On this adventure I search for 1800's treasures once discarded and find a few that should probably remain buried. Original music by Brad Martin www.GMMD.us / greenmountainmetaldete... / green.mountain.metal.d...
What a fantastic day for digging, the weather was perfect and we found a LOT of really unique bottles but the jug made my day! Especially after all the pieces of that we found of broken crocks. My wife really enjoyed the video until the end and then she couldn't stop laughing as I drove away on my tractor with the jug beside me. It was to big for the cabinet and is sitting on the mantle over our fireplace.
Thank you, Greg, for inviting Brad to dig with you on your property so that we are able to vicariously enjoy the experience through his videos. It's been ages since I have dug a turn-of-the-century dump in person. Making a living took precedence for more than four decades. Retired now, I find that other diggers' excavations, rural development and repeated logging operations have made it exceedingly difficult to find untapped logging camp, farm and homestead dumps here in the Pacific Northwest West. I'm in WA, and anything older than 1890 is virtually unachievable but for chance, lucky finds. Probing out privy pits on urban lots, which has never been my preferred way of bottle digging due to the knocking on doors to seek permission to dig up someone's yard prerequisite, are still possible sources of older bottles I suppose; but I prefer forays in forests. I recognized a number of those bottles that you and Brad retrieved even before they were fully extracted and brushed off, but the old thrill of "What's this one?" returned several times through the video. Thanks again Greg and Bard!
I grew up living in a house that was built in 1875. My dad found a huge bottle dump that was in a concrete shelter undeground. He found 100s of antique bottles in there. We had a book on antique bottles and some were worth quite a bit. I have a few of the tiny bottles from 50 years ago when he found them. I also found a small silver mug underneath the house when I was 5 years old. I still have it 60 years later. I think it was left there when the house was being built. I used to use a metal detector on the property and would find antique bottles where old moonshine stills were on the land. My dad had met a man who used to pick up the moonshine with a wagon pulled by a mule in the 1930s and take it into town to sell it for the former owners of the property back then. This was in Florida and to this day I love digging in the dirt. I love your channel. Thanks so much for sharing your finds with us.
My maternal grandmother used to make root beer when my mom was little (1930s). She'd give my mom 5 cents to buy a bowl of ice from the corner store to use in the making. Then Grandma would store the bottles in the basement for a certain amount of time and when it was ready, the whole family found have a root beer treat. Thanks for reminding me of the memory of my mom telling that story!
Cool dig! Laundry "bluing" adds a tiny amount of blue pigment to clothes to fool the eye by balancing against the yellowing that happens in most white clothes. Modern detergents like Tide also contain a ultraviolet enhancer that again makes one perceive clothes as more white than yellow. This is why a lot of white clothes shine brightly under UV light
Love finding bottle dumps...haven't found an 1800's dump but found a early 1900's...many jugs and medicines...favorite of all was a rat poison bottle with a huge embossed rat...love the channel man👍
Good morning ! Really enjoy your your videos. Like the change up to bottle hunting. I’ve found quite a bit of them in this way myself. I feel compelled to warn you that rubbing bottles with your bare hand can be a really bad idea as the soil has glass splinters that can mess you up. Not only painful but contain contaminants, many of them from the bottles themselves, that can lead to a serious infection. So enjoy but please be careful.
I found one of those Hires bottles in Merrimack, NH in 1981. I have collected them when I see them. Found 2 in Quechee,Vt antique shop, one in a Sedona ,Az shop, and a bunch more that I can’t remember . They came in clear, green and blue. Quite decorative in the 1950’s Hires wooden crate I found in Hill City, SD. Made it into a shelf to display the bottles. The bottler was in Rapid City, SD.
Keep on going and going. No end of enjoyment. Just be sure to clean yourself thoroughly after being in a dump, never know what kind of germs are there. You don't want to find out!
Great finds mate, I love the jug!! Nothing better than being in the outdoors with good company. Keep digging, its addictive, best wishes from Western Australia 🇦🇺
Hi Brad & Greg. Carbona was a stain remover that you could buy up to the 1960's. It was Carbon Tetrachloride which was also used in fire extingushires. I used to by it when I was a kid collecting stamps as it could be used to detect watermarks in certain years of US stamps. I stopped using it when I found out that it was a powerful poison if inhaled and that it would go through your skin into your bloodstream and dissolve your liver. nice find.
Thank you for the great information Henry. I have limited space so I don't keep a lot of the bottles and let Brad take them so I can't research them. It's nice to know the history about the ones he doesn't have time to do in the videos!
One of my dream days is digging in a bottle dump 😃 I agree that the clay jug is the find of the day, though darn near every embossed bottle and jar is a gem all on it's own 👍☺️
Good morning I enjoyed your bottle bug video you both had wonderful finds Bottle digging is like metal detecting just one more Brad thanks for sharing your video Keep on digging ⚒️ and keep up the good work 👍👍♥️🗝️🇺🇸
I have an old wooden, dovetailed Father Johns medicine box. My parents were antique collectors/dealers in the 60s and 70s. They used to go bottle digging in northern Maine on the weekends. This video brought back many fond memories of my youth. Thank you! Love your videos.
I *love* the bottle digs! Greg is a stitch. The blue bottle you found was likely a Milk of Magnesia bottle, which was made in Stamford, CT. The first ones were embossed, but later ones had a paper label on them, but did have an M embossed on the bottom like yours! Very cool. My favorite find of the day, I have to admit, was the bottle with the stopper still in it.
Love your Adventures in nature! I remember back when my parents made the homemade root beer. Used to be a treat., evidently we couldn't afford the few soda pops there were. Alot of what you pull up out of the ground, I remember! Ha! I'm an oldie! ❤ your videos. GBU.,SM.,NZ 🤗
Love watching you videos.I have many of the same things . I grew up in a house that was built in 1775. My grandmother saved a lot of things from ancestors
My dad use to make us root beer when we were kids in a big old crock. Yeast was used for carbonation. It had to ferment for a while before drinking and you had to pour it out slowly so you didn’t get the yeast fronm the bottom of the bottle in your glass. It was really good.
Nice job boys!! The sawyers crystal blue was added to the whites in laundry, the hint of blue made the white clothing look whiter……my mother told me and she remembers using it in the 1930’s on her family farm in New Jersey. I found the exact bottle in a bottle dump in my back yard as a kid in eastern Massachusetts.
I helped my grandparents make homemade root beer in the Summer in the 1960’s! After it was bottled and capped, we had to carry it outside every day to lie in the sun. That made it ferment. Great memories!!!
Brad we bought property that was Swiss settled , I found one small bottle with nothing on it but I started digging and found pieces of different kinds of glass and stoneware , I love it , I put the smaller pieces of glass chips in my little bottle to display, please do another bottle dig
That was a really cool video. When I was a kid in the late '70s I found two different dump sites on old farm properties. I still have some of the old bottles I found but back then I really had no idea what I was doing. Just thought that they were really cool looking.
Brad: I used to have an extensive bottle collection, and Moxie is among the first Commercially made Soda's ever made by a Dr. Augustine Thompson in Massachusetts patented in 1885. The blue bottle is Phillips Milk of Magnesia. I have watched every one of your videos; watched your hat deteriorate, am a big fan, and have been into antiques, collectables and metal detecting for most of my 62 years.
Wow that ceramic jug is amazing but the make ur own root beer was a big surprise, I din't know they had root beer in 1890! This was fun Brad we should do it again!
The American hay day of beautiful bottles. If someone in the future digs up pits from our time they’re going to think this was part of China (sadly). I love Friday mornings because of your videos. Yesterday I searched for your video until mid morning, finally realizing it was Thursday, not Friday. I wasn’t even upset because I realized I had something to look forward to tomorrow morning. Keep digging! My husband has been looking for metal detectors for me for a Christmas present, I guess. He thinks he’s being sneaky. He’s been wanting one for years, oops, I mean I’ve been wanting one for years. That gives me two more months to practice my look of surprise 😊
You got the trifecta, Ketchup, Mustard and Mayo. Nice finds, love the old jug. I had a great bottle digging dump about 50 years ago until a beaver dam broke above and washed it all down into a bigger river.
Fun dig and cool finds! Brings back fond memories of digging bottles with my Dad as a kid. Get yourself a potato rake. Best bottle digging tool out there!
Incredible! All the things we threw away. I remember a lot of those jars my grandma's house and great grandma's house as a kid growing up. Along with so many boxes and other things that have disappeared with time or changed
People think of items as common place when they have them today, but a hundred years later, the stuff isn't so common because nobody kept something they thought was plentiful.
Always like the pit searches. If you want to see more of this, you should checkout Below the Plains. The guy on this channel has a knack for probing and finding old outhouse pits and digging them out. He really presents everything in a very knowledgeable way. Thanks for the video!
He is a butcher at digging though to dig up glass with a pick I had to stop watching him as someone who collects and conserves, he breaks more than he saves
@@mikehammer6909I do too, the first guys reply calling him a butcher is just one person's opinion, let everyone else form their own opinion. I think he is very good at what he does!
Hi Brad .. Another great day of being "down at the dump" .. A plethora of pretty crisp "dug" bottles from the late 19th / early 20th centuries, good digging ! .. For those viewers who have never tasted Father John's Medicine, and I'm pretty certain that most have not, let me confidently say that from my childhood memories ... It's is Horrid ! Almost unfit for Human Consumption ! Yet it was a popular household medicine until post WW2 / mid century, then thankfully disappeared .. The Jug is obviously cool for remaining intact .. I like the Moxie bottle .. This dig actually has unearthed some wonderful small display bottles .. Your within the "time period" of many valuable bottles that are "lusted" for today by collectors .. Thanks for sharing the day at the dump, and many thanks to the land owner.
Hey Brad just wanted to thank you. I enjoy catching up on your latest adventures, as an old guy who has spent most of my life following my own curious path on Vancouver Island, its fun to see another person out and about.......take care....... Paul
