@@jonbertocchi173 Mark Hall Patton aint like that. dude is a legit expert that does not like history being bought and sold. he never gives a price on anything.
@@walter2695 well hes find with history being bought and sold. In fact he's glad people get to enjoy them, not everything can go in a museum. He just won't participate in the buying or selling of history
@@jonbertocchi173 This is a highly scripted show where they shoot and reshoot sales for the camera. It'd be very obvious if one of the staff were trying that.
It really is super difficult to tell with things like that. Pewter is not a tough metal at all, and it practically behaves like clay in the eyes of a silversmith or goldsmith. But because its so much easier to shape, its also much easier to capture immense detail with a tiny bit of work. For instance, you could roll a sheet of pewter against an old piece of metal through a mill, and it would capture the texture pretty much perfectly. Tiny cracks that took hundreds of years to harden would appear the exact same on pewter. Then, with some simple tarnish inducing electrolysis, you could capture 300 years of tarnish identically, within just a few seconds. I don't blame the beard for being skeptical, because he literally has no way of knowing for sure without proper analysis. Just like he said, its not normal at all for a pewter piece to survive this long, and its got zero story or documentation. That old man could have easily whipped that thing up in his basement workshop for all we know, or his great grandfather could have a hundred years ago and passed it down as real....
So the expert doesn’t bring in any copies of touch marks to match the cups touch marks against? Doesn’t seem he called in the right person for this item, he may have lost out on a great piece of history to own.
Most of the time when sellers are wrong (very confident that what they are selling is the genuine one but turns out to be fake) they are not ready to accept it!!!
Okay so I paused it and haven't gotten to how much it sold for but EVERYTIME they say something along the lines of " could be worth a ridiculous amount if money" I'm gonna go with 1000 bucks
Its not that the museum expert didnt know enough, its that the tankard didnt provide enough information for him to make a confident appraisal. Btw there's a fly on ur screen.
I use to feel sorry for the people getting taken by the pawn shop then I realized EVERYONE gets taken by EVERY pawn shop!!! If you go to a pawn shop bring your own lube because that's what you deserve....
