CHUMLEE: How are you doing today?
- How are you, boss? - I'm pretty good.
What do you have here?
MIKE: I have a "Bag One" John Lennon lithograph,
autographed by John Lennon.
This is definitely cool.
What this is, is actually a series of drawings
that he did to commemorate his wedding.
This was the wedding that people believe broke up The Beatles.
[shattering glass]
MIKE: I'm at the pawn shop today to sell
my John Lennon lithograph.
This lithograph is autographed by John Lennon.
And it's from the "Bag One" collection.
I've had this lithograph for over 20 years.
And I've kept very good care of it.
If I can sell it today, I'd love to buy me a new big screen
TV for my man cave.
CHUMLEE: This is actually a pretty cool piece of art.
Normally, when you think of John Lennon,
you think of The Beatles.
Just the name John Lennon is iconic.
But when you think of John Lennon,
you don't always think about John Lennon the artist.
But before he wanted to be in the rock and roll band,
he wanted to be an artist.
And he developed this style of line drawing,
and you'll see that in a lot of his work.
Bag One was the studio that him and Yoko had opened up to sell
these particular lithographs.
Lithographs are created by etching
an image onto a stone or metal plate,
which is then covered in ink.
A piece of paper is pressed on top.
And when you peel it away, it leaves a picture like this one.
There's 14 pictures in the actual series,
and they did 300 of each 14, which
were all hand signed by Lennon.
This was actually one of the more PC ones.
MIKE: Yeah.
I don't know if you've seen the other ones,
but they get kind of graphic.
This one looks to be number 149 out of 300.
I do know when people collect the series they want
to get the lowest number possible,
and that's right in the middle.
How much are you looking to get for it?
I was looking to get $7,300.
OK.
I don't know if that's John Lennon's signature or not.
The thing with John Lennon is that it's
not particularly hard to replicate something like this,
you know?
There's no heavy detail.
It's just literally line work.
So I'd like to have someone come in, take a look at it,
make sure that the signature's authentic.
If that signature is authentic, then
we know the drawing is good.
And it doesn't seem out of the possibility
that a hand-signed John Lennon could go for $7,300.
So let me get someone down here to take a look at it,
and then we'll talk about a price.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Give me just a minute.
OK.
I know it's a nice piece of art, and I welcome
the expert to come in and look at it because I
know it's an original.
And I cherish it very much.
CHUMLEE: So, Patrick, this is what I brought you over for.
What do you think?
It's pretty cool.
What we have here is a lithograph of the actual moment
that The Beatles broke up.
Yeah, that's what they say, don't they?
This is the ring ceremony.
It was actually a gift from John Lennon to Yoko
Ono after their wedding.
He wanted to commemorate their bed-in that they
did on their honeymoon.
It was a sort of a protest against the Vietnam War.
They stayed in bed for days on end, invited press.
They invited other people like Allen Ginsberg.
It's a cheap way to get a wedding gift,
just draw it for your spouse.
PATRICK DOWNING: Well, he was a trained artist.
He went to art school for three years before The Beatles.
And this is definitely his style.
You can see the gestural nature of just line art.
Just pen and ink, pencil, that's all he did.
Very simple, but pretty effective.
I did notice it's 149 out of 300.
I don't know if that adds any extra value to it,
being lower in the series.
It's always better to be lower because the image is going
to be a little bit stronger.
Looking at the condition, if you look at the corners,
it's actually in really good shape.
I can tell by the frame that this was
framed quite a few years ago.
It looks like you kept it in pretty good shape.
I did keep it in good shape.
There is some water damage here,
but overall, there is no creasing.
This is as good as you can find them.
CHUMLEE: OK.
And how's the signature look?
Does it look legit, pencil on paper, or--
PATRICK DOWNING: Yeah.
It looks exactly like it should.
CHUMLEE: So what kind of value does this have?
One from this series in this condition,
hand-signed and a lower number, we're looking at about $8,000.
OK.
Well, that's good news to me.
All right, Patrick, well, thanks for coming
in and helping me out. I appreciate it.
Yeah, any time.
All right.
Well, Patrick had some good things to say about it.
I'm sure you liked all that.
Yes.
Would you take $3,000 for it?
That's kind of low.
It is kind of low, but, you know, it does
need a little love and care.
Definitely have to reframe it.
How about $5,000?
How about $4,200?
[sighs] Well, how about 46?
I could go 46 on it.
That will still leave me enough room after I get it reframed
and put it up for sale.
$4,600, we got a deal.
- Deal. - All right.
Let's go write it up at the counter.
Let's go.
I'm just going to need to see that ID.
I'm glad I made a deal.
I've had it for a long time.
And now it's time to let it go.