I've got one of them too....I reacted kinda like that. You never really expect something to ACTUALLY be worth 700k, youre constantly waiting for that other shoe to drop, so when it does youre like yep...this is how my life goes. Getting that kind of money all at once would be LIFE CHANGING, and we're conditioned to know deep down that our life isn't gonna change.
"they had to do that because there were too many fakes out there but mine definitely isn't. My grandpa from Tijuana got his hand on the real deal somehow"
IF it had been a genuine one, it would have been absolutely tragic purely because of the shocking condition that it was in. I know accidents happen, but you'd hope that such a valuable and high quality instrument would have been looked after!
People stumble and stand on them when they are in their box, open, once that happens and repair is considered a waste of time they could be left to rust like that
I think these kinds of instruments being highly worn is lovely. Works like this deserved to be played and enjoyed to their fullest intent, not sitting on some prize shelf collecting dust for years
WHYYOUSMILINGWHENYOURNEXT? huh? Who knows if it's true...but I've been to the pawn shop twice... Half the store is pawn stars t shirts mugs etc memorabelia...it's like your going to a gift shop...when they film im guessing it's just a TV set
@@andreingramakadjscrewrip7372 He never made prototypes. If a violin he made wasn't perfect when he finished, he'd destroy it, as most famous makers did and still do.
Yep I was at a goodwill a few months ago and came across one of these violins. So took it to the back of the store, sat on one of the couches and researched and found out his violins were copied as an omage many times over the years and finding a real one is pretty much impossible as all the ones he originally made were accounted for. So I put it back.
@@jw1741 You can use the same logic for buying a lottery ticket. The odds are fairly similar. Strat made 900 TOTAL, and there are literally millions of copies floating around.
Stradivarius violins were always highly sought after. In the 1700s his violins were prized possessions played by the greatest violinists at that time. No, it was never a law. There's so many GREAT Strad copies that go for 10s of thousands that have what looks to be the real label. Some are literally 300 year old violins that people 175 years ago placed the label on. So the likelihood of finding a Stradivarius anywhere other than museums and the very wealthy are absolutely 0.
Chumlee: “Well, since you brought it all the way in here, I’ll give you fifty bucks for it.” Sold. Next day sign in front window: “Stradivarius for sale. First $700,000 takes it home.” 🎻
Seriously I was noticing the same thing. He’s lost so much weight and he’s learned to ask enough questions. Lol early on he was buying whatever pretty much 🤣
All of them are not truly accounted for, we do not know the exact number of violins (and other instruments he made) he made, nor the exact number of the surviving ones. The common estimate is that roughly 1100 strads were ever produced, and 244 of them are known and accounted for today. Most of the missing ones are probably lost to time but there might be more surviving strads out there, very difficult to prove if you happen to have one though.
I’ve heard from a lot of violinists that the violin market is actually super weird. Professionals will actually turn down genuine strad violins just to keep the price up. Apparently there’s actually way more strads out there than the industry says just because they don’t want the average person to be able to have one. It’s super crazy, I have a friend whose a professional violinist. Her whole life she’s owned a strad violin, she went in 13 times to get it authenticated and each time they turned it down. But once she became a professional and started playing in huge concerts all those people that looked at it started sending her letters saying they’ve changed their minds and it is authentic.
This story is "actually super weird." "Professionals will actually turn down genuine strad violins just to keep the price up" makes no sense whatsoever.
I'd love it if instead of carefully placing it back in its case, the expert just wordlessly dropped the violin on the floor and walked away after declaring it was a fake.
yeah no... if he did that, I would get mad. Even though it is not real, that violin is a family heirloom and is very special. It has experienced decades of history and in general it's just really bad manners to purposely drop someone's treasured possession onto the floor. (no matter how worthless it is)
many builders if asked to repair one in that time period would steal the label and put that label in one of their builds to sell for more. and says stradavarii not ius
Wasn't there a Stratovarious forger that made copies worth nearly as much as the actua ones? I seem to remember a story about 1 or 2 specific forgers that were almost as well known for amazing copies that performed nearly as well.
@@jerryseinfeld5713 i know but before season 8 has was more fatter and after this he was like usual, I don't know how did he lose that much weight in just that season!!!
@@NuclearAtoms when you cut out booze and most refined sugars you will be amazed how fast your body can respond. I don't know Chum's diet or workout program but Green garden and Jordan Gibson don't say its a result of drugs just because you guys have no will or or discipline to get into the gym on your own.and follow a diet.
Yeah my pops had a violin with a Stradivarius label on it. We pretty much just joked about it, knowing it was absolutely an "ohmage" Strad. But it did look and sound quite nice. It belonged to his grandfather who was an orchestra leader in Oakland, CA during the depression.
HIS GRANDFATHER FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF TIJUANA FOUND A STRADIVARIUS IN THE FLEAMARKET TO REPLACE HIS OLD VIOLIN AND THE GRANDSON WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. NICE STORY .
Mark Innes Wow the show is fake? You don’t say! I haven’t seen a million comments saying that on each of their videos, so thanks for enlightening me about that Sherlock.
He's way too calm for someone who was raised believing it was authentic.
He knew it was a piece of garbage lol 😆
wait a minute. you don't suppose that this, was maybe, scripted? and he was acting on a reality TV show???
He probably found it in a dumpster and thought, I can use this to get on Pawn Stars.
Yup his oily haircut alone makes him look shifty
doesnt hurt to try
@@michaelweston2285 how about. shut the heck up cause no one cares. it's a real pawn shop so doesn't matter.
"It was my grandfathers, he made it in woodshop when he was in high school."
Righteous Indignation lol
HIGHSCHOOL
I am sure he did lol
🤭 $700,000 he said he will take 😂
SandManJono 123 he made 700,000 sound like a few 100 dollars lol 😂
The pressure on the expert's belt though!
@Saxon Ray true😂
One more hot dog and booom
In his mind he's a size Large. Someone should tell him he's more of an XXL.
@@YoBoyMarcus 😂😂😂
Too many hot cheetos
That Stradivarius was made in a little town in Mexico in the lords year of 2017.
Yes, and they have to be tossed into the back yard to age for at least 3 years before they're authentic.
Sorry bro, it's made in a little town somewhere in China that don't know what is a violent... LOL
Not a single soul loses 700k (at least) and reacts like that, he already knew
He didn’t lose nothing it was fake lmao he left with what he came with nothing it been in his family he didn’t buy it
I've got one of them too....I reacted kinda like that. You never really expect something to ACTUALLY be worth 700k, youre constantly waiting for that other shoe to drop, so when it does youre like yep...this is how my life goes. Getting that kind of money all at once would be LIFE CHANGING, and we're conditioned to know deep down that our life isn't gonna change.
Well he didn't lose 700k so maybe that's y?
wait a minute. you don't suppose that this, was maybe, scripted? and he was acting on a reality TV show???
He was in Vegas. Maybe he just has a good poker face lol
When you walk in with a Stradivarius and walk out with firewood.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just a bit of kindling 🤣
I literally lol
Good job sir that one got me.
My thought exactly. LOL
“It became a law actually that the copies label that they were copies” ... duh okay sure. Bc fraud isn’t a thing....Dur dur.
Dur durtrrr
So my fake Air Forces I bought are actually real because they don't say copy? SWEET DEAL FOR ME.
Dont drop that dur dur dur
laser325
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old don't mean it real....fake be around for very long time....
The owner knew it wasn’t real
Kenneth NSB I thought the same
Me too!
You're racist.
@@reecem367 haha.... What? How is that racist
@@reecem367 this is why no one likes you.
Chum should have called Rebecca! She knows a good work of fiction when she see one.
Underrated comment
Not only that but she’s easy to look at
He thought he outsmarted his cousins by taking the violin instead of the $50k cash inheritance.....
Yo, no one’s gonna talk about how much weight Chumlee has lost
Lol I was gona comment that but saw youre comment
He lost more than 700,000 lbs
Meth will do that to ya
His head forgot to lose weight
He is a tweeker
"This Violin is fake"
Someone get to playing the Worlds smallest violin for this guy. 😭
ADCArtAttack wyd here.
@@notoffroading I like Pawn Stars lol
i love ur vids lol
ADCArtAttack I’m jk lol nice vids 👌
ADCArtAttack das cool
Expert looks like he's storing nuts for the winter
He looks like a squirrel.. 😃
Deez?
Scott R 🥜 🥜 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
😂😂
“It’s real because all the fake violins had to have a label on them saying ‘copy’” Omg this guy..... hahaha
He probably owns the Brooklyn bridge too.
I Literally Laugh Out Loud When I Heard Him Say That. "I Know It Real, Because It Doesn't Have A FAKE Lable On It" LOL!!
I know it's real because the guy who sold it to me told me it wasn't fake.
"they had to do that because there were too many fakes out there but mine definitely isn't. My grandpa from Tijuana got his hand on the real deal somehow"
Look how new the label looks lol. No wear or anything.
IF it had been a genuine one, it would have been absolutely tragic purely because of the shocking condition that it was in. I know accidents happen, but you'd hope that such a valuable and high quality instrument would have been looked after!
People stumble and stand on them when they are in their box, open, once that happens and repair is considered a waste of time they could be left to rust like that
They can be fixed up. I could make that one look new (on the outside..)
I mean anything 300 years old is going to look like that more often than not, if it's something meant to be handled.
I think these kinds of instruments being highly worn is lovely. Works like this deserved to be played and enjoyed to their fullest intent, not sitting on some prize shelf collecting dust for years
Whateva, anyway all soloist or organization wanted a reasonable prescious desirable instruments, look at the sound.
Seller: "$700,000. Final offer!
Pawn Shop Expert: "It's worthless."
Seller: "Cool. I'm going to nail it to the wall."
underrated
And pay homage to his grandfather geez 😑 some people think to highly of their family members.
"In order to create a copy of it they have to mark it as a copy"
- Laughs in criminal
Lol he was like " ha he bought it"
Oh really? Sorry about that here is 6 million
“Yeah I’ve seen millions”
Chum: *chuckles*
“I’m in danger”
Ugin has spoken
"So it's not a real Stradivarius?"
"No."
"Do you think it has any value to it?"
"Well, it could probably start one heck of a fire."
This would have been a better Television segment if Rick walked in hours after Chum had already given the customer a few hundred thousand!
To be honest I was just worried about the belt popping on the expert, he could have killed someone.
UA-cam5000 😂😂👍
That vest was hanging on for dear life.
That Poor Belt
"I'm gonna go call my buddy, you take a look around." Leave the 700 K violin by itself.
Good thing its a knockoff
Good thing those are actors in the back ground and this is a tv set inside a pawn shop
It's based on a true story
WHYYOUSMILINGWHENYOURNEXT? huh? Who knows if it's true...but I've been to the pawn shop twice... Half the store is pawn stars t shirts mugs etc memorabelia...it's like your going to a gift shop...when they film im guessing it's just a TV set
Chum does all his stunts
“It’s been in my family a long time” it was his grandfathers... lol
Bruh, his grandfather was probably born in the 20th century or very late 19th centuries.
Nathan Jarboe yea probably my great great grandfather was born in 1881 and I’m 20.
@@Osomsauce Ur mom likes ramen noodles 🍜
@@thecrippledpancake9455 probably 20th century? 100% 20th century...
Nathan Jarboe 1930s or even the 1960s probably
They know it is a fake.
If you have a Stradivarius you won't sell it in a pawn shop. You would ask Christie to sell it for you.
You also don't pick it up with your oily sweaty hands.
actaully true. what pawn shop owner would even be abel to afford 700,000 dollars lol
Stradivari in the 1730s: "Meh, I'm feeling lazy with finishing this one."
Expert in the 2010s: "This is fake!"
Expert in the 2010s: "This is fake!"
Reality: It's an original Stradivari prototype
@@andreingramakadjscrewrip7372 He never made prototypes. If a violin he made wasn't perfect when he finished, he'd destroy it, as most famous makers did and still do.
@@apostasiaelegcho5612 learn to take a joke bro lol
@@juanposada5171 Maybe you should be funnier?
From the way the owner behaves, his faces, etc. I’d say he absolutely knew it was fake.
Maybe trying to scam the pawn starts 😂
How much we gave in title ?
Pawn stars : whole video
If that label was from 1731 I’ve been to the moon. 🤣
Allan Googe Buzz is that you? 🤣🤣🤣
@@LouieGrandie XDDDD EMOJISSSSSS
It was the best part of that violin
He printed it out before coming in
U have actually 🧐
Yep I was at a goodwill a few months ago and came across one of these violins. So took it to the back of the store, sat on one of the couches and researched and found out his violins were copied as an omage many times over the years and finding a real one is pretty much impossible as all the ones he originally made were accounted for. So I put it back.
You could of been a millionaire buying a strat for goodwill prices but naw.... Can't risk it. I don't care what people say about you, you are smart!
@@jw1741 You can use the same logic for buying a lottery ticket. The odds are fairly similar. Strat made 900 TOTAL, and there are literally millions of copies floating around.
How much? I got a violin at salvation army for $15. Good deal if you ask me. Strad or not it's still playable
Stradivarius violins were always highly sought after. In the 1700s his violins were prized possessions played by the greatest violinists at that time. No, it was never a law. There's so many GREAT Strad copies that go for 10s of thousands that have what looks to be the real label. Some are literally 300 year old violins that people 175 years ago placed the label on. So the likelihood of finding a Stradivarius anywhere other than museums and the very wealthy are absolutely 0.
First was a treasure to cash on... then on a wall to remember grandpa...
yeah, that escalated quickly
Luis Alfonso Alba well cuz it wasn’t worth anything dollar wise 🤷♂️
Thought the exact same thing
Chumlee: “Well, since you brought it all the way in here, I’ll give you fifty bucks for it.” Sold.
Next day sign in front window: “Stradivarius for sale. First $700,000 takes it home.” 🎻
Hahaha😅
Chum: "let me call a buddy of mine"
Owner: *dies inside* "okay, sounds good"
They should of just kicked him out the moment the case was opened. Guy picked this up from the junkyard and brought it in 100%
Yea I don’t think anyone believed this jackass when he said it’s been in his family for years.
It's all scripted my man don't worry hahaha
At the end of the day everybody who's on cam gets paid either way.
Chum has come a long way.
Good work!!!
Chumley expert on.violins
Seriously I was noticing the same thing. He’s lost so much weight and he’s learned to ask enough questions. Lol early on he was buying whatever pretty much 🤣
Even though it was fake, just look at the worn spots on that fretboard, that violin was very much loved, it must have sounded amazing at its prime!
I commend you for saying the one positive thing on these comments.
I agree. Love is love, no matter the price! 😊
It is fake, the wear patterns can be faked, You are being naive.
I love how the expert talks about Stradivarius as though he’s still alive
He could always list this violin as "RARE!" on eBay...
"And find out what it really is." Was the big give away. Odd thing to say if you know it is a Stradivarius.
0:08 the shop staffs face🤣🤣🤣
He’s thinking about that home theater he just installed and how he’s gonna have to take it out😂😂😂
He won't be answering the door for Rentacenter
The owners demeanor says it all.
i am asking for $700,000..
Chumlee: but its fake..
Seller:..$700 is a deal..
🤣🤣
A *FAIR* deal 😂😂😂
emojis xddddddddddddddddddddddd
When he got told he wasn't making a million dollars he pulled a face like a stranger on the bus just asked him if he was having a nice day
"My grandfather bought this because he thought it would make a better bird feeder than the one he had."
Lesson learned, never buy fake stuff in case your grandson will sell it.
All Strads are accounted for an documented. There is NO law saying a label must say "copy".
All of them are not truly accounted for, we do not know the exact number of violins (and other instruments he made) he made, nor the exact number of the surviving ones. The common estimate is that roughly 1100 strads were ever produced, and 244 of them are known and accounted for today.
Most of the missing ones are probably lost to time but there might be more surviving strads out there, very difficult to prove if you happen to have one though.
I still find this one of the most hilarious items brought on, like really...how could anyone think that's a genuine Strad
“It’s a fugazi”- Don the Jeweler
I’ve heard from a lot of violinists that the violin market is actually super weird. Professionals will actually turn down genuine strad violins just to keep the price up. Apparently there’s actually way more strads out there than the industry says just because they don’t want the average person to be able to have one. It’s super crazy, I have a friend whose a professional violinist. Her whole life she’s owned a strad violin, she went in 13 times to get it authenticated and each time they turned it down. But once she became a professional and started playing in huge concerts all those people that looked at it started sending her letters saying they’ve changed their minds and it is authentic.
Interesting
I think it s the other way around and there are more "authenticated" strads than there could have been produced :P
It's called the Trump Factor, we can't allow commoner's in our society.
huh?
This story is "actually super weird." "Professionals will actually turn down genuine strad violins just to keep the price up" makes no sense whatsoever.
Customer: I have a heart attack call 911
Rick: Best I can do is 9
Ben Dover 😂😂😂
I see this same joke on every pawn stars video 😒
Rick wasn't even in it. Lame
hoh hoh hoo
How much pressure on expert belt?
Belt: galaxy😂
(Standing there) "Time to find another sucker who would buy this."
Love how they're talking about a strad, but the music is a Mozart Horn Concerto
I love his self analysis "I think a REASONABLE price would be 700k"
If it was genuine, he wouldn't be far off.
suppose that's what he gets for trying to sell off a family heirloom
Tesseract 14 he said his grandfather bought it because it sounded better then the one he owned
@DjRawd0g that makes it even more horrible to try and sell it, aomerhing so valuable would make it an incredible thing to pass down
Would you rather have your grandpas old violin he bought and never played or $700,000
@@Jay-sw9cg but he did play it
I'd love it if instead of carefully placing it back in its case, the expert just wordlessly dropped the violin on the floor and walked away after declaring it was a fake.
yeah no...
if he did that, I would get mad. Even though it is not real, that violin is a family heirloom and is very special. It has experienced decades of history and in general it's just really bad manners to purposely drop someone's treasured possession onto the floor. (no matter how worthless it is)
First time time I've heard chum say "I need to call in a friend of mine"
The look of defeat on him was priceless
So was the look on your mom's face
All the Strads have been tracked for ages so a new one popping out of nowhere would be giant news in and of itself.
many builders if asked to repair one in that time period would steal the label and put that label in one of their builds to sell for more. and says stradavarii not ius
Spoiler alert: it's fake...but who are they to talk? So is Pawn Stars.
Guest: What's your WiFi password?
Rick: The best I can do is tell you the first 2 characters and I'm taking a huge risk here
You could hear the nervousness in his voice when he said " sounds good" to the expert coming to take a look
Wasn't there a Stratovarious forger that made copies worth nearly as much as the actua ones? I seem to remember a story about 1 or 2 specific forgers that were almost as well known for amazing copies that performed nearly as well.
So homeboy wanted to sell it first before considering hanging it on his wall as a homage to his grandfather? Lol! 😂😂
"homeboy".... Wow, you are really cool
Been a while since I've watched this show. Chumlee has lost a ton of weight. Good for him !
Holly it’s old, they don’t do it anymore
He lost weight from using meth.
I’ve actually worked with the guy who looked at the violin. He helped out a bit with my high school orchestra. Even conducted a song for us.
What's his name?
What highschool?
Liar
He was a fraud. He admitted behind the scenes that he was no Stradivarius expert.
If counterfeiters didn’t put the word “copy” on their labels, they were breaking the law.
Glad to see chum is doing great and in good health!!! And sober 🙏
The expert is bursting with excitement.
Wow, he took that really well, especially for as much as he was hoping to get for it.
Well yeah lol he knew already
0:26 I thought that was the champions league music
Jamiethor101
Its Zadok the Priest by Handel. Uefa uses the chorus for the champions league theme.
@@tambias the more you know
Tell me why I was looking up when the Champions resumes, and then I see your comment haha
I really thought it was real! I honestly thought Antonio Stradivari had run off that label on his inkjet printer
Yeah, there’s a UPC inside - just scan it.
I like how Chum went from the butt of all jokes to the most professional person on this show
Chumlee did a good job reciting his lines.
He stayed up for 3 days on meth memorizing those lines
And I was thinking his weight loss was due to gastric bypass surgery, how naive am I?
Chum looks much thinner than usual!!!
Nuclear Atoms This episode is from 9 or 10 years ago lol
@@jerryseinfeld5713 i know but before season 8 has was more fatter and after this he was like usual, I don't know how did he lose that much weight in just that season!!!
@@NuclearAtoms when you cut out booze and most refined sugars you will be amazed how fast your body can respond. I don't know Chum's diet or workout program but Green garden and Jordan Gibson don't say its a result of drugs just because you guys have no will or or discipline to get into the gym on your own.and follow a diet.
Nuclear Atoms in the description it says its season 17 but the title says its season 8
Nuclear Atoms mef
Now that it ain't worth jack, he's going to pay homage to his grandfather lol.
"I have some concerns" is their trademark quote.
I also carry around my Stradivarius in a flimsy cardboard case.
there's no need an expert. the label is stamped
Fabio the label means absolutely nothing. Many fakes. Like this one.
Norman Braslow means that is printed !
Chum is an expert on shoes, shoes have strings, violins have strings, Chum is an expert on everything.
He's an expert on string theory! Take that, Sheldon Cooper.
You know with Chum being the negotiator and the asking price of 700k it has to be fake. Chum can’t spend that much on an item
shoes have souls violins don't
This show never hits a deal in the $10+ million range. Its always $100,000 or less
They did sell old train cars in the millions
@@luisv9029 what was that for? Are a 12yr old?
@@luisv9029 I didn't realize we were in the 5th grade again
There’s been quite a few over 100k. I don’t know if there’s been any over 1 mil though.
@G Men2121 So....my question is..that have you ever owned $10+..?
Yeah my pops had a violin with a Stradivarius label on it. We pretty much just joked about it, knowing it was absolutely an "ohmage" Strad. But it did look and sound quite nice. It belonged to his grandfather who was an orchestra leader in Oakland, CA during the depression.
I been waiting for one of them to say "I'm gonna call a friend of ours" instead of always saying "a friend of mine" 😂
allegedly my grandfather thought he had one but it was fake too
Chum has lost some weight!! Good boy 👌👌👌 looks like human now
Some weight? More like a lot of weight. Good for Chum. Looks good.
That's what meth will do to ya
@@zackt3904 Another moron heard from with their stupid meth comments.
@@jchis9852 Have a bit of a meth problem huh? How often are you picking at the bugs?
@@SultanKhan66 Troll much?
HIS GRANDFATHER FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF TIJUANA FOUND A STRADIVARIUS IN THE FLEAMARKET TO REPLACE HIS OLD VIOLIN AND THE GRANDSON WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. NICE STORY .
Just a glance in the general direction of that violin you can tell it’s not a strad. Just using peripheral vision.
"It has been in my family for a long time"
*just bought it yesterday at a flea market across town*
Notice, everything thing has been in the family forever, then they find out the item is 2 years old
My Violin expert is taking a poop 2 blocks away. He'll be here REAL QUICK to check this out.
KHALID HALBA I’m sure he’s working on call.
Who‘s here after Twosets new vid? lol
Its kinda dangerous walking around downtown Vegas with a violin case when you look like a friend of Tony soprano.
Thanks for explaining it in the title.
He walks in with a POS
HE WALKS OUT WITH A POS
If someone had a real strad then there is no way they would let it come even close to that condition.
So every thing decays expect the label 😂
The seller didn’t even seem surprised when the expert said it was fake
the violin was fake, the owner knew it and the whole scene was a staged set up anyway. No fake, fake, fake.
Mark Innes Wow the show is fake? You don’t say! I haven’t seen a million comments saying that on each of their videos, so thanks for enlightening me about that Sherlock.
'Homage to his grandfather' is what a lot of older items should be, regardless of value.
That guy has the worlds tightest vest