This Old Coin Tells a WILD Story 

My mother, who I've been caring for for 2 years, just passed away. I've been watching your videos now for about a year. I even watched them with my mom. She was 96, and actually recognized some of the items you would find 😊. So now that I have time, I purchased myself a metal detector! I live in the Berkshires, so I'm so excited to start my journey into a new hobby! Thank you so much for giving me something to look forward to. And for your amazing videos!

Not a syringe but an Air Pump used on old Coleman table lamps to pressurize the fuel tank. They later built the pump into the tank but early ones before 1930 used the separate pump like the one you found.

With all the clock and watch pieces that you have found, I believe that the home owner was a repair person and that the syringe you found was for oiling the works.

I've been watching this channel for a couple years and look forward to new posts every Friday. I also love watching the older ones, too. This is the best metal detecting channel I've come across. I absolutely love everything about it, including the music written by Brad himself, the multiple camera angles, the wildlife shots, and all the info on his finds. I'm unable to hike or metal detect myself, but living vicariously through these videos makes me so happy! Thank you, Brad! (and occasional guests, too.) You are a man of many talents and I wish you the best!

This was a good one, Great finds and a pleasure to "watch" as always !!

Right after the Herbert Hoover token, when you found the broken crock pot, you said "I've always wanted to find a complete crock." That struck me as funny. "Good for 4 years of prosperity" is what my dad would have referred to as "a complete crock..." 😂

About 100 years ago, my great-grandmother lived up on a mountain in Okanagan County in Washington State. Her closest neighbor was a sibling of President Hurbert Hoover. We celebrated her 100th birthday the same year as the County's 100th birthday. Just thought you might find that interesting.

one of my favorite metal detecting youtubers.........each episode is a time traveling movie.........best wishes from Greece

Great hunt my friend love that ball mason jar and the oil lamp base

Wow Brad that was a awesome video with all the time pieces. Time will only tell why so many were lost

A Great day for relics !

Keep up the good work Brad. Look forward every Friday and your video. I miss it up there. I used to live in NH and worked in Lebanon. Watching your vids reminds me of how beautiful it is up there.

That token is definitely trying to tell you something Brad, Probably was the appropriate time to find it!

Nice finds, Brad. I’m pretty sure the iron base you found is the base to a “ banquet oil lamp.” I do think the cherub part you found may have been the ‘stem’ between the base and the decorative part that held the kerosene. The clock and watch parts are really cool too! ( did you leave the lid behind on your blue glass canning jar?)

Maybe they went through so many clocks and watches because they were going through some HARD TIMES 😂

Hi Brad, again. I think the large base is from an oil lamp, likely a nice decorative one.

I’m of the,”nothing happens without a reason” and the predictable result of the coins promise and the reality of what really happened. Let’s pray that history doesn’t repeat itself, God Bless you for taking us along and reminding us of our past history, the good and the bad!

What a phenomenal hunt! I have yet to find a 3 merry widows tin. I love the Hoover coin. I enjoy finding off the wall different items for sure. Thanks Brad!!

Yet another beautiful video!

Pretty cool artifacts, Brad! Keep on digging...

There's a good chance that watch face came from a railroad watch. Railroad watches were required to have Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals and it also appears to have had a second hand. Nice find!

Another great show. Thank you!

Very cool finds this week, great show as always. Thank you

MYSTERY ITEM: It reminds me of a grease pump that might have been used for lubricating the roller-nose of a chain saw blade. Not as old as one would like. I had a similar one that I bought during the 1960s for a Remington saw I owned.

The pocket watch is from (Walth ham). A city in Massachusetts. The company was at one point one of the sole watch/clock companies in the U.S. The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957. The company's historic 19th-century manufacturing facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts have been preserved as the American Waltham Watch Company Historic District. *WIKIPEDIA*

Another great video Brad, keep it up.

Always look forward to your videos

I want to thank you for your videos. I've just started watching videos and I really like yours because I was raised in Vermont and loved to wander the woods when I was a teenager 50 years ago. I've slowed down a lot and so watching your videos lets me see the woods as I remember them. Your photography is beautiful and really gives a sense of what it is like.

Brad, we continue to enjoy each video as a family every Friday night! It is our official start to the weekend! Thank you, and happy hunting!

I don’t know if you have done this on older videos since I’m newer here, but it’d be cool for a little tour of how you have these items displayed in your home. Maybe as a filler after a detecting video.

I commented on the "Plunger type" find from a past video at 12:05. It's a sash pin. It's set in the sash of a window, as the window goes up/down you can insert the spring plunger in the run track. In all my years I've only seen 3... 2 in different windows and the one I found in a box of junk, in near new shape. They're the perfect window controller... 🖖👍🐝💪🐸

The handle you were uncertain about is most likely a bell striker for the alarm.

Brad, those were some great finds, hopefully you will find that pocket watch soon. 👍❤️🇺🇸

Great Friday morning and thank you Brad! Make it a great day ✊🏻🥰

It is odd to find all of the time pieces but very cool. Many treasure opportunities at that spot. I do hope you return for some bottle digging! Well done, Brad!

Always enjoy watching your videos. Love the shots around the forest showing the different plants and such as well as the streams and springs from the areas you search. Keep up the wonderful videos. I also so enjoy the music you provide especially for the videos. Thank you.

Hey Brad...I always enjoy watching you unearth cool artifacts.

Awesome bits of History in this one! I look forward to the end of the week every week! Green Mountain Metal Detecting on Fridays, Mason Merc Metal Detecting on Saturdays! Brad Let us know when you want to come over to New Hampshire and pound some cellar holes with us, we are 3 hours from you. Last weekend we dug with your old friends Jim and Kendall. Awesome job and another great video as always! Tons of pocket watch pieces! My favorite piece is the Herbert Hoover political token!

Great video! As a child my grandmother and mother worked for a local lady who lived in a remodeled 1800's home and in the original log part of the structure she had an antique and very ornate fireplace hardware stand with all the tools. That cast iron base is very reminescent of that set I remember seeing many times as a child. Maybe????

What an unusual day of different finds. Thanks for taking us along. ❤

Such a day full of variety? A average detectorist would be in a detectorist Heaven! So many treasures to fill a shadow box with!!!!! You are such a Lucky man Brad! Be safe.

That place definitely needs to be checked again on a return visit. Maybe get up there in the early morning and spend the entire day rechecking the homesite. Maybe bring your buddies to help cover more ground.

Think you might need to invest in a bottle probe Brad. Makes locating bottle pits so much easier than digging random test pits!

Great finds

Veterinary syringe? Horses, sheep, cows

Looks like a lamp base to me. I bet the cherub goes with the cast iron lamp base. All those time pieces was strange/amazing. Love the watch face. The Hoover coin told a story.

Had a browns beach jacket and vest. Loved them

what you call the Syringe, is an air pump to pressure up the old style white gas, naptha gas lanterns, the type that used the mantels. usually, a household had a few lanterns, put only one pressuring pump.

Oh boy, I can hear my dad now saying, "Statue, cherub? " as in (That you, Cherub?)... har har har. Nothing like a little vaudeville to lighten the day.... oh, and then it turns out to be a light base...

The tadpole shaped object on the side of the first clock you unearthed is the striker for the hourly chime bell.

Totally cool Brad 😎

That's was a freaking awsome hunt man. Congratulations.

Nice interesting finds!! The piece that looks like a top for a stove might actually be the base of a clock where a glass globe fit onto.

My favorite so far.

I have found the 3 Merry Widow tins with Fifty Cents instead of 1$. Maybe they worked so well they raised the price.

hammer on the clock is for the chime

Nice Dig Brad! Cheers JJ

You found the stuff i have in my house.. But mine are complete.. I use to collect old pocket watches,still have some.. most coin silver cases.. that looks similiar to a black powder despenser..the syringe thing..the small hole at the end maybe not.. but the old wind up clock parts are nice i have several old clocks . None handed down,i bought these..love em..

Awesome video brad thank you so very much for sharing hope you have a wonderful weekend 👍👍❤️

You might have mentioned this in another video. Back then, there wasn’t garbage collection. It’s probably not unusual to find a dump beside or near every old homestead. I lived in a farm for many years. There was a midden at the back of the property where we found all kinds of glass, metal, and other old artifacts.

Soo rich content! Love watching your video all the time! I’m from south quebec, just next to your border, and they’re a LOT of historic colonial trail to Quebec city, that inspire me a lot to found something one day!

That watch face comes from a pocket watch made at the Waltham Watch Company. A huge brick factory building along the Charles River in Waltham, Ma. Judging by the face plate it was made in the early 1900's. I believe it to be apartments/condos at this point. But that was definitely made here in Ma. I used to collect old Pocket Watches (count your jewels) and Smoking Memorabilia (Lighters, Ashtrays and Cigarette Cases) as well as Bottles/Silverware/Sterling...

The cast iron piece you found looks like the base to a stand to a wood stove poker holder. I have one as well.

Someone probably chucked that 4 years of prosperity token out of anger.

Great stuff thanks

What a great day you had! Good luck finding a whole pocket watch someday

Nice area to dig, I think that lever thing on the clock body was the clanger for the bell of an alarm clock.

Cool stuff Brad. I bought a bourgeois guitar this week. I thought about your theme

Good morning from Copperhill Tn.

That cherub went to the decorative base you found. It was an old table oil lamp. The font sat on top of the cherub.

What a great time.

Someone my have already recognized your syringe as a brining needle. It would have been used to inject brine into meat to preserve it. I found one last year at an old homesite marked Morton Salt Company Meat Pump. Great finds Love your channel.

I looked up the 3 Merry Widows REUSABLE condoms. Well that’s something I didn’t need to know. Thanks for the videos

I'm saying, "tossed"! It's funny I've been watching some of your videos from 4 years ago and your voice was higher pitched than it is now 😂 🤣

The cylinder with the piston reminds me of a small bicycle tire pump I had in the early '60s. I'm going with a pump of some kind.

the figure and base are parts of a fancy table lamp, my pretty sure guess

Great video again! Cool watch face an token. I can’t believe you found a picture of the lamp base matching the piece you found.

Porcelain dials were only found on better watches, now you need to seek the next step up in watches -- solid gold! They probably wouldn't have just tossed those!

I'm pretty sure the "syringe" you found in the spring, (11:36 in this vid), was actually a measuring device for a muzzle loader. Specifically a "pan primer" for a flintlock.

Brad I collect old Coleman pressure lanterns. I believe the pump you found was to pressure these lamps. The original pumps where outside the lantern such as model 327 quick light. Coleman also had home lanterns with external pumps. That plunger that fell apart when pulled apart was probably leather as the original pumps where

Good Friday morning Brad, and all your followers.

The thing sticking out from the clock gears is the clapper for the bell. It was an alarm clock.

Hoover Prosperity Token: The original " That didn't age well " meme.

Cherub certainly looks like a candle holder

Seems like a pocket watch dumping ground. I think the clock movement & 4 yrs of Prosperity are my favorite pieces. Great video as always. 🤙🏼

Hey Brad. Awesome video as always. I really like those pocket watches and the way cool merry widows tin lid and the president Hoover token and the other relics too.

Congrats Brad on your finds Great video ty for sharing

Maybe finding all those clock and watch pieces is fates way of telling you that your time is up!

cool finds, my imagination starts running wild.

HEY! Good morning Brad and thumbs UP!!

Always a great video but most importantly you take us away from this crazy world we live in. Thanks for sharing.

Wow that pocket watch face is a real find, but the condum that cost a whole dollar!! Yikes that was expensive birth control! Also it looks like u found another bottle dig sight! Maybe?? So many great finds today! 😮😮😮

The lever on the clock mechanism was either the hammer for the alarm bell or the lever to turn the alarm on or off

at 12'00 I'm guessing a hand pump for a Coleman type pressure gas lantern or lamp. Later on they became built in the lantern

As much as I enjoy your original music, what was playing in my head on your third watch was Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is...... Then I drifted to Gerry Rafferty - Stealing Time. Fun game

Nice hunt

The tube you found earlier may have been a black powder measure for measuring a charge for a rifle. The large tube you found is too big for that, but may be is some sort of hand air pump.

The syringe you found looks very similar to what my Grandfather had to apply oil to his bicycle ... I think it was called a T handle syringe.

Just a guess, but I recall my grandfather having a couple pocket watches, which I inherited, they are relatively fragile, needing to be wound everyday. Since they were used daily, subject to wear and tear, they were dropped or jarred and stop working.

You would fill the burner with white gas put the cap on. It had a one-way valve that you’d pump air through to pressurize the white gas for the Bernard