The Royal Touch

If you think the pawn shops were only for the common man out, wait until you read this. The Royals, funded their wars and travels by pawning their jewels and other precious items. In 1338, Edward III pawned his jewels to raise money for his war with France. King Henry V too pawned his jewels to raise money for war in 1415. Queen Isabella of Spain pawned her jewels to fund Christopher Columbus first voyage to the New World.  She also pawned her Pearl and Ruby necklace, and the crown of Castile, to the merchants of Valenica and Barceleona. She did so, to pay for the campaign against the moors and to fund the Spanish inquisition.  

The Pawn Star

History Channel’s Pawn Star, made pawn broker/shops a famous and interesting place to hunt unique items and also a place to safeguard  one’s  given personal property in return of money. The show depicts the staff of the shop interacting with customers upon the historic or personal significance of the item brought. They discuss the amount to be given upon the significance. This show brings in the whole new idea of the pawnbroker/shop. This breaks the belief of it being the poor’s place by showing high class people coming in; even sometimes celebrities do drop in too. It seriously is a starry business.

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