The hinge you found is a pintel, a hook like fixture that is used to fasten a rudder to the stern of a boat. Usually two of them were fastened to the transom of the vessel and there were complimentary fixtures fastened to the rudder, then one is slipped inside the other holding it to the stern of the boat/ship so it was movable to be able to steer the vessel from a tiller or a wheel.
You are an ANGEL 😇 you helped a poor creature (FISH) who was stranded ashore ,back into its home environment 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️these are STARS IN YOUR CROWN ❤❤❤❤🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 LOVE and tons of good 🍀luck mud larking ! 🙀👵🏻😱🖖🏼👽🐲👍🏻🌵 ARIZONA,USA 🇺🇸
The watch is army issue, ATP stands for Army Trade Pattern and the number below is a unique issue number so it may be possible to trace the original owner through records. The large brass item is an old nautical fixed pulley block with independant sheaves, possible from a sailing boats steering mechanism.
Even when I’m not particularly in the happiest of moods, your greetings and wrap up well wishes ALWAYS make my day brighter and I cannot help but smile! Thank you, Dear One, for shedding happiness, treasures, and well wishes to make the world just a little more rich for all of us! ❤
Missed our weekly meet. Lol But alas you have always brightened my day. What a smile does to make a day better. I love the the nite shots of London. Can’t help but wonder if some of the watches and other things found would be identified at the navel museum. Thank you so much for all of the history and fun . Stay safe .
Thank you for all the pleasant things you have to say to each one of us!! Sometimes yours is the only kind, sweet and thoughtful voice I hear in a day! I appreciate all of your hard work - showing us your sweet finds! 💕
Thank you so much for saving that poor fishy. 🥺 people with their heart on the right place for the living creatures have a special place in my heart. Even if it is "just" a fish. Every living creatures has feelings. Luckily you where at the right place at the right time. 🙏😘
I love your shirt..As a little girl, I loved to watch the butterfly march where I live in Southern California. Because of storms, fewer trees, and pesticides...now It is a rare view.
The badge !! looks like a stock pin !! That was placed in the stock they wore around their neck like a cravatt !! with a knot in it and the pin stablelilzed it !!!!💖
Really enjoyed this one and I enjoyed seeing the paddle steamer Waverley in the opening sequences. She comes down all the way from Scotland and it was her first visit to the Thames for four years. After a day visiting my 5 day old grandson and taking him for a walk in his pram, this was a delightful video to come back to. Thank you.
I took the Waverley from Clackton-on-Sea into London once. It was a great experience and I’d love to do it again. The open engine room is a sight not to be missed.
I lost my X on the waverley , I couldn't find her anywhere on board. Then I found her in the engine room reading the schematics of how the engines worked , kindly provided in a plastic bag for anyone to read by the company 📚 😀.
12:31 star looks like a Girl Scout year push pin --- we would get one for each year in scouting to push the back pin through the badge sash to a waiting pinch type backing.
It is amazing to see the wooden dog that gave you the heebie-jeebies looks so happy on your shelf. You did the right thing for him and he is so happy to have a loving home.
I wrote this down before you told about it: The tap thingy looks like a syphon for an old seltzer bottle. I remember seeing things like this in old movies.
My first thought is that the sword is a kilt pin. Traditional plain kilt pins are made from a single piece of wire, so I think it's likely that more elaborate shapes were also made the same way. Swords are a very popular design for kilt pins and have been for the last 201 years (since Sir Walter Scott made tartan fashionable and "clan tartans" were invented)
If you look at the back of the pin at the needle, it’s not sturdy enough to hold a kilt. And the way the needle is made with a spiral to get more space between the “sword” and the needle itself, is so it can hold more fabric. More often seen on brooches made for scarves and such. 🙂🦄 don’t mean to “mansplain” but I do know about vintage jewelry and it’s uses.
The sword isn't a kilt pin. It's too small, and fine- real kilts are heavy, and the pin is necessary to hold the front panel of the kilt in place in the wind, and if dancing. A kilt pin, even these days, is much bigger, and of stout construction.
Love the little sword 🗡️ pin !!! The clay pipe was very nice. The big metal thing looked like a pulley for ropes & I liked that hinge, it was made very sturdy & thick !!! I love watching your videos & seeing what you discover next !!! Can't wait to see more of them !!! Alittle bit of good news: I have been wanting one of those bottles with the marble in it that you found or some of your friends found. Well I actually found one where I live in NC but in a little town I used to live in named Black Mountain & in an Antique Store & it was light blue 💙 with a green 💚 marble !!! Only thing is the stopper was missing but I love it anyway !!! Thank you for showing us those beautiful bottles Nicola !!! ❤️🙂
Hi Nicola. I wanted to thank you for the inspiration. It crosses the borders! During the past weekend my wife and I have visited London (we live in Poland). We have had a tight sight seeing schedule, but managed to spend a few minutes on the Thames shore near Greenwich Tunnel. It wasn't long before we have scored a few pieces clay pipe stems, and a beautiful turquoise glass marble (a bottle stopper). As we were leaving the place we have had the nicest conversation with a lady living nearby, who has congratulated us on our finds and said that one of the clay pipe pieces was probably from 16th century. This really made our day. But if not for your videos, we'd never have a chance of Thames mudlarking, even if only for a day. Thank you so much!
The sword you found was a handmade wire wrap piece of jewelry art. It is made without solder and is referred to as the "art of the pharaohs". I am a wire wrap artist and it is a lovely piece of workmanship - great find!
I've tried to make a craft or two of wire, and this sword brooch is very inspitational! I'd like to try to make something like that! I'm guessing the long blade of the sword part was went first, (with an extra tail), then the twisted wire in the center and hilt might be a separate piece, and then used the remainder or tail of the blade to create the guard, decor and the "pin."
When you got enthusiastic about the hinge while you were out on the river, I didn't quite see why. But cleaned up? I love that thing! The broad arrow adds so much, too: both clarity and mystery. I finally got hit by Covid last weekend, after three years of avoiding it. I made a silly mistake and went maskless into my portable planetarium for a presentation to a group of excited six-year-olds. Then I gave it my wife and son. I'm on the mend, and your kind wishes for my good health really meant something today. Please take care, everyone; especially those, like me, who are older, with other risk factors. It didn't last too long for me, but I just had the sickest week of my life.
I hope you get to feeling better. Drink lots of liquids. We had Covid for our Christmas 🎄 present 🎁. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers 🙏 ❤ 💙 have a great time watching Nicola.
Thanks Paul. Glad I persuaded you to love the hinge :) I am so sorry you got covid. I too had it for the first time this January and it was not fun. Hugs, Nicola
My daughter and husband hate it when i say," don't throw that away!! I just know i can use it or make something out of it!!" People who do not have an artists mind do not understand that we look at almost everything as potential object's or subjects of art or art supplies, lol😅
A fine collection of oddments, again. The sword pin is lovely, and the brass hardware quite unique. As are you, I'm certain. Thanks so much for taking us along!
Hello from New Zealand. I love your posts, Nicola. My country is still very young so we don't have places like the Thames to go exploring, which I'd enjoy very much! We're planning to come to do a trip there next year sometime. Do you welcome fellow mudlarks to join you on your hunts, because I'd so love to meet you? * Regarding the brooch pin, I do believe it's a formal piece, because it's made in the style (one piece of wire) that our navy uses, as well. I found a cake slice from the captain's cabin if one if our old navy ships. I traced it to the jewellers who made all formal pieces, in Sydney, Australia. I gifted it to my brother in-law, who was at one time our Rear Admiral, so it went back to a person who can treasure it
Your videos are truly spellbinding in the most curiously delightful way. Thank you for bringing us along. I’m always wishing you on and hoping “today will be the day” for you to stumble across an ancient and ornately designed gold relic, or highly detailed and well-preserved gold coin, or some other grand and monumentally significant treasure. While the odds aren’t great, I realize, watching these videos of you and the other mudlarks, the chance of doing just that is very real. That’s what I love. We just never know what the receding tides will reveal for all of you as you take each sloshy step through the mud. So here’s hoping today will be the day for you discovering the best-ever find, but in the interim, I will remain equally smitten to see all these other truly wonderful finds, even if they don’t land you the front cover of National Geographic magazine. I can’t wait to see what you and your fabulous mudlarking friends will find next! ❤
That sword pin could have been a piece of military uniform? Nice Masonic clay pipe. As a Master Mason, I love to find items like this and see others find them too, and share. I hope, one day, I will sit in lodge at the mother lodge in London. Maybe clean it up and take it to the Freemasons Hall, 60 Great Queen St, London, for their museum. You found a Seltzer water dispenser. Before twist-off bottles of seltzer water today, these were very thick and pressurized bottles. It's like the one comedy movies use to spray each other with or seen adding to a drink like for whiskey in old movies. 2oz weight looks like a counterweight for a scale.
Ooh, a night swan--what a sight! A lovely night crab, too. And good on you for helping out that poor fish! I'd say you're a very well-hinged lady. When you first gliumpsed the sword, it looked to you like a piece of wire--and what a piece of wire it was! Such exquisite workmanship, seeing the light of day after who knows how long. But whatever you do, DON'T give it to that squirrel!
Just watched The Northern Mudlarks also finding one of those little metal stars which they guessed came from the shoulders of a military uniform. I used to love London at night,your videos remind me of coming out of the theatre ,walking over the bridge and stopping to look up and downriver - magical, thank you for taking us along.
Love the little sword broach what a lovely find for you Nichola. Will you wear it? Whatever, carry on having fun and sharing your knowledge and fun with us all. Enjoy
I believe it may be one, actually. If you Google, there are some that are very, very similar and/or quite delicate looking... particularly those made within the last
That star looks like a 'rein tip', a decoration for leatherwork - sometimes theres a loop on the back and sometimes its cut into two 'legs'. They're made the same way now as they have always been, for 100s of years!
Another series of great adventures by the Thames, Nicola! I especially enjoy your night views of the lights of London. Such a beautiful city! If you're unhinged, then I guess that means I must have a screw loose. Thanks for the mudventure....
Always love to watch your escapades to the foreshore... absolutely love that little sword you found... and it does appear to be made from 1 continuous wire... so cute and the tiny domino... Hope you have many more wonderful adventures to come.
Hiya. The A.T.P. stands for 'Army Trade Pattern' and the researching of these watches would keep one busy for days if not weeks! Stay safe. All the best to you.
More amazing finds! Do love the maritime items, did I see a number on the back of the hinge? I wonder who walked through or opened the door it held?! My Grandad was in the Navy and he'd have loved all these things you find - although he'd want to take them apart to see how they work lol. The Science Museum has a medical section, maybe they have a similar syringe? The brooch has to be my favourite find this week, so detailed even though it's made of wire! Thank you for taking us along the Thames with you, have a great week xx
@@nicolawhitemudlark Very welcome🙂 I can see 429 on it (top left as i look at it) - just paused your video at 30:44. Just something about them isn't there x
I play a little game when I watch your videos so I will often pause and try to figure out certain items. It's fun. At first, I thought the big unknonn object (UFO = Unidentified Found Object) looked like an engine valve (from what I could see of the rings.) It looked like part of an engine and then perhaps part of an air compressor. I had to laugh when your solution seemed so much more simple and practical, a la Occam's Razor theory. Of course the revelation shots do sometimes make me lose the game, ibut it's so much fun to guess what life really might have been like, in the past. (So much better, sometimes, than "book learning", IMO) Thanks again, Nicole.
The syphon has the inscription "British Syphon MFG Co.' You are including a little erosion or chip at the bottom of the " F" and mis-read it as an "E". Really wonderful find. The round swiveling metal thing is a cable/wire roller for coiling and uncoiling sheets (ropes) on a sail-based ship, which apparently had a crash one day.
Lovely to see you again ....... I so look forward to each one of you videos, and as I'm disabled and don't get out a lot, seeing all your adventures cheers me immensely, as does your joy and enthusiasm for your finds and your love and respect for everything around you, even a little fish! So glad he made it😁. The sword brooch is almost identical to one my grandmother had, which was made from gold wire by my uncle when he was in a Sanatorium in Essex, with TB, in the 1940s. The hospital provided the materials and the patients made jewellery, and my uncle also made my aunt, his future wife, a gold and turquoise necklace and earrings set, of similarly twisted gold wire. The little star reminds me of the shoulder pips attached to the epaulettes of military uniforms to denote certain officer ranks ..... my great Uncle kept some from WW1, and they are identical looking. I may be way off the mark, but they do look the same. Anyway, looking forward eagerly to your next outing .... you make it feel as though I am there with you, and I love the memories ... I lived in London till 2000, how it has changed! By the way, was that the PS Waverley making its way down the Thames? Been on it many times! Love to you and thanks for the enjoyment God bless.❤💨🙏
Yes, great to see the Waverley on the Thames for the first time in four years. I was lucky enough to sail on her again this year too. Wishing you well from another Essex boy!
That little star pin is part of an older Girl Guide/ Boy Scout uniform. White metal ones showed length of “service” - the kind you found denoted first completed year, longer service had a number on a raised round ground in the middle of the star. Similar pattern stars in bronze were worn by Boy Scouts
Oh thank you for identifying this. I knew it looked familiar and couldn’t place it. My Girl Scout uniform had these gold stars with a little plastic circle in different colors that the pin went through to denote your rank.
Just delighted when you pop up on my notifications! The thrill of the hunt and the feeling of being there with you through your great photography..that sword was a real amazing find in the dark! Wow! Much love
Hi, I am a relatively new viewer, and have been fascinated watching you unearth all manner of fabulous stuff. However, I have to say that every time you are lifting a bottle or, especially, clay pipe, my heart is in my mouth as you wrestle them from the sucking mud. And your trowel is alarming next yo such delicate items! Yet clearly you are very experienced and know exactly what you are doing. I'm hooked now
Nicola, you're my happy ending to a particularly stressful day, and your cheerfulness must have helped give my patient the will to survive by watching your channel's video on her phone in A&E. I cannot thank you enough for such a great mudlarking video too, and your wonderfully colourful studio and your finds also helped make my day. Much love, Wendi 🙂 🌻 PS. I ran through my Edwardian brooch collection appertaining to the Royal Navy and found one that is very similar. Yours may be 9k gold, so check that out. I'm 90% certain it's Edwardian!
You have great eyes for spotting things and you are also very brave to mud lark river side in the dark. I’d be spooked thinking some sort of river monster was going to grab me. My imagination gets the better of me sometimes. The pipe gods certainly reward you often with nice pipes Thank you for the informative videos!
🎉nicola please don't go alone anymore in this day and age its just not safe 🎉😊
She is not in the USA.
Hi! The luck of that little fish...to have an angel come along in the dark and save him❣😇. Timing is everything. Good girl.
You are brave to be there on your own 😮
The hinge you found is a pintel, a hook like fixture that is used to fasten a rudder to the stern of a boat. Usually two of them were fastened to the transom of the vessel and there were complimentary fixtures fastened to the rudder, then one is slipped inside the other holding it to the stern of the boat/ship so it was movable to be able to steer the vessel from a tiller or a wheel.
You are correct that hardware is called Pintles and Gudgeons
Thank you, I could not remember the spelling for pintle, and I could not for the life of me remember the word gudgeon. Thank you for reminding me.
What type of metal is it?
@@RevMikeBlack Probably bronze.
fabulous!! thank you for the clear explanation.
You are an ANGEL 😇 you helped a poor creature (FISH) who was stranded ashore ,back into its home environment 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️these are STARS IN YOUR CROWN ❤❤❤❤🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 LOVE and tons of good 🍀luck mud larking ! 🙀👵🏻😱🖖🏼👽🐲👍🏻🌵 ARIZONA,USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for saving the fish.
Lovely rescuing the fish Nicola! 🐟Hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
The watch is army issue, ATP stands for Army Trade Pattern and the number below is a unique issue number so it may be possible to trace the original owner through records. The large brass item is an old nautical fixed pulley block with independant sheaves, possible from a sailing boats steering mechanism.
oh exciting. It would be amazing to trace the owner
@@kellyh4629 Southern Oregon, Hi, from Central Oregon... 😁👋
I was thinking the same thing, you should find who the watch belonged to!
Even when I’m not particularly in the happiest of moods, your greetings and wrap up well wishes ALWAYS make my day brighter and I cannot help but smile! Thank you, Dear One, for shedding happiness, treasures, and well wishes to make the world just a little more rich for all of us! ❤
Beautifully said and agreed! Enjoy
Missed our weekly meet. Lol But alas you have always brightened my day. What a smile does to make a day better. I love the the nite shots of London. Can’t help but wonder if some of the watches and other things found would be identified at the navel museum. Thank you so much for all of the history and fun . Stay safe .
Thanks Danella. Love to you from London
Agreed
Absolute truth. Nicola is a delight and a comfort.
So far just the beautiful Thames at night
Welcome back! Those of us who grew up on The Three Stooges know the valve of a seltzer bottle when we see one.
Thank you for all the pleasant things you have to say to each one of us!! Sometimes yours is the only kind, sweet and thoughtful voice I hear in a day! I appreciate all of your hard work - showing us your sweet finds! 💕
Nicola you really are a force of nature - rescuing fish, finding really interesting stuff and brightening everyone's day!
Thank you! 😊 ❤️
the sword looks like a tie clasp...very nice
Thank you so much for saving that poor fishy. 🥺 people with their heart on the right place for the living creatures have a special place in my heart. Even if it is "just" a fish. Every living creatures has feelings. Luckily you where at the right place at the right time. 🙏😘
Another "gem" of a video!!! Thanks
Thanks for being so nice and cheery.
Thanks. I try my best! xx
Now that is a lovely chunk of brass. ..and the sword broach is a lovely bit of craftsmanship ! Thank you for saving the fish 🐟
Luv how you care enough to save the fish. I too would have . I luv watching your videos on treasure hunting - so great ❤️
I love your shirt..As a little girl, I loved to watch the butterfly march where I live in Southern California. Because of storms, fewer trees, and pesticides...now It is a rare view.
3 min in and 75 people beat me to your channel. Damn girl you are so popular. I love your content.
The badge !! looks like a stock pin !! That was placed in the stock they wore around their neck like a cravatt !! with a knot in it and the pin stablelilzed it !!!!💖
You're so brave on your own at night. 😮❤
Really enjoyed this one and I enjoyed seeing the paddle steamer Waverley in the opening sequences. She comes down all the way from Scotland and it was her first visit to the Thames for four years. After a day visiting my 5 day old grandson and taking him for a walk in his pram, this was a delightful video to come back to. Thank you.
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Used to come into Lulworth Cove in Dorset in the early days.
I took the Waverley from Clackton-on-Sea into London once. It was a great experience and I’d love to do it again. The open engine room is a sight not to be missed.
I lost my X on the waverley , I couldn't find her anywhere on board. Then I found her in the engine room reading the schematics of how the engines worked , kindly provided in a plastic bag for anyone to read by the company 📚 😀.
Dear Nicola
I hope you arent mudlarking at night alone and that you are safe and share such adventures again.
I was wondering how safe she is going out late at night also.
ESPECIALLY IN LONDONASTAN.
12:31 star looks like a Girl Scout year push pin --- we would get one for each year in scouting to push the back pin through the badge sash to a waiting pinch type backing.
Thank you
I agree with you that sword brooch was the best find WELL DONE 👍
You saved the fish.🤗✨💖
It is amazing to see the wooden dog that gave you the heebie-jeebies looks so happy on your shelf.
You did the right thing for him and he is so happy to have a loving home.
yes, he is very happy here and is behaving himself!
He’s a star - he was on telly here in England a few weeks ago!!
I wrote this down before you told about it: The tap thingy looks like a syphon for an old seltzer bottle. I remember seeing things like this in old movies.
Good afternoon, 12.16 here mon 20th Feb 2023. I just love watching yuand si.
That fish was happy, your kind hearted self showed up!
My first thought is that the sword is a kilt pin. Traditional plain kilt pins are made from a single piece of wire, so I think it's likely that more elaborate shapes were also made the same way. Swords are a very popular design for kilt pins and have been for the last 201 years (since Sir Walter Scott made tartan fashionable and "clan tartans" were invented)
Thanks Vikki
Quite possibly gold as it cleaned up so easily.
If you look at the back of the pin at the needle, it’s not sturdy enough to hold a kilt. And the way the needle is made with a spiral to get more space between the “sword” and the needle itself, is so it can hold more fabric. More often seen on brooches made for scarves and such. 🙂🦄 don’t mean to “mansplain” but I do know about vintage jewelry and it’s uses.
@catatonia2001 I thought it was more likely to be a tie pin.
The sword isn't a kilt pin. It's too small, and fine- real kilts are heavy, and the pin is necessary to hold the front panel of the kilt in place in the wind, and if dancing. A kilt pin, even these days, is much bigger, and of stout construction.
Love the little sword 🗡️ pin !!! The clay pipe was very nice. The big metal thing looked like a pulley for ropes & I liked that hinge, it was made very sturdy & thick !!! I love watching your videos & seeing what you discover next !!! Can't wait to see more of them !!! Alittle bit of good news: I have been wanting one of those bottles with the marble in it that you found or some of your friends found. Well I actually found one where I live in NC but in a little town I used to live in named Black Mountain & in an Antique Store & it was light blue 💙 with a green 💚 marble !!! Only thing is the stopper was missing but I love it anyway !!! Thank you for showing us those beautiful bottles Nicola !!! ❤️🙂
Thank you for helping that fish 🐟 he looked almost like a catfish
Another great night out mudlarking
You are sooo amazing going down to the foreshore at night! Yayyyyyyy! Another pipe too! My fav! ( :
I love the sword pin. Nice find! The brass mystery item looks like a pulley system for wire rope, probably from a ship. Have a great week!
Great finds Nic!!
Thanks Si 😊
Hi Nicola. I wanted to thank you for the inspiration. It crosses the borders!
During the past weekend my wife and I have visited London (we live in Poland). We have had a tight sight seeing schedule, but managed to spend a few minutes on the Thames shore near Greenwich Tunnel. It wasn't long before we have scored a few pieces clay pipe stems, and a beautiful turquoise glass marble (a bottle stopper). As we were leaving the place we have had the nicest conversation with a lady living nearby, who has congratulated us on our finds and said that one of the clay pipe pieces was probably from 16th century. This really made our day. But if not for your videos, we'd never have a chance of Thames mudlarking, even if only for a day. Thank you so much!
Excellent. Im so happy that you found some good bits!
That beautiful Gunard was so lucky to meet you! #lifesaver 💖
The sword you found was a handmade wire wrap piece of jewelry art. It is made without solder and is referred to as the "art of the pharaohs". I am a wire wrap artist and it is a lovely piece of workmanship - great find!
I've tried to make a craft or two of wire, and this sword brooch is very inspitational! I'd like to try to make something like that!
I'm guessing the long blade of the sword part was went first, (with an extra tail), then the twisted wire in the center and hilt might be a separate piece, and then used the remainder or tail of the blade to create the guard, decor and the "pin."
Oh my I love your channel
My favourite find was the little sword and love the large fish and crab, also you can never go wrong with a pipe
Thank You, Nicola, having a wonderful day drawing and watching my favorite You Tubers. A happy Sunday, indeed!
Hello Nicola! Another great video of finds.
Thank you for your Music List. Always appreciated
Hola Nicola ,que interesante todo lo que encontró ,buen video me entretuve harto .Bendiciones un abrazo desde Chile 👍🥰
So nice of you to save the fish. You are very kind!
I used to have one similar which I wore on my kilt when I was in my twenties
When you got enthusiastic about the hinge while you were out on the river, I didn't quite see why. But cleaned up? I love that thing! The broad arrow adds so much, too: both clarity and mystery.
I finally got hit by Covid last weekend, after three years of avoiding it. I made a silly mistake and went maskless into my portable planetarium for a presentation to a group of excited six-year-olds. Then I gave it my wife and son. I'm on the mend, and your kind wishes for my good health really meant something today. Please take care, everyone; especially those, like me, who are older, with other risk factors. It didn't last too long for me, but I just had the sickest week of my life.
Happy you re getting better. And best wishes for your family s recovery too.
I hope you get to feeling better. Drink lots of liquids. We had Covid for our Christmas 🎄 present 🎁. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers 🙏 ❤ 💙 have a great time watching Nicola.
@@muffassa6739 Thanks for the kindness; sorry about your Holiday 'gift'. Nic and SiFinds are my two Every Sunday Morning routine.
@@alisade127 Thanks very much! Kindness from folks you don't even know is really uplifting.
Thanks Paul. Glad I persuaded you to love the hinge :)
I am so sorry you got covid. I too had it for the first time this January and it was not fun. Hugs, Nicola
Thankyou for sharing your interest, knowledge & finds.
You should take a battery powered UV light on night hunts. It will illuminate radium glass and florescent minerals
And attract the midges and mosquitos
My daughter and husband hate it when i say," don't throw that away!! I just know i can use it or make something out of it!!" People who do not have an artists mind do not understand that we look at almost everything as potential object's or subjects of art or art supplies, lol😅
Well done Nicola for a great video and saving a local fish.
Soda Syphon tap...were good for using to drench people. Lol.
great finds
That sword pin is lovely.
A fine collection of oddments, again. The sword pin is lovely, and the brass hardware quite unique. As are you, I'm certain. Thanks so much for taking us along!
Thank you
Great video Nicola
I would love to see you meet Mudbagger one day
I love old things for the piece of history that they are. Monetary value is of secondary concern. ❤️
absolutely my thoughts exactly
Hello from New Zealand. I love your posts, Nicola. My country is still very young so we don't have places like the Thames to go exploring, which I'd enjoy very much! We're planning to come to do a trip there next year sometime. Do you welcome fellow mudlarks to join you on your hunts, because I'd so love to meet you?
* Regarding the brooch pin, I do believe it's a formal piece, because it's made in the style (one piece of wire) that our navy uses, as well. I found a cake slice from the captain's cabin if one if our old navy ships. I traced it to the jewellers who made all formal pieces, in Sydney, Australia. I gifted it to my brother in-law, who was at one time our Rear Admiral, so it went back to a person who can treasure it
Thank you Margaret
Your videos are truly spellbinding in the most curiously delightful way. Thank you for bringing us along. I’m always wishing you on and hoping “today will be the day” for you to stumble across an ancient and ornately designed gold relic, or highly detailed and well-preserved gold coin, or some other grand and monumentally significant treasure. While the odds aren’t great, I realize, watching these videos of you and the other mudlarks, the chance of doing just that is very real. That’s what I love. We just never know what the receding tides will reveal for all of you as you take each sloshy step through the mud. So here’s hoping today will be the day for you discovering the best-ever find, but in the interim, I will remain equally smitten to see all these other truly wonderful finds, even if they don’t land you the front cover of National Geographic magazine. I can’t wait to see what you and your fabulous mudlarking friends will find next! ❤
Thank you very much Christopher! x
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Nicola, your finds today are very Steam-punkable! So lovely that their parts still move. Be well from washington state USA ❤️
O my gosh, I said it looked steampunk, too!
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That sword pin could have been a piece of military uniform? Nice Masonic clay pipe. As a Master Mason, I love to find items like this and see others find them too, and share. I hope, one day, I will sit in lodge at the mother lodge in London. Maybe clean it up and take it to the Freemasons Hall, 60 Great Queen St, London, for their museum. You found a Seltzer water dispenser. Before twist-off bottles of seltzer water today, these were very thick and pressurized bottles. It's like the one comedy movies use to spray each other with or seen adding to a drink like for whiskey in old movies. 2oz weight looks like a counterweight for a scale.
Ooh, a night swan--what a sight! A lovely night crab, too. And good on you for helping out that poor fish! I'd say you're a very well-hinged lady. When you first gliumpsed the sword, it looked to you like a piece of wire--and what a piece of wire it was! Such exquisite workmanship, seeing the light of day after who knows how long. But whatever you do, DON'T give it to that squirrel!
Just watched The Northern Mudlarks also finding one of those little metal stars which they guessed came from the shoulders of a military uniform. I used to love London at night,your videos remind me of coming out of the theatre ,walking over the bridge and stopping to look up and downriver - magical, thank you for taking us along.
10:46 snowy Northern Arizona morning. Could the sword be a kilt pin? Your UA-cam show is my Sunday morning go to. Thank you from Prescott, AZ.
Love the little sword broach what a lovely find for you Nichola. Will you wear it? Whatever, carry on having fun and sharing your knowledge and fun with us all. Enjoy
Just amazing Nicola. 🍁🥰🇨🇦
Thanks for another fun and interesting video. Stay safe.
Really cool finds! Loved the sword 🗡️ pin. I thought it was a kilt pin to begin with, but it’s much to fine.
Thought it was a child’s kilt pin, too. Just due to the size.
I believe it may be one, actually. If you Google, there are some that are very, very similar and/or quite delicate looking... particularly those made within the last
That star looks like a 'rein tip', a decoration for leatherwork - sometimes theres a loop on the back and sometimes its cut into two 'legs'. They're made the same way now as they have always been, for 100s of years!
Unusual finds and people helping with ID have a super week in the mud. Thanks again for Sunday adventure.
324 people beat me LOL. But I'm here. Thank you for sharing with us all. Love love love all your knowledge you share and adventures. :)
Another series of great adventures by the Thames, Nicola! I especially enjoy your night views of the lights of London. Such a beautiful city! If you're unhinged, then I guess that means I must have a screw loose. Thanks for the mudventure....
Thanks a million Steve x
Nichola you really have to use your immediate instincts they are normally Very close to the truth❤❤❤❤❤
Always love to watch your escapades to the foreshore... absolutely love that little sword you found... and it does appear to be made from 1 continuous wire... so cute and the tiny domino... Hope you have many more wonderful adventures to come.
Hiya. The A.T.P. stands for 'Army Trade Pattern' and the researching of these watches would keep one busy for days if not weeks! Stay safe. All the best to you.
We thoroughly enjoyed these mudlarking trips (as always)
James liked the tiny sword broach the best, and he asked "where's squirrel? 🐿 lol! Xx
Thanks Emma and James! Squirrel didn't visit me today or yesterday! I think she was on a date
Another wonderful time with you on the Thames!! Thanks!!💕💕💕💕
More amazing finds! Do love the maritime items, did I see a number on the back of the hinge? I wonder who walked through or opened the door it held?! My Grandad was in the Navy and he'd have loved all these things you find - although he'd want to take them apart to see how they work lol. The Science Museum has a medical section, maybe they have a similar syringe? The brooch has to be my favourite find this week, so detailed even though it's made of wire! Thank you for taking us along the Thames with you, have a great week xx
Thx Tanith! I don't think there's a number. yes, I also love maritime items!
@@nicolawhitemudlark Very welcome🙂 I can see 429 on it (top left as i look at it) - just paused your video at 30:44. Just something about them isn't there x
That sword find is wonderful. I really like the soda topper. And the pulley,have a great week.
I play a little game when I watch your videos so I will often pause and try to figure out certain items. It's fun. At first, I thought the big unknonn object (UFO = Unidentified Found Object) looked like an engine valve (from what I could see of the rings.) It looked like part of an engine and then perhaps part of an air compressor.
I had to laugh when your solution seemed so much more simple and practical, a la Occam's Razor theory.
Of course the revelation shots do sometimes make me lose the game, ibut it's so much fun to guess what life really might have been like, in the past. (So much better, sometimes, than "book learning", IMO)
Thanks again, Nicole.
Brilliant Olivier!
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The syphon has the inscription "British Syphon MFG Co.' You are including a little erosion or chip at the bottom of the " F" and mis-read it as an "E". Really wonderful find.
The round swiveling metal thing is a cable/wire roller for coiling and uncoiling sheets (ropes) on a sail-based ship, which apparently had a crash one day.
Thank you!
Great video, Nice fish Nicola x
Thanks Saul! I expect you see a few of those! X
Lovely to see you again ....... I so look forward to each one of you videos, and as I'm disabled and don't get out a lot, seeing all your adventures cheers me immensely, as does your joy and enthusiasm for your finds and your love and respect for everything around you, even a little fish! So glad he made it😁. The sword brooch is almost identical to one my grandmother had, which was made from gold wire by my uncle when he was in a Sanatorium in Essex, with TB, in the 1940s. The hospital provided the materials and the patients made jewellery, and my uncle also made my aunt, his future wife, a gold and turquoise necklace and earrings set, of similarly twisted gold wire. The little star reminds me of the shoulder pips attached to the epaulettes of military uniforms to denote certain officer ranks ..... my great Uncle kept some from WW1, and they are identical looking. I may be way off the mark, but they do look the same. Anyway, looking forward eagerly to your next outing .... you make it feel as though I am there with you, and I love the memories ... I lived in London till 2000, how it has changed! By the way, was that the PS Waverley making its way down the Thames? Been on it many times! Love to you and thanks for the enjoyment God bless.❤💨🙏
Yes, great to see the Waverley on the Thames for the first time in four years. I was lucky enough to sail on her again this year too. Wishing you well from another Essex boy!
Oh thank you for sharing all this! And yes, that was the Waverley!
That little star pin is part of an older Girl Guide/ Boy Scout uniform. White metal ones showed length of “service” - the kind you found denoted first completed year, longer service had a number on a raised round ground in the middle of the star. Similar pattern stars in bronze were worn by Boy Scouts
Oh thank you for identifying this. I knew it looked familiar and couldn’t place it. My Girl Scout uniform had these gold stars with a little plastic circle in different colors that the pin went through to denote your rank.
Just delighted when you pop up on my notifications! The thrill of the hunt and the feeling of being there with you through your great photography..that sword was a real amazing find in the dark! Wow! Much love
Hi, I am a relatively new viewer, and have been fascinated watching you unearth all manner of fabulous stuff. However, I have to say that every time you are lifting a bottle or, especially, clay pipe, my heart is in my mouth as you wrestle them from the sucking mud. And your trowel is alarming next yo such delicate items! Yet clearly you are very experienced and know exactly what you are doing. I'm hooked now
I haven't broken anything yet so you can breathe easy!
Great video as always nic. Thankyou for posting it. Your vids are just the distraction needed lately xxx
Thanks Ash. Lots of love xx try not to worry. xx
What a fetching and pleasant lass your are! ❤ From Minneapolis!!
Absolutely stunning footage of the Thames!! You are simply amazing Nicola!
Ah thx Lee!
Bagpuss will be proud of you Nicola!😀👍
It was nice to see you putting that fish back in.
What about the nozzle off a pair of bellows? Or an old icing kit nozzle?
Definitely part of a syphilis syringe - plenty of them shown on Google.
Love the nighttime atmosphere at the beginning of this! So magical.
Nicola, you're my happy ending to a particularly stressful day, and your cheerfulness must have helped give my patient the will to survive by watching your channel's video on her phone in A&E. I cannot thank you enough for such a great mudlarking video too, and your wonderfully colourful studio and your finds also helped make my day. Much love, Wendi 🙂 🌻 PS. I ran through my Edwardian brooch collection appertaining to the Royal Navy and found one that is very similar. Yours may be 9k gold, so check that out. I'm 90% certain it's Edwardian!
I wondered if its was a token of affection for Captains wife / girlfriend
@@davidlawrence503 Thank you for that; yes, it's entirely possible. 🙂
It does look like gold to me either partially or plated, the former I think
Hi Nicola, my 7 year daughter and I watch your videos together and love to see what you find. ❤️
You have great eyes for spotting things and you are also very brave to mud lark river side in the dark. I’d be spooked thinking some sort of river monster was going to grab me. My imagination gets the better of me sometimes. The pipe gods certainly reward you often with nice pipes Thank you for the informative videos!
Nicola, you are no longer unhinged!
I liked the night foray.
Hope you had a good time with family. Welcome back.
Thanks Randy! :) Always a little unhinged. x