The Skate Posters That Sold For A Small Fortune On American Pickers

Season 23 of "American Pickers" featured the episode "Skateboards and Gutter Balls," where Mike and Robbie Wolfe ventured to California to check out a client's collection. In the midst of their digging, the seller directed them to a pile of old posters that belonged to his mother during her time as a surf shop owner. The stack read like a scrapbook of the peak of skateboarding culture in the 1990s, which immediately indicated to the Wolfe brothers that there was money in it. After consulting with some experts and briefly negotiating with the owner, they snagged all of the posters for a whopping $2,800.

As evidenced by the near-$3,000 hole in their wallet that these skate posters created, it's clear that even though skateboarding isn't as popular as it once was, there's still value in items associated with it. While these posters earned the seller a few bucks, it shouldn't come as a shock that actual boards would've scored him a bit more. In fact, some boards have gone for upwards of $10,000, with some of the most expensive of all time being Tony Hawk's $27,000 Beatles board with the lyrics to "Blackbird" inscribed on it and a $38,000 board that Jamie Thomas and Bob Dylan collaborated on (via Boards on the Wall).

Considering how much skating memorabilia can go for, don't be surprised if more of it starts to pop up on "American Pickers" down the road.