On this adventure I rejoin Greg on his property to see what else we can find in this turn-of-the-century dump! Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
My granny used to seal her jelly jars with wax. One batch she put up was sealed with bad wax, which allowed the concord grape jelly to ferment, basically making grape wine jelly. Being a good Methodist woman, she didn't allow alcoholic beverages in her house. Granpaw wasn't as devout and made the mistake of asking for toast a bit too often, which made Granny suspicious. (She didn't eat grape jelly, so...) She tasted Granpaw's jelly and ended up throwing out the entire batch.
I also remember watching grandma use hot wax on her jellies. That way they were sealed against any spoilage and you could use a lid for other things. Love watching the treasure search.
The lice comb was used to remove the nits (eggs, larva). The Benzedrex nasle inhaler's had highly addictive stimulants (amphetamine sulfate) in them back then.
I agree about the lice comb (fine-toothed comb, as the saying goes), the nits have to be removed after shampooing the hair, or the eggs can hatch and reinfest. It's a very tedious process. I wouldn't be surprised if something harsh like kerosene was used back then on the hair.
@@lorrainerobison6623 I have heard of people using kerosene in the past but mainly vinegar. They sat around "not picking" like apes. I'm glad I was born in 1960.
Under the Plains, Digger Dave and Shoveling Shelly are two RU-vid sites to help you learn the terminology and history of the companies and products of the past. Love Greg's humor. Konw it is hard work.😊
That wax isn’t for canning. Wax for jams, came in blocks. That small jar would only hold enough for maybe one or two jars of jam. Possibly that was was what we now call shoe polish or wax for mustaches, or maybe even some kind of furniture wax. Although it seems small even for that.
That wax was more than likely to waterproof something. It’s not the type to use when canning. It could of also been used for beards and mustache care. Incredible finds today.
Durkee, I thought right away: spices, so adding spices to oil & vinegar seems right to make salad dressing. Fletchers Castoria & Lavoris mouth wash rang a bell too, for me. Lavoris was first used during the civil war as an antiseptic and later marketed as a mouthwash in 1903. I remember it being red, and has since been discontinued. I also remember Vicks having stick inhalers. Not sure if they still do. My grandmother put wax on her homemade jelly.
It's so hard to stop digging the relic's and bottles there's always just one more that's what I always tell my self when detecting or bottle digging 😊❤️👍♥️⚒️🇺🇸🗝️
I had to laugh when I read your comment because I swear I say or think that at least once a month. Seriously no BS "There's always one more" or "just one more you can always find just one more". The obvious times being and thus the reason I'm watching this video is when I'm detecting I'll say there's got to be at least one more thing in this area (after digging a lot of something in a tight area). And especially when i'm water detecting in a swimming hole and there was a ton of coin change in the way and after trying to clear all the coins first by cherry picking the high tones so I can set the detector to target mid range gold ring tones there's always "just one more corroded zincoln penny hitting in the mid tones". 2 weeks ago I dismantled a tow along pop up camper to convert into a canoe trailer and I knocked over a container that I was putting all of the nuts and screws in and as I was looking all around my driveway and the dirt on the sides I kept looking saying there's always another one and you look until you find one. It seems to apply for everything like weeks before when I put in a ceiling fan and I needed 3 wire nuts for the connection but I only found 2 in the drawer and I KNEW "there had to be at least one more somewhere in this drawer". I've dug up a few bottle dump sights through the years and when there seems to only be broken glass left you always think there has to be another one unbroken lol. That just might've been the under statement comment of the year! And I bet that you're right they could probably find just one more if they keep looking
I think that you and Brandon(Adventure Archeology) need to do a collaboration. He's shown what you made for him in his videos. I enjoy watching both of your channels. Keep up the awesome content.
It's no surprise cancer and other issues are so prevalent when you see some of the things we do to ourselves! I always find it interesting, finding objects and history to prove we haven't changed much! We all still get sick, constipated, etc!!
I had a fantastic day digging with Brad and we found some amazing things. I was really surprised when he Googled what they used that inhaler for! I was never expecting to find a whole crock either, even a small one! We want to try digging next to the trail next time. When we got close to it we've found a lot of bottles and some cool things but it's going to be hard digging because it's so hard packed. When I made the comment about the wax it was more of a general comment about wax. The wax my mother used in canning came in a box and weighed 1lb, and broken down into quarter pound pieces. It was made by Gulf, the oil company. This was about 1965 and I was about 10 so I don't remember a lot about it. Just the white box it came in, the Gulf logo on the side, and having to take the wax off to get to the jelly.
Comb could be celluloid, an early plastic material that is very flammable. It was used for photographic film and to make cylinder phonograph records as well as billiard balls.
Castoria is still available and is pleasant tasting. Mild and usually for children. Lavoris was still around as a mouthwash in the 60s. What a great Crock Greg!
Always check the ground where you once dug after rains. Sometimes cool small stuff is laying right on top of the ground like buttons,beads, marbles, etc
In my mother's house, she had a beige coloured bakelite fine tooth comb. I can remember it being in a drawer in the kitchen as long as I can remember....you know the type of junk drawer that had everything in it 😂 rubber bands, Kirby grips, pen knives, pencils....you name it. You're right about its use, but it was to remove nits rather than lice...the nits are the eggs of lice. Even as a kid in the 1960s nits and head lice were still an issue. Shampoo got rid of the lice, but you needed the comb to get rid of the nits / eggs as they were attached to the hair.
Lol when you were reading the uses for the inhaler!! I have an antique crock on my counter that I use for wooden spoons and spatulas that is a twin to your much smaller crock. I was told that mine was from the early 1900s. I don’t know how you do it but you can even make finding old broken bottles interesting.
Good Friday ! Great channel and well done. Watch you all the time and on Friday. Watching you bottle digging, one of my many hobbies as well, and noticed you rubbing your bottles with no gloves on and your probably going to pick up a nasty sliver of glass and that can be quite infectious and painful. Be careful. I also watch other bottle digging channels where they talk about using broken bottles to make whiskey glasses. You’ve probably seen how the glass becomes opalized from being in the ground so long. That’s from minerals and chemicals in contact with the surface and interior of the bottle. Simply washing it doesn’t take that away which had been absorbed over a hundred years. It’s called, “sick glass” and for a reason drinking from it releases that which has been absorbed and can make you sick. So please forget that idea of a shot glass. Anyway enjoy and please be careful! I’ll be watching😉😊…
Thanks Greg and Brad I've been so intrigued watching bottle digs by below the plains thanks so much for filling my bottle digging heart this week although I do very much love the metal detecting.. . Can't wait to see how the next dig goes ....
@@debyoung7133 cool I’ll check them out My hands down favorite bottle digger is bottlened, the guy is off the chart’s hilarious and the extent he goes to find pivys is a hoot in its own
Cool old bottles. I remember some of those. Love the little crock. Yes go back please. Thanks for taking me along. Wish it was for real, I love old bottles and antiques. I love history behind things old. Happy swingin and diggin. Have a wonderful weekend.👍😘
Hey Greg! I've never had the opportunity to dig in a bottle dump, but those old bottles are so cool! One thing, at 8:40 into this episode, that piece of multi-colored glass you pulled from the pit was interesting. Perhaps it is ceramic, but it sort of looks like Halophane. I ran across this type of glass while looking for a vintage kitchen lamp for our 1910 house. So if you're not certain what that was, check out Halophane lamps from around 1900 to 1920. Enjoy your channel, keep up the good work!
They would've used large bricks of paraffin wax, melted down to cap off canning jars. Whatever you found in the green bottle is way too small for canning.
Thanks Brad and Greg. I found an old dump site when I was a kid about 45 years ago. Found some neat stuff... thinking about revisiting it. Love the vids Brad, keep them coming.
Those are the sites you revisit as an adult after you have kids and get them involved*. * Translation Involved- the art of getting your kids to do most of the digging while you sweep the detector looking for the metal targets in the hopes of finding a decent coin or two
Great finds guys!! The Wilbur Wax was for the huge handle bar mustache's that were popular back in those days. That container would have been much to small for canning wax.
They sell replicas of those earthenware crocks today for historic reenacting, I know I have one similar. The larger ones are still in use today for fermentation like pickles and sauerkraut. 👍👍
Great episode, Brad. May I offer the thought that the Wilbert name has been in the funeral casket & vault business for a long time (since about 1880 in some form) and wax is one product morticians have historically employed to used to make the deceased appear better for viewing.
During your bottle digging adventure, a bottle came out marked “Rawleigh’s”- I happen to be working in the town where Rawleigh’s was located (Freeport,IL) and though the company is out of business, the building still stands- took a few pics of the building if you’re interested…
I found a bottle dump one month ago and found Pottery, glass, bones, and bottles. One green one and the other was kap tuffy which was a baby bottle from 1925-1930 and I also found a thermometer.
Hey Brad, Longtime subscriber and love your videos. We are part time Vermonters up in the Mad River Valley and I just want say that I hope you and your family are ok after all the flooding. God speed and keep digging.
Ben-zuh-dreen, you should read up on the history of it, it’s very interesting! They gave it to soldiers and I think a lot of creative people used/abused it to get more work done. There’s always some kind of drug getting pushed, and always people to abuse it.
Lavoris was a mouth wash. My Mom did the wax thing on juice and Jams. She used specific wax for canning. the one you found may be Mustache wax. Crottal Bell for a sleigh. Ding ding ding, yes it is a Lice comb. you comb the hair and use a lotion or cream to kill them. you had to do this twice so you can kill the eggs. That nasal decongestant could not help with all that. Had one use, and was Quackery for the rest. The little Porcelain thing looks like a collectable child's teapot. Nice Video.
Ugh! Castoria! Took it as a small child in the sixties. Mom gave it to us first of spring. Oh the cramps. Glad when I got older and told her I didn't need it.
We used to buy Lavoris Mouthwash in the 70's up in Minnesota, when I was a kid. I remember that it had a very strong cinnamon flavor, just like Red Hot candies.
Mn is my neck of the woods. Drives me nuts cause these east coasters have so much more older history available to dig, low hanging fruit if you will lol
Hi Brad! Reaching out as a long time viewer. My husband, Rick and I have been thinking of you… hoping you and yours are safe and well during all the flooding in NY and VT.
Nice Bottle Hunt. I don't get to see many if not all of them Bottles you found. I love the ones with text on them. Congrats on all your finds. Take Care Brad
The little item you found with the little guy playng the guitar was probably a bud vase if there wasn't a handle on it. My grandparents were antique collectors and they had many items like that. The little guy would have been Mexican. If it had a handle then it could have went to a set that had a salt and pepper containers also.
Great video Brad nice to see you back on the bottles ! The castor oil bottle you un-earthed I use on a regular basis on my skin especially my hands it is a great moisturize and penetrating oil I use it all over and have been for many years you have to work it in !!! Thanks again your pal Kevin in France and Florida
would love to see more videos from this place. Benzedrine is an amphetamine btw. speed. for a period of time back in the day you could get that stuff without a prescription lol.
Looks like you may have found an outhouse pit. You may like Tom Askjem with Below The Plains. Lots of information about bottles found in pits like the one y’all found.
I love it when people comment without reading the previous comments first. Especially when a few days have passed. Pretty sure Brad understood that Benzadrine was speed after the first five people said it.
A lice comb was used to comb out the lice and nits which stuck to your hair. You had to comb really hard, repeatedly to get rid of those bugs which is why a lice comb has tiny teeth that are sitting very very close together. We never had the problem, but I know how to use the comb because my grandmother had them in her possession. My grandma and grandpa lived far up into the back reaches of the North Carolina mountains, and I visited every weekend. Good times! Not talking about lice……, 😬
No Bromo Seltzer or Milk of Magnesia Cobalt Blue bottles? I always find a ton of those The deeper you dig the older the layer of finds usually get. Im surprised it was mostly only bottles and there wasnt a lot of metal trash like the old tin cans. Or copper mason jar lids with their white glass inserts. Those are a lot of fun to do especially if you dig a lot of early embossed bottles. Nice hunt guys
the lice comb would be to get out the eggs that they lay on the hair shaft. Unfortunately, they are still with us today. My daughter was 6 in school and came home with some. I had to do that after the shampoo.
