so I'm on the East Coast and Alex has a
lot of warehouses but I'm headed to the
big warehouse when it comes to world war
two stuff he's basically got one of
everything almost so I think I might be
spending the whole day there you are
how you doing all right so this is it
this is pretty cool thanks man
we own the vast majority of our
inventory but some pieces we do have on
consignment so what you're looking at
out here these are our machine guns from
World War one and World War two Wow
got a bunch of antique guns along the
wall so these go from about 1700 all the
way up to about 1900 Civil War guns
British guns called blunderbusses used
on ships we've got all different kinds
of stuff we have a warehouse here that's
25,000 square feet so we can go through
take a tour sure let's go all right
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so we got a lot of old guns a lot sort
of an understatement there's about
20,000 these are cool yeah they are
these cannons here are actually on
consignment they're a matched pair of
bronze signal cannons from 1697 early
reproduction no their original is not a
modern piece or screw on them they're
all iron and wood they're held together
by the correct type of pegs and the the
barrels themselves are founded just as
they would have been done on the bigger
scale
they are dated 1697 we've put four
scopes in them these are cool yeah so
nothing was engraved on these right here
no they were left blank I put my
initials on you could Det yeah an RH
right across there yeah maybe with my
face have you fired him no but I'd love
to fire me we're going to the range
tomorrow I can just bring them yeah
bring with you dude I'm absolutely in
love with these things I want to sit
there from my fireplace
call the owner and make sure she can
come meet us okay for a sale I'm sure
she'd love to it's just so cool I love
how this is made hi hey Jen hey Alex
nice to see you
right Eric so these are yours yeah they
are where did you get these my husband
and I bought him in an estate sale all
right and did they give you any history
out of everything huh
yeah the seller told me that she
inherited them from her grandparents and
back in Ireland apparently they're at an
old whiskey distillery so it was just
passed down okay aren't they awesome
yeah talk about a double barrel uh-huh
I've had these cannons for about eight
years now I found Alex because I wanted
to sell them but really know that much
about them or what they're are worth I
used to have them in my house cuz it
kind of looks cool and pretty but now
we're redecorating and we just want to
get rid of them
so normally signal cannons are only used
to make noise because that's a way of
communication but we're also gonna fire
a projectile out of them I've got some
buckshot we're gonna knock stuff over so
we're gonna make noise and knock stuff
down load her up all right back up all
right so I'm gonna pierce the bag of
powder Oh back it up
fire the hole
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all right like I'm super impressed I was
better than I thought it would be so now
that we know they work well I'm gonna
value these cannons at $20,000 okay all
right that's it man all right thanks man
good luck okay so alex says they're
basically worth 20 so let me give you 13
grand for 18 I mean they're super cool
but I got to resell them and $15,000
how about 17 I really shouldn't do 17
but they're really really cool you got a
deal 17,000 17,000 all right I'll get
you check and that looks will box them
up sounds great this is really really
cool
almost every guy wants a 200 year old
cannon the problem is no one has space
to put one but anybody can find space
for these bad boys and that's why
they're going to sell so easy
you