Pawn Stars: TOUGH DEAL on OLD LETTER by John Quincy Adams (Season 10) | History 

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Btw this item came up for auction about 2 years ago and it was proven to be his writing AND signature. Joke of the signature expert is wrong again.

Steve doesn’t even bother to check or compare other letters written by Adams. It’s possible he wrote the letter & signed it later which could explain the different pressures. I wouldn’t trust Steve as far as I could throw a Sherman Tank.

Rick: hold on while I smoke a pack of cigarettes so I can get my quality laugh to sound horrible

Good choice for not selling it.. That steve knows nothing

Hold the phone. Steve is still an "expert" ? Hasn't been proven he's dirty?

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Wouldn’t trust the “expert”

Tbh I believe that when Rick wants something and he knows he can get a healthy profit when he calls the authenticators Rick makes sure to tell 'em to low ball the price or like he did here blatantly say that a Secretary wrote it ..The guy basically works for Rick.. Idk that just me, make your own conclusions.

Steve did it again. Magic!!!

Only collectable to Presidential collectors? Clearly ignoring the Adams family collectors.

Always best to call in an expert!!! You rock pawn Stars!!!

This show need to bring back the old man. He's probably just sitting there. Bring him back whatever condition for one more episode. Come on please!

I have a quarintine ventilator, whats the best you can do for that?

Why would anyone take a piece of history to a pawn shop

Man... Rick has that stare-you-in-the-eye thing down so he knows just how to read the person when he makes an offer. And just how many offers do you think he has made in his lifetime? I'm betting tens of thousands at least...

steve grad a true scholar and gentleman.

Let me call his father, John Adams.

Idk, it could have possibly been written by John Quincy Adams. The embellishments he uses are found in his other letters (unless they were ALL by that same secretary) Also, notice the Long S in "Esq" on 3:28 (where the "s" looks like a cursive "f") and "Marshal" right after that. That would have been done by a much older person like John Quincy Adams, as it had just about been eliminated from print in 1800 and beyond. Whereas if he had a younger secretary, it's likely he'd be writing his "s" like how we do today, rather than the Long S that was common from Roman times until about 1800. Also, you see the capitalization of random nouns like "Return", which again would have been much more typical of a much older person, as that also began getting faded out by the late 1700s I'm obviously not an expert and this isn't 100% because some of those writing styles did pop up every now and then well into the 1800s but it's not clear that this wasn't John Quincy Adam's handwriting in full

Please stop reposting the same videos, over and over again, please. I already saw this video the other day, History, on your channel. Wasting peoples time. Can you please also stop posting items with that swindler of an "Autograph Expert." He was discredited.

John Quincy Adams is poor mans John Adams

$1600 for a JQA autograph? What a joke.

I hate to agree with Grad, but in this case it's seems reasonable that JQA didn't write the body of the letter.

Bro it's so totally f****** obvious that it's not his handwriting the signature yes

I have a feeling that the signature is real

remember steve plays it out to help rick get stuff cheaper then they will sell at a higher profit

They didn't want to travel in the winter hilarious

Love how people act like they always know more than the trained experts lmao

I definitely know that my signature is much more legible and consistent than my normal writing. But comparing the body of the letter against a letter we know JQA wrote in its entirety would be the way to go. In the days before tape recorders, did people dictate to secretaries a lot or did they tend to write things themselves? If written a secretary, you would expect the body of the letter to display exception penmanship except that educated people in those days also cared a lot about how well they could write -- no typewriters, paper was expensive and using a quill pen itself took a lot of skill -- cursive writing was needed to allow one letter to flow into the next because printing would result in lifting the pen risky ink droplets.

Im just waiting for a costumer to ACTUALLY MIND someone coming to take a look at it.

he laughs on his own joke :D

When you use adjectives like "flowing" and "beautiful" to describe a person's signature and then tack on "kinda cool" at the end of your segment, you disqualify yourself from being on the payroll for the serious.

If Rick actually knew who was the American Secretary of State in 1822, then I'll get elected president tomorrow.

Where is this place..

I could see the difference from here. Good luck with that Ted.

the only expert i trust is Rebecca

Wrong Steve’s lowballing so he can get a cut from Rick

Salt level 1000😨

This item is very rare. Without knowing the value, I'd say $20K. Let's see!!

I've been dealing in historical autographs for over half a century. Adams had what you might call a "crabbed" handwriting, kind of uneven. The body of the letter is definitely not in his hand. Take a look at examples of handwritten letters on the internet and you'll see what I mean. His handwriting was somewhat all over the place, not in nice, neat lines like a trained secretary would use, as in this case. The content of this letter is interesting but it not earth shattering, and I think the appraisal was a bit on the high side even assuming the address leaf with the free frank is separable from the letter itself. At auction maybe $900 for the letter and $400 for the free frank. Adams was a one term president with few accomplishments under his belt and as such is collectible as a President but not for much else.

Does Rick continuously hire con artists to rip off customers? “Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes.”

Summary of Pawn stars deals 👇 Seller : the least I will take is $10 thousand Expert: it's worth $5 thousand Rick: I will give you $ 2500 Seller: I will take it

Steve the CEO of fraudulent expertise

You can feel the bad vibes of that “expert” thru the screen no wonder Older conservative guys that meet the guy walk they can feel something not right with that guy .

YAY

Who else thinks they can be a signature authenticator?👇

Steve is the most dirty expert of all time dirty is too sweet as word.

Rick: Do you mind if I call someone in? Ted: Nope. Seconds later, most "respected" guy in the field comes in. 🙄🙄🙄

You can see with a blind eye he did not write that letter himself, someone else did and he just signed it

LIVE!!! INK!!!

He said it himself get more opinions don't see how that's gonna help if it's ones opinions versus anyone else

Rick ill give you 10 bucks im taking a risk

Rick laughing hard at his on own "jokes"

Not once has it never been live ink

Wow the collectibles his uncle had were sold by his nephew when he died wowww

Ill take all the diecasts that were shown in the beginning of the video

Not sure why "they didn't want to travel in the winter time" is so funny to Rick but whatever.

Ted has a shinier head than rick and he has hair

Is it true your guyses warehouse is haunted lol?

Pretty sure this steve guy was a forger

So they call the convicted fraudster felon

I think in reality, these fake experts help the con stars scam the customer, then they go to the real expert and they get more

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Hard to take this expert’s word for it now. He got busted for passing up a lot of fakes as legit signatures. Total con man, too.

Live Ink

Yup this is signed by the devil himself.... Rick: 1,000 not a penny more or my soul is on the line here..

Rick complains about everything. I understand subject matter is important but it’s not like you can get a new letter from well over 100 years ago.

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Fi that,,2nd opinion id be getting

Hey let me call my comment section in theyre professionals at telling professionals what to do for a living :)

I always find it hilarious that the customers think the EXPERTS are wrong XD. They aren't called experts for nothing.

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Rick has a very misguided idea that his annoying habit of laughing at his own, unfunny comments is somehow disarming. It is the opposite.

Yow😎

When that guy walked in I'd have to I'd Rick to go call a real expert not the cheap fake you use. What a ripoff place.

I have a personal tweet from Donald J. Trump ! I want to sell it for 10.000 $ ...

This is old

7th

Fake stave it's a fake lol

Hate that fraud steve

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I DON'T TRUST THIS EXPERT ALWAYS👎

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Wow the collectibles his uncle had were sold by his nephew when he died wowww