oh we got their beer no it's empty I
drank it on the way over I came to the
pawn shop today to sell an American
pewter tankard and I believe it's bait
at 1732 1750 I like to ask $20,000 for
it I think it's worth a lot more lowest
price I could probably take is about
13,000 what exactly is this it was made
before the American Revolutionary War by
a very famous pewter ax and a Sabri darn
rare piece
it is cool though I mean I really do dig
it tankers became really popular in
Europe and eventually in the new world
starting in the 1500s they were
basically the original beer mug and
they're mostly made out of pewter they
could be worth a lot of money depending
on where and when they were made it was
the only really viable metal for dishes
besides them maybe like silver or gold
but that was way too expensive to make
dishes out of and when our amber grits
started coming over here in the 1600
1700 s we didn't have a lot of craftsmen
and most pewter stuff we just import
from England
the English sort of discouraged
manufacturing in the States sort of why
we had a revolution if this is
pre-revolutionary pewter it's worth a
ridiculous amount of money yes how much
were you looking to get out of this
let's take it about 20,000
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let me have someone take a look at it
because it's not that I don't trust you
it's just anything like this from this
period is being faked or has been faced
so let me get him down here he'll take a
look at it and then we'll go from there
okay you got it hang out a few minutes
okay hey every right back and I have no
problem with an expert coming in this is
a genuine beast there's no question in
my mind so I'd like an expert to confirm
that it was actually made in the
colonies it's gonna be worth a lot of
money so I've called the beard of
knowledge to help me figure all this
stuff out how you doing doing absolutely
fabulous good to see you honey my name
is Mark I'm bill bill meet you okay we
have this is what he says is a pre
Revolutionary War American pewter
tankard that's nice very few early
pieces especially pre-revolutionary war
pieces from America survived today the
standard lifespan of a plate or a
porridge er was only about 10 years now
and then it would get melted down and
recast you mind if I take a closer look
at it just please okay it's an
interesting piece when you're looking at
a piece like this what you want to see
is how much of it is original and how
much of it isn't there's been a lot of
work done on this the handle at least
has been reattached if not replaced the
lid I believe has been replaced the one
piece that is really the the final
criteria on this is the touch mark
appears to be IB that would be John
Bassett okay you're looking at
pre-revolutionary war american pewter
John Bassett is one of the people that
you look for and he is a highly
collected name in pre-revolutionary war
pewter
is that what it's mark looks like yeah I
did see one other John Bassett touch
mark but it was in a book it was a
photograph of a touch mark unfortunately
on this one I cannot tell you that it's
an original John Bassett okay
thanks but I'm sorry about that no
problem okay thank you very good meet
you okay
when I first looked at this tankard I
saw that it is touch mark but that is
one of those very rare touch marks that
I would want to look at next to another
original to see whether it actually
matches I wish I could make you an offer
and this wasn't so anticlimactic but
thanks okay take care thank you well I'm
coming a little disappointed in the fact
that he could not confirm that it was
real I am sure it's real he can't be an
expert everything
you