MIKE: Hey, I'm Mike.
- Mike. - Very nice to meet you.
I'm Marlene, or grandma.
Grandma, OK.
And this is Frank.
Hi, Frank.
- Nice to meet you. - It's nice to meet you too.
- Pleasure. - Yes.
Thanks for having us.
MARLENE (VOICEOVER): My husband David
and I collected for 50 years.
We collected all kinds of things, unusual things.
- We have all of this. - You have all of this.
- You have all of that, huh? - Yeah.
Hey, how are ya? What's your name?
- Josh. - Josh, nice to meet you.
- This is my-- - Josh, how you doing?
Frank. - Josh.
- Pleasure. - Yeah, this is my grandson.
So you're one of the guys living in the house.
I'm one of the four that lives in the house right now.
And we called y'all just to try to downsize the collection.
We enjoy it. But we also have too much.
So you guys are living in the house with the collection.
We're trying to live in it.
Living around the collection.
Living around it, moving it around.
They're moving it from room to room to try to get things.
And said, hey grandma, this is getting too much.
Growing up as a kid, it was always fun coming over
to grandma's house cause there was always something
new that they'd come home with.
And we'd always get to tinker around with it,
with grandpa's permission and grandpa watching over us
all the time.
But now, it's just a matter of trying to make
the house livable for us.
So what year is the house?
MARLENE: 1875 or '76. JOSH: 1875.
MIKE: Really?
1875.
FRANK: Ha, that's early.
JOSH: My brothers and I were packing things up
to try to make rooms livable.
MARLENE: I wish you would have gotten to see
it when everything was in here.
FRANK: So it was just packed full of stuff, huh?
MARLENE: Packed full.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): Even though they've cleared a lot out,
I still can't imagine four people Josh's
size living inside this house.
I walk into the main room and it's lamp-o-rama.
FRANK: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I am in seventh heaven.
Wow.
I'm a lamp guy.
And I don't get to see a lot of good lamps.
MIKE: Slow your roll.
[chuckle]
MIKE (VOICEOVER): After doing this job for 25 years,
I still get a kick out of watching the little guy
get excited about lamps.
FRANK: It's overwhelming here. Yeah.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): Stained glass lamps
came out in the late 1800s.
Some of the big makers were Tiffany, Handel.
These are beautiful.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): lamps have got at least 70, 80, 90 years
on 'em.
They aren't Japanese or anything.
But they're--
FRANK: They've got that look kind of a--
MARLENE: They're the Handel.
They're the Asian type.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): They got great ornate bases too 'em.
Sure they might need to be rewired.
This one's beautiful.
You could set it to the back so that-- because it's
got a panel broken out.
One's got a back panel that's broken out.
Not a big deal.
Not a deal breaker for me whatsoever.
What would you have to have for this one?
Well, I-- let's see.
We probably-- most of the lamps we paid about two to three.
But we bought 'em back then. So--
FRANK: Sure.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): are so hard to find anymore.
But they bought them back in the '50s and '60s
and '70s when you could find this kind of stuff.
Would you take $600 for this one?
[music playing]
Sure, if you'd like.
FRANK (VOICEOVER): Even the repops these days
go for a lot of money.
But these are the real deal.
And what about this one with the broken out panels?
What, four or five?
FRANK: $400, $1,000 for the pair?
- Yes. - OK.
- OK. - Sounds great.
All right.
And when we first came in, I noticed
there was a couple that were sitting on the table in there.
- Oh, yes. - Would those be for sale?
Yes.
FRANK: I know this is a little bit more expensive.
The colors are gorgeous when it's on.
Oh, it's gorgeous.
It's a Handel.
And this one is really pretty though too.
This is more of a slag lamp type.
But it's-- yes. FRANK: More common.
Right? MARLENE: Yes.
I bought some in New York myself.
FRANK: Oh boy. You paid up then,--
MARLENE: A couple of them. FRANK: --didn't you?
MARLENE: Yeah.
What would you have to have let's say, for this one?
Probably close to a thousand.
- Close to a thousand. - Yeah.
FRANK: The one lamp is a Handel.
It's not a Tiffany.
But this is a major player in stained glass lamps.
And this one, $400 or something?
$400 or $500.
So you're like almost at a thousand on this one.
Yes.
And let's say $500 on that one.
So that's $1,500. - Mm hmm.
You were fair I think with the other ones on me.
$1,300?
That sounds good.
- Does that sound fine? - Yeah.
It's so nice to be able to buy--
To be able to have one.
- --original intact ones. - Yes.
FRANK: Danny wasn't kidding.
I've stepped 10 feet inside the door and I've already scored.
I've got a great feeling about today.
So what's in all the boxes?
Hard to say.
MARLENE (VOICEOVER): When we got married, instead of going
on a vacation, we went around to different thrift
shops, flea markets, antique shows out in the country.
We just never wanted to get rid of anything.
And that's why the house became a museum.