Name: Pawn Stars: VERY VALUABLE JOHN HANCOCK PIECES from the 1700s (Season 17) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T16:16:40.000Z
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has one of the largest Revolutionary War collections

in the world, and forever I've been trying to get him to bring

He's one of my favorite Founding Fathers.

So I'm here at my gallery because if he has something

it's going to go straight in that showcase.

There's a lot more clothing you wore back then.

and a pocket watch he owned, and it comes with great provenance.

It's been in the family ever since for the last 150 years.

I purchased these items about 10 or 15 years ago in an auction,

and I think the fairest price would be $400,000 for the pair.

like one of the biggest status symbols you could have, OK?

especially one made out of 18 karat gold,

Just to show you how rare watches were back then,

notice he doesn't have a watch pocket on this.

So this was incredibly expensive even at the day.

But then again, Hancock was the richest man in New England.

RICK: To me, Hancock is like one of the most interesting

the only party that could be purchased in the colonies

But tea from the Dutch East India company

was much cheaper, so John Hancock was smuggling it in.

And Hancock's revolutionary activities made him

These were all really wealthy men with great lives,

out the way it would, they would have all been hung.

authenticating where the watch was handed

Why don't you just let me give you $125,000,

and then we don't have to go back and forth.

I don't have to go 100,000 and you go 140, and then I go 110,

and then, you know, we-- we settle on 125.

I'll have my staff put all the stuff in the vault for us.

BRIAN: 125,000 I thought was a fair price

The waistcoat is going to come back home with me

loan it to one of the-- the other museums that need it.

RICK: The story of the Boston Tea Party is told far and wide.

What many people don't know is the mastermind

behind the Boston Tea Party, John Hancock, the guy we assume

was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.

John Hancock is talked about it historically with reverence,

but in actuality, he was the colony's biggest smuggler.

So I think it's fair to say that Hancock's

Sure, he was against taxation without representation.

He didn't like British rule over the colonies.

But let's be real, this was affecting his bottom line.

116 patriots in Boston dressed up like Native Americans,

and they boarded three English ships that had just imported

and they threw it all overboard into Boston Harbor.

It was worth over a million dollars in today's money.

Hancock was definitely on the British radar for sure.