Thank you for watching this video. Please do comment below if you have any information at all about any of the finds in it! Im always delighted to hear your thoughts, opinions and ideas. If you would like to know what the song is at the end of the video it is "A Burden & A Blessing by Eden Maze". If you would like to adopt a Thames orphan then you can find them on my kofi site ko-fi.com/nicolawhitetidelineart/shop Have an excellent day/morning/afternoon/evening. Nicola
when I thought Nicola is adorable I saw Kevin, such a genuine guy. When he said he is quite nervous speaking on camera I really felt the need to support him and give him confidence, and when he gifted you the toy he literally won my heart haha
Hello from Australia Nicola I just want to tell how much I enjoy watching your channel. when I see your finds I can get quite excited especially if its a pipe I hold my breath willing it to have a lovely long stem. I also love it when you find parts of a bottle and it turns out to be something great like an onion bottle. I watched the video you did on the Firth of Forth and was thrilled with one of your finds as it was made in my home town Bo'ness that one I guessed before you. i would love to go mud-larking with you but I will never see Britain again as I am 83 years old.keep posting Nicola you give me so much pleasure.
These Screwdrivers were most recently made by Joseph Marples into the 1970's or so; now discontinued. The design was especially used by Cabinetmakers and other Woodworkers, the narrow-width blades would allow the tool to reach deeply into counter-bored holes.
Few excellent and interesting finds there, Nicola. The bullet appears to be either earlier Snider Enfield rifle bullet or later Martini Henry model that replaced it from early 1870s. Both types of rifles (577”) were used by the British colonial militia. Possibly Boer War era. Very rare find.
It was a bottle necked case design so it was likely the .577-.450 for the Martini. The Martini was .450 caliber but they'd necked down the .577 Snider case for a .45 caliber bullet for the Martini so they called it the ".577-.450"......lots of archaic cartridge designations in the early days of self primed, metallic cartridges.
Nice treasures Nicola !!! Love the pipe with the rose 🌹 & leaves 🌿 on it & the pipe stem with a little hand holding a rifle !!! Love the idea of adopting the toys 🧸 out to a new home !!! Your little squirrel friend is so cute & he was going to come in to get more peanuts 🥜🥜🥜 !!! ❤️🙂
The squirrel is a nice addition to you videos. I love how you take the time to help out all the different wildlife. Those peanuts and breadcrumbs create long lasting friendships. Especially with the crows on the foreshore. You never know, maybe they'll return the favor with treasure one day. Love your channel.
Great finds as always. My best guess for the rifle cartridge is a .577 caliber (predecessor to the British .303) used by the Martini Henry rifle (Given its size, shape of the casing and shape of the round). This would put its age around 1870-1890, and had it not made its way into the Thames it probably would have gone to Africa to be used in the Boer or Zulu Wars
@@nicolawhitemudlark You probably know, but if you want to identify a firearm cartridge the characters for caliber and sometimes manufacturer are pressed into the brass on the bottom of the cartridge, and you can often clean it up with just a metal or glass fiber brush. So tantalizing you showed that for just a brief second but corrosion needed to be cleaned away. Greatly enjoying your finds.
I totally agree with ezcapee!!! Kevin is such a sweetheart, so smart, nice looking and of course with that Brit accent he should be bold and share with us all of his mudlarking knowledge ❤ Julia is just a little doll. A real mudlark angel❤
how satisfying it is to see those little artistic touches on the pipes - i can imagine the pipemaker sitting at their workbench, and thinking: how shall i amaze my piping public today ? a little hand, a porpoise - i thought it was a snail !
Came across your videos recently and I have to say they are fantastic. As a numismatic I'm excited when you find a coin(s) in your hunt for treasure. Also the history you tell with your finds. Especially the military items, as my mother served in the WAAF at Bomber Command in London at the beginning of WWII, before going to Bletchley Park. Thank you.
Love the new opening, the music and great shots of the Thames. Thank you for another "classic" mudlark, with interesting history followup. Let's all hope there are many more peaceful excursions ahead, emphasis on peaceful.
Toujours très passionnant et très intéressant de connaître l'histoire de vôtre pays dans ces merveilleuses vidéos avec des objets incroyables et insolites. Un très grand respect et un méga pouce bleue 👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Nicola. I hope you found more about you old screwdriver. I found one with a similar handle and shank. No makers mark, but dated late 18- early 1900s and is was made in the UK. Enjoy watching you and your friends. You find the most interesting things and let us get a closer look after you clean them up. Thanks. Welcome to Spring. From Virginia, U.S.A.
The dolls brought tears in my eyes. Thank you for what you are doing. 😍👏 And very good, interesting, exciting, informative, beautiful, positive, therapeutic videos you share, thank you. 🙏👏🌞❤️
I am so very pleased that I stumbled across your videos on Fb. I have enjoyed exploring the rabbit hole you have afforded me the pure joy of a beautiful "whole new world" I never knew existed! I am thrilled to continue living vicariously through your thoroughly entertaining and educational videos. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Be well and be blessed. I hope you find your Holy Grail! ❤ Angela from Chattanooga TN USA
Great to see you out on the foreshore -- enjoying the crisp, early spring weather (yay sunshine!)!!! And your Thames orphans will be spreading around the globe, sharing whispered tales of your adventures and how they smoke your clay pipes late at night when you are asleep!!!! 🙂
@@annhalton1963 -- I forget which of her videos it is, but Nicola did make something like this -- I'm sure it is on her RU-vid channel somewhere -- let me see if I can find the date....
Cool finds Nicola! I think you'll find the cable associated brass plate is a length or distance marker. Knot = 1 nautical mile or 2000 yards. I believe the 'yds' refers to yards. Please let me know when you get a chance to check it out at the museum.
I did some calculations on the length of the cable it would have been 18,659 meters. Four core would mean it would have four conductors. I'm not sure but perhaps maybe this cable was particular for Island or between to Bay shorelines telegraph communications. When they first started to install submarine cables they did not like to do splices underwater.
we have 20 degrees in Glasgow...we keep fainting !! Love how you larker guys all get on and support each other ....i find these videos I follow really calming as well as interesting of course !
Fantastic Intro and Poignant Outro of the Thames Toy Orphans. Love feeding the Squirrel -- Hope you got him some more peanuts! Talk about faces in the mud -- I laughed when I saw that @13:24. Wonderful video as always, Nicola. Love spending time with you on the foreshore and in your studio. Really enjoyed you sharing your childhood dream that you have realized with your lovely space. xx
I’m always happier when you are walking along on stones instead of mud.......we don’t want you to be stuck in the mud and become a Thames treasure! 😱 Great finds as always.😊
How could anyone fall asleep watching your really interesting videos. I am envious of your adventures. When you tell us to look there....right in the middle, do you see what I see? I am always searching...are you looking at a coin, another pipe, a wonderful button or a brass tag with historical significance. Thank you.
That cartridge looked like .577-.450 Martini, Zulu War era. My paternal grandfather was born in 1893. He was in his 50s when my dad was born. He joined the Navy in 1911 and was on the battleship USS Florida when we occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1914. He and other sailors were given rifles and fought in the streets to secure the city... I like that tag! I think the Atlantic cable was completed in 1857 and President Buchanan and Queen Victoria sent greetings to each other. Awesome, good video Nicola.👍 Edit: I finally remembered the name, John Mercer Brooke! He was an American Naval Office, Scientist, Inventor and Professor who was involved in the Atlantic Cable Project too! A series of Confederate cannon we're designed by him too, when he was chief of the Selma Naval Ordnance Works.....
Hi Nicola from Florida. Just another wonderful video as usual. Loved the intro as usual. Extremely interesting artifacts. Hope to see more of your beautiful antique broken bottle glass fish art work. A video of these alone would be fascinating. Keep up the wonderful treasure hunting videos their a Lark!
Nice that you can find so many wonderful finds. Great history behind them. Stay safe and take care. Your freind shirley from new Bern, north carolina u.s.a..❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😮😅🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I was wondering if perhaps pipe stems being accidentally broken in a person's pocket might have been a fairly common reason for tossing them away. They do look fragile, IMO.
I used to smoke Irish made clay pipes in the 1970 and 80s they were easily broken but cheap as chips. I would splice a broken one with insulating tape and a match stick to get me through the day!
thank you, Nicola, I agree we need hope right now. Spring is here in New York, and I too, feel like jumping out of bed each morning hearing all the birds singing. I love your videos!
Thanks Judie! Are you in New York? Im coming to New York in May. Im going to go to Keens restaurant with all the pipes - on Monday 16th - in case you can pop in! xx
First time I've watched your videos and I'm hooked, when I first saw that Bullet I was amazed "that's a martini Henry cartridge!". And that Victorian coin, beautiful.
Thank you sooo much , Nicola =o) Awesome video , as always . Was great to see you on the foreshore . Love that livery button ! Personally I'd go for a goat over a stag =o) But do love the stag's spooky face =o) Great to see little Mario join the orphanage . Thanks again . Hopefully see you again soon . Loadsa love , have fun , Mammalian Kev xXx
Great video, Nicola. I don't know who would fall asleep watching you. I find you very interesting and knowledgeable. Great idea for the orphans. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead too. 💗
Nicola, hello to you from Michigan where we are never far from a shore. You so often make me laugh at your excitement of “finds”! Just two months ago I found out about mudlarking and your channel is so delightful to watch. I love your adoption idea and I hope each toy gets a new, loving home. I really was thankful to hear the some of the funds help “Save the Children”. I’m looking forward to watching more of your eventful, historical finds!
What a great day of treasures!! Can’t wait for the adoptions to start. Thank You for all of the fascinating history lessons. Again such a pleasure to watch your vids. Stay well.
That tag is stunning! a very cool piece of communications history!! 👍 I do so enjoy, all the historical tidbits, connected to the many small pieces you find, Nic Thanks for the Thames outing.. hello from Denmark 🌸🌱
You are such a treat to experience. Today I shared you with my mum here in Chicago, and she just loves ya. A big big thank you for all the effort you put into your shows. life is Good! God bless.
Sweet little squirrel 😊 I really enjoy that u take the time to film wildlife in your videos. From birds to squirrels and everything in between. I always look forward to watching 😊
Hi Nicola, marvelous finds. I love the hand on the trigger of the gun. Also, the Hooper tag is such a part of history. Very cool indeed. Thank you, enjoy the Spring. Today is the first day of a Spring here in America. Joyce ❤️🇺🇸🙏🐿🌷
Hello I just recently found your channel just clicking through,I was hooked immediately.Here in the states I dig in the muck looking for native Indian artifacts.I hunt in fields and creeks love it so much.You are living the dream love watching your channel and your glass shard fish they are gorgeous.Good luck stay safe and God bless.❤️
That's awesome about the adoption you know and all the things you found today pretty good I enjoyed him I love your show it makes my day you and digger Dang,where awesome together stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 👍🙏🛐❤😇🥰
That's a real gun, looks like a 9mm. I love your little squirrel friend that you feed, it's always nice to have a little friend around. Thank you for the video Nicole and please stay safe and healthy as well. Happy hunting!
Great opening frames on this one, as usual very eclectic and interesting video lots of historical things needing research. The wax bottle seal I thought it looked more like Durban rather than Durham, goodness knows what it used to contain as if it comes from South Africa you will let us know if you find more👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰XX
Another wonderful adventure on The Thames!! I love your studio too!! 🌝💝🤗 The tag you found marking the History of the Telegraph cabling IS mind blowing!!
Morning, Nicola! So happy to see you! Yayyyyyyy! ( : The ground looks sooo sandy vs muddy today! ( : The face on the pottery looks sooo cute peering up from the water! Two great coins you found already too! ( : Nice start! ( : Cool stem you found too! Love it! ( : Strange to see a decorated stem period. Right? I would love to see a pipe stem video! Yessssssssss! ( : What a cool pipe bowl you just found too! Yayyyyyyy! ( : Ooh. I love everything floral! Two roses?! That sounds amazing! ( : What a cool old tool you found! I love old tools! I bet you will definitely be able to put it back together again! ( : Wow! Julia did find a great Turk's head pipe! It is sooo cool!! ( : I have never seen this kind of pipe!! Kevin's 17th century pipe is amazing too! ( : How nice Kevin found you a Mario figurine for your Thames Toy Orphan shelf!! I love Mario! ( : A Glock pistol and a bullet! ! I hope they were both not used in crimes! ) : That goat livery button is so beautiful! ( : I love it! So a servant would wear a livery button for a rich family. So cool you were able to figure out who it came from, thanks Richard! ( : Sooo cool when you find pipes stems with the red wax on the pipe stem ends still. So amazing it stayed on all these years!! I was thinking about your adoption scheme, when Kevin gave you another one to care for and love! Lol! ( : I thought...oh no! ) : Not another orphan! Lol! ( : I love that you are giving some of the money from the sales of your orphans to the Save the Children Foundation! It is a wonderful program! ( : Love this idea! ( : What a wonderful video! Happy first day of Spring, Nicola! ( : Love ya, Tracy ( :🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hey Nick that's a beautiful bridge, I never saw it at nite, love it, hope all goin well, and happy, love your friend Dawn, I've always been like her too, the three of us would have fun! Haha
Another awesome video Nicola with great finds and history lesson too, thank you for sharing your amazing foreshore. Take care and see you on the next one 👍👍👏👏❤️❤️
Too cute feeding the squirrel! Have you named him/her? Thank you Nicola for bring history and sharing all your finds with us. From across the pond it brings a different side of our world to us. Thank you from Texas. I was in France in October and stayed in Bordeaux for a few weeks. What a beautiful place. Take care. 🌹
Love all your great finds Nicola. The metal tag is such an interesting part of communication history. The hand on a gun pipe stem is amazing. We can always rely on you to find the best pipes! 💗😊
I/we appreciate your sharing your adventures in mud larking and the thrill of finding treasure ,and letting us see the hidden treasures before you “dig it up out of the mud ! So thrilling !😮 ❤ I LOVE ❤️ the rocks too as I am a old rock hound ! I can’t he[p looking for rocks where ever I am ! And here in ARIZONA🌵 there is a large verity of rocks 🪨🙀👵🏻😱🖖🏼👽🐲👍🏻🐝BEE HAPPY 😅😊😂
Adore the jar sherd with the face ….gorgeous piece of art. The tag is wonderfully interesting and the brass and writing is so pretty. And I’ll be following Kevin Dyer’s channel and IG. Always lovely to find new mudlark friends. I remember the people that I met on the foreshore when I was there…such a connection with people. One woman who has been larking for a good while in Wapping walked along with me, made sure I had a permit, verified that my tesserae were Victorian and and not Roman and showed me her finds from the day. I asked if she was happy with what she’d found and she said “Oh the foreshore never disappoints.” I just thought that was a lovely thing.
I don’t know how to do much on line or cell phone. I enjoy watching all the kids you inspired to learn about the history of England. Sending best wishes to you and the Queen, Many prayers were sent from America when she lost her husband. I saw a film about pilot’s from Poland who fought in the Battle of Britain. One of then went down in the Thimes in his fighter and has never been found. Hope you and the mudlarking folks will find him one day.
Delightful spending time with you and seeing your studio..I am new to your channel and I have a mudlarkers heart..adore that tag..and your orphans! Someday hope to travel to England to explore and perhaps mudlark! Stay safe and healthy and thank you for sharing your passion..much love from ontario canada
It is so lovely to adventure with you👍Especially with the news being so sad, and tragic, it’s a solace to see something calm, and “normal” happening in the world❤️🙏Very grateful for you🖐
Kevin going through all his pockets... 21:24- 21:47..... reminded me of Lieutenant Columbo looking for a vital piece of evidence ! Cute toy 24:26 ! How sweet of him to rescue it for you ❣️.
Greetings and hugs on the first day of spring! Thanks for another interesting video. I thought ooh, that's a real gun when I saw it. Interesting finds, love the cable tag. I used to work in the telephone industry, splicing and repairing cables
Darling hope all is well,Fantastic video as always.Love the new things you find and can’t contain the excitement to find out the history behind them.Clay pipes are my favorite,Thank you for sharing all of your finds.Much Love 🌹
Thank you, I do enjoy your videos because you give the history of the articles. You mention sleep - no, it is midnight in Australia and I am awake. Happy hunting.
