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Welcome to watch Mojo.

And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 fake items on pawn stars.

Sometimes Cory's ego gets the best of them, but it's a lesson he's gonna have to learn.

I don't know what to say at this point.

I'm just gonna pass.

I guess I'm just gonna go home and sell come own misery.

Well, for this list will be looking at interesting items that were brought in on the show but turned out to be fakes.

Whether or not the world famous golden silver pawnshop ended up buying them.

Do you have any fake items you've collected?

Let us know in the comments Number 10 John Lennon artwork.

John Lennon.

Um, come with me.

Aside from being one of the greatest songwriters and music history, John Lennon was also an accomplished artist.

His artwork is universally recognized, especially the self portrait doodles.

He did these doodles and things like that and, you know, in the seventies he realized people would pay him money for it.

Then he started doing the really large ones.

I mean, he did full like portrait size women almost all the art I've ever seen from him is like this.

A man came into the shop bearing some supposedly original John Lennon doodles, which the owner claims to have picked up at a thrift store of all places.

There's a reason it was sitting in a thrift store and not in someone's personal collection.

The owner believed it was worth $20,000 but when Rick flipped the paper over, he saw a Kodak paper watermark.

As Lenin passed away in 1980 long before this computer paper was readily available, he easily declared it a fake, and the owner walked away with nothing.

So, uh, it's cool, but it's 100% fake.

Glad I didn't pay much for Number nine.

Shoeless Joe Jackson book.

You know how rare it is to find his signature?

No, not at all.

It's the rare sports signature period, one of the most divisive and controversial baseball players of all time.

Shoeless Joe was an exceptional player.

However, His legacy was tainted after the 1919 World Series, which saw players of the Chicago White Sox intentionally throwing the Games for money.

A customer on pond stars arrived with an old book titled Say It Ain't So, Joe that was allegedly signed by Jackson.

But Joe Jackson's signature is so rare and so expensive.

I just have to take the gamble before this guy walks out the door with it.

According to Rick, Jackson's signature is the rarest in sports, and the owner even had it certified.

Rick ended up paying $13,000 for nothing.

He had it looked at by various experts, all of whom deduced that the signature was fake.

Several factors became apparent during our thorough examination that prevented us from certifying the autographs, which means it's fake.

The entire small case E.

In Joe's first name has been erased and signed over.

The original theme title of that book has a certain irony to it.

Number eight.

Napoleon Letter.

That wouldn't be the last time that the pawn stars were fooled.

In Season eight, a man walked in with a letter that was allegedly written by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The item contained many authentic aspect, including the period specific wax seal and a certificate of authenticity.

Okay, it seems like it's from a pretty legit company.

What do you want for it?

And don't be crazy, man I mean, I gotta make money here, too.

Okay.

Okay.

Corey ended up paying a surprisingly small $2000 for the letter, but even that was too much.

2000, 2000.

Sweet man.

I'll meet you right over there.

Thank you.

Rick.

Had Cory go to an expert who was quick to judge the letter a replica.

His primary concern was the ink which was neither smudged nor faded.

We would see where there are blobs of ink and we'd see that the ink would have faded in color.

I can't say that this is worth very much as a historical artifact.

Well, there goes $2000 down the drain.

Corey tried selling it in the shop for $20 But even that proved a failure as Rick prevented him from selling a fake item.

We don't sell fake stuff here.

Sometimes Cory's ego gets the best of them, but it's a lesson he's gonna have to learn.

Number seven prison memorabilia.

A tough looking men with a handlebar mustache showed up with a suitably tough item a Wells Fargo strongbox, an antique ball and chain, and some handcuffs.

I'm looking to get around $2000 for everything the least I would take us probably around 18.

The ball and chain allegedly came from Yuma Territorial Prison, which opened in 18 76 and the handcuffs from California's Folsom State.

However, Rick was very quick to point out some historical discrepancies.

Three old handcuffs from Fulsome had electrically welded chains, which proved anachronistic.

And despite reclaiming that prisons never put their name on the ball and chains, the human ball and chain had a clear you must stamped into the iron.

Okay, so what are you trying to say?

It's fake.

Even the strongbox was fake, a fact that Rick regrettably learned after shelling out $450.

I thought it was fake to start with.

Well, then why didn't you say anything?

I didn't want to bust your bubble Well, so you will let me spend the money instead.

Now I can holler at you.

Number six Pete Rose Baseball cards.

Pete Rose is widely regarded as one of the best baseball players of all time.

He's a 17 times All Star, won three world Siri's and currently still holds the MLB record with 4256 hits as one can imagine his baseball cards are worth some good money.

Before I buy these, I got to know that the legit and these things look like they're in great shape.

Maybe a little too good a shape.

In Season two, a man tried selling 5 1967 rows cards.

The fact that he had five proved a major red flag, and Rick instantly identified them as fakes.

How can you tell that?

What do you What do you mean?

Because the colors all faded.

Everything's a blur.

Even in space, it doesn't look so screened.

Various aspects of the cards physical design were totally off, including the faded colors and over exposed picture.

It's amazing how quickly dreams of cash could be dashed because these cards air fake, then what else is really the wife?

Real the dog cat.

You know what's really number five?

Babe Ruth signed bat and glove.

Speaking of baseball in the fifth season premiere, a man walked into the shop with a particularly special baseball bat and glove.

Babe Ruth is probably the most famous baseball player of all time, the accomplishments of Babe Ruth made in his career.

I mean, he outshines just about every baseball player since him.

The glove was signed by none other than Babe Ruth and the Bat co signed by Ruth and Christy Mathewson, a dominant pitcher who played for the New York Giants.

The owner was hoping to get $120,000 for the two items on exorbitant cost that had Rick rightfully consulting expert advice.

Who is your guy on what makes him special?

Because I trust him and I know him.

But I don't know You, Booth expert, deduced that the authentication papers were fraudulently signed by a criminal who was caught in an FBI sting known as Operation Bullpen.

14 individuals from five states were convicted in the scam.

So what's the bottom line with all the circumstantial evidence?

My gut tells me that this is unlikely.

Genuine.

The signature isn't considered legitimate, and Rick walked away from the deal.

I don't know what to say at this point.

I'm just gonna pass.

I'm sorry, can't do nothing for you, but I can understand that.

Number four Titanic newspaper pardon the pun, but unauthentic newspaper reporting on the Titanic disaster would be a Titanic find for a 1912 newspaper it's in perfect condition.

Perfect.

The Pond stars were certainly excited when a man tried selling a copy of the Boston Daily Globe with the tragic headline Titanic Sinks 1500 die.

However, Rick instantly took note of the impeccably white paper and pristine Inc major red flags.

Considering the paper had ostensibly been around for a century, he also noticed that the picture accompanying the story was from a copy machine.

You see, right here, that's from a copy machine.

Okay, so when when they had copied it, probably right after the movie came out, we sell.

Needless to say, the newspaper itself was fake, But fake or not, it's still a really interesting thing to have around the house.

I guess I'm just gonna go home and sell come own misery.

Well, number three Monet painting.

Okay.

Um, where in the hell did you get this?

A founder of the French Impressionist movement, Oscar Claude Monet is one of the most famed artists of all time.

His paintings, of course, go for big money With his work Labasa Ninfa selling for $80 million in 2008, the owner of this particular supposed Monet painting was asking for $1 million nothing compared to his greatest works but a sizeable chunk of change Nonetheless.

People have walked in my shop, and I have bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise off, but a real Monet that might be the most expensive item yet.

The painting was supposedly on exhibit at the Las Vegas Art Museum in 1997 and the art came with numerous pieces of documentation.

An expert was brought in, and he noticed that the paint wasn't sweating through the canvas.

The brush structure there it's it's very thin.

Usually you'll get some sort of in pasta, a little bit more texture.

He usually had some texture in his pieces, and this again, there's very little of that.

Regardless of its beauty.

The painting was not a Monet original.

Number two Lincoln Family Photo.

As Rick says, you never know what's gonna come through those doors.

In Season 16, a man came through with what seemed like a huge catch.

A photograph of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln dated from 18 63.

So where'd you get this?

I bought it from a collector who sold me a collection of 11 photographs that were unidentified, and I painstakingly was able to identify every single one of them and did recognize it to be Abraham and Mary together.

And no documentation, anything like that, nothing at all.

If correct, the photo would have been taken during the Civil War while Lincoln was serving as the 16th president of the United States.

You have to look at everything in the photograph from what they're wearing, toe what type of picture it is to then what's happening with the face.

The owner asked $1 million for the photo, and while the expert called it a gorgeous picture, it was nevertheless a fake one.

But that wasn't enough for the owner, who rudely claimed that the expert was discrediting herself by calling it a fake.

I know you think this is worth a million dollars.

You would like it to be worth a million dollars, and all I'm saying is this my opinion that it's not Abraham Lincoln?

We think someone was just a little upset before we unveil our number one pick.

Here are a few honorable mentions.

1967 Chicago Bears autographed football signatures were fakes.

These air contracting signature is very typical for what you see in the clubhouse signature.

They were signed by somebody else other than the athlete Jimi Hendrix poetry.

The pen, lettering and signature were all wrong.

The last name seems to be printed type style.

He would always write in cursive Colt Army model 18 60 Number stamping was off.

Well, I've never seen one of these.

Number here was connector Rod.

Um, I could just tell you I don't like the way the numbers air stamped.

They're usually marked right here in 17 77 French musket.

The grime and rest were completely artificial.