On this adventure, while digging through a 100+ year old dump, we uncover several unexpected things. Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
The Borden bottle is pre-1936. That's the year that Elsie and several other cows became the mascots for Borden, including Blossom, Bessie, and Clara. Within a short time, Elsie was the publics favorite cow of Borden. My Grandmother, born in 1907, was named Bessie, when my Mother was born in 1941, she was named Elsie, after the Borden cow. Elsie the cow is still the mascot to Borden. On a side note, Elsie's "husband" was Elmer. You might know him better as the cow on Elmer's glue.
I hope you were able to check the cologne bottle for a scent, I found a perfume in a 1870’s dump with a stopper and when I open it you can still smell it! It’s crazy it smells just like grandma 😂
Hey folks, thanks for watching today’s video! If you’ve come to the comments to express a complaint with the title- I understand your disappointment if you clicked with the hopes of seeing decomposing human remains and were presented only the ‘body’ of a porcelain doll- that WOULD be frustrating. I hope though, while you were here, you enjoyed yourself- And rest assured my weekly videos will continue to be as high-quality, educational and entertaining as possible- regardless of title and thumbnail. Have a great day!
Well Brad, it _was_ a body, lol. And you never said anything about it being a person. Still and all, a not so disappointing video! Thanks Brad, for sharing with us what you do.
With all the bones we found in the first dig we could have put together a small calf skeleton and the title would have been appropriate for that video! Not to mention all the leather from the shoes, uppers and soles!!!
Quarter Hoarder Jason did his Giveaway Live Stream tonight with 1,200 viewers. They mentioned you as did hundreds of the viewers, all good. 1:57 Salt Glazed Stoneware Ink Pot. The ink came in it, you removed the cork, dipped the pen and wrote after carefully wiping the excess ink on the inner edge. 12:38. The pocket knife brand is 'Old Timer'.
When our neighbors moved into their house, one of the leftovers from the previous owners was one of those tools. The previous owners were prominent in the community. Everyone at least knew OF them, if they weren't connected in some other way. The stamp might have been from any number of organizations husband and wife had been involved in. But, alas, it was a stamp proclaiming the long-deceased Mr. as a Grand Master of the KKK.
@@jramsdenbb Justice of the Peace?...Registrar?...Bank?...the anticipation grows. I hope we get to see the restoration project and reveal. Could be historically significant, or at least satisfy curiosity.
Most guys of his age got their tattoos in the military, at least that’s what I found as a nurse. I never found one man (patient) who admitted getting them on their own. Funny, I have 15 men in my family who served in the military and only one has tattoos, one of my sons.
Long story but here it is. About 30 years ago I was a member of a motorcycle club before moving to where I am now. The step-son of a friend that I grew up with was getting out of jail and needed a place to stay until he found a job and an apartment. I let him stay in our home rent free. He was a tatto artist and offered to do tatoos for free including doing my club colors on my back at a very reduced rate. He stayed with us for about 6 months or so and I ended up with a lot of tattoos. In case you're interest I rode a Harley 1975 XLCH Sporster. I added electric start to it after friend broke his leg trying to start it.
@@gregorymanchester oh cool! Thanks for taking the time to indulge this curious and somewhat nosy Alabama mind! You were getting free tats 30 years ago and I was a brand new babe 30 years, 2 months ago to the day😎🤓 Stay awesome and please PLEASE continue to let Brad come dig with you at your bottle dump! The two of y’all’s humor goes together like fine wine! 👋
I love the fact that you are back for a 3rd visit, it is such a fab place and I love all the different bottles and finds here. I hope you both do more here in the future :)
Borden was one of the drive around type of milkman companies we used when I was a kid in the midwest.. Elsie was their logo cow. They left glass bottles on the porch in a metal milk box. Ours were half gallons and without the top fat cream area. They had both an inner cardboard w/ pull tab disc and an outer celluloid sort of cap that snapped on. Our grade school used both as counters for learning math in the primary grades. Forgetting to bring the milk in, could result in finding frozen bottles the next morning. If you were lucky, the 2 caps had pushed upward on a column of frozen milk. Unlucky mornings were those where the milk had frozen over night and those big bottles had broken. Suddenly you needed to dispose of shards of glass mixed into a large quantity of, for the moment, frozen milk. Not a good thing!
Mathis Dairy in Atlanta did the same thing. We always had the metal box on our doorstep. That was the most delicious milk I've ever had. I miss it very much!
Great video! The little brown croc is a ink bottle. Otherwise known as a "Pork Pie". The cobalt blue ink is stunning. There are a couple of UK youtubers I watch that are mudlarks and are really amazing. Alot of what you were pulling out and can be connected back to England. One is Dirty Secrets of Scotland, his name is Willy Scott. He digs lots of bottles, metal detects, and forages. He gives wonderful backgrounds on the bottles he finds. The Northern Mudlarks also are just as fantastic.
You're not wrong I've learnt a lot from the mudlarkers of England and Scotland so many great people. Thanks great video, its very interesting to see the finds in America too x
@GMMD I’ve got a confession that I hope you don’t find too creepy. I love watching your videos for a lot of reasons. I enjoy the finds, the history and the scenery. But mostly I watch because you remind me of my son Matt. Y’all are almost doppelgängers. Your mannerisms, how you express yourself, the things you take joy in, and you look alike to a point. He’s 1600 miles away and today is his birthday. I’d love to see a video of your collection of finds. Maybe you’ve done one but I’ve not seen it.
I think you are correct. It seems out of place here. Maybe it was brought from London from a trip or a friend brought it to someone here. It's beautiful though.
The brown earthen ware bottle is an “ink” for sure. Here in UK mudlarks on the Thames call them pork pie bottles cos they resemble pork pies! Enjoy all your videos, thank you
I believe the doll that you found is what is known as a "frozen Charlotte", because they have no moveable joints and have been around since the mid 1800's. They were usually baked into cakes or were a favorite bath time toy. Nice finds!!
The story of why they are called frozen Charlotte goes much deeper, named after a little girl Charlotte who drowned in an icy cold pond after breaking through the ice. Look it up it’s an interesting story.
40 or so years ago I found a bottle dump in Louisiana while working on an old home site and it was still exposed. I did not gather many bottles but? I was an Orange Crush drinker and I found a brown orange crush bottle that was ribbed horizontally and still had the painted lettering on the side of it. I carried that and about 30 other bottles around for all of these years and a few years ago I gave them all to my son that lives in north Idaho. I hated to get rid of it but I also know that my son will probably keep it tilll he hands it off to my Grand Daughter. I have only found one other bottle dump in my lifetime and it was on private property here in east Texas and will not ever be allowed to dig it. I am so adicted to looking for them. Have a Great day and a better Tomorrow...
Wingsandbeaks here. ~ Brad Martin! Where are your gloves?! No, you’re doing fine. Last bottle video, you got a huge amber bottle, not a crock, but a beauty, anyway. First grab today was a perfect ceramic container, not huge, but lovely, just the same. Beautiful blue ink bottle. Greg seems a great guy. How nice for him to share that stash. Hah! I knew you needed gloves 😂.
I use to go dump digging as a kid with my brothers. Still several items including a toy wind up rabbit that I put out every Easter. Loved watching this. Thank you!!❤
The small ceramic vessel you found at the beginning is indeed an inkwell, the small white vessel is a marmalade jar, and I believe the little broken figurine you found might be a Frozen Charlotte. I learned about a lot of these items by watching videos by Mudlarkers from England. There's a lot of fun history to uncover about the Frozen Charlotte in particular :)
For those that don't know that Mason jar lid is glass. Would have had a wire bail attached to the jar to go over the top to hold the lid on. I have a couple.
There's two types, glass like he found, and also a porcelain insert. Later models still used these inserts, but they were held down by the common (now) holed screw on lid. Current jars have replaced the porcelain/glass inserts with thinner metal inserts often with a thin layer of plastic/rubber/silicone to aid in sealing.
Not a rivet setting tool but a stationary embossing tool. Many were used by public notaries and or courts, townships, businesses etc to emboss on official paperwork to authenticate it.
The brown bottle you found at 4:19 minutes seems to have a small "silver mirror" in one of the bands. Silver was used as an antibiotic - when children were born, a silver nitrate (0.2 %) solution would be placed in the eyes to protect the newborn from certain infections they could pick up from the mother during birth. It is no longer used. However, if the bottle contained a solution which had silver nitrate in it, a "silver mirror" could form on the glass. This is also used to "silver" the insides of Christmas ornaments to make them shiny.
Love it! Thank you! Hey, maybe show off your finds on a snow day? You’ve found some amazing things that you get to save and I was thinking it would be a great idea to showcase them to all your viewers?
6:18 those dolls, from what I know, are Victorian and called frozen Charlotte dolls that were made for children to play with. They were inspired by a ballad about “Young Charlotte” or “Frozen Charlotte” who froze to death while on a carriage ride to a winters ball. That’s Victorians for you!
My dad and I would dig bottles when I was very young. The greatest find was a very old bottle that looked like a light bulb..it was most likely an extremely old wine bottle. This brings back so many memories!
I just love these glass and pottery finds! I’m always intrigued because they are always accidental finds since there is no such thing as a “glass detector”
Phillips Milk of Magnesia, still made today. Had an old one and gave it to my phacrmacist for her collection. Love the blue inkwell. I love any blue bottles. Another pretty blue bottle, bromo seltzer! Cool! Borden still makes Eagle Brand condensed milk. That doodad might be for attaching an official seal to papers, like a notary or judicial seal.
Catching up on your videos! Great to see Buffalo NY get some mention! The Larkin company was huge here! The whole area around the original Larkin building has transformed into a cool summer hang out area called Larkin Square. Food truck Tuesday's, weekly music, some breweries and distilleries in repurposed buildings. Great to see revival! I have several Larkin items including a desk my Grandfather got for selling Larking products. You could sell items and get stamps or coupons to turn in for prizes!
Brad, A nice departure from your standard "dig", but fun. Thank you both for a really entertaining time!. I bet your son would have been fascinated:) Cheers, Rik
So many interesting items found. I love the Bordens milk bottle. You do know they still bottle milk today. I also really liked the small earthen ware bottle. I still think it’s an ink.
I started out bottle digging and moved on to metal detecting...both are so much fun...I've been sitting here chuckling because I have been identifying your finds as they have been coming out of the ground...a sign that I have dug a crazy amount of trash dumps...I absolutely love your site...and as a musician myself...your music 🎶. Thanks Brad...All the best to you and yours . MERRY CHRISTMAS
I think the canning jar lid was to a snap ring top jar. That's a gorgeous milk bottle! I would take a brick trawl with me on those digs. That and a really good brush are what archeologists use. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
As a child we drank Bordens Milk. Elsie the cow was kind of a mascot. Hadn’t thought of Bordens in many years. Your bottle brought it back to mind. Enjoyed.
The Listerine bottle may be a salesman’s sample bottle. Also, the desk top find was probably a stamp tool to emboss the person’s name or initials on an envelope or letter. Excellent finds guys!
I started bottle hunting after you shared Antique Archaeology. And Brandon. If you have any questions about bottles he is the person to asked. I've been doing it for two years now and I love it. Been a fan of yours for 5 years now. Love to the family 🌼.
I didn't know carnival glass is radioactive! I inherited 2 collections from my mom. One group is red carnival glass and the other is gold carnival glass.
You can take the broken ones home and cut the broken part off and use it for a glass or candle holder. All you have to do is cut off the tapered part and then sand the edges. Use a wet saw to cut the bottle. People sell them on Etsy for $25 - $50!
Did lot's of bottle digging in my younger years, and I still keep a look out when metal detecting as come across them often in old sites 😍 Great bunch of finds, HH and take care.
I did see a video a few years back on metal detecting at an old homestead. The guy got a hit and it was a gold ring and it was on a finger. He called authorities. Very scary.
The ink crock was really cool. Love all blue bottles & clear like the Larken Co & the one Greg found. Nice rivet setter. The Bordens bottle was a great find. Bottle dumps are so much fun & surprising.
