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  • RICK: Hey, how can I help you?

  • BRANDON: How's it going?

  • I just want to see if you might be interested in this.

  • RICK: William Tolliday-- it has been a long time since I've

  • seen anything done by him.

  • BRANDON: Yeah, they're pretty rare.

  • He was a gold sculptor, OK?

  • Which is a really, really weird profession

  • and a really weird art form.

  • This is literally sheets of gold and some guy

  • there with a little hammer.

  • It is a massive pain in the ass.

  • BRANDON: Yeah.

  • [laughter]

  • William Tolliday was a goldsmith artist

  • that worked for the Crown Jewelers for years.

  • I'd like to get $8,000 for the goldsmith piece itself.

  • I really would like to have someone else maybe enjoy

  • it who can enjoy the craftsmanship that

  • goes into something like that.

  • RICK: This is really cool.

  • Where did you get it?

  • BRANDON: Well, I was-- it inherited

  • to me from my grandparents.

  • The story that they gave me was that this was given to them

  • by Aaron Spelling as a kind of a thank you for getting him

  • started in the business.

  • They actually gave him his first job.

  • So your grandparents helped Aaron Spelling actually start

  • in the entertainment business?

  • Absolutely, yeah.

  • RICK: Oh, that's cool. - Yeah.

  • That's really neat because this was--

  • this cost a pretty penny back in the day.

  • The neat thing is is, like, there's a few artists out there

  • in the world where you just look at their stuff and say,

  • yeah, that's him. - That's him, yeah.

  • This was done by him. BRANDON: Yeah.

  • OK?

  • This was done by someone who was damn good.

  • BRANDON: Yeah.

  • RICK: This one's definitely different.

  • I never really seen the comedy and tragedy.

  • What he's famous for is castles.

  • And he would-- he would do commissions

  • for castles that would be--

  • I think that one he did took him a year to make.

  • Yeah.

  • So how much did you want for it?

  • BRANDON: I haven't seen anything like it before,

  • so I would say a fair value would be about 8 grand.

  • That's what I think.

  • Um-- people who collect William Tolliday want a castle.

  • I'd give you, like, 1,000 bucks for it.

  • BRANDON: Is there any way that you could do 2,200?

  • That will make us both happy.

  • RICK: It would make you happy.

  • It would not make me happy.

  • And I would go 15.

  • That would be it.

  • I'd let it go for 17.

  • But that's-- that's probably all I'd be able to do,

  • because it's a family thing.

  • And the story behind it, and it's pretty rare, so--

  • I'll tell you what.

  • I'll go 1,600 bucks.

  • It is a very interesting piece.

  • Yeah.

  • But I'm going to sit on it for a long time.

  • So if you can do 16, I'll do it.

  • I'm just not going to go any more.

  • I can't.

  • Yeah, I'll take 16.

  • Yeah.

  • RICK: Oh, sweet.

  • Cool.

  • I'm accepting the $1,600 offer because I do believe it's fair.

  • So I think I'm gonna buy some stuff for my wife's Jeep.

  • And with some of it left over, I might throw

  • some stuff on my truck, too.

  • We'll see.

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