Gold Pants and Pawn Stars

One of the Ohio State gold pants charms appeared on History Channel’s Pawn Stars last night.  (Finally something related to Michigan football).

The seller advised he bought them off a “private collector” who had “several of them.”  Insert Tressel, tattoo-gate joke.

Per Rick Harrison, the owner of the Las Vegas shop observed, “[It] looks like they plated them with 10 or 14 carats, something like that.  It’s called gold filled, it’s a really, really heavy plating process.”

The seller originally asked $2500, Rick countered with $1500.   The seller countered with $2200 and they settled on $2000 (for the pair). 

On the price, at $2000 that’s a good price to the seller.  I think Rick and Chumlee could have done better.  Recent auctions on eBay have placed a Buy It Now price on the charms as low as $599 or best offer:

You can view the entire show here on PutLocker.  I’d embed but it flagged a security risk FWIW.

mgoblog jumps into the memorabilia game.