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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?
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You moving it? - No.
I'm not touching it.
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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.
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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.
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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.