Fake Items That Devastated Their Owners On Pawn Stars 

What's the strangest item ever brought in on Pawn Stars?

I like the second guy: "My John Lennon is a John Lemon." 😁

The Pete Rose card guy is hilarious. “Is the wife real”

Every time we saw this show my dad always said: The dumbest thing is if these were genuine, you shouldn't go to a PAWN SHOP with them, they should be evaluated at auctions specialized in these things.

My mother inherited a "rare authentic" antique from my grandmother about 40 years ago. It was supposedly a Sandwich glass candy dish. Mom had it prominently displayed in her curio cabinet and always claimed it was a priceless collectible and belonged in a museum. She insisted that after she pass we never sell it. About ten years before she passed away I began collecting Sandwich glass. I bought nearly ever published book on the topic including a set of books that are sold at the Sandwich Glass Museum that are considered the definitive publication on the topic. Not only was grandma's candy dish not in the book, none of that style or function or the type of manufacture had ever been produced by Sandwich. In fact, it was produced sometime in the 1930's and Sandwich stopped making glass around 1910. I tried to tell mom but she became infuriated that I would have the audacity to claim it wasn't real Sandwich nor rare. In fact I have since purchased two identical pieces at thrift stores for under $1. When Mom died my sister insisted she get the candy dish. Not only did I tell her she could have it but I have tripled her inheritance at a mere $1.25. Sometimes people get a falsehood stuck in their head and it becomes like religious dogma that you just cannot correct. So now it's confession time. When I was a little kid my Dad who worked in the Post Office got me started collecting stamps. So when my Jr. High began a stamp club when I was 12 I joined. The faculty advisor for the stamp club was a bit of a snot who pretended to know more about stamps than anyone else and regarded himself a bit of a wheeler and dealer. As a practical joke I cut a picture of a rare stamp out of a stamp magazine a friend of mine loaned me and I took it to a place to have it photocopied. Then I cut it out leaving a little "margin" around it and then took it with me to the next Stamp club meeting. I took it to our "expert" faculty advisor and asked him if it was worth anything. I did NOT claim it was real or even a stamp of any kind at all. He looked astonished and then got out a book on stamps and thumbed through it for a photo and then checked the value and it said for a mint one the value was $1200. Our faculty advisor then told me mine was not in particularly good condition so he could only offer me $500 for it if I wanted to sell. And I said "You're giving me $500 for a worthless little piece of paper?" He told me that to him it's not worthless and the offer stood. The next day at school I handed him the stamp and he handed me five one hundred dollar bills. I still don't know if he ever found out. That was his last year at that school. My friends and I had a big laugh. I spent the $500 on authentic stamps at a dealer in our town. Thus concludes my only foray into counterfeiting. I am so glad the statute of limitations expired on that crime before I graduated decades ago.

This is the most “History” the “History” channel has shown in years

I never understood insulting someone you are trying to get money from.

I always think it's funny when someone walks in with this "priceless" item tucked in nothing more than a brown paper envelope. "lemme just get it out of this paper bag, I want 500k".....

That violin expert could've worn anything knowing he was about to be on TV, and yet he chose to wear a vest 3 sizes too small for him...

When I see sellers throwing tantrums, I can't help but think that they were running a scam and got found out. The quiet "I paid too much" is the sound of someone learning a life-lesson. The loud and abusive ones are pissed off because they missed a pay-day!

Hey, what's that drawing? John Lennon signed sketch. How much? 10 bucks. I'll take it. *leaves store* Owner hangs another one.

They're always like: "this is actually worth 500'000 dollars, I can give you a hundred bucks, and I'm taking a huge risk here"

I've been to the shop in Vegas and while wandering through the shop I noticed a limited edition print that I happen to be a collector of the same edition. There was only 1500 of these ever made and both mine and the one hanging in the pawn shop had the same signatures. Now I have kept up with the publisher of the print for insurance reasons and have been quoted as high as $50k for the print - and the publisher is always interested if I was willing to sell it back to them for around that price point. The interesting thing is the print hanging in the pawn shop was for sale for just north of $1k. This really confused me because the way any pawn shop works, especially these guys, is to make sure they maximize their retail value of the items they buy. When I spoke with the publisher of the print a few months later I mentioned this piece to them and questioned their valuation of my print. Their response was that they have run into this a lot with their limited edition prints from the pawn shop and almost inevitably the print in the shop is a fake. It kinda burst my bubble on some of this that they are doing if that truly is the case.

Makes me wonder how many of these sellers thought they'd simply scam the pawn shop owners and stars, or if they really didn't know their stuff was fake either.

Then you realize every single person on the show were just people they got off the street who were told how to act when they got told their item was fake.

"The car JFK was assassinated in? Let me call a buddy of mine who's an expert in cars JFK was assassinated in."

"Chumley" wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a Stratocaster...

Legends has it, he's still wondering if his wife is real...

The old saying that " it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" rings true.

I bought some scuba equipment on Ebay from one of the cast members of Pawn Stars around 2012. He mentioned he was on the show, but I didn't ask him which one he was. Very pleasant to deal with.

I like the trumpet sound at the end of the seller's look of disappointment. "Wah, Wah, Wah, waaaahhhh..." LOL

Let me call my buddy who's an expert on fake shows.

I liked the young guy who wanted to honor his grandfather. Good one.

I worked in a pawn shop for a summer. One of my favorite stories is about a woman in her late 20s/early 30s who stormed up to the counter (you could practically see the proverbial angry smoke coming out of her ears.) She slammed a diamond ring on the counter, "How much can I get for this?" As I checked it out, she was complaining about how her now-ex-fiance cheated on her, and Instead of giving him back the ring, she was selling it to get back at him. You can only imagine how furious she was when I told her that the ring was fake (cubic zirconia).

"I'm lookin to sell a buddy of mine", "OK can you stick around as I have a buddy who knows all about buddy of mines" 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

Video moves right along and delivers as billed. Well done!

"Devastated" doesn't applies to the guy who paid $10 for the John Lennon's print though.

in the states, anything over about 100 years is considered a historic antique. in europe, it's considered bric-a-brac.

"...and the diamonds weren't even worth Rick's time." That's because they're not worth anyone's time. Ever wonder why you could find such a "rare" item in almost every household? Because they're not.

Sounds like that Pete Rose Card fella is having an "EXISTENTIAL MELTDOWN" if you ask me... LOL 😂😆🤣🤣🤣. (Just GOLDEN!!!)

2:51 . . . . "He's only getting rid of it in the first place because his WIFE is forcing him to sell it" There's the problem right there.

A guy pushes the statue of David into the shop. Rick calls his expert on sculpture, who says, "WOW the statue of David! Yes it's legitimate and it's PRICELESS!!!" Rick: "Best I can do is $300"....

The Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln photo were obviously not them. There was only a vague resemblance and nothing more.

"is the wife real...the dog...the cat " LOL

I have personally handled a newspaper that was 35 years old and kept in almost ideal conditions (a newspaper my grandparents kept from when I was born, and kept pressed between glass plates in a sealed box). It was only 35 years old & kept so carefully, yet was in *much* worse condition than that 'Titannic' one!

This has been in my recommended for years and I'm finally watching it

I know it's a show, but the way some of these sellers act like the Pawn people have to buy them is the personification of what is wrong with society.

the owner realised they cant sell the item, then start insulting the buyer

I know a couple of people in what you would call the "loan industry" like this. I was told many times, they get many customers enter with a set mind of how much they want to get for their property, but are unable to cope when told they're item isn't wanted. That scenario was never considered. LOL

I do love that Chum Lee has Miro expertise and can spot a fake signature very quickly.

I love how if you watch the first few seasons of pawn stars rick gave chum grief over not knowing art and now chum regularly lays down some serious art knowledge on the regs

“Ha ha!” Points and laughs

Historical Fact: The morning the Titanic sank it was unknown how many people died. It took a while to get the exact number. One paper said everyone servived.

“Fake shows that devastated their viewers”.

We had metallic bowl that my grandmother had before she died. It looked old. We used it as mantelpiece. Later learned it was a bed pan from the the early 1900s

I know that the one with the fake revolutionary war era pistol was set up. The guy that brought it in was some wanna be two bit actor here in Vegas, who got cast for the part. In fact pretty much this whole show is fake...

I miss the old man he was the heart of the show

Pete Rose guy questioning if he is stuck in the matrix

I have a buddy that has an original axe owned by Abraham Lincoln, he says the only upgrades that have been made over the years that he knows of is the handle has been replaced twice and in the 50’s someone replaced the head. 🥴

The “lincolns” don’t resemble the lincolns at all...

Pawn Stars itself is fully FAKE - it's NOT a pawnshop you can just walk into and try to pawn your stuff. Nope - it's a SET for a TV show, everyone inside is either in the cast or an extra, and you and your stuff have to be screened prior to you being invited to film your segment. I've been there - and it's usually closed...

On a class field trip years ago I found a beautiful, glittery rock that I just knew was gold. I showed it to my teacher expecting him to say it was priceless. He looked at the rock for a moment and asked if I was a fool. Turns out it was pyrite; fool's gold! So I understand exactly how these people felt with their "valuable" items.

Some of these people look genuine and kind and others look real shady to me, just my opinion...

Did anyone catch the episode, where this lady brought in a diamond brooch. She told Rick that her mom had passed away and that she was going through her things. She said that she wanted to get rid of some things. She then said that she found the brooch and wanted to see what she could get for it. Turns out that everything about the brooch was REAL!!!! From the gold to the diamonds!! Rick said he wanted it!!! And gave her a very big offer!!

5:19 Ah, yes, the famous Greek legend of "Persesus".

It’s easy to fool someone but to convince them that they have been fooled that can be impossible.

Purrseesus and Pegasus? I think you mean Perseus and Pegasus.

I worked in a pawn shop in Boston, while a student at Boston University. The question always was, does the person fit the thing? So an elderly woman, dressed in linen and lace, with fine leather shoes, and a nephew who had to drive her, because, as a lady she does not drive, presents some silver. Probably real. The twenty-year old male with rough clothes and manners, presents some silver. Probably stolen. The Boston police will be asking. So the other question, which came to my mind, while watching the show is, and this is a real observation - why does someone with a rare work of art have to carry it to Las Vegas? The absolute last place on earth that I would expect to see a Stradivarius, or whatever. I could only think that it had to be a con because the dealers are in New York, or London, or Paris, certainly not Las Vegas.

Lord. That's the Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln you'd receive if you ordered them off Wish.

2:51 if your wife is making you sell your stuff, it's time to get a new wife.

Rick got so tensed He lost his hair

I remember an episode when a man with a thick accent (I'll let it go at that) came into the parking lot with a Porsche engine on a trailer or the back of a pickup (I forget which) trying to get huge money for it. Rick looked it over and noted there was rust inside the intake and exhaust ports of the engine and called the Count, his go-to Car Guy for his opinion. The Count agreed with him, saying aloud what Rick and every motor-head watching that episode figured: the guy had found the engine in a junkyard, exposed to the weather without any type of seal over the insides. The guy got abusive toward the Count, to the point where it looked like the Count might treat him to a knuckle sandwich. Don't'cha just love people who think they know better than the professionals? Stay safe, everybody.

His wife is forcing him to sell it!? WTF kind of man is this

I remember a trip to Iowa as kid in 1974. My Great Uncle opened a dresser drawer and showed me a newspaper that had Lincoln's assassination as the front page headline. That whole family generation is gone as well as most of my Dad's as well.

That John Lemmon guy had me rollin...

Entomologist "Yup, it's a Tarantula"

Imagine having something you think is worth a lot and you want to sell. You dream about what you are going to do with the money, even make plans on places you want to go or items you want to buy.... only to be told it's worth nothing.

Yeah I’m always skeptical the “experts” and people at the store are working together

Wow. Someone actually thought they had an undiscovered real Stradivarius.

Most people get very angry when you point how stupid they are. Hmmm, I wonder if there's a lesson here for myself, be more diplomatic when you point how other people are idiots ?

The thing is I think alot of people have had something like this happen unfortunately. It sucks I know, luckily not at any real expense.

When you realize they act like they "know" what devastates owners on Pawn Stars like they're there on set.

I don't understand the idea of questioning an expert if they call an item a fake. They can always go someplace else and be let down by another expert...

Amber that turns out to be plastic and the owner outed out $200, getting ripped off in the pawn shop is probably the worst.

These type of shows were entertaining af... except when someone actually pawned my playstation and only got $20 for it. Like... how sway?

Where are these people supposed to go to sell their stuff? Oh, that's right. ANYWHERE ELSE!!

if i owned something valuable i wouldn't take it to a pawn shop.

I have learnt a lot from this show, specially about American civil war, Cold war, WWII, guns, coins and my favourite topic Art and books.

KODAK Watermark....Ouch! But Hysterical

DJT45:"I know more about Lincoln portraits than Abe himself!"

John Lemon LMAO

Here's more devastation for the fans. The whole friggin show is fake.

He really tried Rick like that lol

"Hey I've got a really rare thing here" 'Ok, go back to the door hold on" 'CAMERAMEN GET OVER HERE!"

I think that the reason why some of these people are so demoralized is because they are desperate for money. You won't find many financially secure customers in a pawn shop.

I think it's funny how the owners of these supposedly rare items, handle them as if they were not. Or blaming the Pawn Stars for noticing a "Made in USA" mark on the bottom, that they should have seen themselves. Getting mad at your ignorance, isn't going to increase the value of a fraud.

Glad to see someone even the score occasionally😊

'It's easier to fool somebody than to convince them they have been fooled'.

I haven't watched Pawn Stars for ages. Chumlee lost a lot of weight. Nice to see he's taking care of himself.

I could tell at a glance that the two people in the Lincoln photograph were not actually President and Mary Lincoln. You didn't mention the guy who came in claiming to have Ted Turner's World Series ring. An exoert quickly determined that it was just a template model that the company that makes the rings would have used to let players and coaches and executives choose what style they wanted. That guy was not happy.

I could tell just by looking at the Lincoln photo it wasn't them.

Im still not going to be nice. A gun collector that isn't suspicious of every rare gun he sees needs a new hobby.

I’m thinking twice now about bringing in my authentic Marilyn Monroe violin.

With old newspapers, it's easy, the older it is the more horrible the condition. It is rare for any newspaper over 30 years old to be in mint condition. I drew a cartoon that was published in the Providence Journal in 1993. I was so thrilled that they published it that I bought ten copies of the paper. Then I carefully folded the copies and put them in an archival quality bag and then into an air tight box and put that in my closet where it was never subjected to extreme conditions. In 2014 I moved to Florida and inspected my souvenirs and discovered they had badly yellowed over time and the ink had started to bleed. I have newspapers from the Moon landing, the Kennedy assassination, the end of WWII in Europe and Pacific and a Newspaper from the stock market crash in 1929. The one from 19129 is falling apart. The ones from the end of WWII are nearly as bad. The one from the Kennedy assassination is badly yellowed and cracked and torn. Every one was carefully preserved either by me, my parents or grandparents. You cannot preserve any old newspaper especially well that was printed between the 1830's and today because they were all made of cheap paper with cheap ink both with high acid content. Basically newspapers self destruct. Anyone ever shows you an old newspaper 30+ years old in mint condition it's fake period.

5:07 he asks the important questions. At least those keep me up at night.

5:10 heard the dude shot his wife to find out if she was real 🤣🤣

This entire show was found to be fake.

it amazes me how many people will invest tons of money on something and dont bother to see if its authentic first

I saw the Abe and Mary Lincoln photo in the episode when it first aired and as soon as it was on screen I yelled 'fake'. The guy he claims is Lincoln has too round a face, Lincoln had a very thin face his whole life.

Love how they always just had gem, violin, art historian and vintage lawn mower experts on staff who popped out of the backroom.