[MUSIC PLAYING]
Dude, no one buys anything from me.
I mean, it's your face.
Hey.
How you doing?
Good.
I'm hoping you can help me with this, a bronze Madonna bust.
Go ahead, put it up here.
Okey-doke.
OK.
Whoa, you're strong.
Look at you, man.
[LAUGHS]
CHUMLEE: Well, that's not Madonna the pop singer.
Not at all.
[LAUGHS] I have an exact cast of Michelangelo's Madonna bust,
licensed by the Vatican.
They sell for $80,000 if they're legit.
And mine is totally legit.
If I get what I want for this, I'm gonna let my wife renovate
the kitchen however she wants.
CHUMLEE: This is pretty cool, man.
This is supposed to be the Virgin Mary, right?
RICHARD: Correct.
It comes from the "Pieta" made by Michelangelo.
The original is in the Vatican.
CHUMLEE: It's really cool.
It looks like it's in really good condition.
Does it have any markings or anything like that on it?
It does.
It's got the seal--
the license from the Vatican.
CHUMLEE: 154 out of 500?
RICHARD: That's it.
So the mold was relatively new when they casted this one.
You know, sometimes the earlier the mold,
the better the casting's gonna be.
So that's good.
You got that going for you there.
It's a beautiful piece.
How much were you hoping to get?
$80,000.
That's what it's valued at.
Holy cow.
Yeah, I got no idea.
I know the original is iconic, but this
is just like a mold of that.
I've got a few questions about it,
so I'm definitely gonna have to have
someone come take a look at it.
Yeah.
CHUMLEE: Do you have a few minutes to hang out?
Got all day. Take your time.
CHUMLEE: All right. I'll be right back.
RICHARD: All right. Thanks.
This is a real piece, and so I'm happy for anybody
to come in and inspect it.
They're just gonna prove that it is what it is.
CHUMLEE: Hey, Chad.
Hey, Chum.
Looking good, man.
How you doing?
CHAD: Looking slim, man.
Hey, you know.
[LAUGHS]
Trying to get like Madonna.
Ah.
So you have a "Madonna del Pieta."
CHUMLEE: What do you think about it?
It's absolutely fantastic.
You don't see these a lot of times.
There's not a ton of them that come on the market.
Michelangelo himself considered this work,
and of course the David, his two greatest works.
And it's an exact reproduction of Michelangelo's
"Madonna del Pieta."
This is the only piece that Michelangelo ever signed,
and they say the reason he did it is there were tourists even
back in his day that went to the Vatican,
and they identified it as a different work.
And he heard them, and he carved his name right into it.
CHUMLEE: Well, that's pretty cool.
This is absolutely legitimate.
This is the original New Renaissance that was
commissioned by the Vatican.
It's fantastic.
So what does he want for it?
He's asking $80,000.
Tell me what you think.
I think that's too high.
[INAUDIBLE]
This artwork on the secondary market, in a gallery,
it's right around $35,000.
But they're selling for $80,000.
If you get it from New Renaissance, it's $80,000.
However, there are some on the secondary market,
and the secondary market's bearing right around $35,000.
So it's worth $80,000, just not today.
CHAD: Yeah, not today.
But the workmanship is fantastic,
and there's no doubt this is one of the pieces
that New Renaissance issued initially.
OK.
Well, I appreciate you coming down.
Hey, thanks, Chum.
Take it easy.
I'm looking at like $20,000.
Ew.
$25,000?
$23,000 is-- is--
is where I feel comfortable.
OK.
I got a deal for you.
I'm like the barter king, so I trade for everything.
I saw you had 100 pounds of silver,
and that's about $24,000, if my math is correct.
It'll get it out of your way.
You'll get this out of my way.
Yeah, so long as the math checks out, I can do that deal.
- OK. - All right.
Let's check it.
Meet me up at the counter and I'll bust the calculator out
and figure out where we're at.
Thank you very much.
Sounds good.
I'm making this deal because I'm gonna show Rick
how to buy something with something in the shop,
and then turn around and make a profit bigger than the profit I
could've made if I paid cash.
Nice doing business with you.
Thank you very much.
I love it.
Out we go.
[LAUGHS]
CHUMLEE: This guy came in, had a bronze Madonna bust for sale.
Did someone check this thing out?
Yeah, Chad checked it out.
OK.
But you're missing the point of it, OK?
He wanted $24,000 for it, but he didn't want cash.
He wanted to trade something for it.
So me, having a brilliant thought process that I have,
decided to trade silver.
OK.
CHUMLEE: And since you've been gone,
silver's been down so much that we made an extra $3,000.
How did you know silver was gonna go down?
When you have a talent, you have a talent, Rick.
And mine's making you money.
COREY: No, no, he got lucky.
Do I look lucky to you?
No.
That's skill.
This is pure genius.
COREY: By the way, I did not approve this transaction
in any way, shape, or form.
I'm gonna go get his opinion on what's
gonna happen next week.
What?
RICK: Chumlee.