hey okay hey I brought a menu from 1876
from a dinner to honor William Sharon of
the Comstock Lode can you read that I
can't read cursive some sort of Chablis
Shepley come soon Royale it's obviously
a French menu
so what would happen when you wanted to
change the menu it's a silver menu to
honor a famous senator from Nevada I'm
selling the menu for $10,000 but the
least I would take is around $6,000 if
I'm able to sell the menu today I'll
probably take that money and use it to
buy more cool stuff it's really
interesting where did you get it I
bought it at an auction came from an
estate okay to the Honorable William
Sharon by his old friends of the
Comstock Lode Palace Hotel
William Sharon was a senator from Nevada
the Comstock Lode it's one of the
greatest stories in American history
there was a guy named Comstock and he
came across a few guys mighty Comstock
rides up on his horse and he's gone
we were off my property but the Comstock
was really really reasonable what he
told him was is listen guys let's start
drop a contract you guys can keep half
of it I get the other half since this is
my property they all signed it he went
on his way
Berta's horse in the Carson City went
the local claim office and claim pool
and the Comstock Lode was the original
silver find in Nevada he created a
silver rush that's what made Nevada a
state and actually helped finance the
Civil War so how much you looking to get
out of it 10 grand
okay $10,000 how did you come up with
that number I looked around and found
some auction records and some are high
and some are low but it seems like the
auctions that play to a Western
collector audience get more than that
let me get a friend of mine down here he
knows everything there is to know about
Nevada history and let me see if there's
something astronomical about it that I'm
not seeing okay fair enough
we'll be right back hey Rick if you're
calling image Pete's on the bring down
some french fries maybe some french
Jessi I'm looking forward to hearing
what the expert has to say about the
menu I've done some look in myself and
I'm curious to find out whether my
research is correct did you bring the
French fries my fault I didn't ask him
bring French fries with French dressing
you do French dressing on french fries
she's in the mood for some French so
what do we have this is the tray I was
telling you about oh yes okay
honorable William Sharon by his old
friends of the Comstock Lode William
Sharon ended up in charge of the Bank of
California and he ended up being able to
control the Comstock made huge amounts
of money and ended up buying a Senate
seat in 1876 he was a senator from
Nevada living in San Francisco and not
bothering to show up in Washington very
often he was considered probably the
worst US senator ever okay Sharon was
one of the major investors in the palace
hotel where the dinner was held and this
is the sort of piece that you might get
from a very high-end dinner of the era
what we have here was a plate that would
be a commemorative everybody who went to
the dinner got one of these Oh God yeah
but there was only 20 25 people at the
dinner the one thing about this one is
that it's been modified originally this
was a flat piece probably a jeweler has
bent it here added the feet to it so it
could be maybe a card tray something
like that
okay is there anything astronomical
about this it's cool I mean it's a piece
that ties back to a really important
character in Nevada and California
history it's not unique but they're not
many of them left I've only seen one
other one and not many of them would
have been made
begin with okay okay you look not a
problem
pizza afterwards I guess you didn't
bring me french fries we better get
something you know if the shop buys it
it is an interesting piece and it looks
to be absolutely original and absolutely
correct the reason I called mark down
was because you wanted $10,000 for this
they just want to find out if there was
something I was missing for $10,000 you
can get gold coins made the Carson City
bets do you understand what I'm saying
there's a lot rarer cooler things you
can get I mean you have it's a pretty
interesting piece of Nevada history but
it's not $10,000 I mean you have a
hundred dollars of the silver here
I mean I'd give you like 200 bucks for
it ya know I think I'm gonna go ahead
and maybe put it in an auction I think
I'll stand a better chance like that
okay we'll have a good one man yep
thanks thanks for enough let's go get
that pizza I'm not eating with you it's
a shame I couldn't sell the silver menu
today but every cloud has a silver
lining and I'm gonna go elsewhere with
you