Auction Hunters: Season 2, Episode 16: “Knuckle Dust.”
The Haff-Ton team drove to Hollywood, CA. Duo looked for a big Hollywood dream storage unit. They were not the only ones though who sought a Hollywood dream locker. Competition would be tough.
Fact: Hollywood’s historic Walk of Fame has over 2,400 stars.
Antique Bed Unit
Antique bed, opened boxes, and trash. Ton didn’t like the contents, but Allen liked the bed. The Haff-Ton team won the locker for $300.
As the duo rummaged through the items they found garbage, old milk bottles, old books, and old clothes. Allen found a portable CD player. How old school!
Allen was confident the antique bed would pay off. That was another dream. Unfortunately the bed was in pieces. Duo discovered they only three-fourths of the parts. Ugh!
That was a broken dream.
Mattress Unit
Mattress, artwork, nice furniture, suitcase, and an inversion table. The duo won it for $750.
Allen opened the suitcase and found it full of Simpsons collectibles plus a CD signed by Perry Farrell.
Allen also found an autographed Raging Bull poster and signed artwork by Henry Hill that was signed. Hill was a better gangster then artist. That thought was a nightmare.
Ton wanted to try out the inversion table. Yep. Ton was upside down, or was the world right side up? Anyhoo, once out of the contraption, Ton found a signed book on the art of George 
Rodrigue. He also found an original Rodrique painting of a blue dog.
Fact: The “Blue Dog” has been featured in ad campaigns for Absolut Vodka and Xerox.
The Haff-Ton team had art expert, Sandra visit their warehouse to look at the painting. She had personally known Rodrique since 1972.
Fact: Rodrique has raised millions to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Sandra confirmed the painting was genuine. The highest sold painting by Rodrique was at $300,000. Allen and Ton dreamed big bucks. Sorry to disappoint. Sandra offered $8,250. Haff-Ton team could live with a small dream. Sold!
Fact: Cajun artist Rodrigue is known worldwide for his blue dog themed work.
Ton also found a Knuckleduster which is a combination brass knuckles, knife, and gun. Allen called it a multi-tool of death.
Duo took the antique gun to Blaze, a weapon’s expert. He stated the Knucklebuster dated back to the 1870’s. It would have been used by the Apache gangs in Paris. Whoa!
Fact: Apache criminal gangs terrorized turn-of-the-century Paris.
The gun’s range was only good at about five feet. Knife was brutal and lethal.
Ammunition had not been made for the gun in over 100 years. A single round would be worth $25. Luckily, Ton had found some ammo too.
Both Allen and Ton gave the Knuckleduster a try. At $25 a round, maybe one of them should have sat this one out. Blaze told them he’d been dealing guns since 1953. This was only the second Knuckleduster he had ever seen.
After a bit of bargaining, Blaze paid the duo $4,200 for the weapon.
“Sweet dreams are made of these… MONEY!”
Auction Total:
Paid $1,050
Sold: $13,750
Profit: $12,700
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