Cash Cowboys: Hunting Rare Antiques & Making Deals in Quebec & Ontario

Antique Hunting Across Canada

• 💡 Scott and Sheldon, known as the Cash Cowboys, embark on a journey across Canada to discover hidden gems in basements, attics, and barns.
• 🎯 Their mission is to find unique, one-of-a-kind items with stories to tell, aiming to make a profit through skillful negotiation.

Deals with Psychic Ros

• 🔮 In Montreal, they visit 80-year-old psychic Ros, a picker known for her warehouse of "old and oddities" and her ability to read palms.
• 💰 Despite her tough negotiation style, they secure deals on a silhouette horse, a collectible fire bucket, and a unique accordion phone.
• ✨ Ros predicts successful picking for the duo in Quebec.

Quebec Folk Art & Rare Finds

• 🏡 In Papinoville, they meet Maurice, a collector of French folk art and crocks, acquiring a wall-mounted country store scale and a distinctive Quebec folk art piece.
• 🛶 A significant find is a rare dugout canoe from 1878, along with native sculptures, after intense negotiation.
• 🤝 Later, in St. Joseph Dac, they visit Armand and Paul, securing a Ukrainian blanket box, a harvest table, and a Spitfire propeller among other items.

Challenging Collectors & Movie Memorabilia

• ⚠️ They encounter Jeff, "the canoe man," who is more of a collector than a seller, making it difficult to acquire his canoes and Inuit carvings.
• 🎬 In North Bay, they explore Kevin and Kristen's extensive movie memorabilia collection, including screen-matched props from Pirates of the Caribbean and a Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mitt.
• 🎭 They successfully purchase Blade Runner lobby cards and two large carnival faces, despite high asking prices for other rare items.

Eccentric Antiques & Final Sales

• 🏠 The journey concludes with a visit to Dan, an eccentric artist whose North Bay home is a display of collected antiques and tools.
• 🛠️ They negotiate for a railway lantern, a vintage Batman bank, and a pedal car, navigating Dan's unique selling approach and security cameras.
• 📈 Back at the warehouse, Brooke and Jerry host a public sale, successfully selling items like Coke signs and a large cupboard, confirming the profitability of their finds.