In one episode they are traveling through Kansas when they happen upon a man with huge collection.  Mike sets his eye on a cast iron cross and buys it from the man and later takes it to an expert to help him evaluate and value.  It turns out to be a rare grave marker worth a lot more than Mike paid for it.  In the same episode however Mike and Frank are frustrated when they pick through a large farm’s outbuildings and barns but find nothing at all to buy.  In most cases though, the pickers find booty wherever they go.

One of the things I find interesting on American Pickers and its sister show Pawn Stars is when they have their finds cleaned and restored.  In one episode, Mike and Frank take some old gas pumps that they “found” to an expert who purchased them, making Mike a tidy profit, and who will restore it to its original glory.  They do more restorations on Pawn Stars where their experts recently restored a motorbike, a 1950’s juke box and an old Coca Cola sample cooler.

So he rushes back to where he had left Mikey and finds him pointing his weapon at a man.  The man is yelling at the top of his lungs, “It’s your deer, it’s your deer.  Just lemme get my saddle off of it.”