Mr. Gold Pawnbroker & Antiquities Dealer

"Just 'cause you possess something don't mean it's yours. Nothing in this shop belongs to you."

- Leroy to Mr. Gold

Mr. Gold Pawnbroker & Antiquities Dealer, briefly known as Gold & Son Pawnbrokers and Antiquities, is a Storybrooke location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the first episode of the first season of Once Upon a Time.

Notable Items
{{Hidden|Season One|

"The Price of Gold"

 * Ashley's baby adoption papers
 * A Minnie Mouse figurine
 * A chess set belonging to Snow White's father, King Leopold
 * Geppetto's father and mother in marionette form
 * A glass unicorn mobile from Emma's nursery in the castle

"That Still Small Voice"

 * A genie lamp

"The Shepherd"

 * David's house windmill
 * The seven dwarves' beer steins set (confirmed in "And Straight On 'Til Morning")

"Desperate Souls"

 * A Mickey Mouse telephone
 * A tiny brass figurine of the Three Wise Monkeys
 * Two Ny Form troll figurines

"Heart of Darkness"

 * The Magic Mirror's genie lamp
 * An armillary sphere

"The Return"

 * Vintage Shoe Shine Box 5 Cent
 * Baelfire's kickball
 * Jefferson's Hat box

"The Stranger"

 * Geppetto and Pinocchio's clock

"A Land Without Magic"
{{Hidden|Season Two|
 * Prince Charming's sword
 * Three crystal balls
 * The golden egg used to store the true love potion (also seen in Mr. Gold's dream in "Lacey" )}}

"Broken"

 * The Chipped Cup
 * The Wraith's Medallion
 * A tea set and two cups from Rumplestiltskin's castle

"We Are Both"

 * Cora's spell book
 * A tracking potion

"Into the Deep"

 * Rumplestiltskin's spinning wheel

"Queen of Hearts"

 * Wands

"The Cricket Game"

 * A magic dreamcatcher

"The Outsider"

 * Baelfire's shawl
 * A severed hand

"In the Name of the Brother"

 * The Magic Globe

"The Queen Is Dead"

 * Snow White's tiara

"The Miller's Daughter"

 * The Enchanted Candle
 * Invisible chalk

"Second Star to the Right"
{{Hidden|Season Three|
 * A bottle with Regina's teardrop}}

"Dark Hollow"

 * Pandora's Box

"Save Henry"

 * Qin Shi Huang and the Terracotta Army figurine set

"Going Home"

 * The Enchanted Cuffs
 * A Sword

"The Tower"

 * Night root

"The Jolly Roger"

 * Prince Eric's cloak
 * Hook's spyglass

"Bleeding Through"
{{Hidden|Season Four|
 * Lumiere's candelabrum }}

"A Tale of Two Sisters"

 * Anna's pendant

"The Apprentice"

 * Hook's severed hand

"The Snow Queen"

 * A snow globe
 * Ingrid's, Helga's and Gerda's ribbons

"Shattered Sight"

 * A knife
 * An animal's horn

"Heroes and Villains"

 * A teddy bear
 * A suitcase
 * Magic gauntlet

"Unforgiven"

 * Maleficent's baby rattle

"Operation Mongoose Part 1"
{{Hidden|Season Five|
 * A gramophone }}

"Siege Perilous"

 * Belle's wedding hat
 * A silver cup from Doc's birthday party

"Birth"

 * A snow globe

"Only You"
{{Hidden|Season Six|
 * A Sleeping Curse needle
 * A snow globe with an entire village frozen inside it}}

"A Bitter Draught"

 * Robert's good luck charm

"The Other Shoe"

 * A chess board

"Strange Case"

 * A pocket watch
 * A glass apple
 * Mary's necklace

"I'll Be Your Mirror"

 * A cymbal-banging monkey toy
 * A Genie Lamp

"Changelings"

 * The sword from Emma's visions

"The Song in Your Heart"

 * Snow White's wedding dress

"The Final Battle Part 1"

 * Two old volumes of Encyclopedia Americana
 * The novel The New Tenant by E. Phillips Oppenheim
 * Her Handsome Hero

"The Final Battle Part 2"

 * A magic mirror
 * A sword in a case
 * The Black Fairy's Wand}}

Visitors

 * Aladdin
 * Ariel
 * Ashley Boyd
 * Apprentice †
 * August Booth
 * Bashful
 * Black Fairy
 * Cora †
 * Cruella De Vil †
 * David Nolan
 * Doc
 * Dopey
 * Dr. Whale
 * Elsa
 * Emma Swan
 * Evil Queen (Serum)


 * Gideon
 * Happy
 * Henry Mills
 * Hook
 * Ingrid †
 * Isaac Heller
 * Johanna †
 * John Darling
 * King Arthur †
 * Leroy
 * Marco
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Merida
 * Michael Darling
 * Mother Superior


 * Mr. Hyde †
 * Neal Cassidy †
 * Peter Pan †
 * Pongo
 * Regina Mills
 * Robin
 * Robin Hood †
 * Ruby
 * Ursula
 * Violet
 * Walter
 * William Smee
 * Will Scarlet
 * Zelena

Trivia

 * -|On-screen Notes=

On-screen Notes

 * The shop's address is number 3480.
 * The pawnshop is situated right across the street from Mary Margaret's apartment. This is proven in "Best Laid Plans", where the pawnshop can clearly be seen through Mary Margaret's window as Maleficent's sleeping spell approaches.
 * It is also said to be one hundred yards away from the library.


 * -|Cultural References=

Disney

 * There is a Minnie Mouse figurine and a Mickey Mouse telephone in the shop.
 * In Mr. Gold's shop, there is an African mask, which is an allusion to The Lion King.
 * When Regina visits the pawnshop in 1983, Mr. Gold is polishing a teakettle, a reference to Mrs. Potts from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
 * When Aladdin steals from Mr. Gold, a cymbal-banging monkey toy is sitting on the pawnshop counter. This is a reference to Abu, Aladdin's monkey in the movie, who was turned into a cymbal-banging monkey toy by Jafar.

Lost

 * In "Second Star to the Right, "And Straight On 'Til Morning" and "Dark Hollow, a bottle of MacCutcheon Scotch Whiskey is sitting in the backroom. This was a fictional brand on Lost.


 * -|Set Notes=

Props Notes

 * A figurine set represents a famed king of the Qin Dynasty of Ancient China, Qin Shi Huang. He is identifiable as the figurine wearing a headdress and clothing with a dragon pattern. Surrounding him are the Terracotta Army, which represent the life-size sculptures of the same name that were historically buried with him as funerary art.
 * The label on Mr. Gold's furniture polish says Black Cat.
 * One of Mr. Gold's books (seen upside-down) contains an illustration of a crucified serpent, also known as an alchemical cross. This is an old alchemical symbol representing the "fixing of the volatile," as in making the elixir of mercury. The picture is from a book about ancient alchemy: Uraltes chymisches Werk (Age-Old Chemical Work) by Abraham Eleazar, which was first published in 1734. Nothing is known about Abraham Eleazar, who was supposedly a Jewish alchemist. His name was most likely fictional, and the real author seems to have been a person called Julius Gervasius of Schwarzburg.
 * Note that the illustration has been modified for the show. The show's version is mirror-inverted and colorized, and the transverse piece of the cross is bigger. In addition, extra details (a caption and symbols) have been added.
 * The box where the Black Fairy's Wand is kept is the same prop that was used for the box where Cora kept her own wand in "Sisters".

Set Dressing

 * Some of the items in the shop were provided by members of the cast.
 * The wallpaper in the front room of the pawnshop is Shadowplay SBK15370 wallpaper from Seabrook.
 * Like many other Storybrooke locations, the pawnshop contains references to the Enchanted Forest. Actual birch trunks are scattered around as dividers, and the wall behind the main counter has crenelated "windows" which are full of paintings of trees and woods. Similar paintings can be seen in other parts of the shop. A leaf-print curtain separates the front room from the back of the shop.
 * A miniature ship's rudder, which is sitting on the counter in "The Shepherd" and "True North", can also be seen on the mantelpiece in the lounge at the inn in "Witch Hunt".
 * The Mickey Mouse telephone behind glass in a counter in several episodes is a vintage Disney Mickey Mouse Phone from AT&T.
 * The shoe shine box sitting on a shelf in the backroom of the pawnshop is a vintage Shoe Shine Box 5 Cent from the 1970s.
 * Like his son Neal and his grandson Henry, who both collect clocks, Mr. Gold's pawnshop is filled with them.
 * In the backroom, there is an armillary sphere, a model of objects in the sky, consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the sun. However, instead of having an Earth or sun in the middle, the one in the pawnshop has a clock.
 * An amethyst is sitting on a shelf. Amethysts are believed to help people who suffer from a faulty memory.
 * The crystals Ingrid uses to steal and return people's memories are also amethysts.
 * There is a tea set lamp in the backroom of the pawnshop, which is the same one in Jefferson's house in "Hat Trick" with the only difference being the color.
 * The lamp is known as an Anthropologie One-Lump-Or-Two Lamp Base (no longer available).
 * While Mr. Gold converses with Belle on the phone, a severed hand is sitting on a shelf in the backroom.
 * A severed hand can also be seen on a pedestal in Rumplestiltskin's castle in "Skin Deep". It is most noticeable when Belle walks away from the cupboard after she takes out the vase. It is even mentioned in the script, where a "withered hand" is listed among the many objects in the castle.
 * The hand can also be spotted in the background when Emma and Hook return to the castle in "There's No Place Like Home", when Ingrid and her sisters pay a visit to Rumplestiltskin in "The Snow Queen", in Belle's dream in "The Savior" and when Rumplestiltskin shows up with Jack and Jill's infant son in "Changelings".
 * A severed hand can also be seen lying on a pedestal in the Underbrooke Pawnshop in "Souls of the Departed" and "Firebird".
 * The withered hand prop seen in all but one of the episodes (the one in "The Outsider" looks like a different prop) can be seen in close-up on a Flickr set photograph from Season Five.
 * In Mr. Gold's dream, one of the wands on display in the shop is the prop that was used for the Apprentice's Wand. The same wand appears inside a cupboard in Rumplestiltskin's castle in "Quite a Common Fairy". The Blue Fairy's Wand can also be seen in the dream.
 * When Mr. Gold transforms the hat, there is an open book lying on his desk in the bottom left corner. Two alchemical symbols—Grades of Fire and Fire of Circulation 1 —are printed on the page, inside the illustration of a circle.
 * The rest of the symbols are characters from the reconstruction of the mysterious Emerald Tablet, one of the pillars of Western alchemy, and said to be inscribed with the secrets of the universe. One interpretation suggests that the inscription describes seven stages of alchemical transformation—calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, distillation and coagulation.
 * The other book on the table contains an illustration by Dionysius Andreas Freher, a German mystical writer who lived from 1649 to 1728, who is most famous for his extensive commentaries on Christian mystic Jakob Böhme. The picture was published in an eighteenth century British publication of Böhme's works: The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Philosopher, vol. 3, from 1764.
 * When Belle returns to Storybrooke, the sewing machine on the shelf behind Mr. Gold is the same prop that was used for Cruella De Vil's sewing machine in "Sympathy for the De Vil".
 * The same prop is sitting in the backroom of the Underbrooke Pawnshop in "Ruby Slippers".


 * -|Other Notes=

Filming Locations

 * For the first two seasons, an empty, rented building in Steveston Village doubled as the pawnshop. The front room of the pawnshop was an actual room inside the building, while the back of the shop was a filming set inside a soundstage at The Bridge Studios. According to executive producer Steve Pearlman, the set was built in a week and crammed with antiques in a day.
 * In 2013, the gift shop known as It's POSH! moved into the premises, but the building still continued to double as the pawnshop for exterior scenes. The interior scenes in the front room were now filmed on a set inside a replica of the storefront, built at the at The Bridge Studios. There was a permanent prop sign outside It's POSH!, which the gift shop covered up with own signs when Once Upon a Time was not filming exterior scenes. During filming, the real sign came down to reveal the prop sign, and the front windows were staged. When the shop was closed for filming, the owners let their customers know through their Facebook page, so the customers wouldn't come down to pick up a gift and find the shop unavailable.
 * For the sixth season, a portable pawnshop set was put up in the lane next to It's POSH! for exterior scenes; turning It's POSH! into a separate business located next to the pawnshop. After filming, the set was disassembled in pieces and rolled into storage in the parking lot behind Nikka Fishing & Marine, the building that doubles as the Storybrooke Library for exterior shots.
 * However, stock footage from the Season Four episode "Unforgiven" was used for an establishing shot at the end of the Season Six finale "The Final Battle Part 2". The old pawnshop can be seen in this shot.

Other Notes

 * From 2015 to 2016, a replica of the storefront was on display in the Streets of America area of Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida. It was not an actual shop, but simply a window display and sign. The Streets of America area was closed in April 2016 and later demolished for redevelopment.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.