Fox Crossing antique shop makes appearance on 'Pawn Stars'

A Fox Crossing antique shop owner is making an appearance on national television.

The owner of Harp Gallery sold a wooden desk to the team at Pawn Stars worth about $13,000.

34 years ago, owner Ken Melchert thought about opening a new store in the Fox Valley with his wife.

"Had owned a couple of small businesses, I taught college, I taught art history, and we had an interest in antiques," he explained.

That's what led them to opening Harp Gallery Antiques in Fox Crossing - selling and buying historic furniture.

"We get dozens of phone calls and emails everyday, we have pickers that find things, you know auctioneers, house sell people, they contact us," Melchert said.

Melchert has dealt with celebrity customers before - including author Stephen King, and ballet choreographer Makhail Baryshnikov. Now, he's rubbed shoulders with Rick Harrison on an episode of Pawn Stars.

"A wooton desk, the king of desks they called it," Melchert said, explaining the desk he sold.

Pawn Stars reached out to Melchert, interested in the desk, which was produced in the late 1800s with 110 compartments.

"The desk came from the great granddaughter of the original owner, he was a good ole boy judge," Melchert shared.

After some deal making, the antique sold for $13,500. With that money, Melchert said his wife bought a pair of earrings from the Pawn Stars store, and will be reinvested into his "fun" business.

"It's always fun here just like on Pawn Stars, what turns up, what email pictures we get, what estates we look at," Melchert said. "It's just amazing. It's really a wonderful thing to just find things randomly and they have great stories."