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  • [music playing]

  • Hello.

  • How you doing?

  • Good, how are you?

  • Amazing.

  • What can I do for you today?

  • I want to sell this Ouija board.

  • A real Ouija board.

  • NIELS: It is.

  • It is.

  • In fact, it's a 1919 Ouija board.

  • Can we take it out?

  • NIELS: Absolutely.

  • Wow, it looks like in great condition.

  • I remember playing with this as a kid.

  • You know, you would ask a questions,

  • like, who's the greatest pawnbroker ever to live?

  • C-- H--

  • U-- M. Obviously, it's trying to spell

  • Chumlee, because I'm the best employee Rick's ever had.

  • [laughs]

  • I have a 1919 Ouija board that I'm trying to sell.

  • I believe in ghosts.

  • So I don't want this thing in my house.

  • I'm hoping to sell my Ouija board for $195.

  • CHUMLEE: This is pretty cool.

  • Where did you get this thing?

  • NIELS: Well, I'm a magician, and I was in a magic auction.

  • I won a bunch of props.

  • And this was one of them in there.

  • And when I got home, I realized what I really have,

  • which is something I didn't want in my house.

  • It doesn't even stay in the house.

  • It sleeps in the garage.

  • [laughs] I don't blame you.

  • It's pretty creepy.

  • I remember as a kid playing one of these

  • and moving it, freaking my little sister out.

  • You know, I'm swear I'm not moving it.

  • I'm not moving it.

  • It was basically based off this planchette here.

  • And these things go back all the way to the 1100s

  • in the Song dynasty in China.

  • And they would use it to tell their fortune.

  • But this modern part is the alphabet

  • and the numbers on the board.

  • This one looks definitely early, you know,

  • probably in the early 1900s.

  • It says 1919 on the back of the box here.

  • OK, so that's the copyright date.

  • So this could have been a little older than that.

  • So clearly you want to get rid of it.

  • Are you trying to give it to me for free?

  • Oh, no, no, no.

  • I want to sell it.

  • And how much are you looking to get?

  • I'll say, like $195.

  • OK.

  • It's not out of the realm.

  • I know that this kind of stuff can be very valuable.

  • But I'm going to have to have someone come down and take

  • a look at it and tell me what they think it's worth

  • and if they think it's actually from the early 1990s.

  • OK.

  • All right, you got a few minutes to hang out?

  • Sure, absolutely.

  • All right, give me a few minutes.

  • I'll get my buddy down here.

  • OK.

  • I'm glad he's bringing someone to look at this Ouija board.

  • Whatever we need to make this happen and get it going--

  • yes.

  • MAN: A Ouija board.

  • CHUMLEE: I do.

  • I figured who better to call down than--

  • Wow, this is amazing.

  • This is an old board.

  • With Ouija, there's a lot of theories

  • on how that name came about.

  • But what a lot of people think it is,

  • is actually French and German words put together meaning yes.

  • Oui is French.

  • Ja is in German.

  • Yeah, I heard other stories.

  • It's an old Egyptian word for good luck.

  • Yeah, there's so many, right?

  • There's really-- you know.

  • So Chum, have you used it yet?

  • Not really.

  • You want to really try it?

  • Heck, yeah, I do.

  • Let's do it. You in?

  • No.

  • Antoine, get over there.

  • You're going to play with a Ouija board.

  • For what?

  • So you can go home and teach your kids how to play with one.

  • Well, I'm not into this.

  • Let's give it a shot.

  • I see enough weird people and enough weird items

  • come through these doors every day.

  • He's saying I'm weird.

  • Look at me.

  • I mean, amongst other things.

  • [laughs] Perfect, nice.

  • All right, so the way this works, usually,

  • is you put our index and our middle finger

  • on the planchette.

  • And then we to ask the question.

  • You want to ask, oh, is Chumlee going

  • to own the pawn shop one day?

  • [music playing]

  • You moving it? - No.

  • I'm not touching it.

  • [music playing]

  • MURRAY Huh.

  • Responsibility.

  • Thank god.

  • ANTOINE: I'm out of here, Bro.

  • [laughs] It's totally--

  • you weren't-- were you pushing it?

  • No.

  • MURRAY I wasn't pushing it.

  • So how much do you think it's worth?

  • MURRAY So this board back in the old days

  • used to be made out of all wood.

  • They actually printed on the wood.

  • But, of course, as times move on, things cost more money.

  • Also wood warps.

  • So they started using press board or masonite.

  • And they'd actually print the alphabet,

  • as well as the numbers, on a sticker

  • on the front and the back.

  • But if I had to take a real good stab at this,

  • this board's around 1930 to 1942.

  • And the reason why is because the way it's

  • made with the stickering on top of the press board

  • and the masonite and the plastic planchette.

  • But it's in great shape.

  • There's a little, you know, divot over here.

  • But that's nothing.

  • I would say the value of this board is about $125.

  • Really?

  • MURRAY Yeah, yeah, 125, yeah.

  • So there you go.

  • Thanks for coming out.

  • Good luck with the spirits.

  • Maybe the spirits can-- you know, figure this out.

  • CHUMLEE: Maybe the spirits will align.

  • [inaudible]

  • So you were asking for 185, Murray

  • says it's worth about 125.

  • Would you take 50 bucks for it?

  • We can do 90.

  • 90.

  • 90's still going to be a little too much for me.

  • Would you be able to do 65?

  • That's going to be about where I'm at.

  • [music playing]

  • You got a deal.

  • All right, sounds good.

  • I'll meet you at the counter, and we'll write it up--

  • Excellent.

  • $65 was less than what I was expecting.

  • But it's out of my house.

  • And now I can use the money maybe to get some more games

  • or maybe treating myself for dinner.

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