JERSEY JON: Is that the falls? ROBBIE: Yeah, that’s the falls.
JERSEY JON: Man, it’s churning it up over there. Woo.
Dude, are we going to Canada? ROBBIE: No, we’re not going to Canada!
JERSEY JON: I think we are. ROBBIE: No, we’re not.
That’s Canada right there, we’re not going, see this?
It says, "exit".
DANIELLE: I’ve been doing some research. And I’m curious.
Do you think it was the Greeks or the Macedonians
that created the Coney dog?
MIKE: You know what, that’s one thing that has been
disputed forever.
I mean, it’s like you know,
are there Martians really in Roswell?
ROBBIE: You’ve been on your phone for like an hour.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. ROBBIE: I’ve watched you
for years, but I’ve never seen you smile at damn phone
like you’re smiling at it like, what is up, dude?
JERSEY JON: Nothing, man. MIKE: If you know hot dog
history at all, you would know that the hot dog
was sold in Coney Island,
but it was a Macedonian immigrant that opened the first
Coney Island restaurant in Jackson, Michigan.
JERSEY JON: I have needs.
See, this says "I love New York"?
ROBBIE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Well, I need love too, you know.
ROBBIE: What the heck’s that mean?
MIKE: So the Jackson restaurant is the first brick-and-mortar
instead of somebody selling them on the boardwalk...
ROBBIE: So you’re saying you got a girlfriend.
ROBBIE: Just come out and say it, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: We’re hanging out, it’s good.
ROBBIE: Say the words!
JERSEY JON: Yes, it’s girlfriend, yeah.
ROBBIE: What! JERSEY JON: Girl-friend.
ROBBIE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Yeah. Friend.
ROBBIE: Damn, dude.
JERSEY JON: I know. It’s kind of weird.
ROBBIE: What’s up with that? JERSEY JON: I don’t know, man.
DANIELLE: Have you been to the two spots in Detroit?
Lafayette and American?
MIKE: Yeah, that’s like the Hatfields and McCoys over there.
DANIELLE: It is! JERSEY JON: I don’t even know her last name.
ROBBIE: What! JERSEY JON: I don’t, man.
ROBBIE: You’ve been hanging out with this girl for four months
and you don’t even know her last name?
JERSEY JON: Nope. MIKE: Hot dog people
are very passionate people.
DANIELLE: I guess. MIKE: They’re like Packers fans.
If you’re into dogs, you’re into the history of the dog.
From the rooter to the tooter.
(laughing)
MIKE: That’s the reality of it.
DANIELLE: So we’re going to go see Deane right now.
Kind of a cool story ’cause this guy is actually one
of the oldest McCulloch dealers in Michigan. And now--
MIKE: What are you talking about, like chainsaws and stuff?
DANIELLE: Yeah. MIKE: The guy’s got a small engine shop?
DANIELLE: Yeah. MIKE: So how long has he been in business?
DANIELLE: 55 years. MIKE: Damn.
DANIELLE: He’s retiring.
So it’s just simple.
He’s thinning out his collection. This is it.
MIKE: This little white house? Oh yeah, he’s got buildings
out back. Okay, I see. DANIELLE: Ah okay.
(honks horn)
MIKE: Yeah, there’s a little cabin house there.
DANIELLE: Okay.
DEANE: Hey, you made it.
MIKE: Hey. You Deane? How are you doing, man?
I’m Mike. Nice to meet you. DEANE: Mike? How you doing?
DANIELLE: How are you doing, Deane?
MIKE: This is pretty cool back here. DANIELLE: This is beautiful.
MIKE: How long you been on this property? DEANE: Since ’69.
MIKE: Every collector has their spot.
It’s the nest where they can surround themselves
with all of their things. It’s peaceful.
That’s exactly what this place looks like to me. I mean,
it’s far enough off the road
to where you feel like you’re completely somewhere else.
DEANE: You’re welcome to...
MIKE: Which way do you want to go?
DEANE: ...look at anything you want, there’s no secrets.
DANIELLE: This is great, this is gorgeous out here.
DEANE: Yeah.
MIKE: Oh wow. This is cool. DANIELLE: Oh, this is beautiful.
MIKE: That’s nice, man.
DEANE: That Model T, I worked on years ago.
MIKE: Wow, that’s cool.
DEANE: I mostly collect automotive.
When I was growing up, my dad, he had old cars.
He will always influence me.
I had to think, I’d like to own one of them.
So I bought cars as a reminder of when I was younger,
and it’s my enjoyment.
MIKE: How long did it take you to do this?
DEANE: 10, 12 years. It was all in pieces.
It was just the sheet metal.
But there was no wood, it was all rotten.
MIKE: You could tell the Model T is meticulously done.
Think about the 10 to 12 years you’ve committed your life
to finding every single part on this car.
That’s how detail-oriented Deane was.
And it shows, man.
MIKE: What’s up with this bicycle,
what’s going on with that?
DEANE: That’s a bike I acquired probably 40 years ago.
MIKE: Can we look at it? DEANE: Sure.
MIKE: The wood-rimmed bike. And it’s got a head badge on it
which is huge. This is a Cleveland bicycle,
it’s turn-of-the-century. And this was built during
the heyday of American bicycling.
There were four major bicycle manufacturers
turn-of-the-century: Pope, Gormully & Jeffery,
Overman, and Lozier.
Lozier made this Cleveland cycle.
I love this time period because it’s creeping
into the beginning of the motorcycle industry.
It’s pretty cool.
MIKE: What’s going on with that? What are you gonna do with that?
DEANE: It’s going to find a home someplace.
MIKE: Yeah, looks like it’s original paint.
That seat’s pretty rough on it.
These handlebars are actually bent, they’ve bent them
to kind of look like a racer.
I’d pay 500 for it. If that does anything for ya.
DEANE: That’s probably going to find a new home then.
MIKE: You’re doing it? DEANE: Sure. Thank you.
MIKE: Alright. I appreciate ya. Thank you very much.
I love old bicycles. I’ve been into the bicycle world
for a long time.
JERSEY JON: It’s right up here, right past this sign.
ROBBIE: Okay, I see it. JERSEY JON: See...
ROBBIE: Right here. Get a flyer.
(honks horn)
ROBBIE: How’re you doing? KATHY: Good, how are ya?
ROBBIE: Are you Kathy? KATHY: I am Kathy.
JERSEY JON: How’re you doing? ROBBIE: You talked to Danielle on the phone?
KATHY: We did, yeah, yeah. Nice to meet you.
KATHY & JERSEY JON: Nice to meet you.
KATHY: Terri and Denise. TERRI: Hey.
ROBBIE: Yeah, she said there were three sisters.
JERSEY JON: How are ya? TERRI: Yes, nice to meet you.
ROBBIE: Rob, nice to meet you.
(overlapping chatter)
KATHY: We are trying to sell our dad’s collection,
because unfortunately, he passed away back in January.
ROBBIE: Did you guys grow up here?
TERRI: We spent a lot of summers here
in his antique shop. When the store was open,
we’d dust the furniture, stuff like that.
JERSEY JON: Oh cool. TERRI: My dad first opened
Tony’s Antiques back in the early ’80s.
Kept it open for like 10 years.
DENISE: The market kind of left this area for antiques,
and he had to go back to work. JERSEY JON: Everywhere it did.
TERRI: Closed it... KATHY: Early ’90s.
TERRI: Yeah, early ’90s, I want to say.
Then he just went back to work, to his construction job.
But he still did on the weekends, though.
KATHY: He never stopped collecting.
JERSEY JON: He kept piling stuff into the shop then.
TERRI: Yes, he did. JERSEY JON: Ooh.
ROBBIE: Can we take a look? KATHY: Yeah, absolutely.
KATHY: Come on in. Alright. ROBBIE: You lead the way.
JERSEY JON: Ooh, I like that drafting table.
TERRI: Okay, yeah. JERSEY JON: What’s up with that?
TERRI: You know what? I don’t even know
when or where my dad got it from.
He probably just picked this up just because of what it was.
TERRI: It was old, right. Yeah, not to work on it.
JERSEY JON: Okay. ROBBIE: Yeah.
KATHY: I honestly didn’t even really notice the table.
JERSEY JON: This is cool, this is like a cast-iron
piece under here, Robbie. You see this? ROBBIE: Oh yeah.
JERSEY JON: This is when they actually hand-drew mechanical drawings
and architectural drawings. They did it on tables like this.
TERRI: No kidding. JERSEY JON: So now,
there’s like an industrial revival for furniture
and it kind of fits into an esthetic
that people are decorating with now.
TERRI: Okay. JERSEY JON: So this is something
I’d be interested in buying. TERRI: Okay.
JERSEY JON: This is a draftsman’s tool.
JERSEY JON: The top is nice.
JERSEY JON: 1900 to 1920, I’d say this thing is.
TERRI: Oh, look at that. JERSEY JON: See that?
JERSEY JON: The flexibility of this table is amazing.
It moves with your body to adjust to your height,
the way you’re comfortable. It makes work easier.
ROBBIE: This would be a good dinner table.
JERSEY JON: Put stools around it. It just has the look.
JERSEY JON: These drafting tables are fantastic
for industrial décor.
They fit in as your dining room table,
as a kitchen table, work table.
It still works as a drafting table.
JERSEY JON: It’s not so much about refinishing,
it’s mostly about keeping the patina on it.
JERSEY JON: It’s an everyday work table that works
in today’s environments.
JERSEY JON: Something like this, cleaned up,
retail on this is probably around...
around 550, 600 bucks, you know.
KATHY: I was surprised by the value of it.
JERSEY JON: I’m thinking 300 bucks.
KATHY: I think that’s a good price for this.
TERRI: I don’t know. 350?
JERSEY JON: 350. Hey, we’ve got to clean this thing.
TERRI: Yeah, but you just said, everyone likes the old look
of it still, so there’s not that much work on it.
JERSEY JON: Well, we gotta wax it and clean it,
we gotta haul it. 3-and-a-quarter.
TERRI: Alright. That sounds good.
JERSEY JON: 3-and-a-quarter? KATHY: That sounds good.
JERSEY JON: Thank you. ROBBIE: Awesome.
JERSEY JON: Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
JERSEY JON: Drafting tables are timeless. This is made to last.
JERSEY JON: Robbie, look at this car. What it is?
ROBBIE: It’s a ’32 Chevy. This is a ’32 sedan,
and I just... eh...
I mean, I love cars, but I cannot do sedans.
It’s not me.
All this stuff just from flea markets
and things around here, all?
DENISE: Estate sales, garage sales.
TERRI: When Denise and I were little,
he used to take us on Sundays,
there was a flea market every Sunday downtown
at the city market. We’d help him sell stuff. And...
DENISE: He had a little booth that he would operate
out of his pickup truck, and we would help lay out
all the glassware, whatever the items he had on the table.
TERRI: Unwrap, unwrap everything.
DENISE: Yeah, that’s a good point.
After all of that wrapping and unwrapping everything
over and over again. TERRI: How many things do you think we dropped?
(laughing) TERRI: And broke.
ROBBIE: So Kathy, I see this place has got an attic.
Anything up there?
KATHY: I’m not quite sure what’s up there,
but you can go up there and look.
DENISE: I’ve never been upstairs in the garage.
KATHY: I poked my head up there once, and just kind of
walked back downstairs.
DENISE: Are you finding anything good?
(sighs)
(objects clattering)
ROBBIE: Yeah, it’s just an old roof rack.
The wood’s broken on it, but it, you know,
the fact that it still exists is a cool thing. It...
KATHY: Wow. ROBBIE: This was in an accessory
that they put on a car, is what they did.
I call it the jewelry. I mean, it would have gone
on any ’30s, ’40s car.
Even into the ’50s station wagons.
ROBBIE: It’s missing some of the rubber pieces
that go on the bottom here, they would suction cup that down
and the straps are gone too. But...
it’s still great. It’s got the look,
and everybody’s looking for this stuff to put back on their cars.
ROBBIE: They want to throw on some old leather luggage on top
of there just to give it the nostalgic look
of back in the day when they were traveling.
DENISE: What would something like that be worth?
ROBBIE: If everything was complete on it,
it had all the strapping, it’d probably be
3-and-a-quarter. DENISE: Wow.
DENISE: That to me would have went right on the curb.
KATHY: I would have trashed that.
DENISE: Honest to God. That would have went right to the curb.
I did not realize the value.
KATHY: Yeah, Dad was always bringing just random stuff
like that home. I mean, who knows where he found it,
especially car parts like that.
He always would gather stuff
’cause he was kind of a motor head.
KATHY: Dad was the one, you’re throwing that away?
DENISE: Oh my God. KATHY: So you had to hide
if you were throwing something away.
ROBBIE: I want to be at like 60 bucks on it.
I won’t clean it up too much, but I will fix the wood.
And then try and get the straps fixed on it,
and then that’s it. KATHY: Yeah, we can do that.
That sounds like a deal. ROBBIE: I appreciate it.
TERRI: We didn’t live here, but we spent a lot of time here
helping my dad out in the summertime.
DENISE: We had to work 9-to-5 Monday through Friday.
DENISE: We loved the ladies coming in, ’cause they would buy
the small glassware, you know, versus big furniture.
So we would get to wrap it up and bag it,
and that was like the biggest kick, you felt like a cashier,
I guess, yeah.
TERRI: Yeah, ’cause we stood behind the counter.
TERRI: My sister here, Denise, used to dust
all the furniture inside, there was a lot of furniture
in there at the time he sold.
DENISE: I would get the easier jobs
’cause I was younger.
TERRI: I used to cut the grass
with the gas mower. I could never start it,
so he always had to start it for me.
DENISE: We would have to help him load the truck, you know.
TERRI: We know how to move furniture.
DENISE: We know how to move furniture, right?
DENISE: I would have to like, strip it, and then
sand it by hand, and then stain it.
JERSEY JON: But then you sold it.
DENISE: The best part was the money that we got,
we had to use to buy our school clothes.
DENISE: We couldn’t even use it to have fun.
JERSEY JON: ’Cause that’s how it works.
DENISE: So we learned at an early age what a work ethic was.
JERSEY JON: The value of a dollar.
JERSEY JON: You’re working for your money.
DENISE: I appreciate that to this day.
ROBBIE: My mom was the same way with my brother and I.
ROBBIE: Tony taught these girls to be self-sufficient
and independent. He taught them to work with their hands.
Something that they’ll use their entire life.
ROBBIE: Check that out. JERSEY JON: Oh, that’s cool.
ROBBIE: Brochures for the early batteries.
JERSEY JON: That’s neat. ROBBIE: Or tires.
JERSEY JON: So they made it look like a battery box.
ROBBIE: Goodyear didn’t sell batteries. They sold tires.
Sisters: Right, okay, wow. ROBBIE: So this was like a display for...
JERSEY JON: It’s like a hard rubber box.
JERSEY JON: That is kind of interesting.
I’ve never seen that, Robbie. KATHY: Where did you find that?
ROBBIE: It was underneath the car back there.
KATHY: Oh, okay.
ROBBIE: It’s probably from the ’40s, ’50s.
I think it’s 75, $80 retail.
KATHY: Really. ROBBIE: Yeah.
KATHY: Wow. ROBBIE: 35 bucks.
KATHY: Yeah, that sounds good. We can do that.
JERSEY JON: Cool. TERRI: I like that.
DENISE: For something we didn’t even know was there.
KATHY: Yeah. ROBBIE: She likes 50.
I could see it in here face. TERRI: I was going to say 50.
JERSEY JON: She was definitely...
ROBBIE: I saw it in her face.
(overlapping chatter) TERRI: You said 75, 80 retail.
JERSEY JON: Well, we got these guys here, we’re going to make some money.
TERRI: Um... 50?
ROBBIE: 40 bucks.
TERRI: 45.
ROBBIE: Alright. KATHY: Man, you drive a hard bargain.
ROBBIE: She’s driving... TERRI: My father...
ROBBIE: She’s got her father talking, yeah.
JERSEY JON: I found these things here too.
This is Buffalo water meter.
JERSEY JON: It’s a bronze water meter that’s made in Buffalo.
It’s got the clockwork on it so it actually measures how muc
water is going through it,
so they can bill you.
ROBBIE: Oh, I know all about those.
JERSEY JON: Trouble lights, man, they’re really cool.
JERSEY JON: I mean, it’s just for a decorator piece,
like sitting on a corner with a bulb in it.
So I’m interested in both these things.
KATHY: Okay. JERSEY JON: What do you want for them?
(Robbie laughs)
JERSEY JON: She’s the one doing all the negotiating.
TERRI: I’m in charge of the money.
(laughs)
JERSEY JON: Hit me. TERRI: 125.
JERSEY JON: Ahh, no, no, no.
This thing is cool, it ain’t that cool.
TERRI: You said it was bronze, though.
JERSEY JON: Okay, so how much scrap is that, like 10 bucks?
TERRI: Yeah. KATHY: Probably.
ROBBIE: Are you going to melt it down?
JERSEY JON: I could. This retails like 75 to 100 bucks.
TERRI: Okay. JERSEY JON: This like,
like 25 maybe $30 thing, right, Robbie? I mean, if that.
ROBBIE: Oh, yeah. JERSEY JON: We’re talking about retail like 100, 110 bucks.
KATHY: Okay. JERSEY JON: 50 bucks.
TERRI: 50, alright, I’m good with it.
JERSEY JON: Good with that? Woo-hoo, see that?
I know how to negotiate with her, Robbie.
(laughs) KATHY: She’s the tough one.
JERSEY JON: I noticed that right away.
ROBBIE: Yeah. ROBBIE: What’s in the big building?
KATHY: You have no idea. JERSEY JON: Really.
TERRI: There’s a lot, a lot.
ROBBIE: You guys lead the way.
DENISE: Alright, I’ll hang back here,
there’s enough to clean up around here.
ROBBIE: Alright. JERSEY JON: Alright, cool.
DEANE: This is a part of the barn,
this was the original barn.
MIKE: Oh, wow, this goes on. Nice.
DANIELLE: Woo-hoo.
MIKE: Did you restore this car too?
DEANE: Yeah, this is a ’48 Dodge.
MIKE: Then you got the 4-door here.
DEANE: Yeah, that’s a nice car, that’s original.
DEANE: At first, I was always around farm stuff.
And then my dad had a garage and gas station
when I was growing up.
DEANE: Then when I got older, I worked in an automotive
machine shop. So I enjoyed that.
MIKE: I love this truck. This is an ’83, Dani.
DANIELLE: That’s beautiful.
MIKE: What’s the long-term plan on this?
DEANE: Ah, there’s a doctor, and he wants that bad.
MIKE: Does he? Has he offered you any money for it?
DEANE: I told him it might be 20,000, he said,
"I don’t care what it is, don’t let it sit outside,
because I want to take it." (Mike laughs)
DEANE: So, there it sits. DANIELLE: That’s a killer truck.
MIKE: I know, man.
Look at that, Dani D.
So you’ve got all this early McCulloch stuff.
DEANE: I was the youngest McCulloch dealer in the state of Michigan,
’cause the dealer that they had wasn’t doing mechanical work.
I was doing some of his mechanical work.
MIKE: How old were ya? DEANE: I was 17.
DEANE: I didn’t want to really work for somebody else,
I always wanted to work for myself.
MIKE: So you were self-employed when you were 17.
DEANE: I still had a job. I worked construction too.
MIKE: Deane has been in busines for 55 years.
Imagine the sense of pride bein able to pass down your business
everything that you worked hard for to your son.
That’s pretty cool.
MIKE: What are you thinking on that clock?
DEANE: I got that clock in 1962 from my father-in-law,
who was a Magneto man.
MIKE: Okay. DEANE: And...
MIKE: He serviced Magnetos and sold them?
DEANE: Forever. He started in ’37, ’38.
MIKE: Wow.
MIKE: If you’re into early transportation,
you’re going to need a Magneto guy.
Because the Magneto is what gives the engine life.
It’s a self-contained unit that uses a magnet
and a coil to generate spark for the ignition system.
MIKE: And that’s what’s cool about this clock,
it’s directly connected to early engines.
MIKE: That clock looks ’40s to me, late ’30s.
Oh, look at that. DANIELLE: Yeah, there we go.
She’s running. DEANE: That’s running.
(Mike whistles) MIKE: Isn’t it amazing the way they made things
back then, that it’s still running? DEANE: Quality.
MIKE: What is that, is that like steam behind it?
What is that? DANIELLE: It’s on the glass,
actually, it looks like someone tried to scrap something off
of it with a brillo pad or something. It’s etched in.
DEANE: It’s a nice clock.
MIKE: $1,000.
DEANE: You’re probably going to take it with you.
(Danielle laughs)
DEANE: It fell off that shelf...
MIKE: Well, I mean, if the glass wasn’t that way,
it’d mark it up even more. DEANE: It is a nice clock.
MIKE: Alright, what do you got going on back here?
DEANE: To me, the fun of collecting is the challenge
of finding that stuff.
And a lot of people would come in the shop
and they’d bring me in a light or they’d bring me
in an oil can or a bike.
So they would say, you want that? Yeah.
And I had to drag it home.
MIKE: What about stuff like this? Like, I saw this.
Any of these stoplights. You got that one
that says "stop". Like, it looks like somebody’s repainted that.
You’ve got this one that says "stop".
It’s embossed in the glass.
MIKE: These stop taillights are accessories.
A lot of them weren’t this elaborate
and they didn’t say "stop" in them.
MIKE: And then you got some dash clocks.
DEANE: Yeah, that hangs down below the dash.
MIKE: Dash clock, same thing.
It was a very elaborate accessory.
MIKE: That’s so cool, right? I love that. DEANE: And it runs too.
MIKE: Is this something you’d sell? DEANE: Sure.
MIKE: That and these two stoplights?
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: Okay, then I saw in here,
one that I’ve never seen before.
This was really cool. I’ve never seen the hand.
Look at that. DEANE: Yeah, it’s a hand, stop.
MIKE: Look at that, man. That’s really cool.
MIKE: I love this stuff because these are the things
people are searching out to make their project different
And this stuff is getting harder and harder to find.
You know, it’s getting snapped up in collections,
and the only time you’re ever going to get a chance
to buy some of this stuff, is when you know,
an older guy says, "Hey, man, it’s time, I’m going to sell."
MIKE: So you’ve got this stop one, and this.
These are pretty common.
This one’s a little bit different, ’cause it’s got
the accessory light on top.
Would you do... 45 apiece on these?
DEANE: Yes. MIKE: And then you’ve got
something like this, I’d do 80 bucks.
DEANE: Yeah, that’s nice. Fine.
MIKE: And then you’ve got this dash clock.
DEANE: That’s gotta be good.
MIKE: I mean, these are a couple of hundred bucks.
DEANE: I know. MIKE: Yeah, so... 100 bucks.
DEANE: Um... MIKE: Where do you want me to be on it?
DEANE: I wanna bump it up a little bit, ’cause I--
MIKE: 120? DEANE: Yeah, that’s good.
DEANE: ’Cause there just isn’t any of them around.
MIKE: Alright, cool. I’ve seen guys, you ever go to Hershey?
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: They’ll have like a table of these.
Those are the guys you love to talk to,
when you’ve got a dash clock,
’cause they can tell you everything about it,
and they got extra parts.
KATHY: This was Tony Forgione Antiques.
KATHY: Um, this is where my dad had his shop.
JERSEY JON: Look at that, Robbie.
TERRI: Come on in. KATHY: Watch your step.
ROBBIE: Wow! Holy cow!
JERSEY JON: You guys are seriously packing it in here.
ROBBIE: This is full. JERSEY JON: Wow.
KATHY: It’s full. TERRI: Yeah.
ROBBIE: So when’s the last time your dad actually
sold something out of here?
KATHY: Probably in the early ’90s,
he still would have it open like on the weekends,
even though we went back to work.
TERRI: Someone pulled in the parking lot,
he’d let them in, he didn’t refuse anyone,
and just say, "Hey, we’re not open no more."
KATHY: But it was probably the last 20 years
where he kept that private.
He didn’t really want anybody around.
JERSEY JON: Oh, this is neat. I’m really finding stuff.
Look at this fan, Robbie. Missing the blade. 20 bucks.
TERRI: 30. JERSEY JON: It’s missing the blade.
KATHY: Alright. 20 bucks. TERRI: 20. 20.
JERSEY JON: 20? Alright. Thank you.
Alright, that’s one thing.
JERSEY JON: The antique shops that closed up in the ’90s
were like relevant in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.
ROBBIE: Color-matic tree stand.
Looks like it’s probably from the ’50s.
JERSEY JON: It’s an odd situation to be picking
an antique shop that’s been closed for so long,
because there’s great stuff in there
that really hasn’t been exposed to the new market.
ROBBIE: It didn’t look like it was ever used.
KATHY: No, it’s new.
JERSEY JON: You’re finding new opportunity
to buy things that maybe
weren’t relevant then, but they are now.
ROBBIE: 25 bucks. KATHY: Alright.
ROBBIE: Alright, deal. JERSEY JON: Cool.
ROBBIE: This guy...
I saw the advertising on the side of it.
JERSEY JON: Agh... ROBBIE: What’s it say?
Robbie & JERSEY JON: Niagara Falls!
TERRI: Oh, wow... ROBBIE: Brewing Company.
JERSEY JON: That’s cool, man.
ROBBIE: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Yeah.
ROBBIE: That’s actually really cool. JERSEY JON: Yep, I like that.
Probably from the ’30s. ROBBIE: This Niagara Falls box,
it’s cool as can be.
JERSEY JON: What do you think?
TERRI: What do you think?
ROBBIE: 50 bucks.
TERRI: 75?
60.
ROBBIE: 55.
TERRI: Alright, I-- 55’s good.
ROBBIE: See, her and I have a rapport. You guys don’t.
(laughs) ROBBIE: I’m just telling you that right now.
JERSEY JON: I like your style.
MIKE: Wow... this is a great truck.
Did you restore this?
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: What year is it?
DEANE: ’41. MIKE: That’s very cool.
You don’t see General Motors trucks too much, you know?
You always see the-- DEANE: Fords.
MIKE: Yeah, you don’t see the GMs.
DEANE: I always liked GM stuff.
The headlights and the front end,
and they run nice.
So I fixed that all up. And there it is.
MIKE: What are you gonna do with this?
DEANE: This’ll probably go down the road.
MIKE: I might be interested in this, this is cool,
it’s clean. You painted this?
DEANE: Yeah, we painted it at the shop.
MIKE: No kidding. You guys did a good job, it looks like.
Then what, you did, a mechanical restoration on it?
DEANE: I didn’t touch the engine.
MIKE: How’s it run? DEANE: Last time it was driven,
it runs good. MIKE: When’s the last time it was driven?
DEANE: Ahh... 6 to 8 years ago.
MIKE: It’s a good-looking truck. I mean,
the restoration’s nice on it.
But it’s not so nice that you’re afraid to drive it.
Well, what are you thinking on it?
DEANE: I would, I was thinking like 18,000.
MIKE: Yeah. DEANE: I know what it is,
’cause I had to restore a lot of stuff. So it’s...
MIKE: Oh, I know, I know.
You know this thing inside and out.
DEANE: What would you offer on it?
MIKE: If it’s rocking and rolling down the road,
I mean, hell I’m way too far apart.
DEANE: Oh, okay. MIKE: Because for what I gotta do to it and ship it...
MIKE: Hell, it’s gonna cost me two grand to ship it.
And then I’m probably gonna pay a guy three to four
to go through it. But, I like it, it’s really cool.
It’s got a great look to it.
MIKE: I feel like Deane is spot on when it comes
to the value of the truck.
I don’t blame him trying to get the last buck out of it,
he’s got a lot of time invested in it.
And he knows it’s not going to be hard to sell.
MIKE: I love this. We got a flanged sign.
Did you have this in your business?
DEANE: Yes. MIKE: This isn’t a super rare sign,
but what it’s got going for it is its condition.
There’s no nicks, there’s no marks.
It’s basically new-old stock.
And it’s a flanged sign,
which makes it more desirable as well.
DEANE: That requires big bucks.
MIKE: I know, I was going to say.
DEANE: It won’t be no more than...
it hasn’t been none of them for probably 50 years.
MIKE: 300.
DEANE: Fine. MIKE: We’re doing it?
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: Alright, very cool.
DEANE: You get both sides for that?
MIKE: Yeah. 150 a side.
DEANE: Okay. (Mike laughs)
MIKE: Deane has a lot of time and energy invested
in this collection.
And it shows, man, it really truly does.
MIKE: Alright, what’s going on with this?
"Feel better, look better."
MIKE: Barber pole, porcelain,
it’s in great shape. This is an easy sign to sell.
90% of the time when I find something barber,
it goes to a barber.
These guys care about their history,
which is awesome.
MIKE: 250.
DEANE: Faire enough. MIKE: Thank you.
There, look at that.
It’s a directional for a weather vane.
Missing the glass. 30 bucks.
DEANE: Sounds fair.
MIKE: Alright, I’m doing it. I appreciate it.
ROBBIE: Check this thing out, Jersey.
JERSEY JON: That’s cool, Robbie. Throw it over. Ugh.
ROBBIE: I mean, even I like that.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, it’s a drill press.
You want to sell this thing? KATHY: Yeah, we can sell it.
JERSEY JON: 40 bucks. KATHY: Yeah, that’ll work.
Make life easy. JERSEY JON: Absolutely. Cool.
JERSEY JON: To find a shop that’s been closed for 30 years...
ROBBIE: Now, now, look at this.
Roosevelt Beach, New York.
JERSEY JON: ...and to see the prices on things
that were priced 40, 50 years ago.
TERRI: It’s on Lake Ontario,
about 15, 20 miles north from here.
JERSEY JON: How is this even possible, this thing is worth
that much more money?
ROBBIE: It’s like new-old stock. Or it was never hung up.
JERSEY JON: A good example is like, the porcelain sign market,
I mean, it’s going through the roof now!
ROBBIE: I think the retail on it,
if it cleans up nice, probably 450-ish.
TERRI: Yeah? ROBBIE: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: Back in the day, man,
you’re lucky to give those things away.
No one really cared.
ROBBIE: 275.
TERRI: Um, yeah, I’ll do 275.
ROBBIE: Alright. Thank ya. Appreciate it.
Hey, what’s this down here? It’s an old street sign...
TERRI: Oh, yes. Yep.
Hyde Park is the main, would be main drag at that corner.
ROBBIE: Okay. So your dad stole this in the middle of the night,
or one of you girls did? (laughs)
TERRI: No, I can’t take credit for that.
But maybe it was a time when,
you know how every so often,
they maybe change the street signs out.
ROBBIE: Oh yeah, yeah. TERRI: Update them or whatever.
ROBBIE: This has got a cast-iron piece to it,
so I mean, it’s an earlier one.
ROBBIE: Early street signs in America were hand-carved wood.
Then it went into porcelain.
Nowadays, the sign is just reflective.
It’s an aluminum sign.
ROBBIE: This is a local piece to ya?
TERRI: Yeah. ROBBIE: Is it something you and your sisters want to keep?
TERRI: No, we wouldn’t need that.
ROBBIE: 125 bucks.
TERRI: Yeah, that’s good. ROBBIE: Thank you.
ROBBIE: Even though I might not know somebody named Hyde,
that person might walk into my shop someday and go,
"Hey, I’ll give you 500 bucks for it
’cause it’s got my name on it."
JERSEY JON: Ha! Look at this thing.
TERRI: It’s an oldie. JERSEY JON: You know what it is?
KATHY: No, what is it? JERSEY JON: Apple peeler.
KATHY: What? JERSEY JON: Yeah, it peels your apple.
KATHY: Okay, I see it now. JERSEY JON: See?
JERSEY JON: You could absolutely use them for peeling apples today.
It would work just as well, you gotta stick
an apple on there, you crank it around,
it’s gonna peel an apple that’s quicker
than you can with a hand-paring knife.
JERSEY JON: Sinclair Scott Company from Baltimore.
These are all cast-iron.
18... 80s, 1870.
KATHY: Okay. JERSEY JON: It’s post-Civil War.
JERSEY JON: Ooh, you’ve got two of them in here.
KATHY: Oh. JERSEY JON: Here’s another one, another style.
KATHY: Okay. JERSEY JON: Different brand,
but so cool, because they’re mechanical.
TERRI: You know what, I saw a lot of my dad
in how Jersey loved the mechanics of it.
KATHY: Dad was always fascinated with how everything worked.
TERRI: Forget watching the apple, watching the wheels
of how it’s working.
JERSEY JON: Retail on these things, maybe 75 to 80 bucks.
KATHY: Really. JERSEY JON: This one here, not so much.
This is probably like a 40, $50 thing.
So, I’m thinking 50 bucks for the both.
TERRI: You can’t keep everything, it’s hard.
And like, being it’s so new, you just...
you want to keep everything.
You know what I mean?
You just want to keep everything, and you can’t.
TERRI: Yeah, that’s good. JERSEY JON: Yeah?
KATHY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: Alright, that’s cool.
JERSEY JON: Thank you. It’s been a pleasure.
MIKE: What do we got here? The best of Woody Woodbury.
So, this is all stuff you put on when you’re wrenching?
DEANE: Oh yeah. MIKE: Nice. A little atmosphere in here.
Get the neon clock going. DEANE: Yeah.
MIKE: Guys like Deane lived in the time periods
that I romanticize about.
You know, so it’s not just about the items at hand,
it’s just getting to know people and hearing stories.
DANIELLE: Look at that. Yeah!
DANIELLE: I’m just obsessed with all of these
John Deere implement toys.
DEANE: We was an Ertl dealer.
We would buy this stuff by the case.
DANIELLE: There’s a lot of connection to John Deere out where we’re from.
DANIELLE: It makes me real sentimental when I see
vintage John Deere items.
We grew up around John Deere. Every single little boy
who grew up in the Quad Cities wanted to work at John Deere.
Because they all love a tractor.
That’s what a lot of them see every day out their window,
that’s what a lot of their dads drive,
or their grandpas, or their aunts or uncles.
DANIELLE: I remember when Miles was little, my son Miles,
we would collect books on John Deere
and at two years old, he was like,
"Paver, grader, combine..." DEANE: Oh yeah, that’s good!
DANIELLE: "In-loader", like, all this, and so he was just
so in love with it. He’s a welder at John Deere now.
DANIELLE: My son works at John Deere,
and that’s so cool. Like, that was his whole life
when he was a baby, that’s all he wanted to talk about.
DANIELLE: I would really love to take all of them
if you’re wanting to part with all of them.
DEANE: Yeah. Yes.
I’m getting kind of old to sit out here
and play with a little tractor, you know?
DANIELLE: Alright, so if we count all these up,
I see about 12 of the bigger tractors.
DEANE: How about the little ones?
DANIELLE: I want the little ones too.
And all these tractors are right around 1970s
for the most part. DEANE: In that area, yeah.
DANIELLE: Okay. Yeah. DANIELLE: Some of them are contemporary,
but they can still definitely be sold.
DANIELLE: So, at 12 of the large John Deere tractors,
how would you price that?
DEANE: Well, I would take a...
See, a tractor like this here. DANIELLE: Yeah.
DEANE: BR, so I’d take that to a show,
that would bring 60, $70 probably.
DANIELLE: Okay. DEANE: But little ones,
they’re 5 bucks or something, you know. 10 bucks.
DANIELLE: Sure. So, I’m going to offer...
450 for all of them.
Counting this display. DEANE: I’ll go for that.
DANIELLE: That sounds like... DEANE: Sounds alright, yeah.
DANIELLE: Alright. DEANE: Okay.
DANIELLE: Alright. The kids are going to love these.
They’re going to get so excited about these in the shop. Thank you.
DANIELLE: At Antique Archaeology,
nothing runs out the door like a Deere.
It’s local history.
ROBBIE: Kathy. KATHY: Yes?
ROBBIE: Buddy L.
KATHY: Oh yeah, yeah. A Buddy L truck, yep.
TERRI: My dad loved toy trucks.
Especially like those riding toys.
ROBBIE: The kids would have sat on this seat right here.
KATHY: Yes. ROBBIE: And their parents
could have pulled them around like that.
ROBBIE: These type of toys were made for kids,
but when you really look at them,
they’re quality pieces that were made to last
the test of time.
ROBBIE: Buddy L is from my hometown.
KATHY: Oh, okay. ROBBIE: Moline, Illinois.
That’s where these were made. KATHY: Wow.
ROBBIE: It has a higher resale value in our area.
KATHY: Does that have a higher wholesale value right now?
ROBBIE: Oh, of course it does. In our area in this condition,
we probably get like 3-and-a-quarter,
350 out of this. KATHY: Okay.
ROBBIE: 160 bucks.
KATHY: Hmm, I was thinking more like 200.
(inhales sharply)
ROBBIE: 175.
KATHY: Alright. ROBBIE: That worth it?
KATHY: I can do 175, yeah. ROBBIE: Thank you. Thank you.
That’s awesome.
There’s one other one.
This is a Smith Miller I see right here.
ROBBIE: They were like the Cadillac of toys back in the day.
KATHY: Wow.
ROBBIE: 1940 when they started producing their trucks,
they were the first ones to use aluminum in toys.
ROBBIE: They don’t make kids toys like they used to.
KATHY: No, they don’t. Yeah. ROBBIE: It’s all plastic now.
ROBBIE: This one right here will bring like, 400, 450.
KATHY: I was thinking maybe you know, about 300?
ROBBIE: 200 bucks.
KATHY: How’s 250?
ROBBIE: Alright. Doing it. KATHY: Alright.
ROBBIE: Thank you.
JERSEY JON: Robbie! ROBBIE: What up?
JERSEY JON: Look at this thing, dude! This thing is like solid cast-iron.
JERSEY JON: This piece is unusual.
I didn’t realize what it was at first
until I put my hand on it. You can feel the cold metal.
JERSEY JON: This thing’s got to be like 6 foot tall, dude.
I bet it weighs about 4 or 500 pounds.
ROBBIE: You think that light top’s original?
JERSEY JON: Yeah, I mean, it’s the same size.
The fitter’s the same. It fits in there.
ROBBIE: What’s the socket that’s in there? Is there a socket?
JERSEY JON: It’s got a pipe coming up the middle.
It’s a gas fixture, Robbie.
I mean it’s got the little urn up top so this was...
Had a burner that was up here that’s missing.
ROBBIE: Yeah? JERSEY JON: You know, but it had a gas burner,
so you know, the gas would pipe through the ground...
ROBBIE: Back in the day. JERSEY JON: Come straight through the middle
of this column... ROBBIE: Yep.
JERSEY JON: And then come out here, and it
had a burner here, and it lit the globe originally.
JERSEY JON: This is probably 1890s.
ROBBIE: Well, that globe can’t be gas.
There’s no venting on that.
JERSEY JON: Yeah, that’s a good point.
ROBBIE: It’s an early globe, you can tell by looking at it.
ROBBIE: Somewhere along the line, that thing had to have
been electrified somewhere. JERSEY JON: This would’ve been
a globe they would put on it. ROBBIE: Yeah, because most of these had
more of a clear glass to a vent on the top piece.
JERSEY JON: For the gas. ROBBIE: Yeah.
JERSEY JON: So, the heat could escape and you wouldn’t
be able to do that with this. ROBBIE: No.
JERSEY JON: Is there a pair of these things?
KATHY: If there would be, it would be around here.
TERRI: I think it’s the single one.
KATHY: Yeah, it might be single. I think it may have come
from one of the funeral homes around here in Niagara Falls.
JERSEY JON: This is right up your alley, dude.
ROBBIE: Is it for sale? TERRI & KATHY: Yeah.
KATHY: It’s for sale.
ROBBIE: Typically, when you fin these things,
it’s a gigantic light post and most people can’t use those
This one, it’s not too tall.
It could be put in a garden, it could be put in the front of a home.
ROBBIE: You know, retail on something like that
with the globe on it, the fact that it’s not broke,
and it can be re-electrified,
probably going to be 12, $1,300?
Somewhere in there? KATHY: Really?
ROBBIE: Yeah. KATHY: I was kind of shocked.
KATHY: I mean... what are you thinking?
ROBBIE: 625.
KATHY: It is... it’s kind of rare though, isn’t it?
ROBBIE: Well, I mean, architectural-salvage-wise,
it’s a cool piece.
It could go in a residential home,
it could go on a business. KATHY: Right, right.
TERRI: I was thinking more like 800.
ROBBIE: 800?
Hmm... 700.
TERRI: 750.
ROBBIE: 725.
TERRI: Alright, you got yourself a deal.
KATHY: I think we can do that. That sounds good.
TERRI: It’s doable. JERSEY JON: That’s awesome.
JERSEY JON: That’s a cool piece, Robbie.
KATHY: We had no idea what the value was,
so for $725 I was pretty happy with that.
JERSEY JON: I found this dial indicator.
What’s cool about it, it pushes from the back
and you see it measures in thousandths of an inch.
15, maybe 20?
TERRI: Yeah, I’ll do 20. JERSEY JON: You’ll do 20?
TERRI: Yeah. TERRI: Jersey, he’s like a kid in a candy store.
He just didn’t know what to look at first, and...
JERSEY JON: Wow, I like that basket over there,
it looks awesome. Hold on a second.
15 bucks.
KATHY: Yeah, I think $15 is good.
JERSEY JON: 15 bucks? Thank you.
TERRI: He kept getting, you know, sidetracked a lot.
JERSEY JON: I just found this over here.
It’s like an old saw display.
JERSEY JON: 25 bucks. TERRI: Alright.
TERRI: He couldn’t resist. He couldn’t...
He had to have... be touching something all the time and...
JERSEY JON: I think it’s like solid copper
but it’s like a candle stand. 30 bucks.
TERRI: Yeah, I’ll take that 30. JERSEY JON: You’ll take 30? Alright.
TERRI: My dad was like that too, if he walked into a place like that.
JERSEY JON: These are period-correct color samples.
But it’s early. I mean, this is probably from the ’teens.
KATHY: Wow.
JERSEY JON: I’ll tell ya, I’d do 100 bucks on it.
KATHY: Yeah. I mean, I’m good with that.
TERRI: I appreciate his appreciation for it.
JERSEY JON: Here’s a Boy Scout kit. 50 bucks.
All three pieces. TERRI: That’s good.
JERSEY JON: We’re getting along. I like that.
MIKE: Is this you? As a volunteer?
DEANE: No, that’s my dad. MIKE: Okay.
DEANE: My dad was a fire chief.
DEANE: And I was a volunteer fireman.
DEANE: I was 13 then, so I got to be a junior member.
MIKE: Okay. DEANE: And then they wanted you to learn everything.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah, rolling hoses,
tying knots, cleaning stuff up.
DEANE: As you got older, then you’d fit in
’cause you knew everything.
MIKE: Okay. Absolutely. DEANE: Or knew what to do.
My mother and dad both did a lot to influence me.
DEANE: I wasn’t lucky enough to have brothers and sisters
so I did a lot with my parents and that was great.
MIKE: That’s a huge sense of community.
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: I was a volunteer too.
DEANE: Oh, were ya?
MIKE: It was one of the hardest things I’ve done,
but it was one of the things that was most rewarding.
MIKE: Firefighters are local heroes.
70% of firefighters are volunteers.
Think about that. Volunteering not only your time
but your safety to help your community.
I had a lot of friends that were on the local
fire department in my town,
and I saw how rewarding that was for them.
And that’s why I wanted to be a volunteer.
MIKE: What about these? These are all like, countertop displays.
DEANE: Yeah. MIKE: For a gas station.
MIKE: These are point-of-sale signs
that would have sat on a countertop.
MIKE: "Shellubrication is the modern up-keep service!"
Look at that little happy guy.
MIKE: The rarity of signs like this
is that it’s cardboard.
And it was never made to last.
And that is called ephemera.
In the antique world, ephemera usually refers
to anything that wasn’t designe
to last long, like paper and cardboard.
MIKE: These signs are a perfect example of that.
That’s why they have value.
MIKE: Look at that piecrust tread there.
This one hasn’t even been used. Look at that,
it hasn’t even been folded out. DEANE: No, that’s why it’s worth more.
MIKE: Would you do, uh... 15 bucks apiece?
DEANE: 15 for these and 20 for that one?
Being it’s brand new.
MIKE: I’m doing it. DEANE: Oh okay, thank you.
MIKE: Alright, thank you. Very cool.
DEANE: There’s some tag goes with that, you pin it on a wall.
MIKE: I love it, I love it!
ROBBIE: Kathy, I just went through all these drawers
over here and I found a pile of stuff.
ROBBIE: There’s not a lot of big-ticket items here.
ROBBIE: There’s an early Goodrich tire patch kit.
ROBBIE: But smalls are the brea and butter of any antique shop.
ROBBIE: I found a box of keys. Skeleton keys.
KATHY: A lot of skeleton keys, yeah.
ROBBIE: Anything under $100 is easy to sell.
ROBBIE: And then I found some early baseball counters.
You know, the strike, the ball, the out?
ROBBIE: The umpires would have used.
There’s two of those.
Baseball stuff is always highly collectable.
ROBBIE: I can spend the entire day in this one area.
ROBBIE: Bicycle tags. JERSEY JON: Yep.
ROBBIE: Early tintypes. There’s a lot of people
that collect them. You’ve got a whole pile of them in here.
And a pile of rulers.
ROBBIE: Every small that’s here tells a story,
and that’s to a different type of collector.
ROBBIE: I collect license plate toppers.
"At the end of the road, you’ll meet the God."
JERSEY JON: Ha-ha, wow! That’s cool.
KATHY: That is really cool. ROBBIE: That’s really cool, man. I like that.
ROBBIE: So, you’re appealing to all kinds of people
when you’re buying smalls.
ROBBIE: $400 for all of it.
TERRI: Hmm. Um...
KATHY: It’s smalls.
TERRI: I was excited about negotiating stuff
just to get more money for it but then as the day went on,
I was like, oh God, just get rid of this stuff.
KATHY: Yeah, I think we’re good with 400...
for everything, yeah. ROBBIE: Alright. Thanks.
JERSEY JON: 400. Thank you, sweetie. Alright.
JERSEY JON: Oh, nice record player, Robbie.
How about this thing?
JERSEY JON: Victor talking machine.
They’re made in Camden, New Jersey.
This is probably 1915.
It’s a really interesting piece
JERSEY JON: It’s a Victor 6. Cabinet’s really nice,
the finish on the cabinet is nice, never been outside.
JERSEY JON: It’s a plain Jane model,
not much decoration on it.
JERSEY JON: Now, there’s pieces missing on this Victor.
It’s got some issues.
JERSEY JON: It’s missing the horn,
missing the crank, but the cabinet is beautiful.
JERSEY JON: Mechanically, it spins.
Don’t have a crank so we can’t test it
but it’s a great looking piece.
JERSEY JON: I’d do 100 bucks.
TERRI: Yeah, I’ll do 100.
JERSEY JON: You’ll do 100 on that?
Awesome. Alright, thank you.
JERSEY JON: This is a great piece to build upon
to make it something more valuable.
ROBBIE: Jersey, I gotta ask a question.
When’s the last time you listened to one of those?
JERSEY JON: This morning. ROBBIE: Yeah...
JERSEY JON: Yo-yo, what is this chair?
KATHY: That’s been there forever, I think.
JERSEY JON: That’s early, Robbie.
Can we get that down somehow?
ROBBIE: Okay. JERSEY JON: Careful, careful.
KATHY: Oh man. JERSEY JON: Go up. Here it is.
whoa, whoa, whoa...
JERSEY JON: I think that’s George Hunzinger.
JERSEY JON: George Hunzinger was an amazing,
iconic furniture designer in the 1850s.
ROBBIE: It’s missing a leg.
JERSEY JON: It’s missing a lot.
But the decoration is what identifies it.
These balls, these spandrel balls...
KATHY: Wow. JERSEY JON: ...it’s so distinctive.
I mean, that’s the style he did.
JERSEY JON: It’s a lollipop chair!
TERRI: It almost looks like a king’s throne.
JERSEY JON: If there was a Mount Rushmore
for furniture designers,
George Hunzinger would be on it.
JERSEY JON: This probably was like folded up like this.
JERSEY JON: Can you see this? ROBBIE: Like that?
JERSEY JON: Yes, like that. TERRI: Oh, okay.
I was assuming it was a big chair,
but like round corner chair. JERSEY JON: No, no.
JERSEY JON: This is like a parlor chair.
TERRI: Gotcha. ROBBIE: It actually looks really comfortable.
JERSEY JON: The craftsmanship is superb!
It’s so perfectly done. I mean, the balls
are perfectly round. The way these are graduated
from small to large
and everything is proportionally done.
It’s very artistic and it’s kind of weird
because this is 1860, 1870.
That’s like Civil War period...
JERSEY JON: And they’re doing crazy stuff like this.
It’s almost a... in a modern style.
This is not the style of the day.
TERRI: No. JERSEY JON: Of that day.
TERRI: Yeah, you’re right. JERSEY JON: This is not 1930s, ’40s stuff.
This is 1860s when they weren’t even
thinking about designs like this.
This is like the science fiction of furniture.
JERSEY JON: You’ll see George Hunzinger pieces
in places like the Brooklyn Museum,
in the Smithsonian Institution,
in the Philadelphia Art Museum.
JERSEY JON: You rarely see them out in the wild, you know?
JERSEY JON: I’ve only found one piece of George Hunzinger
in my career.
JERSEY JON: It’s so cool that this was something
your dad recognized, too. Why is it here, you know?
It’s like, he didn’t throw this out.
The chair is missing all its parts and broken up
and he still kept it.
Most people would chuck this in the trash or put it in a burn pile.
KATHY: He probably picked it from the trash.
JERSEY JON: This was expensive furniture back in the day.
I mean, he knew this was special.
Furniture is kind of in the dumps right now,
but something like this, it’s worthy of restoring it
and replacing the pieces.
This probably had a rail here,
had another rail that went around here
and the legs in the back are missing.
JERSEY JON: Now, this piece needs help.
But the most important part,
the design element is complete, it’s there.
JERSEY JON: It just needs so much work.
I mean literally, if somebody said,
"Jon, restore this chair."
You know, it’d be like four grand, five grand
to restore this chair. That’s what I would charge.
JERSEY JON: Would it be worth four grand, five grand? No.
This chair is probably worth, restored,
2,500 bucks. Maybe $3,000.
TERRI: Wow.
JERSEY JON: Somebody’s gotta do the work.
Having a professional refinishing shop,
I’ve been doing this for 43 years.
JERSEY JON: I could fix this thing. It’s what I do.
It’s worth my time to restore this chair.
JERSEY JON: So, I’d like to buy it
. Do you want to sell it?
I mean, does it mean something to you?
TERRI: You know what, no. It doesn’t.
JERSEY JON: Okay.
TERRI: You know what, I personally
don’t love this stuff.
You know, I don’t decorate like that or anything.
Yeah, it’s nice, but it’s not my style or taste or anything.
I love it ’cause my dad loved it.
KATHY: Yeah. TERRI: It’s hard to part with.
That was his whole life.
You know, he didn’t like sports, he didn’t travel.
This is the only thing he ever did
and that’s what’s hard to let go.
You know, it’s hard because you know, like,
if this was 10 years from now, yeah, get this junk out of here.
But it’s just, it’s very hard.
KATHY: I mean, I guess because you’re a furniture guy like our dad was...
JERSEY JON: Yeah. KATHY: We would feel comfortable
that it’s going to a good home.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. KATHY: Someone who can appreciate it.
JERSEY JON: Yeah. KATHY: For what it is.
JERSEY JON: I would do 400 bucks.
KATHY: I feel like Jon had a lot of the same enthusiasm
that our dad would have.
We know from when we were kids
how excited dad used to get finding furniture,
especially on the side of the road and redoing it, so...
JERSEY JON: It’s been years since I’ve seen something
that inspires me as much as this piece.
KATHY: To have Jon come in and get so excited
the way he did, that kind of made us feel good.
TERRI: You know what, I’m good with that.
KATHY: Yeah. JERSEY JON: You’re cool with that?
JERSEY JON: Thank you. I appreciate it.
JERSEY JON: Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
TERRI: Oh, you’re welcome. KATHY: Thank you.
ROBBIE: Here you go, Jersey. JERSEY JON: Alright, man. Woo-hoo.
JERSEY JON: I’m gonna put it back together.
I’m gonna make the pieces that are missing
and get it back on the antique market.
DENISE: Oh my God! Wow!
ROBBIE: Hey, we got a couple of things!
ROBBIE: Tony taught them the value of a dollar.
And he taught them how to take care of each other.
I hope to God that my three daughters
turn out half as good as these guys.
KATHY: Pretty good day today.
ROBBIE: It’s been a very interesting day.
JERSEY JON: Thank you so much. KATHY: Thank you for everything.
KATHY: This is a good start for us.
Obviously, we still have a long road ahead of us
so this is just part one of the rest of the story
to finish off for my dad’s legacy.
ROBBIE: Thank you! KATHY: Nice meeting you guys.
Take care. TERRI: Alright, see you.
JERSEY JON: I’m sure he’s smiling down and he’s proud of his daughters
because they’re helping preserve what he collected.
(honks horn) JERSEY JON: Thanks, guys!
KATHY: Take care! TERRI: Bye!
MIKE: Tell me about this, man. Where’d you find that?
DEANE: A guy brought that into the shop.
He said it was a gambling machine.
Other than that, I didn’t know nothing about it.
MIKE: This is 1890s
and it’s what they basically call a trade stimulator.
So, this would spin and you would win a product like a cigar.
MIKE: This trade stimulator is designed
to keep you in the bar.
You drop a penny in there
and you could possibly win something.
That was a big deal back then.
MIKE: Look at that, man. That is so cool.
I think you won a cigar! DEANE: Oh, is that it?
(laughs) DEANE: And I quit smoking!
I had to quit smoking. MIKE: Damn it!
DEANE: Just my luck.
MIKE: Um, there’s like three or four different versions
of this with different types of paint on the wheel itself,
you know. And you can see it said Ferris-ed wheel
instead of Ferris wheel. DEANE: Yeah.
MIKE: So, you can see there’s one piece of glass
right here that’s broke. DEANE: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
MIKE: Well, would you sell it if you got the right number for it?
DEANE: Yeah, probably.
They’re no fun to play by yourself.
MIKE: Yeah. DEANE: To win your own prize.
MIKE: Um...
I think the retail on it is about 800 bucks.
DEANE: Oh. MIKE: I’d do, um... 550.
DEANE: How about 6?
MIKE: Alright. Thank you very much. I love it.
MIKE: Trade stimulators come in all shapes and sizes
but this one is really early,
and the earlier they are,
the harder they are to find. Great piece.
MIKE: Whoa.
MIKE: This kind of pick, this kind of guy,
is how I cut my teeth on the back roads of Iowa.
I could spend hours and hours talking to guys like Deane.
MIKE: Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you. DEANE: Thank you!
MIKE: You got a lot to be proud of. DEANE: I do.
DEANE: It’s really interesting to meet other people
with the same interests
and I had fun just playing around with them.
DEANE: It was nice.
(honks horn) DEANE: Hey!
MIKE: See you down the road! DEANE: Thanks a lot!