JON: Woo! STEVEN: Those are delicate bits. 143 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:45,690 JERSEY JON: It’s so nice that they did this, 144 00:04:45,786 --> 00:04:48,086 just for simple drill bits. STEVEN: Yeah. 145 00:04:48,188 --> 00:04:49,818 JERSEY JON: Rosewood has a little bit of oil in it, 146 00:04:49,923 --> 00:04:51,293 and that preserves the bits, 147 00:04:51,391 --> 00:04:52,961 that keeps them from rusting. 148 00:04:53,059 --> 00:04:54,789 It’s from Union Twist Drill Company, 149 00:04:54,895 --> 00:04:56,365 probably around 1900, 1910. 150 00:04:56,463 --> 00:04:57,863 JERSEY JON: Would you sell something like this? 151 00:04:57,964 --> 00:04:59,334 STEVEN: Maybe. JERSEY JON: I mean, I got this 152 00:04:59,432 --> 00:05:01,002 kind of stuff all through my shop. 153 00:05:01,101 --> 00:05:02,241 STEVEN: Yeah, what are you thinking? 154 00:05:02,335 --> 00:05:03,835 JERSEY JON: 75 bucks. 155 00:05:03,937 --> 00:05:05,907 STEVEN: I don’t know, that’s... 156 00:05:06,006 --> 00:05:07,836 Bring it a little. 157 00:05:07,941 --> 00:05:09,541 JERSEY JON: 80 bucks. 158 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:10,743 STEVEN: That’s a good piece. 159 00:05:10,844 --> 00:05:12,554 JERSEY JON: Mike, I’m trying to make a deal here, 160 00:05:12,646 --> 00:05:13,576 chill out, dude. 161 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,880 (Mike chuckles) MIKE: Okay. 162 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:18,451 STEVEN: That actually has auction stamps on the bottom... 163 00:05:18,552 --> 00:05:20,352 JERSEY JON: Hey, over here! 164 00:05:20,453 --> 00:05:23,163 MIKE: Alright. STEVEN: Bring it up a little. 165 00:05:23,256 --> 00:05:25,016 JERSEY JON: 100 bucks. STEVEN: Done. 166 00:05:25,125 --> 00:05:26,265 That’s the right price. 167 00:05:26,359 --> 00:05:27,929 JERSEY JON: I love these things for my shop. 168 00:05:28,028 --> 00:05:30,128 And I’m willing to spend a little more money 169 00:05:30,230 --> 00:05:31,730 for this thing, ’cause I want it. 170 00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:33,002 MIKE: What are you thinking on that? 171 00:05:33,099 --> 00:05:34,899 STEVEN: That is expensive. MIKE: Yeah? What’s expensive? 172 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:37,301 STEVEN: It’s a state fair, it’s... 173 00:05:37,404 --> 00:05:38,974 MIKE: 1944. 174 00:05:39,072 --> 00:05:40,312 JERSEY JON: Do the flowers come with it? 175 00:05:40,407 --> 00:05:43,437 STEVEN: It’s got a Christie’s auction stamp on the bottom. 176 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:45,113 STEVEN: Christie’s and Sotheby’s 177 00:05:45,212 --> 00:05:47,582 are the two big auction houses in New York. 178 00:05:47,681 --> 00:05:49,721 AUCTIONEER: Sold, 2,100 dollars. 179 00:05:49,816 --> 00:05:52,886 STEVEN: If Christie’s thought enough about that 180 00:05:52,986 --> 00:05:55,356 to sell that back in the ’70s, 181 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:57,255 it speaks for itself. 182 00:05:57,357 --> 00:05:59,127 High-end good piece. 183 00:05:59,226 --> 00:06:02,056 STEVEN: The Greyhound Stakes. Was that a big race? 184 00:06:02,162 --> 00:06:03,262 MIKE: I don’t know. 185 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:05,203 MIKE: I love trophies because they tell a story. 186 00:06:05,298 --> 00:06:07,798 This one is interesting, it’s dog racing, 187 00:06:07,901 --> 00:06:09,701 it’s state fair, it’s during World War II. 188 00:06:09,803 --> 00:06:11,003 MIKE: What are you thinking? 189 00:06:11,104 --> 00:06:13,544 STEVEN: I’m thinking that this is something 190 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,480 that might have come from Ralph Lauren at one time. 191 00:06:15,575 --> 00:06:16,805 (Jersey Jon laughs) MIKE: Really. 192 00:06:16,910 --> 00:06:18,080 STEVEN: When he opened and closed 193 00:06:18,178 --> 00:06:20,248 his different divisions, for real. 194 00:06:20,347 --> 00:06:21,677 MIKE: You knew him. STEVEN: Yeah, I knew him. 195 00:06:21,781 --> 00:06:23,121 JERSEY JON: You knew Ralph Lauren? 196 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:26,286 STEVEN: Yeah. He was buying sewing machines, steam irons, 197 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:30,356 dress forms, we were setting him up in the sample room. 198 00:06:30,457 --> 00:06:32,557 STEVEN: We were servicing him along the way, 199 00:06:32,659 --> 00:06:34,529 we were selling him scissors. 200 00:06:34,628 --> 00:06:36,158 MIKE: So you were setting up his equipment. 201 00:06:36,263 --> 00:06:37,233 STEVEN: Yeah, exactly. MIKE: Really. 202 00:06:37,330 --> 00:06:38,600 STEVEN: Right. MIKE: Like, what year did you 203 00:06:38,698 --> 00:06:40,098 start dealing with him? STEVEN: When I was in 204 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,830 high school, in the ’70s. 205 00:06:41,935 --> 00:06:43,345 MIKE: So he was just starting out. 206 00:06:43,436 --> 00:06:45,236 STEVEN: Yeah, exactly. MIKE: ’Cause he started making ties, right? 207 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:46,268 JERSEY JON: He was making ties? 208 00:06:46,373 --> 00:06:47,413 MIKE: Yeah, that’s how he started making, 209 00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:48,667 yeah he was making ties. 210 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:51,735 STEVEN: Started making ties, and setting up in New York. 211 00:06:51,845 --> 00:06:53,015 MIKE: So were you leasing machines 212 00:06:53,113 --> 00:06:54,313 or were you just selling them back then? 213 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:56,054 STEVEN: Uh, it was primarily sales. 214 00:06:56,149 --> 00:06:57,019 MIKE: Okay. 215 00:06:57,117 --> 00:06:58,277 MIKE: It’s amazing to think about 216 00:06:58,385 --> 00:06:59,495 how Ralph Lauren, 217 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:01,946 one of the biggest brands in the world, 218 00:07:02,055 --> 00:07:05,025 started his business walking through this guy’s door. 219 00:07:05,125 --> 00:07:06,865 MIKE: How much do you want for that trophy? 220 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,130 STEVEN: Ah, it’s a good piece. MIKE: Alright, I mean... 221 00:07:09,229 --> 00:07:10,699 STEVEN: You’re going to... MIKE: You gotta... 222 00:07:10,797 --> 00:07:12,297 STEVEN: You got to step it up. 223 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:14,399 This is a big heavy chunk of something. 224 00:07:14,501 --> 00:07:16,101 JERSEY JON: Plus it’s got flowers in it, Mike. 225 00:07:16,202 --> 00:07:17,172 (laughs) 226 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:18,400 MIKE: Alright, well how about 100 bucks? 227 00:07:18,505 --> 00:07:21,415 STEVEN: I don’t know, you got to step it up from there. 228 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:25,654 MIKE: 175 bucks. 229 00:07:27,213 --> 00:07:28,983 STEVEN: Eh... 230 00:07:29,983 --> 00:07:33,123 I don’t know, you don’t think it’s a $200 piece? 231 00:07:33,219 --> 00:07:34,589 MIKE: Okay, I’m doing it. JERSEY JON: 200. 232 00:07:34,688 --> 00:07:36,218 MIKE: I’m doing it. JERSEY JON: You got it, bro. 233 00:07:36,323 --> 00:07:37,793 MIKE: Alright, cool. JERSEY JON: Yeah. 234 00:07:37,891 --> 00:07:39,291 MIKE: Let me see this thing again. Ahh... 235 00:07:39,392 --> 00:07:40,932 MIKE: I’m just trying to get the ball rolling here. 236 00:07:41,027 --> 00:07:42,657 This is the first thing I’m going to buy from him, 237 00:07:42,762 --> 00:07:44,302 we’re only like 10 feet into this place. 238 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:46,427 That’s the entrance fee. 239 00:07:46,533 --> 00:07:48,373 MIKE: Is this your personal collection in here or...? 240 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:51,098 STEVEN: Yeah, it’s stuff that we took in over the years. 241 00:07:51,204 --> 00:07:53,214 MIKE: But how would you take this kind of stuff in? 242 00:07:53,306 --> 00:07:55,266 STEVEN: Well... MIKE: I mean, were you going to auctions and stuff? 243 00:07:55,375 --> 00:07:57,045 STEVEN: Yes. MIKE: Places that were closing? 244 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:59,113 STEVEN: Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 245 00:07:59,212 --> 00:08:01,012 STEVEN: We would try to bid, 246 00:08:01,114 --> 00:08:02,524 and if you were successful, 247 00:08:02,615 --> 00:08:04,475 you would have to go up with a dolly 248 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:05,524 and schlep the stuff down. 249 00:08:05,618 --> 00:08:07,188 JERSEY JON: You had to schlep it up. 250 00:08:07,287 --> 00:08:09,457 STEVEN: Schlep, when I mean schlep, I mean, schlep. 251 00:08:09,556 --> 00:08:11,556 STEVEN: Walking, you know, 10 blocks. 252 00:08:11,658 --> 00:08:13,028 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: Pushing the thing. 253 00:08:13,126 --> 00:08:14,626 STEVEN: New York Garment District 254 00:08:14,728 --> 00:08:18,998 was the manufacturing center of New York City. 255 00:08:19,099 --> 00:08:21,629 Thousands of various factories, 256 00:08:21,735 --> 00:08:23,905 sample rooms, and design rooms. 257 00:08:24,004 --> 00:08:28,114 Bustling racks of clothing being pushed back and forth. 258 00:08:28,208 --> 00:08:29,538 Trucks coming and going. 259 00:08:29,642 --> 00:08:32,482 And the Hecht Company pushing machines, 260 00:08:32,579 --> 00:08:34,449 winding through the traffic. 261 00:08:34,547 --> 00:08:37,877 The big factories that went in in World War II 262 00:08:37,984 --> 00:08:39,294 were closing up, 263 00:08:39,386 --> 00:08:42,586 the people were retiring or literally dying. 264 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:45,389 So I was getting calls from family, 265 00:08:45,492 --> 00:08:47,332 property managers, supers, 266 00:08:47,427 --> 00:08:50,127 "Come up, we need this space clear," 267 00:08:50,230 --> 00:08:52,470 and we would haul out what we can. 268 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:55,425 MIKE: Ooh! Look at that. 269 00:08:56,336 --> 00:08:57,966 Oh he’s broke! 270 00:08:58,071 --> 00:08:59,271 Look at that, inkwell. 271 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:01,612 STEVEN: We call that a flea bite in New York. 272 00:09:01,708 --> 00:09:03,038 MIKE: That’s bigger than a flea bite. 273 00:09:03,143 --> 00:09:04,983 Look at that, Jersey, put your pen there, 274 00:09:05,078 --> 00:09:06,278 the owl, it’s wood. 275 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:08,079 JERSEY JON: Yeah. MIKE: But his face is broke off. 276 00:09:08,181 --> 00:09:11,281 MIKE: Owls are a symbol of wisdom, self-actualization. 277 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:14,294 I mean, owls are hot. They’re great decorator pieces, 278 00:09:14,387 --> 00:09:17,587 and I love this piece because it is so early. 279 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:19,330 You know, the way you open up his head, 280 00:09:19,426 --> 00:09:22,156 the early inkwell’s there, it’s a hand-carved piece. 281 00:09:22,262 --> 00:09:23,462 MIKE: Do you remember where you got this? 282 00:09:23,563 --> 00:09:25,303 STEVEN: Uh... no. 283 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:27,028 I’m not going to pretend I do. 284 00:09:27,133 --> 00:09:28,433 MIKE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Looks German. 285 00:09:28,535 --> 00:09:29,675 MIKE: What are you thinking on that? 286 00:09:29,769 --> 00:09:31,169 It does look German. STEVEN: It’s got the original... 287 00:09:31,271 --> 00:09:33,241 JERSEY JON: Black Forest. MIKE: Inkwell. Black Forest, yeah. 288 00:09:33,339 --> 00:09:34,769 STEVEN: I don’t know, talk to me. 289 00:09:34,874 --> 00:09:35,684 MIKE: 50 bucks. 290 00:09:35,775 --> 00:09:37,005 STEVEN: Done. MIKE: Alright. 291 00:09:37,110 --> 00:09:38,810 JERSEY JON: Cool. STEVEN: See, everything’s not high. 292 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:40,152 MIKE: See Jersey, I’m easy, I’m easy... 293 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:42,206 MIKE: You’re going to see I’m easier to deal with than Jersey. 294 00:09:47,187 --> 00:09:49,887 (sirens wailing, vehicles honking) 295 00:09:54,461 --> 00:09:57,461 STEVEN: Scissors are one of my personal passions. 296 00:09:57,564 --> 00:10:01,834 These are by appointment to Queen Victoria. 297 00:10:01,935 --> 00:10:03,245 JERSEY JON: No kidding, wow. MIKE: Wow. 298 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:06,166 STEVEN: Right. It has the Royal Warrant on it. 299 00:10:06,272 --> 00:10:10,342 Thomas Wilkinson, Sheffield, England, 1850. 300 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:12,283 JERSEY JON: Wow! STEVEN: Just listen to it. 301 00:10:12,378 --> 00:10:13,908 (snipping) JERSEY JON: You can hear it. 302 00:10:14,013 --> 00:10:16,453 STEVEN: You want to hear that sweet swoosh. 303 00:10:16,549 --> 00:10:18,549 MIKE: Listen to that swoosh... JERSEY JON: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 304 00:10:18,651 --> 00:10:21,151 STEVEN: You hear that swoosh? MIKE: Watch out, he’s gonna get some of your hair. 305 00:10:21,254 --> 00:10:24,024 MIKE: The best thing about my job is talking to someone 306 00:10:24,124 --> 00:10:28,194 face-to-face, and to see someone get so excited 307 00:10:28,294 --> 00:10:30,004 about a pair of shears. 308 00:10:30,096 --> 00:10:32,466 STEVEN: It’ll give you that edge like butter. 309 00:10:32,565 --> 00:10:34,325 You won’t know you’re cutting. 310 00:10:34,434 --> 00:10:35,944 MIKE: Oh wow, yeah. JERSEY JON: How beautiful that is. 311 00:10:36,035 --> 00:10:37,565 STEVEN: And this is heavy wool. MIKE: Yeah. 312 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:40,970 MIKE: And to hear the swoosh and to be able to cut something. 313 00:10:41,074 --> 00:10:42,614 MIKE: So what is the value of something like that? 314 00:10:42,709 --> 00:10:44,939 I’m not interested, just... STEVEN: Ah, very hard to find. 315 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:45,984 MIKE: Yeah, thousands? 316 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:48,109 STEVEN: Yeah, about 900, 1,000. 317 00:10:48,214 --> 00:10:50,854 MIKE: That’s what’s lacking in the antique world now, 318 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:53,590 in the industry, to physically be in there. 319 00:10:57,323 --> 00:10:58,823 JERSEY JON: What is this thing in here? 320 00:10:58,925 --> 00:11:01,035 STEVEN: That’s a good piece. JERSEY JON: What is that? 321 00:11:01,127 --> 00:11:03,057 STEVEN: That’s from the turn-of-the-century. 322 00:11:03,163 --> 00:11:05,533 It’s a printing block for fabric. 323 00:11:05,632 --> 00:11:07,672 JERSEY JON: Ohh... STEVEN: Handmade, copper. 324 00:11:07,767 --> 00:11:11,067 JERSEY JON: It’s all copper. STEVEN: Yeah. Probably 1860s. 325 00:11:11,171 --> 00:11:12,771 JERSEY JON: He says, you heat it up, 326 00:11:12,872 --> 00:11:16,012 and then you put it on the fabric and it embosses the fabric. Brilliant. 327 00:11:16,109 --> 00:11:17,279 JERSEY JON: How much? 328 00:11:18,044 --> 00:11:20,454 STEVEN: Uh, you’re talking more than a skosh, 329 00:11:20,547 --> 00:11:23,047 more than a bissel, you’re up there. 330 00:11:23,149 --> 00:11:25,449 STEVEN: Scooch is the smallest, 331 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:28,522 then a skosh, and then a bissel. 332 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:29,761 JERSEY JON: 50 bucks. 333 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:32,186 STEVEN: Ah, you’re nowhere, you’re nowhere. 334 00:11:32,292 --> 00:11:34,362 JERSEY JON: What do you mean? STEVEN: It’s 50 bucks to hold it. 335 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:36,600 STEVEN: You gotta be at 100, 150. 336 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,396 MIKE: You guys haven’t moved from this spot yet? 337 00:11:38,498 --> 00:11:39,398 JERSEY JON: This piece is amazing. 338 00:11:39,499 --> 00:11:40,599 JERSEY JON: I’m still finishing this up. 339 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:41,930 MIKE: Alright. JERSEY JON: So obviously, 340 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:43,345 you love this thing more than I do. 341 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:45,496 STEVEN: I do love it. JERSEY JON: So you keep it, my friend. 342 00:11:45,605 --> 00:11:47,015 JERSEY JON: You know, you hold on to it. 343 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:48,366 STEVEN: In the years I’ve been here, 344 00:11:48,474 --> 00:11:52,084 I’ve only seen one or two. Not a common item. 345 00:11:52,178 --> 00:11:54,178 MIKE: Let me show you something back here that I’ve been looking at. 346 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,680 JERSEY JON: Yeah? MIKE: Yeah. This piece right here. 347 00:11:56,783 --> 00:11:59,493 Look at that, Jersey. You know what that is, don’t ya? 348 00:11:59,586 --> 00:12:01,546 JERSEY JON: That’s ticker tape. STEVEN: Stock ticker. 349 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:02,894 JERSEY JON: What is this thing? 350 00:12:02,989 --> 00:12:04,619 STEVEN: I put that in there. 351 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,664 JERSEY JON: Max Wetzler. STEVEN: Right. That’s the-- 352 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:07,829 JERSEY JON: The clamp guy? 353 00:12:07,927 --> 00:12:09,257 STEVEN: That’s the clamp guy, that’s him. 354 00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:10,602 JERSEY JON: Woodworking clamps. 355 00:12:10,697 --> 00:12:12,157 So this is the guy who invented this thing? 356 00:12:12,265 --> 00:12:14,435 STEVEN: Yes. In conjunction, 357 00:12:14,534 --> 00:12:17,304 supposedly, with Edison. MIKE: Well, it says, with Thomas Edison. 358 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:18,603 JERSEY JON: He worked with Edison, he says? 359 00:12:18,705 --> 00:12:20,245 STEVEN: This is the story that was told to me. 360 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:21,870 MIKE: Well, here’s the deal, if he worked with Edison, 361 00:12:21,975 --> 00:12:23,485 it would have been way earlier than this. 362 00:12:23,576 --> 00:12:24,806 JERSEY JON: Yeah, this is ’30s, dude. 363 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:26,611 MIKE: Yeah, so this is later. JERSEY JON: This is deco. 364 00:12:26,713 --> 00:12:28,783 MIKE: But maybe this was part of the evolution 365 00:12:28,881 --> 00:12:31,121 of what they were trying to do, I don’t know. 366 00:12:31,217 --> 00:12:33,117 JERSEY JON: Right, Sure, I mean, this is an early computer. 367 00:12:33,219 --> 00:12:35,289 MIKE: Today we check stock prices on our computers, 368 00:12:35,388 --> 00:12:37,018 on our cellphones. But back in the day, 369 00:12:37,123 --> 00:12:38,993 they used a ticker tape machine. 370 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:40,892 MIKE: The unit came out, see? 371 00:12:40,994 --> 00:12:42,234 JERSEY JON: Oh! Oh... 372 00:12:42,328 --> 00:12:43,628 Good call, buddy. MIKE: Okay, so... I would like 373 00:12:43,730 --> 00:12:45,260 to see what’s going on here. 374 00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:46,305 JERSEY JON: Yep. 375 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:47,499 MIKE: So it was basically a telegraph, 376 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,730 it was dedicated to the stock market. 377 00:12:48,835 --> 00:12:50,805 And it was used for like 100 years. 378 00:12:50,903 --> 00:12:52,643 JERSEY JON: Man, look at all the bells and whistles 379 00:12:52,739 --> 00:12:55,509 on this sucker, huh? MIKE: What’s the age of that motor, you think? 380 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:57,208 JERSEY JON: Yeah, you know, to me, it doesn’t look 381 00:12:57,310 --> 00:12:59,780 turn-of-the-century or 1910... 382 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:01,149 MIKE: I’m thinking it’s from the ’30s. 383 00:13:01,247 --> 00:13:02,647 JERSEY JON: I think it’s from the ’30s too, 384 00:13:02,749 --> 00:13:04,179 that’s what I’m thinking. MIKE: But look at this. 385 00:13:04,284 --> 00:13:05,794 STEVEN: You think so? JERSEY JON: Yeah, I think so, 386 00:13:05,885 --> 00:13:07,115 because this is the resin board. 387 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:09,590 And also that, this style of cabinet is deco. 388 00:13:09,689 --> 00:13:11,189 STEVEN: It could be ’20s or a little bit... 389 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,061 JERSEY JON: Nah... look at the electric motor itself, 390 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,029 the way it’s got the bakelite pieces around the brushes, for the motor. 391 00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:17,259 STEVEN: Yeah, you could be right. 392 00:13:17,363 --> 00:13:18,663 JERSEY JON: I’m thinking ’30s. 393 00:13:18,765 --> 00:13:20,905 MIKE: So it’s ’30s, okay. Love that it’s got 394 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,600 just a little bit of paper left in it. 395 00:13:22,702 --> 00:13:23,872 STEVEN: Look how clean it is. 396 00:13:23,970 --> 00:13:25,140 MIKE: How long have you had this? 397 00:13:25,238 --> 00:13:27,038 STEVEN: 10, 15 years. MIKE: Okay. 398 00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:28,140 JERSEY JON: Where did it come from? 399 00:13:28,241 --> 00:13:29,411 STEVEN: Came from a local guy, 400 00:13:29,509 --> 00:13:31,379 his family was in the clamp business. 401 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:33,177 MIKE: Okay. JERSEY JON: Max Wetzler. 402 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:34,309 MIKE: So you knew his son. 403 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:35,854 STEVEN: Right. He would pop in. 404 00:13:35,948 --> 00:13:39,748 I knew him. He gave it to me to be the caretaker of it. 405 00:13:39,852 --> 00:13:41,852 MIKE: Okay. STEVEN: He wanted this 406 00:13:41,954 --> 00:13:43,924 to keep having life. 407 00:13:44,023 --> 00:13:45,933 MIKE: And this was something that his family had all that time. 408 00:13:46,025 --> 00:13:47,355 STEVEN: Right. MIKE: Wow. 409 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:48,990 Imagine what this sounded like working. 410 00:13:49,095 --> 00:13:50,665 STEVEN: Like a sewing machine, right? 411 00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:52,303 MIKE: Yeah. (making ticking noises) 412 00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:54,698 JERSEY JON: Maybe that’s why they kept it in the cabinet, it’s so damn loud. 413 00:13:54,801 --> 00:13:56,571 MIKE: This thing delivered some pretty incredible news... 414 00:13:56,669 --> 00:13:58,369 STEVEN: And bad news. Right. MIKE: ...and also delivered 415 00:13:58,471 --> 00:13:59,941 some really bad news. JERSEY JON: Yeah. 416 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:01,969 MIKE: Think about who would have had this machine. 417 00:14:02,075 --> 00:14:03,485 The president of a bank, 418 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:04,936 or somebody that was a major player 419 00:14:05,044 --> 00:14:07,714 in a financial institution, I mean, this was a prominent 420 00:14:07,814 --> 00:14:09,114 piece in their office, 421 00:14:09,215 --> 00:14:12,585 delivering very important information. 422 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:15,085 So the ones I’ve seen in the past were very elaborate, 423 00:14:15,188 --> 00:14:17,988 underneath a glass dome, very polished. 424 00:14:18,091 --> 00:14:20,331 MIKE: The crudeness of it, that’s throwing me. 425 00:14:20,426 --> 00:14:21,456 Do you think this is a one-off? 426 00:14:21,561 --> 00:14:23,001 JERSEY JON: Maybe. I mean, it’s very possible. 427 00:14:23,096 --> 00:14:24,896 This might be somebody’s prototype. 428 00:14:24,997 --> 00:14:26,527 Because it’s kind of crudely made. 429 00:14:26,632 --> 00:14:28,632 There’s no castings here, Mike, that’s not cast, 430 00:14:28,735 --> 00:14:30,245 that’s a piece of sheet aluminum. 431 00:14:30,336 --> 00:14:33,306 MIKE: With the machine itself being a little bit more crude, 432 00:14:33,406 --> 00:14:34,806 and the cabinet being very simple, 433 00:14:34,907 --> 00:14:36,877 this could have been in a place like a newsroom, 434 00:14:36,976 --> 00:14:38,636 you know, like a newspaper or something. 435 00:14:38,745 --> 00:14:40,815 They were also getting this information 436 00:14:40,913 --> 00:14:43,183 as fast as they could so they could publish it. 437 00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:44,552 MIKE: So what are you thinking? 438 00:14:44,650 --> 00:14:46,020 STEVEN: A lot of money. 439 00:14:46,119 --> 00:14:47,389 MIKE: Like, what’s a lot of money? 440 00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:49,517 STEVEN: More than a skosh, more than a bissel, 441 00:14:49,622 --> 00:14:51,092 a (bleep) load of money. 442 00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:52,390 JERSEY JON: Is that where it goes? 443 00:14:52,492 --> 00:14:53,992 It goes from a bissel to a (bleep) load? 444 00:14:54,093 --> 00:14:55,733 STEVEN: Yeah. A lot of money, you know. 445 00:14:55,828 --> 00:14:57,058 JERSEY JON: How many bissels? 446 00:14:57,163 --> 00:14:58,663 STEVEN: 1,500. 447 00:14:58,765 --> 00:15:00,705 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: Where are you going to find one? 448 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,300 I’ve never seen another one. 449 00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:04,202 Am I wrong? Should I go higher? 450 00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:05,743 MIKE: I mean... no! 451 00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:06,868 (Jersey Jon laughs) 452 00:15:12,645 --> 00:15:15,045 ROBBIE: I’m on the road today to see a guy named Barry. 453 00:15:15,148 --> 00:15:18,118 My brother sent me a picture of a century-old sign 454 00:15:18,217 --> 00:15:19,817 that Barry has. 455 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:22,889 These things are worth thousands and thousands of dollars. 456 00:15:22,989 --> 00:15:24,789 So when you get pictures like this, 457 00:15:24,891 --> 00:15:26,531 you chase it down. 458 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:31,125 ROBBIE: Hey, how’re you doing? 459 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:32,900 BARRY: Can I help you? ROBBIE: Yeah, you Barry? 460 00:15:32,999 --> 00:15:34,029 BARRY: I am Barry. 461 00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:36,103 ROBBIE: Yeah, my brother sent me out here. 462 00:15:36,202 --> 00:15:38,802 Said you had a pretty crazy looking sign out here. 463 00:15:38,905 --> 00:15:41,145 BARRY: Yeah, I’ve got a Seiberling. 464 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,110 I guess you could look at it. ROBBIE: Alright. 465 00:15:43,209 --> 00:15:44,509 So how long have you been collecting? 466 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:46,780 BARRY: Since early ’80s. Come on in. 467 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:49,249 ROBBIE: Alright. Oh you got a Coca-Cola sign, I see. 468 00:15:49,348 --> 00:15:52,688 Oh here it is. Wow, wow! 469 00:15:52,785 --> 00:15:55,215 BARRY: It’s a beaut. Two-sided. 4-by-8. 470 00:15:55,321 --> 00:15:56,521 ROBBIE: Looks can be deceiving. 471 00:15:56,622 --> 00:15:59,492 This beat up piece of tin is a highly desirable 472 00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:01,932 punched tin Seiberling Tire sign. 473 00:16:02,028 --> 00:16:03,698 This has tremendous value. 474 00:16:03,796 --> 00:16:05,256 ROBBIE: It actually does exist. 475 00:16:05,364 --> 00:16:06,574 Can I pull it down? BARRY: Sure. 476 00:16:06,666 --> 00:16:09,126 ROBBIE: This was a handmade sign by a craftsman. 477 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:11,205 They’ve punched holes in the tin. 478 00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:14,374 It’d have light bulbs in it. The light shone through. 479 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,844 This is a sign for Seiberling Cord Tires, 480 00:16:16,943 --> 00:16:19,043 probably from around 1920. 481 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:21,185 This sign is incredibly rare. 482 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,580 BARRY: I’m not sure where this brand is, mid-east? 483 00:16:23,683 --> 00:16:25,383 ROBBIE: Seiberling Tires started in Ohio. 484 00:16:25,485 --> 00:16:27,025 BARRY: Ohio? ROBBIE: Yeah. Midwest. 485 00:16:27,119 --> 00:16:28,249 This was their logo right here, 486 00:16:28,354 --> 00:16:30,124 this was actually orange in here. BARRY: Mm-hmm. 487 00:16:30,223 --> 00:16:32,093 ROBBIE: Frank Seiberling was the guy that started 488 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:34,831 Goodyear Tires in the 1800s. 489 00:16:34,927 --> 00:16:37,127 In the 1920s, Seiberling left Goodyear 490 00:16:37,230 --> 00:16:39,030 to open the Seiberling Rubber Company, 491 00:16:39,131 --> 00:16:41,901 which became one of the nation’s top tire producers. 492 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:45,401 Frank Seiberling’s inventions changed automotive history. 493 00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:47,945 He built the Seiberling tire machine, 494 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,380 which later became the tire machine 495 00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:53,006 that everyone used across the board to make corded tires 496 00:16:53,112 --> 00:16:56,752 in America. A corded tire basically had cords of cotton 497 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,119 in the rubber to reinforce the tire. 498 00:16:59,218 --> 00:17:01,448 That was standard well into the ’60s. 499 00:17:01,554 --> 00:17:05,424 So this sign is a huge piece of transportation history. 500 00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:07,195 ROBBIE: It’s amazing this thing even exists. 501 00:17:07,293 --> 00:17:08,693 It’s over a hundred years old. 502 00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:10,364 BARRY: I had no idea it was that early. 503 00:17:10,463 --> 00:17:13,233 The Seiberling, I bought it so many years ago 504 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:14,872 and was going to try to electrify it 505 00:17:14,967 --> 00:17:16,967 and put lights in it. But I put it on the back burner, 506 00:17:17,069 --> 00:17:18,599 so it was forgotten. 507 00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:20,814 ROBBIE: Where the heck did you find this at? 508 00:17:20,907 --> 00:17:22,207 BARRY: I picked this up at an auction 509 00:17:22,308 --> 00:17:24,008 because I never seen one like it before. 510 00:17:24,110 --> 00:17:26,250 ROBBIE: Wow! BARRY: It was one of those things that nobody else 511 00:17:26,345 --> 00:17:27,605 was interested in. 512 00:17:27,713 --> 00:17:29,783 I don’t know if it’s worth anything, 513 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:31,282 but I’m always learning. 514 00:17:31,384 --> 00:17:33,254 ROBBIE: The condition is amazing on this sign. 515 00:17:33,352 --> 00:17:35,052 To me, I just look at this sign and go, man, 516 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:36,724 this is like a unicorn in a field. 517 00:17:36,822 --> 00:17:39,862 You never find these because they either got crunched, 518 00:17:39,959 --> 00:17:41,329 they’re in a scrap pile somewhere, 519 00:17:41,427 --> 00:17:42,727 or they’re sitting in somebody’s basement 520 00:17:42,828 --> 00:17:44,028 rotting out on the bottom. 521 00:17:44,130 --> 00:17:45,060 ROBBIE: The other plus to this, 522 00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,774 it’s got the three panels down here. 523 00:17:46,866 --> 00:17:49,126 They would have back-lit this sign behind here 524 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:50,675 with light bulbs. BARRY: That’s right. 525 00:17:50,770 --> 00:17:52,170 ROBBIE: Yeah. None of the mounts, though, 526 00:17:52,271 --> 00:17:53,511 are in here for the lights. 527 00:17:53,606 --> 00:17:55,906 BARRY: So they took the lights out and the mounts came with it? 528 00:17:56,008 --> 00:17:57,308 ROBBIE: Yeah, they must’ve taken it all apart. 529 00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:58,810 Or they didn’t finish it. One of the two. 530 00:17:58,911 --> 00:18:00,981 You know, this could’ve been a sign that it never got hung up. 531 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,310 BARRY: Hmm. ROBBIE: This side... 532 00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:03,885 BARRY: That’s the worst side. ROBBIE: Yeah, I mean, 533 00:18:03,983 --> 00:18:06,823 even down here, you can still read the maker’s mark down here. 534 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:09,019 I’d love to throw an offer at you on this sign. 535 00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:10,521 Um... 536 00:18:10,623 --> 00:18:12,223 I’d like to be at five grand on it. 537 00:18:12,325 --> 00:18:14,235 ROBBIE: The sign market over the last five years 538 00:18:14,327 --> 00:18:16,127 has changed so dramatically. 539 00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:18,428 You can’t let these signs slip through your fingers. 540 00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:21,301 This is one of the very first electric handmade 541 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,170 advertising pieces in America. 542 00:18:23,269 --> 00:18:25,269 This was the precursor to neon. 543 00:18:25,371 --> 00:18:27,011 If I put a little work into this thing, 544 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:29,806 I could get 7,500 to 10 grand out of it. 545 00:18:29,909 --> 00:18:31,409 BARRY: I think I’d like to have a chance 546 00:18:31,510 --> 00:18:33,210 to give it some thought. ROBBIE: Okay. 547 00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:35,612 BARRY: Because I’ve got some other signs 548 00:18:35,715 --> 00:18:37,625 you might be interested in. ROBBIE: They’re for sale? 549 00:18:37,717 --> 00:18:39,887 BARRY: Mm-hmm. Maybe you see something else 550 00:18:39,986 --> 00:18:42,146 you’re interested in? ROBBIE: Hey, I’m here. 551 00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:44,264 BARRY: We could... barter on a package deal or something. 552 00:18:44,357 --> 00:18:45,717 ROBBIE: Okay. I got an empty van right now. 553 00:18:45,825 --> 00:18:47,465 BARRY: Okay. My barn’s full, let’s go. 554 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:48,790 ROBBIE: Alright. Full. BARRY: Top and bottom, 555 00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:50,234 there’s two storeys in there. 556 00:19:02,942 --> 00:19:04,212 MIKE: So what are you thinking? 557 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:06,110 STEVEN: A lot of money. MIKE: What’s a lot of money? 558 00:19:06,212 --> 00:19:07,782 STEVEN: 1,500. 559 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,620 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: Where are you going to find one? 560 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:11,075 I’ve never seen another one. 561 00:19:11,183 --> 00:19:13,023 Am I wrong? Should I go higher? 562 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,089 MIKE: I mean... no! (Jersey Jon laughs) 563 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:17,187 MIKE: 1,500. STEVEN: Done. 564 00:19:17,289 --> 00:19:19,219 MIKE: Alright. I think it’s pretty cool. 565 00:19:19,325 --> 00:19:20,895 STEVEN: To be honest with you, 566 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,103 not really that passionate about it, 567 00:19:23,195 --> 00:19:27,025 ’cause I have no way to plug in a Westin-Union signal. 568 00:19:27,133 --> 00:19:29,543 If I could make it work and have the ticker tape 569 00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:32,165 come out of it, would have been a different story. 570 00:19:32,271 --> 00:19:33,711 MIKE: That’s the guy that gave it to you? 571 00:19:33,806 --> 00:19:35,466 JERSEY JON: That’s the guy? STEVEN: That’s Max Wetzler. 572 00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:36,544 MIKE: That’s Max Wetzler-- 573 00:19:36,642 --> 00:19:37,812 JERSEY JON: That’s the clamp guy? 574 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:39,410 STEVEN: That’s the clamp guy. JERSEY JON: That’s the guy 575 00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:41,012 I buy clamps all the time from, huh? 576 00:19:41,113 --> 00:19:42,353 JERSEY JON: There you go, thanks, Max. 577 00:19:42,448 --> 00:19:44,578 MIKE: Okay, well how much is that? To go with this. 578 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:46,694 STEVEN: You know what, he bequeathed it to me, 579 00:19:46,786 --> 00:19:49,046 I’m going to bequeath the picture to you. 580 00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:50,665 MIKE: Alright. STEVEN: Is that fair enough? 581 00:19:50,756 --> 00:19:52,816 MIKE: I love it. STEVEN: This way they stay together. 582 00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:54,485 MIKE: Thank you. Appreciate it. JERSEY JON: Exactly, they should. 583 00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:55,863 JERSEY JON: I mean, I love this story. 584 00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:58,501 MIKE: So the gentleman that you got this from, 585 00:19:58,597 --> 00:20:00,267 this was his father. STEVEN: Correct. 586 00:20:00,366 --> 00:20:02,166 MIKE: Cool. JERSEY JON: Really cool. 587 00:20:08,374 --> 00:20:10,414 JERSEY JON: Man, that’s the biggest square I ever seen, dude. 588 00:20:10,509 --> 00:20:12,279 STEVEN: How could you not look at this? 589 00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:13,278 JERSEY JON: I saw that. 590 00:20:13,379 --> 00:20:14,579 STEVEN: Did you see the size of it? 591 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:15,850 JERSEY JON: Yeah, I did see that. 592 00:20:15,948 --> 00:20:17,848 STEVEN: One, two, three, four, five dogs. 593 00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:19,020 JERSEY JON: These are the dogs. 594 00:20:19,118 --> 00:20:21,148 STEVEN: Yeah. That’s where they get the term 595 00:20:21,253 --> 00:20:22,623 "batten down the hatches". 596 00:20:22,722 --> 00:20:24,792 JERSEY JON: Oh! STEVEN: It’s from a battleship. 597 00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:26,560 STEVEN: That’s 19 inches. 598 00:20:26,659 --> 00:20:28,459 Each dog has a different function. 599 00:20:28,561 --> 00:20:30,231 JERSEY JON: Yeah, so you got to go down like this. 600 00:20:30,329 --> 00:20:31,899 STEVEN: You gotta know how to work the dogs. 601 00:20:31,997 --> 00:20:33,167 JERSEY JON: And that opens that dog. 602 00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,425 And then hold on, let’s make sure it doesn’t fall over. 603 00:20:35,534 --> 00:20:37,074 Look at that. STEVEN: Feel that glass. 604 00:20:37,169 --> 00:20:38,899 JERSEY JON: Ooh man, that’s like a half-inch thick. 605 00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:41,674 STEVEN: Yeah. And then it has the battle hatch or cover. 606 00:20:41,774 --> 00:20:44,684 JERSEY JON: Oh yeah! Sure, this is the cover that covers the glass up, 607 00:20:44,777 --> 00:20:46,977 and the dog holds that in, and then ugh... 608 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:49,209 STEVEN: That’s battleship. JERSEY JON: Battleship. 609 00:20:49,315 --> 00:20:50,885 STEVEN: Big battleship. JERSEY JON: Wow. 610 00:20:50,983 --> 00:20:54,853 STEVEN: If you pop out all the screws under the rim... 611 00:20:54,954 --> 00:20:58,424 JERSEY JON: Yeah? STEVEN: It says, US Navy Mark-something. 612 00:20:58,524 --> 00:20:59,994 JERSEY JON: Of course there’s no guarantee 613 00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:01,532 this came from a battleship. 614 00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:03,957 JERSEY JON: I love the patina’s still all there. STEVEN: Yeah. 615 00:21:04,063 --> 00:21:06,163 JERSEY JON: But what’s cool about it, is that it’s bronze. 616 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:07,495 STEVEN: And look at the hinge on there. 617 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:08,670 JERSEY JON: The hinge is amazing. 618 00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:10,168 STEVEN: The hinge is like a bank vault. 619 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,699 JERSEY JON: It’s so mechanical. The way it’s mounted 620 00:21:11,804 --> 00:21:12,944 on this piece of chestnut. 621 00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:14,468 STEVEN: Very hard piece of wood. 622 00:21:14,573 --> 00:21:15,913 JERSEY JON: I mean, I love this thing, 623 00:21:16,008 --> 00:21:17,578 and it really speaks to me. 624 00:21:17,676 --> 00:21:19,336 JERSEY JON: You want to sell this? 625 00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:20,985 STEVEN: Maybe. 626 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,550 JERSEY JON: I think this thing, in a retail environment, 627 00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:27,850 because it’s military, I think it’s worth 1,500 bucks. 628 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:30,563 STEVEN: Yeah, I’ve seen it as high as 2. 629 00:21:30,656 --> 00:21:32,116 JERSEY JON: I would depend upon the history, 630 00:21:32,224 --> 00:21:33,394 it’d depend upon where... If you could attribute 631 00:21:33,492 --> 00:21:34,492 this to a battleship 632 00:21:34,593 --> 00:21:36,093 or a destroyer or something like that. 633 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:37,435 STEVEN: Not going to know. 634 00:21:37,530 --> 00:21:39,800 JERSEY JON: So it’s kind of a generic military porthole. 635 00:21:39,899 --> 00:21:41,769 STEVEN: And I didn’t want to pop out the... 636 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,797 JERSEY JON: No, no, no... the screws are beautiful. 637 00:21:43,903 --> 00:21:46,873 STEVEN: It’s like putting a screw in sheet metal, it is heavy. 638 00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:48,842 JERSEY JON: Yeah, this is heavy, heavy wood. 639 00:21:48,941 --> 00:21:50,541 So what are you thinking? 640 00:21:50,643 --> 00:21:52,413 STEVEN: I don’t know... it’s a nice piece, 641 00:21:52,511 --> 00:21:54,681 I’ve never seen the five-dog. 642 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:55,950 JERSEY JON: 1,000 bucks. 643 00:21:56,048 --> 00:21:58,048 STEVEN: I don’t, I didn’t hear you, what’d you say? 644 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,090 (laughs) JERSEY JON: Come on, bro. 645 00:22:00,186 --> 00:22:01,816 STEVEN: Ah, it’s a good piece! 646 00:22:01,921 --> 00:22:03,961 JERSEY JON: Yeah, it’s a good piece, but I gotta make money too. 647 00:22:04,056 --> 00:22:05,516 STEVEN: I don’t want to throw you out again. 648 00:22:05,624 --> 00:22:06,994 STEVEN: Come on, come on, you gotta bring it. 649 00:22:07,092 --> 00:22:09,092 You gotta step it up a bit. JERSEY JON: I appreciate you 650 00:22:09,195 --> 00:22:10,435 letting me in the door, my friend. 651 00:22:10,529 --> 00:22:11,699 STEVEN: You gotta bring it up a skosh. 652 00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:13,997 JERSEY JON: How about a little chooch? 1,200. 653 00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:16,099 STEVEN: Bring it to a bissel. JERSEY JON: A bissel? 654 00:22:16,202 --> 00:22:18,102 STEVEN: Yeah. JERSEY JON: 1,250. 655 00:22:18,204 --> 00:22:19,344 STEVEN: 1,250. 656 00:22:19,438 --> 00:22:21,368 Is that a bissel or a pack? JERSEY JON: Hmm... 657 00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:23,883 JERSEY JON: I think he wants a skosh, and a lot more bissel. 658 00:22:23,976 --> 00:22:26,346 STEVEN: Why don’t you make it a lucky 13. 659 00:22:26,445 --> 00:22:28,105 JERSEY JON: Lucky 13, I kind of like that. 660 00:22:28,214 --> 00:22:29,214 STEVEN: It’s a good number. 661 00:22:29,315 --> 00:22:30,785 JERSEY JON: I’m going to take it for 13. 662 00:22:30,883 --> 00:22:32,423 STEVEN: You can’t go wrong. 663 00:22:32,518 --> 00:22:35,488 STEVEN: 1,300 for the porthole was a fair price. 664 00:22:35,588 --> 00:22:36,818 JERSEY JON: Batten down the hatches. 665 00:22:36,922 --> 00:22:38,322 STEVEN: Now did you see the bronze? 666 00:22:38,424 --> 00:22:40,394 JERSEY JON: Oh yeah, yep. STEVEN: It’s like a baby’s butt. 667 00:22:40,492 --> 00:22:42,792 JERSEY JON: Yep, it is nice, it is a wonderful piece. 668 00:22:53,005 --> 00:22:54,745 ROBBIE: Where’s all these signs you’ve been telling me about? 669 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,210 BARRY: They’re in the main barn here. 670 00:22:56,308 --> 00:22:58,038 ROBBIE: Alright. Holy Toledo! 671 00:22:58,143 --> 00:23:00,053 BARRY: I have quite a collection of porcelain 672 00:23:00,145 --> 00:23:02,475 and tin signage I’ve collected over the years. 673 00:23:02,581 --> 00:23:04,681 ROBBIE: Wow! You know, I always say it, 674 00:23:04,783 --> 00:23:06,653 when you got space, you’ll fill it up. 675 00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:09,052 BARRY: I’d have to spend hours listing 676 00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:10,324 everything I collect, 677 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:12,722 signage, neon, and porcelain. 678 00:23:12,825 --> 00:23:15,435 I got sports memorabilia and antiques. 679 00:23:15,527 --> 00:23:16,597 There’s never too many. 680 00:23:16,695 --> 00:23:18,225 ROBBIE: I love that you don’t pigeonhole yourself 681 00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:20,200 into collecting one thing. BARRY: Mm-hmm. 682 00:23:20,299 --> 00:23:22,099 BARRY: But at my age, it’s time to start selling, 683 00:23:22,201 --> 00:23:24,071 because I can’t take them with me. 684 00:23:24,169 --> 00:23:25,999 ROBBIE: What is for sale in here, Barry? 685 00:23:26,105 --> 00:23:27,515 BARRY: Basically, everything... 686 00:23:27,606 --> 00:23:29,266 I would like to keep my Chevy. 687 00:23:29,375 --> 00:23:31,145 ROBBIE: Okay. Yeah, that’s a great sign. 688 00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:34,383 I do have to ask about this Sterling Gasoline. 689 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,950 BARRY: That came from a local auction. 690 00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:39,179 It’s one that was in really good shape. I... 691 00:23:39,285 --> 00:23:40,995 ROBBIE: Yeah, 30-inch signs are great for display. 692 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:41,946 BARRY: Mm-hmm. 693 00:23:42,054 --> 00:23:43,564 ROBBIE: Sterling was a gas company 694 00:23:43,656 --> 00:23:45,886 in the early 1920s and ’30s. 695 00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:49,431 What makes this sign so rare is the condition of it. 696 00:23:49,528 --> 00:23:52,198 There’s no chips in it, color is fabulous on it, 697 00:23:52,298 --> 00:23:54,298 the porcelain condition is perfect. 698 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,070 And the value of these things have skyrocketed. 699 00:23:57,169 --> 00:23:59,499 Guys are looking for dead mint signs. 700 00:23:59,605 --> 00:24:01,245 ROBBIE: What are you thinking on this sign? 701 00:24:01,907 --> 00:24:03,637 BARRY: I’m thinking around 15. 702 00:24:04,510 --> 00:24:06,950 ROBBIE: Okay. I’m really interested in the Sterling, 703 00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:09,576 but I’m also interested in that H-C Sinclair. 704 00:24:09,682 --> 00:24:12,382 H-C, you know, to me, is one of the iconic signs. 705 00:24:12,484 --> 00:24:13,924 ROBBIE: Sinclair is one of the top brands 706 00:24:14,019 --> 00:24:16,419 that people are looking for constantly. 707 00:24:16,522 --> 00:24:18,262 They started in the late 1800s, 708 00:24:18,357 --> 00:24:20,557 and they were a huge oil company. 709 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:22,959 The H-C brand was a later version. 710 00:24:23,062 --> 00:24:24,662 Everybody loves the color, 711 00:24:24,763 --> 00:24:26,973 and this thing just pops in any collection. 712 00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:28,666 ROBBIE: I’d like to see the other side, 713 00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:30,237 but what are you thinking on price on that? 714 00:24:30,336 --> 00:24:31,536 BARRY: I’m not sure, you’ll have to... 715 00:24:31,637 --> 00:24:32,997 ROBBIE: On that one? Let me go up there. 716 00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:35,245 Is there a way to get up, I can take a look at it? 717 00:24:35,341 --> 00:24:36,241 BARRY: We got stairs over... 718 00:24:36,342 --> 00:24:38,342 ROBBIE: This barn is huge! BARRY: Yeah. 719 00:24:38,444 --> 00:24:39,714 ROBBIE: Wow, you got some stuff up here. 720 00:24:39,812 --> 00:24:41,012 BARRY: This side is all my wife’s. 721 00:24:41,113 --> 00:24:43,423 These are all baskets for crafts. 722 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:44,975 ROBBIE: Hey, you gotta give your wife some space. 723 00:24:45,084 --> 00:24:47,194 BARRY: You got that right. ROBBIE: You know. 724 00:24:47,286 --> 00:24:49,016 Yeah... that’s what I was thinking. 725 00:24:49,121 --> 00:24:51,321 I was thinking you had the better side shining out there. 726 00:24:51,423 --> 00:24:53,193 A little bit of whammies up there, 727 00:24:53,292 --> 00:24:54,992 there’s no bullet holes in it. 728 00:24:55,094 --> 00:24:57,304 There’s a couple of touch-ups right there on the end. 729 00:24:57,396 --> 00:24:58,556 BARRY: Oh... ROBBIE: Painted on the white. 730 00:24:58,664 --> 00:25:00,834 BARRY: Okay. ROBBIE: Yeah. Overall condition, 731 00:25:00,933 --> 00:25:02,203 it’s got great shelving on it, 732 00:25:02,301 --> 00:25:03,671 and the colors there, it’s not faded. 733 00:25:03,769 --> 00:25:04,999 ROBBIE: It’s got the original ring on it, 734 00:25:05,104 --> 00:25:06,474 and the cool thing on this, 735 00:25:06,572 --> 00:25:08,312 where it’s got the original grommet holes. 736 00:25:08,407 --> 00:25:09,607 They’re always worn out. BARRY: Are they? 737 00:25:09,708 --> 00:25:11,138 ROBBIE: Yeah. So this sign doesn’t even look like 738 00:25:11,243 --> 00:25:12,783 it’s been hung that long. 739 00:25:12,878 --> 00:25:15,778 Um... you said 1,500 on the Sterling. 740 00:25:15,881 --> 00:25:17,421 Looking at the other side of the Sterling, 741 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,176 it doesn’t look like it has any touch-ups on it. 742 00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:20,754 That’s got great color on that. 743 00:25:20,853 --> 00:25:23,023 One of my favorite signs. BARRY: Mm-hmm. Mine too. 744 00:25:23,122 --> 00:25:24,292 ROBBIE: This sign too. BARRY: Yep. 745 00:25:24,390 --> 00:25:25,290 ROBBIE: I think the high retail 746 00:25:25,391 --> 00:25:27,761 on this thing’s gonna be about 25. 747 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:30,760 Um... 3,200 bucks for the pair. 748 00:25:33,265 --> 00:25:34,595 BARRY: I’d like to get a little more for... 749 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:36,470 ROBBIE: The H-C. BARRY: The H-C. 750 00:25:36,568 --> 00:25:38,468 ROBBIE: 3,500 bucks for the pair. 751 00:25:38,570 --> 00:25:39,570 BARRY: That sounds good. 752 00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:40,871 ROBBIE: That work for you? BARRY: Mm-hmm. Yep. 753 00:25:40,973 --> 00:25:42,143 ROBBIE: Alright. Appreciate it. 754 00:25:42,241 --> 00:25:44,441 So am I getting any closer to my number on the... 755 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:45,583 punched tin? 756 00:25:45,677 --> 00:25:46,947 BARRY: That was the 15,000 one? 757 00:25:47,046 --> 00:25:49,006 ROBBIE: Oh yeah, that’s where we’re on that? I... 758 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:50,054 (Barry laughs) 759 00:26:05,998 --> 00:26:08,228 MIKE: We’ve bought stuff like this for the store. 760 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:10,643 So do you have any full body Wolf mannequins? 761 00:26:10,736 --> 00:26:11,596 Stuff like this? 762 00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:13,003 STEVEN: Wolf’s out of business. 763 00:26:13,105 --> 00:26:14,815 MIKE: Oh they are? STEVEN: They closed up around 2000. 764 00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:16,707 MIKE: You know what? I guess I’ve never bought a new one, 765 00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:18,009 so I’ve never even dug into it. 766 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:19,950 Would you say that Wolf was a casualty 767 00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:21,905 in what happened in the garment industry? 768 00:26:22,014 --> 00:26:23,584 STEVEN: 100%. 769 00:26:23,682 --> 00:26:24,952 MIKE: This was the garment industry right here. 770 00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:26,690 STEVEN: Yeah. MIKE: You were right in the heartbeat of it. 771 00:26:26,785 --> 00:26:28,145 STEVEN: This is the center of it. 772 00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:29,793 MIKE: Okay, so how far did it span? 773 00:26:29,888 --> 00:26:31,988 STEVEN: 8th Avenue to 6th Avenue... 774 00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:34,131 MIKE: Okay. STEVEN: 34th to 40th 775 00:26:34,226 --> 00:26:35,586 is the heart of it. 776 00:26:35,694 --> 00:26:38,104 MIKE: Are they producing a lot in this area still? 777 00:26:38,197 --> 00:26:39,557 STEVEN: Sample rooms. MIKE: Okay. 778 00:26:39,665 --> 00:26:41,605 STEVEN: Where, where they do the design work 779 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:43,230 and make the samples. 780 00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:46,065 Actual production, not so much. MIKE: Yeah. 781 00:26:46,171 --> 00:26:49,771 STEVEN: With big manufacturing being done overseas, 782 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:52,285 the Garment Center still exists, 783 00:26:52,377 --> 00:26:55,807 but on a smaller, more compact scale. 784 00:26:55,914 --> 00:26:57,354 MIKE: So when you go to these places, 785 00:26:57,449 --> 00:27:00,549 you’re servicing everything that they’re actually using. 786 00:27:00,652 --> 00:27:03,222 STEVEN: All the machines, the steam irons. 787 00:27:03,322 --> 00:27:05,262 MIKE: So there’s enough of the business 788 00:27:05,357 --> 00:27:08,357 in the Garment District here to keep you rolling. 789 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:09,590 STEVEN: Yes, yes. MIKE: Okay. 790 00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:11,805 And are you the only one doing what you do? 791 00:27:11,897 --> 00:27:13,967 STEVEN: I’m the... one of the originals, 792 00:27:14,066 --> 00:27:15,796 there’s not too many like me. 793 00:27:15,901 --> 00:27:19,141 We put in business Ralph Lauren, 794 00:27:19,238 --> 00:27:21,938 Calvin Klein, Oscar De La Renta, 795 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,840 Anne Klein-- MIKE: Okay, so when you say-- 796 00:27:23,942 --> 00:27:24,982 STEVEN: Donna Karan. MIKE: When you say 797 00:27:25,077 --> 00:27:26,677 put them in business, what do you mean? 798 00:27:26,778 --> 00:27:29,378 STEVEN: I pushed the machines up one at a time. 799 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,581 MIKE: Oh they were just starting. 800 00:27:30,682 --> 00:27:32,382 STEVEN: Right. Plug them in and said, 801 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:34,054 here’s your machine. Try it out. 802 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,293 MIKE: No kidding. They all walked in the door here. 803 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:38,388 STEVEN: Right. Literally. MIKE: Wow. 804 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:40,390 MIKE: It is incredible for me to speak to somebody 805 00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:43,502 that has been in the industry for so long, 806 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:45,125 and still be a player in it. 807 00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:46,870 After 130 years, 808 00:27:46,965 --> 00:27:50,135 obviously these guys are doing something right. 809 00:27:50,235 --> 00:27:51,495 STEVEN: We had Halston 810 00:27:51,603 --> 00:27:54,373 was the hat man of Bergdorf Goodman. 811 00:27:54,473 --> 00:27:55,913 He came in and said to my dad, 812 00:27:56,008 --> 00:28:00,178 "I want to open a boutique on Madison Avenue, set me up." 813 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:03,919 And I was always being sent for the cheque. 814 00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:05,676 That was my job. (laughs) 815 00:28:05,784 --> 00:28:07,994 STEVEN: In addition to being the schlepper, I was... 816 00:28:08,086 --> 00:28:09,486 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: ...the schnook who had 817 00:28:09,588 --> 00:28:12,088 to go sit there and beg for money. 818 00:28:12,191 --> 00:28:13,991 Now once he sent me to Halston 819 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:16,032 when he moved to Olympic Tower, 820 00:28:16,128 --> 00:28:17,528 which was a new building, 821 00:28:17,629 --> 00:28:19,959 and he did everything in mirrors. 822 00:28:20,065 --> 00:28:21,895 So I’m in the front entrance, 823 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,070 you know, poking around, there were no doorknobs, 824 00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:27,640 and I push a glass panel open, 825 00:28:27,739 --> 00:28:29,569 and it’s a sauna. 826 00:28:29,675 --> 00:28:31,585 Halston is sitting in there 827 00:28:31,677 --> 00:28:34,777 with Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, 828 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,150 and one of his illustrators. MIKE: Get outta here! 829 00:28:37,249 --> 00:28:38,679 STEVEN: And he says, "Steve, what’s up? 830 00:28:38,784 --> 00:28:40,454 What are you doing?" 831 00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:44,092 I said, "Dad wants me to bring back a cheque." 832 00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:46,119 He goes, you know what, take your shirt off, 833 00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:47,535 schvitz awhile, sit with us. 834 00:28:47,626 --> 00:28:49,256 (laughs) 835 00:28:49,361 --> 00:28:50,561 STEVEN: So I’m sitting in there, 836 00:28:50,662 --> 00:28:53,302 I’m schvitzing like a pig, it’s pouring off of me. 837 00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:54,428 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 838 00:28:54,533 --> 00:28:56,033 STEVEN: Right, and at this point, 839 00:28:56,134 --> 00:28:58,174 it’s well past five o’clock. 840 00:28:58,270 --> 00:29:01,040 So I said, look I really gotta get home, 841 00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:04,309 it’s beef stew night... I gotta get back to the Bronx, 842 00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:05,679 they’re going to be waiting for me. 843 00:29:05,777 --> 00:29:07,177 Could you take care of me? 844 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:08,949 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: He goes, you know what? 845 00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:10,877 It’s Thursday night, we’re going to go out. 846 00:29:10,983 --> 00:29:12,083 I’m going to take you out. 847 00:29:12,184 --> 00:29:13,694 MIKE: Did you go out? STEVEN: Yeah, we went out. 848 00:29:13,785 --> 00:29:14,885 MIKE: No kidding, where’d you go? 849 00:29:14,987 --> 00:29:16,147 STEVEN: They took me downtown. 850 00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:17,665 MIKE: Yeah? STEVEN: To the back room 851 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:21,226 of CBGB’s or something. MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughs) 852 00:29:21,326 --> 00:29:23,696 STEVEN: The back room, not the front room. 853 00:29:23,795 --> 00:29:25,695 So when you go downtown 854 00:29:25,797 --> 00:29:28,797 with Lou Reed in 1970-something... 855 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:30,240 (Mike laughs) STEVEN: ...and you’re 856 00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:32,265 a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx. 857 00:29:32,371 --> 00:29:34,371 MIKE: Yeah. STEVEN: That opens your eyes 858 00:29:34,473 --> 00:29:35,813 to a new reality. 859 00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:37,737 I didn’t make it home-- MIKE: Did you ever get a cheque? 860 00:29:37,843 --> 00:29:39,643 STEVEN: No. (Mike laughs) 861 00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:40,955 STEVEN: I didn’t get the cheque, 862 00:29:41,046 --> 00:29:42,406 and I didn’t make it home that night. 863 00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:44,524 But I did come back in the morning 864 00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:47,116 carrying my shoes. 865 00:29:47,219 --> 00:29:51,189 So my father takes me aside and says, I have to talk to you. 866 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:54,390 You always tie your shoes together 867 00:29:54,493 --> 00:29:56,493 and put them over your shoulder. 868 00:29:56,595 --> 00:29:58,965 Otherwise, you’re going to lose a shoe, 869 00:29:59,064 --> 00:30:02,834 and in war and in Manhattan, you cannot lose a shoe. 870 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:05,744 STEVEN: That works in the South Pacific too, 871 00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:07,937 if you’re stranded in the Solomon Islands, 872 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,110 you want your boots tied together. 873 00:30:11,043 --> 00:30:12,313 MIKE: Never asked you what you did. 874 00:30:12,411 --> 00:30:13,781 STEVEN: No. And he said, 875 00:30:13,879 --> 00:30:15,249 did he give you a cheque? 876 00:30:15,347 --> 00:30:17,917 I said, they’re going to mail it to you, I guarantee it. 877 00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:19,146 It’s not an issue. 878 00:30:19,251 --> 00:30:20,951 MIKE: Out of all the stories I thought he was gonna 879 00:30:21,053 --> 00:30:22,723 tell me, this is not it. 880 00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:24,491 MIKE: This would be like a dress form 881 00:30:24,589 --> 00:30:25,889 for a student or something, wouldn’t it? 882 00:30:25,991 --> 00:30:30,331 STEVEN: It’s a scale model form made to exact scale. 883 00:30:30,429 --> 00:30:32,599 MIKE: ’Cause I’ve bought a bunch of these out of a college one time. 884 00:30:32,698 --> 00:30:35,128 STEVEN: It was for people who didn’t have much room. 885 00:30:35,233 --> 00:30:36,573 MIKE: Okay. STEVEN: And wanted to get 886 00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:39,368 a lot of forms into an area. MIKE: Yeah? 887 00:30:39,471 --> 00:30:41,571 STEVEN: This particular form, 888 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,283 Halston liked the half-scale form. 889 00:30:44,376 --> 00:30:45,976 MIKE: Uh-huh. STEVEN: Because he would put 890 00:30:46,078 --> 00:30:48,378 out a dozen at a time. 891 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,880 MIKE: This was his. STEVEN: That is his design. 892 00:30:50,982 --> 00:30:52,652 What you’re holding in your hand-- 893 00:30:52,751 --> 00:30:54,521 MIKE: His design. STEVEN: No, that’s his. He pinned that. 894 00:30:54,619 --> 00:30:56,149 MIKE: Oh you mean he pinned this on here. 895 00:30:56,254 --> 00:30:58,194 STEVEN: He put that on there. MIKE: Get outta here! 896 00:30:58,290 --> 00:31:00,290 STEVEN: That is his design. MIKE: So how did you know that? 897 00:31:00,392 --> 00:31:03,292 Where’d you get this? STEVEN: I got it from the office where it was. 898 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:05,365 MIKE: No kidding! STEVEN: When he passed. 899 00:31:05,464 --> 00:31:06,904 MIKE: Here’s what I know about Halston. 900 00:31:06,998 --> 00:31:08,628 He was from Des Moines, Iowa, 901 00:31:08,734 --> 00:31:11,044 and he was one of the first premier luxury brands 902 00:31:11,136 --> 00:31:14,566 in America. This piece is from his office. 903 00:31:14,673 --> 00:31:15,973 Something that he pinned, 904 00:31:16,074 --> 00:31:17,684 something that he designed. 905 00:31:17,776 --> 00:31:19,636 You know, this should be in the Met. 906 00:31:19,745 --> 00:31:21,015 It’s that significant. 907 00:31:21,113 --> 00:31:22,583 MIKE: What are you thinking on that? 908 00:31:22,681 --> 00:31:24,421 STEVEN: I don’t know if I want to sell that. 909 00:31:24,516 --> 00:31:26,716 We took in about a dozen of those. 910 00:31:26,818 --> 00:31:28,948 And my mother said to me, 911 00:31:29,054 --> 00:31:30,694 Halston pinned that up, 912 00:31:30,789 --> 00:31:33,859 here’s his stitching, don’t sell this one. 913 00:31:33,959 --> 00:31:35,189 That’s a part of my life. 914 00:31:35,293 --> 00:31:38,733 If I sell that, I won’t remember my trip downtown. 915 00:31:38,830 --> 00:31:41,700 (laughs) MIKE: Fair enough. 916 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:44,768 STEVEN: It’s a true story. 917 00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:48,570 MIKE: It’s amazing. I mean, it’s great to hear the story, 918 00:31:48,673 --> 00:31:50,283 but what’s better is to hear it 919 00:31:50,375 --> 00:31:52,935 from somebody that was there. STEVEN: This was a true artist. 920 00:31:53,044 --> 00:31:54,184 MIKE: It’s unbelievable. 921 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:55,809 Thank you for sharing that-- 922 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:57,484 STEVEN: You know how people tell you not to leave 923 00:31:57,582 --> 00:31:59,452 your drink unattended? MIKE: Yeah. 924 00:31:59,551 --> 00:32:01,091 STEVEN: There’s merit to that. 925 00:32:01,186 --> 00:32:02,446 (laughs) 926 00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:14,404 MIKE: I’ll show you a piece right here 927 00:32:14,499 --> 00:32:15,869 that I was interested in. STEVEN: Okay. 928 00:32:15,967 --> 00:32:17,637 MIKE: What’s going on with this license plate topper? 929 00:32:17,736 --> 00:32:19,596 STEVEN: Uh, it came out of a local shop. 930 00:32:19,704 --> 00:32:20,844 MIKE: Back in the day. STEVEN: Yeah. 931 00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:22,339 Original paint, blue and red. MIKE: Yeah. 932 00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:23,811 STEVEN: Good patina. MIKE: What are you thinking? 933 00:32:23,909 --> 00:32:25,439 STEVEN: I don’t know, talk to me. 934 00:32:25,544 --> 00:32:26,714 MIKE: 100 bucks. 935 00:32:26,812 --> 00:32:28,382 STEVEN: Is that the right price? 936 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,250 MIKE: Yeah, I seem to think so. 937 00:32:30,348 --> 00:32:32,218 MIKE: You walk into a place like this, 938 00:32:32,317 --> 00:32:34,847 it’s like something that you would just dream of. 939 00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:36,393 You open the door, the bells rings, 940 00:32:36,488 --> 00:32:38,518 the floor creaks, the smells. 941 00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:40,223 And then you can see all the walls 942 00:32:40,325 --> 00:32:42,825 that are adorned with so many different things. 943 00:32:42,928 --> 00:32:44,328 MIKE: Look at this, this is cool. 944 00:32:44,429 --> 00:32:47,499 City Athletic Club, 1917-1918. 945 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:49,569 STEVEN: Good shape for the age. MIKE: That’s early, yeah man. 946 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:51,498 MIKE: I can see why Jersey 947 00:32:51,603 --> 00:32:53,243 was extremely excited 948 00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:55,568 to walk into this place for the first time. 949 00:32:55,674 --> 00:32:57,884 MIKE: So what are you thinking on this? I offered 100 on this, 950 00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:00,036 and I’ll do 100 on this. 951 00:33:00,145 --> 00:33:02,015 STEVEN: I thought we were at uh... 250. 952 00:33:02,113 --> 00:33:03,653 MIKE: No! STEVEN: 150 and yeah... 953 00:33:03,748 --> 00:33:05,578 MIKE: No, no, no, no. I’m at 200 bucks. 954 00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:07,354 Would you do 100 for this? STEVEN: Yes. 955 00:33:07,452 --> 00:33:09,292 MIKE: Okay, so we’re doing that. 956 00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:11,087 Okay. And then let’s do it this way, 957 00:33:11,189 --> 00:33:12,689 would you do 100 for this? 958 00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:14,461 STEVEN: Eh, looking for a bissel more, 959 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:15,789 I think it’s better than that. 960 00:33:15,894 --> 00:33:16,964 MIKE: Alright, let me think about this. 961 00:33:17,062 --> 00:33:17,902 STEVEN: For real. 962 00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:18,726 STEVEN: Just pushing him up, 963 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,100 that’s the name of the game. 964 00:33:20,198 --> 00:33:22,168 JERSEY JON: It’s dense in here. STEVEN: We saved everything. 965 00:33:22,267 --> 00:33:24,337 JERSEY JON: I could see that. MIKE: The original sign’s up here. 966 00:33:24,436 --> 00:33:27,136 STEVEN: That’s the one that my grandfather hung up. 967 00:33:27,239 --> 00:33:28,909 JERSEY JON: Double-sided tin sign, 968 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:31,137 hand-painted by some New York sign painter? 969 00:33:31,243 --> 00:33:32,943 Man, it doesn’t get much better than that. 970 00:33:33,044 --> 00:33:34,554 JERSEY JON: It’s such a cool piece, man. 971 00:33:34,646 --> 00:33:35,906 You should get it out of here. 972 00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:37,384 STEVEN: It’s preserved up there. 973 00:33:37,482 --> 00:33:39,222 JERSEY JON: You don’t want to sell that sign, huh? 974 00:33:39,317 --> 00:33:40,817 STEVEN: I think that would be bad luck. 975 00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:42,819 JERSEY JON: Alright. I get it, man. Family history. 976 00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:49,255 ROBBIE: Every man needs his barn, right, Barry? 977 00:33:49,361 --> 00:33:51,031 BARRY: Outbuilding, shop, you name it. 978 00:33:51,129 --> 00:33:52,199 ROBBIE: What’s this doing here? 979 00:33:52,297 --> 00:33:55,167 BARRY: Oh that’s my late father’s portrait camera. 980 00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:57,667 ROBBIE: Yeah. BARRY: He collected antique cameras. 981 00:33:57,769 --> 00:33:59,269 BARRY: My late father was an avid 982 00:33:59,371 --> 00:34:01,741 amateur photographer, a very good one. 983 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,410 BARRY: Loved wooden cameras. 984 00:34:03,508 --> 00:34:05,438 Loved the mahogany and the refined woods. 985 00:34:05,544 --> 00:34:07,414 BARRY: My dad got the collecting bug from me. 986 00:34:07,512 --> 00:34:09,152 ROBBIE: Really. BARRY: Believe it or not. Yeah. 987 00:34:09,247 --> 00:34:11,277 BARRY: I helped him build this collection. 988 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:12,983 It’s a good feeling to know 989 00:34:13,084 --> 00:34:14,654 that I did something with my dad. 990 00:34:14,753 --> 00:34:16,053 ROBBIE: Is this something you’re going to sell? 991 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:17,594 BARRY: I’m trying to liquidate all of this, 992 00:34:17,689 --> 00:34:19,359 so yes, it’s for sale. 993 00:34:19,457 --> 00:34:20,987 ROBBIE: The bellows on this thing are actually 994 00:34:21,092 --> 00:34:23,562 in great shape. They’re not torn at all. 995 00:34:23,662 --> 00:34:25,702 And the wood is great. We actually have these 996 00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:28,667 in the store, and a lot of guys use these for, you know, 997 00:34:28,767 --> 00:34:30,837 a statement piece sitting on a shelf. It’s large, 998 00:34:30,936 --> 00:34:32,696 it’s in charge, and it looks like it’s all here. 999 00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,344 What are you thinking you gotta have out of this? 1000 00:34:34,439 --> 00:34:37,009 BARRY: It’s probably worth about 350. 1001 00:34:37,108 --> 00:34:38,678 I’d be comfortable at 250. 1002 00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:41,447 I’m at the stage I got to liquidate my dad’s stuff. 1003 00:34:41,546 --> 00:34:43,106 ROBBIE: I’ll do it. BARRY: Okay. Sweet. 1004 00:34:43,214 --> 00:34:44,524 ROBBIE: 250. Thank you. I appreciate it. 1005 00:34:44,616 --> 00:34:46,176 BARRY: You’re welcome. ROBBIE: I got to ask, Barry, 1006 00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:47,894 where did this sign come from? 1007 00:34:47,986 --> 00:34:49,086 BARRY: Local. Olympia. 1008 00:34:49,187 --> 00:34:51,987 Had a sign fabricator, he passed away, 1009 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,930 and his whole warehouse was brought up here for auction. 1010 00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:56,356 ROBBIE: Motion, I think, in neon 1011 00:34:56,461 --> 00:34:57,901 is one of the biggest pluses. 1012 00:34:57,996 --> 00:34:59,626 We have a shop down in Nashville. 1013 00:34:59,731 --> 00:35:00,871 We live in a music city. 1014 00:35:00,966 --> 00:35:03,266 ROBBIE: Every neon sign has its own charisma. 1015 00:35:03,368 --> 00:35:04,838 This sign is multi-colored, 1016 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,166 it’s got music notes dancing across on it. 1017 00:35:07,272 --> 00:35:08,572 The saxophone’s lit up. 1018 00:35:08,673 --> 00:35:10,513 A lounge, any music venue, 1019 00:35:10,609 --> 00:35:13,439 they would want this, because it’s inviting people in. 1020 00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:16,185 ROBBIE: What’s the number on it? I gotta ask, it’s just... 1021 00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:18,521 BARRY: I’d like you to throw a figure out and see if we’re... 1022 00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:19,977 ROBBIE: ...even close? BARRY: Even close, because... 1023 00:35:20,085 --> 00:35:21,795 ROBBIE: Wow. Man, getting crazy now. 1024 00:35:21,886 --> 00:35:24,256 BARRY: Well it’s... I haven’t seen another. 1025 00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:26,086 ROBBIE: I know. I guess in my mind, 1026 00:35:26,191 --> 00:35:28,331 I’m going to process it and basically what it would cost 1027 00:35:28,426 --> 00:35:30,186 me to make that sign. 1028 00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,965 Um... 3,800 bucks. 1029 00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:35,426 BARRY: How about 4? 1030 00:35:35,533 --> 00:35:37,473 It’s going to be a big hole on my wall. 1031 00:35:38,203 --> 00:35:39,703 ROBBIE: You got anything to fill it with? 1032 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:41,974 BARRY: Not anymore. (chuckles) 1033 00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:43,443 ROBBIE: Here’s a question now. BARRY: Okay. 1034 00:35:43,541 --> 00:35:44,481 ROBBIE: I’m throwing it at ya. 1035 00:35:44,576 --> 00:35:46,376 If I step up and give you the 4 on this, 1036 00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:48,148 do I have a deal on the punched tin? 1037 00:35:48,246 --> 00:35:49,376 BARRY: What’s the deal on the tin? 1038 00:35:49,481 --> 00:35:50,621 ROBBIE: 5,000. 1039 00:35:55,587 --> 00:35:57,957 BARRY: You got a deal. ROBBIE: So If I can give you 4 on this, 1040 00:35:58,056 --> 00:35:59,816 we got a deal on that? BARRY: You got a deal. 1041 00:35:59,924 --> 00:36:01,634 ROBBIE: Dude. Dude, seriously. BARRY: Okay. 1042 00:36:01,726 --> 00:36:03,286 I’m happier, I mean, 1043 00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:06,205 I’m just ecstatic. Woo! BARRY: Well, so am I. 1044 00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:08,427 ROBBIE: The biggest thing you gotta do to this sign right now 1045 00:36:08,533 --> 00:36:10,333 is do a light cleaning on it. 1046 00:36:10,435 --> 00:36:13,775 Re-electrify it with the original porcelain sockets. 1047 00:36:13,872 --> 00:36:14,872 Once that’s all done, 1048 00:36:14,973 --> 00:36:16,813 this thing is going to look magical. 1049 00:36:16,908 --> 00:36:18,078 ROBBIE: Look at that. BARRY: Yeah. 1050 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:19,106 ROBBIE: Huh? BARRY: It fits ya. 1051 00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:20,180 ROBBIE: It fits me, man. 1052 00:36:20,278 --> 00:36:23,108 BARRY: The Seiberling was an easy sell for me. 1053 00:36:23,214 --> 00:36:26,184 I probably got it for around $75. 1054 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:28,254 BARRY: Heh, so the two of us 1055 00:36:28,353 --> 00:36:31,663 came to a price point where we were both happy. 1056 00:36:31,756 --> 00:36:32,756 ROBBIE: Barry, 1057 00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:34,987 I’d drive 10,000 miles for a sign like this. 1058 00:36:35,093 --> 00:36:36,193 ROBBIE: Today was a good day. 1059 00:36:36,294 --> 00:36:37,634 I’m on cloud nine right now, 1060 00:36:37,729 --> 00:36:40,259 because I got to walk away with a 100-year-old sign. 1061 00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:42,075 The neon and the two porcelain signs, 1062 00:36:42,167 --> 00:36:44,197 they’re just a little cherry on top of the icing. 1063 00:36:44,302 --> 00:36:45,702 ROBBIE: Dude, it’s been a heck of a day. 1064 00:36:45,804 --> 00:36:48,114 Even if it was for one sign, I’m happy as can be. 1065 00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:49,706 BARRY: I thoroughly enjoyed Robbie. 1066 00:36:49,808 --> 00:36:51,438 He’s a card, he’s a lot of fun 1067 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:54,113 and I don’t think anybody pulls the wool over his eyes. 1068 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,452 He knows what he’s talking about. 1069 00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:57,577 (honks horn) ROBBIE: Come look me up in Iowa, Barry! 1070 00:36:57,682 --> 00:36:59,682 BARRY: Will do it! ROBBIE: Thanks! 1071 00:37:07,759 --> 00:37:09,359 JERSEY JON: Steve, look at this thing. 1072 00:37:09,461 --> 00:37:10,861 This is pretty crazy. 1073 00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:12,602 STEVEN: I would say that’s Gilded Age, right? 1074 00:37:12,697 --> 00:37:14,527 Never had that drawer open. 1075 00:37:14,632 --> 00:37:17,032 The Declaration of Independence could be in there. 1076 00:37:17,135 --> 00:37:18,545 JERSEY JON: Yeah, it’s stuck in there really good. 1077 00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:20,466 Got a screw in the bottom. It unscrews. 1078 00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:22,572 STEVEN: Locks together. JERSEY JON: It takes the whole thing apart. 1079 00:37:22,674 --> 00:37:24,484 So to me, this was something that a lady would travel with, 1080 00:37:24,576 --> 00:37:26,376 this was a lady’s sewing stand. STEVEN: It’s a sewing box. 1081 00:37:26,478 --> 00:37:28,148 JERSEY JON: It’s a sewing box. STEVEN: You open it, yeah-- 1082 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:29,746 JERSEY JON: There’s a pincushion on the top. 1083 00:37:29,848 --> 00:37:32,278 STEVEN: Yeah, and you put all your accoutrements inside. 1084 00:37:32,383 --> 00:37:34,123 JERSEY JON: This is probably 1810 to 1830. 1085 00:37:34,219 --> 00:37:35,589 STEVEN: Really. Earlier than I thought. 1086 00:37:35,687 --> 00:37:36,947 JERSEY JON: This is pre-Industrial Age furniture. 1087 00:37:37,055 --> 00:37:38,395 JERSEY JON: This is the earliest sewing thing 1088 00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:40,420 you’ve got in here, man. Early American furniture. 1089 00:37:40,525 --> 00:37:42,735 STEVEN: The only one who truly loved this piece was my wife. 1090 00:37:42,827 --> 00:37:44,327 JERSEY JON: Does she still love the piece? 1091 00:37:44,429 --> 00:37:46,259 STEVEN: She loves this piece. JERSEY JON: She still loves the piece? 1092 00:37:46,364 --> 00:37:47,804 STEVEN: Yeah. JERSEY JON: This is worth 650. 1093 00:37:47,899 --> 00:37:49,699 JERSEY JON: Maybe $700. But your wife’s gotta be... 1094 00:37:49,801 --> 00:37:51,701 the one who gotta say yes or no on this. 1095 00:37:51,803 --> 00:37:53,673 STEVEN: She wanted a few things. JERSEY JON: This is her piece. 1096 00:37:53,772 --> 00:37:55,542 STEVEN: Yeah. JERSEY JON: You know, love to buy it. 1097 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,480 If you talk to your wife and it ever becomes available, I’m your guy. 1098 00:37:58,576 --> 00:37:59,906 STEVEN: 100%. JERSEY JON: Okay? 1099 00:38:00,011 --> 00:38:01,311 STEVEN: Yeah. Happy wife, happy life. 1100 00:38:01,412 --> 00:38:02,412 JERSEY JON: That’s what they say. 1101 00:38:02,514 --> 00:38:03,614 STEVEN: Is that true? 1102 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:08,025 STEVEN: I thought it was 1860s to 1880s. 1103 00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:11,289 And he schooled me on that. 1104 00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:12,689 Good education. 1105 00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:14,131 JERSEY JON: Man, this is so wonderful. 1106 00:38:14,225 --> 00:38:17,825 STEVEN: So that makes me 1851 Howe, the first machine... 1107 00:38:17,929 --> 00:38:19,099 JERSEY JON: That’s an early machine. 1108 00:38:19,197 --> 00:38:21,997 STEVEN: This is supposedly one of the first in the world. 1109 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,140 This is what we used to sell in Austria. 1110 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:25,895 JERSEY JON: Oh no kidding. STEVEN: Yeah. 1111 00:38:26,004 --> 00:38:27,344 JERSEY JON: This sewing machine is unusual 1112 00:38:27,438 --> 00:38:28,538 because it’s very early. 1113 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,040 It’s one of the first sewing machines invented, 1114 00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:31,241 made by Elias Howe. 1115 00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:32,742 STEVEN: Is that butter? JERSEY JON: It is butter. 1116 00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:35,084 STEVEN: Is that butter? It doesn’t get better than that. 1117 00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:37,720 STEVEN: Look at the engine turning on the early pieces. 1118 00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:39,046 JERSEY JON: Is that for sale? 1119 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:41,190 STEVEN: I don’t know, I would never replace it. 1120 00:38:41,286 --> 00:38:43,186 JERSEY JON: Yeah, it would be impossible to replace. 1121 00:38:43,288 --> 00:38:44,918 JERSEY JON: It’s working, in nice condition. 1122 00:38:45,023 --> 00:38:46,393 You know, right in Steve’s shop. 1123 00:38:46,491 --> 00:38:47,431 It’s a great piece. 1124 00:38:47,525 --> 00:38:48,425 MIKE: What about this other piece 1125 00:38:48,526 --> 00:38:49,586 I saw over here? 1126 00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:52,531 This plant stand. 1127 00:38:52,630 --> 00:38:53,800 How long have you had that? 1128 00:38:53,898 --> 00:38:55,428 STEVEN: Ah, that’s been here a while. Yeah. 1129 00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:57,573 MIKE: Yeah. I was going to say, that looks Victorian Era to me. 1130 00:38:57,669 --> 00:38:59,639 STEVEN: Yeah, Mom used to put cactuses and stuff on there. 1131 00:38:59,737 --> 00:39:02,167 MIKE: Yeah, exactly. So obviously condition’s everything, 1132 00:39:02,273 --> 00:39:04,813 but you know, there’s a lot of it that can be tweaked. 1133 00:39:04,909 --> 00:39:08,109 You know, nobody’s looking for perfection or anything, but... 1134 00:39:08,213 --> 00:39:09,253 STEVEN: It has a look to it. 1135 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,017 MIKE: Yeah, there’s a definite look to it. 1136 00:39:12,116 --> 00:39:13,316 I think Victorian Era. 1137 00:39:13,418 --> 00:39:15,988 STEVEN: This has been here since before me. 1138 00:39:16,087 --> 00:39:17,287 MIKE: Really. STEVEN: Yeah. Long time. 1139 00:39:17,388 --> 00:39:18,188 MIKE: Wow. 1140 00:39:18,289 --> 00:39:19,789 MIKE: This is a great early 1141 00:39:19,891 --> 00:39:21,431 Victorian plant stand. 1142 00:39:21,526 --> 00:39:23,786 It’s an interesting piece because it’s very simple, 1143 00:39:23,895 --> 00:39:25,535 but it’s also very complex. 1144 00:39:25,630 --> 00:39:27,300 When you look at it, the way it’s made. 1145 00:39:27,398 --> 00:39:28,368 MIKE: Would you sell that? 1146 00:39:28,466 --> 00:39:29,666 STEVEN: Yes. 1147 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:31,597 MIKE: 175 bucks. 1148 00:39:31,703 --> 00:39:33,543 STEVEN: 175 bucks... 1149 00:39:33,638 --> 00:39:34,938 MIKE: Yeah, I’ll put 3-and-a-quarter on it, 1150 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,479 and someone’s going to kick me to 275 to 300. 1151 00:39:38,576 --> 00:39:40,706 STEVEN: I don’t know, bring it up a little. 1152 00:39:40,812 --> 00:39:42,252 MIKE: Alright, 180. 1153 00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,317 STEVEN: I don’t know, 1154 00:39:44,415 --> 00:39:46,075 it’s a piece of my family’s history. 1155 00:39:46,184 --> 00:39:47,324 (Mike chuckles) 1156 00:39:47,418 --> 00:39:49,918 STEVEN: It’s my legacy, this is my inheritance! 1157 00:39:50,021 --> 00:39:52,091 (laughs) 1158 00:39:52,190 --> 00:39:53,820 STEVEN: This is my... my nest egg. 1159 00:39:53,925 --> 00:39:55,895 This is... How am I going to retire with 100... 1160 00:39:55,994 --> 00:39:57,734 MIKE: Okay, 185. It’s not in good shape. 1161 00:39:57,829 --> 00:39:59,029 STEVEN: Make it 2. 1162 00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:01,070 MIKE: Yeah, I’ll make it 190, we both feel good about it. 1163 00:40:01,165 --> 00:40:03,925 STEVEN: I could see my mom gently watering the cacti. 1164 00:40:04,035 --> 00:40:05,505 (chuckles) STEVEN: Telling me, 1165 00:40:05,603 --> 00:40:07,413 you know what she’s telling me? MIKE: What? 1166 00:40:07,505 --> 00:40:08,765 STEVEN: Don’t sell it for 190. 1167 00:40:08,873 --> 00:40:09,913 MIKE: Ah! STEVEN: Get two. 1168 00:40:10,008 --> 00:40:11,078 MIKE: Okay 195. 1169 00:40:11,175 --> 00:40:12,375 Make me feel good. 1170 00:40:12,477 --> 00:40:14,647 Make me feel like I got something out of it. 1171 00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:15,946 STEVEN: Alright, I’ll do it. 1172 00:40:16,047 --> 00:40:17,277 MIKE: Okay, I appreciate you, man. 1173 00:40:17,382 --> 00:40:19,482 STEVEN: You got a piece of Hecht history. 1174 00:40:19,584 --> 00:40:21,294 MIKE: Thank you. You got something to cut that, don’t ya? 1175 00:40:21,386 --> 00:40:24,016 I think you got a pocket knife on you, don’t ya? 1176 00:40:24,589 --> 00:40:26,589 Okay, there you go. See if it works. 1177 00:40:27,392 --> 00:40:29,162 STEVEN: Any piece of metal you pick up here 1178 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,260 that’s supposed to cut, 1179 00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:33,632 is going to be like a razor... 1180 00:40:33,731 --> 00:40:34,831 except this. 1181 00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:36,403 (laughs) 1182 00:40:36,501 --> 00:40:39,741 STEVEN: It’s a piece that’s been here for a good 50 years. 1183 00:40:39,837 --> 00:40:42,007 When the shop is empty and there’s room, 1184 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:43,706 I put plants on it. 1185 00:40:43,808 --> 00:40:45,438 MIKE: Alright, we’re going to carry this out of here. 1186 00:40:45,543 --> 00:40:46,583 Here we go. 1187 00:40:46,678 --> 00:40:49,648 MIKE: Steven’s family’s skillset, contribution, 1188 00:40:49,747 --> 00:40:53,747 hard work, is the reason they’ve become an institution. 1189 00:40:53,851 --> 00:40:56,021 A legacy. And one of the foundations 1190 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,520 of the American garment industry. 1191 00:40:58,623 --> 00:40:59,563 JERSEY JON: Cool. MIKE: Alright. 1192 00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:00,687 JERSEY JON: Thank you so much, dude. 1193 00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,662 STEVEN: Alright, it’s a pleasure. Nice to see ya. 1194 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,130 MIKE: Hey seriously, thanks for sharing your family’s history. 1195 00:41:04,228 --> 00:41:05,758 JERSEY JON: And also, thanks for letting us come back. 1196 00:41:05,863 --> 00:41:07,063 JERSEY JON: I mean, let me come back. 1197 00:41:07,165 --> 00:41:08,575 STEVEN: Yeah. You’re lucky I let you in. 1198 00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:10,096 JERSEY JON: I appreciate-- I’m glad you remembered me. 1199 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:11,401 MIKE: Hey, Jersey. STEVEN: Yeah, a little bit. 1200 00:41:11,502 --> 00:41:12,872 MIKE: You’re with me. JERSEY JON: Yeah, right. 1201 00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:16,211 STEVEN: We’ve been doing this for three generations, 1202 00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:18,637 130-somewhat years, 1203 00:41:18,743 --> 00:41:21,053 through war, through Depression, 1204 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:22,445 through death. 1205 00:41:22,547 --> 00:41:24,517 We come in the next day, 1206 00:41:24,615 --> 00:41:26,615 put the key in the lock, and get it done. 1207 00:41:26,718 --> 00:41:29,918 JERSEY JON: Thanks a lot, buddy. STEVEN: Alright. Safe ride. 1208 00:41:30,021 --> 00:41:32,061 JERSEY JON: Save a shekel for me sometime, man. 1209 00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,186 STEVEN: Sweet pickings. 1210 00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:34,691 JERSEY JON: Alright, sweet pickings to you. 1211 00:41:39,864 --> 00:41:42,434 STEVEN: I have to tell you, I do rub this every day. 1212 00:41:42,533 --> 00:41:44,033 (crew laughing) I love this chunk of metal. 1213 00:41:44,135 --> 00:41:45,645 CREW MEMBER: I do, I knew it. STEVEN: Yeah. 1214 00:41:45,737 --> 00:41:46,897 STEVEN: Exactly. MIKE: Alright, I feel like 1215 00:41:47,005 --> 00:41:48,545 I’m on Home Shopping Network. (laughs) 1216 00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:49,809 STEVEN: So in addition to being... 1217 00:41:49,907 --> 00:41:51,477 JERSEY JON: Hey, it’s a fascinating machine, 1218 00:41:51,576 --> 00:41:52,806 you know what I’m saying? Hey! 1219 00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:55,610 STEVEN: The only one who truly loved this piece was my wife. 1220 00:41:55,713 --> 00:41:57,623 (STEVEN’S WIFE): Yes, it’s mine. JERSEY JON: Ha! 1221 00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:59,275 STEVEN: Add a little psychedelic to that. 1222 00:41:59,384 --> 00:42:00,484 MIKE: Okay, I got you. 1223 00:42:00,585 --> 00:42:03,595 STEVEN: Add more... Add a bissel of psychedelic. 1224 00:42:03,688 --> 00:42:05,988 (laughs) STEVEN: Not a little. A bissel.