COREY: So what do we got here?
Got this sword I want to sell you.
COREY: All right.
JOHN: And there's a mark on it that might be Tiffany's.
COREY: Tiffany's?
OK.
JOHN: It's not in as good a shape as it was new.
COREY: I guarantee you Tiffany never put anything
this ugly out, you know.
JOHN: When I first saw the sword,
I thought it was so cool.
And I was quite surprised when somebody pointed
me out the maker's mark on it.
Fingers crossed that it will bring in a lot of money
and that it is actually a Tiffany sword.
COREY: All right.
Where'd you get it?
JOHN: I got it in Walla Walla, Washington,
in a little antique shop.
I'm a commercial photographer, so I used it as a prop
and forgot about it for 10 years.
COREY: OK.
It looks like a cavalry sword used during the Civil War.
You can always tell by the handle and the shape.
And it's got all the normal wear you would expect on it.
You have no amateur restorations here.
But I mean, it's got a good patina to it.
It looks nice.
It's just the Tiffany thing is really, really throwing me off.
I mean, I've seen hundreds, if not thousands, of
Civil War-era calvary swords.
And none of them said Tiffany on it.
JOHN: I didn't know they were a sword maker.
COREY: Yeah, I mean, they'll make pretty much anything.
But if they did, they were generally presentation pieces,
made of silver, very, very ornate,
very beautiful swords that you would
never want to take into battle.
They're probably one of the most counterfeited
jewelry companies in the world.
That's because most of their stuff is so nice.
Hell, even the Super Bowl trophy is made by Tiffany.
It's not out of the question that a jewelry
company would be asked to help aid in war efforts.
So if this sword is made by Tiffany,
it's got to be worth a pretty penny.
I'm just not sure how many.
What are you looking to get out of it, my man?
A $500 check.
That's what I'd like.
COREY: That doesn't seem out of the ballpark
if it's made by Tiffany.
I just don't know.
I've never seen one like it.
I'll tell you what, man.
I've got a sword guy that works for me.
Let me see what he knows about this stuff,
and I'll grab him for you, all right?
All right.
Why don't you hang out and take a look around?
And he should be here in a few minutes.
OK, fantastic.
COREY: Well, it's a cavalry sword.
It looks like Civil War era.
But I've never seen Tiffany make one.
Tiffany?
COREY: Yeah, for the fancy army.
Nothing but the best.
This is a model 1840 heavy cavalry sword, what's
called the wrist breaker.
COREY: Why is it called a wrist breaker?
The predecessor swords would bend and flex.
And the soldiers said they were good for cutting
nothing but butter.
So when they design the model 1840,
they put a lot of extra steel on the backside.
It made the sword a lot heavier.
COREY: And you're using that to just lop heads off
or whatever you're doing?
Lop heads, slash, poke sometimes.
But as you're hacking and slashing
through with all your arm's momentum and the horse's
momentum, sometimes it'd snap your wrist,
giving it the nickname "ye old wrist breaker."
COREY: Sounds like a design flaw.
It was loved and hated.
But a lot of people don't realize that Tiffany did
make swords for the Civil War.
The Presentation Sword, which you would expect from Tiffany,
that were all real pretty.
And you really didn't want to wear them into battle.
But they wanted officers to have really good functioning swords,
too.
So they outsourced the blades from a really
high-end German company.
It's PDL right here.
It's Paul D Luneschloss.
COREY: OK.
ROCCO: And they made functional swords for the officers.
COREY: I can tell you right now, stamping
Tiffany and Co in something isn't that hard to do.
So the question is, is it definitely Tiffany?
Absolutely.
Well, the Tiffany mark's almost gone on this side.
Anything Tiffany is usually reproduced and faked out there.
So when you go over a piece of Tiffany,
you have to do a lot of detailed inspection
to make sure that it is Tiffany and not a reproduction.
Now, Tiffany is a little more sought
after than your standard--
Absolutely.
--US swords.
One of the things Tiffany did, instead of using a brass guard,
they would use an iron guard.
And yep, that's definitely iron and not brass.
And then the PDL mark.
They did have a die that was broken.
And a lot of them do look like a lowercase r instead of a big P.
COREY: So is it real, then?
Yeah, that's real.
Yes.
COREY: All right.
That's why I hired you.
If someone sells it in the shop, it's going to be you.
What do you think you can get out of it?
ROCCO: This one, you know, it does have some issues here
with the leather strap missing.
It's actually coming off in my hands.
And that would make it a little bit more valuable.
But 1,500.
Excellent.
Very good.
All right, man.
Well, get back to work.
ROCCO: Yes, sir. [laughing]
JOHN: Thanks.
ROCCO: The wrist breaker sword is something every Civil
War collector wants.
But to have one made by Tiffany, that's
like the highlight of anyone's collection
is to show off their Tiffany sword.
All right, so you said he wanted 500 for it.
Yep, but you brought the expert in.
[laughs]
COREY: Yeah, that doesn't always work out that well for me,
does it?
JOHN: Now you've just educated me, let's go 8.
You know, man, I really don't have to have it.
JOHN: You don't have one.
It's a Tiffany's.
COREY: (SIGHING) You know, I am going
to have to get it rewrapped.
It's going to have to be cleaned up a little bit.
I'll do 650.
675, you got a deal.
All right.
675, man.
Cool.
You got it.
Why you go ahead and find Rocco back there.
He'll write you up.
Great.
Thank you.
675.
Now I have some money to go spend
something for the girlfriend at Tiffany's.