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Hey, I've been subscribed to your channel since at about 34,000 subs. I haven't looked in to all of your video archive, but I was wondering if you would consider doing a; 'questions and answers' video, where for a period of time Subscribers ask questions and then a Video is recorded answering the most popular questions from Subscribers?
yeah.. i wanted to do a livestream at some point. i was thinking about maybe doing it at 34000, but... not gonna lie, we are both kind of scared of going live. recording a video is one thing, but being live where anything can happen is a whole 'nother beast. but i see what you mean about the pre-recorded video. maybe thats a better way to do it. let me mull it over for a week and when i release the video next week, you should respond to my comment (it will be a comment like this one) just to remind me, and hopefully i will have an answer. will probably wait til after 100k subs either way but id project that to be sometime around 1 month from now. but thank you for being with us early on! we do really appreciate that. but like i said, yeah, remind me in the comments of next weeks video, and make you hit "reply" on the pinned to the top comment that i always leave (that way i will see it for sure, sometimes i get a ton of comments and they can slip thru the cracks) thanks again.... and for the record, im leaning towards doing it, i just need to figure out the logistics and talk to tom about it
@@BelowthePlains I don't think going live is really necessary. What I've described can work more seamlessly. I've been on many live prodcasts, it can be a real technical challenge sometimes. If you just record a response to questions, it can't really get out of control. 'Til next time. ✌️👉🇨🇦
My 7 yr old son just came in the house from out back yelling look what I found daddy.. he had an embossed local milk bottle, I’m guessing 1900. I asked him where did you get that and he said under the back porch !! Perfect condition too.. he’s something else! Now I gotta look
The short white porcelain dish was used to hold sugar cubes in a fancy way for picnics instead of bringing the whole lidded jar from home, I’ve actually dug some of those in Civil war camps while relic hunting in Virginia and the Carolinas. Good job!!! Love your show 👍
oh really ? how sure are you? i think ive come across those before. for some reason i thought it was like a toy troth for like a horse or something. but i knew it was wrong, but once you get an idea in your head, its hard to get your head out of that narrow box and think about it objectively. but thanks for letting us know. gonna look into it. then next time! its gonna be noted in the video
Schoenhoffen is my mother’s maiden name. That was a good brewery owned and run by her father’s relatives in Chicago. Her dad was a firefighter in Michigan. Lots of German immigrants in the area around Chicago in Wisconsin and Michigan too. Especially migration after 1848.
Thank you, great find. A buddy bought a home in North St Paul MN (1988), found out cottage victorian (1880), and found many historical items (train/trolly schedules, plot maps, ships manifest) when remodeling and digging up the yard.
@Greatlakeskyle. THe house was likely out in the country back then and no there was no such thing as trash pick up so they'd dig a pit to dump all their shit in (both litteral and metaphorical)
haha right when i read the word irrigation, i knew you had come across these sites! whenever we see crews installing water lines or a new building we always go talk to them, and give them our cards lol. i would image there is some guy out there who has come across a million dollar bottle and didnt even realize it! well thank you. glad you like the show
Nice dig guys,my husband marked property lines for a private logging co. 25 years ,he found bottles just sitting on the top of the ground,2 of my favorites are a 14 inch purple pickle jar & a Warners safe kidney & liver cure!Love this dig guy’s so many different finds!
oh yeah those warners are super cool looking. i usually find a few a year. the older ones with the door on them, i assume those are the style you are talking about, the newer ones were kinda plain. Well thank you for watching!
Yes it is the older one,he got me interested in bottles & I dug for years,just walking around the forest where we live,an area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, famous for the 49er gold rush!Thanks again for the entertainment!
I live in a very old home . The barn is my rental apartment. Since I moved here I start doing gardening and found a lot of old glass bottles, very old some beautiful turquoise colors . You encouraged me go back and start looking for something amazing!!!!
Keep up the fantastic work, Tom. You speak with obvious authority. I never imagined archaeology like yours could be so interesting and shed so much light on the rich history of an area by what they threw away or buried... Yankton residents (and others you've excavated) can be very thankful for the physical and intellectual prowess you expend when unearthing history for posterity.
I found the remains of a depression-era shanty town by rail tracks in an industrial area S.W. of Louisville KY. It was exciting. I never found anything else like it. Still have a couple of the bottles! ❤
Had a chance to metal detect an old logging camp in Hinckley Mn that was abandoned due to the Hinkley fire in 1894. Was an amazing experience. The property owner stated they found a fair amount of coins being the loggers would bury the pay sometimes and being the camp left in a hurry they found a lot. The ice road horse shoes were a cool find, they were huge. Lot of glass items and persona effects. Love digging for history..
My California home was built in 1903 and I'm always digging up things in the yard: silverware, marbles, a Chinese snuff bottle, a pig's jaw with teeth in it, rings and jewelry, a '54 lisense plate... Most items are 20th century EXCEPT a Native American shell bead unearthed when digging a tree-planting hole. I display all my treasures in a shadow-box "reliquary" in my kitchen.
Thats awesome! but shhhhhhhh.... i think its technically illegal in CA. when construction workers dig into old stuff, as long as its over 50 years old, they have to call it in, and have it excavated by the state. thats my understanding anyways. but dont worry, i wont tell anyone! hahaha thanks for watching!
yeah probably mine too. i found 2 other similiar items in 2 other pits in this town. they look like they go to a matching set. i have them all on my shelf behind me right now!
Thanks for this video. Just live watching the digs and the finds but most of all I love to read the history you give us about some of the companies. Thanks x
haha thank you! not gonna lie, the history is kind of a nightmare because we have to go thru old records online that no one has probably read in 100 years. so it can be a little tedious, but once you find a little nugget of info, it makes it all worth while. Sometimes i find the coolest info on some items and i just cant fit it in the video, so i store it away until i find that item again. thank you tho! we really appreciate that
haha i know! when we find the same bottle over and over again, i get so stressed out because i know its not fun to watch! the thing is, places like saloons hotels and depots tend to have the best chance to get a high dollar item, but 99% of the other stuff will be blank liquor and drugstore bottles... i *jake* like the house pits, because you find the most random and ornate stuff. its usually like a variety pack instead of a 30 pack or drugstore bottles and beer bottles. its always the houses that make the best videos, thats what i always tell tom
I remember when i was a kid and one of our trees fell in the bk yard so it was uprooted tipped over and i found perfectly in the trunk an old unbroken bottle..i still have it..i nevered thought of looking at the make of it. now u got me thinking 🤔 about it.. thank you ,
Next to my childhood home was a pottery dump. My father still lives there. My brother and I used to dig up all kinds of old prescription. bottles and pottery objects. My mother collected them. I’m sure there are still tons in that ground. It’s in a small town in northeast Ohio called Sebring Ohio. When I was a kid (44 yrs old now) most of the town was employed at the royal china factory there. It’s closed down now. Actually the building got torn down awhile back. But that was where the pottery stuff came from next to our property. There was a lot of glass bottles there too. Old bottles. My whole family worked at that place
this is how people disposed of their garbage in the old days. Where I grew up as a kid, we discovered a few of these dump sites in the woods in our neighborhood. Old bottles mostly, ceramics, and rusted metal beer and paint cans, a few inches under the soil with some sticking out of the soil.
Old dumpsites are the best for finding stuff. I volunteered to help excavate the site of the Stephen Mack house in Rockton, IL back in the 90s. The stuff we found! One volunteer found a piece of pottery that was dated to about 1100 years ago! (The RR Star published a photo of the professor and and the piece) At a different level I found an ash heap with little bones in it; the professor sent it off to Springfield for dating; about 700-800 years ago! And we found coins, 19th century porcelain, a piece of a buckle... Fun times.
I'm from New Jersey and even now there are only about 9K people in that community, in the southern part of the state., I wonder what the population was when L.M. Green Company manufactured Dr. Boschee's German Syrup and how it made it so far west. Your digs are always well documented and fascinating! Thank you so much, Rik Spector
I loved the tiny bottles! They're so cute! Especially the perfume ones 😍 The spiral necked one and the sunburst bottomed one, were stunning! I live in a house in the UK that was built in 1937, and our back garden is full of old bottles and china. You literally dig a couple of centimeters under the grass and you get some lovely old things. Great video! You have a new subscriber in me. Thank you for putting up all the information/dates/history of the pieces too. I particularly appreciated the old advertisements when you could find them ❤ Great video again. Keep it up! Big love from Manchester UK xXx
I love your site as you tell a lot of history. I've viewed other digs that are not as interesting. I've even seen from the UK that was ok. Thanks for your work.
haha thank you! yeah i watch a few digging channels from the uk. they are all girls who walk along the beach and find some cool stuff!.. but thank you, we really appreciate it!
Tom I wish you could expand your digs to other cities .I know how difficult it must be and people are not willing to let you .. I have always went to the county to get very old maps of the houses and businesses that are now a field near a government owned laboratory . I I found so many old foundations ..I never dig anything I still found a gold ring and some silver flasks old bottles so many unique things you are a legend !!
I have just found this site. I would have loved to go digging like this in my younger days. What fun! This may be a silly question but would that have been a trash dump in someone’s back yard? There is so much in that one spot. 😮 What fun!! ❤
Funny watching this. As a child I used to go treasure hunting in my backyard and found all these things ! Also went through the old barns in the back yard and found full dish sets and chandeliers. Never realized how valuable they would be . Never kept them . It was so much fun.
This looks like an old dug well that was filled in and used as a farm dump.. All farms had garbage dumps. I’ve lived on two old farms dating back to the 18th century in upstate New York and I found their old dumps. I found old crocks and other intact pottery from the 19th century in them.
@@kennethstickney8819 And also kettles have the word "kettle" printed somewhere on them. (I will leave the teapot has teapot on them for someone else's cheesy reply)
I love the tiny bottles! ❤ I think that small long sectioned piece is a serving piece for olives or any other condiment. It is quite short and couldn’t hold many but at least they can’t roll away. My opinion for an old antiques dealer. They were pretty fancy back then.
Wish I could go digging up artifacts. If I were to ask, people would look at me as if I were an alien and say "Noo? Get lost!" On the off chance they said "yes" there'd be a bunch of snags: you have to get permission from the owners, then the city to make sure you don't dig up any pipes or anything; if you find anything of real value, though you did the work, it belongs to the homeowners and/or the city. If it's junk, you can keep it; you don't have anywhere to store it; and so forth. Always so much tape to get through! On that note, I'm glad there are some who can excavate and share their finds with the rest of us. 🙂
Absolutely love your videos!! The knowledge and history you have and share is so appreciated. Im in awe of all that you do. Thank you for putting the videos together for us all to see.
As a kid in the 60's I remember an outhouse in Grapeville, Pennsylvania outside a private home that housed the local post office at that time. The train would go by there and drop the mail. Next stop was Westmoreland Glass Co. Bet you could find quite the treasure under that one. Last time I visited the house still stood.
There was no trash pickup back then. They burned paper & cardboard, reused glass bottles as much as possible, composted fresh waste or fed it to farm animals, crushed &/or buried everything else. At 18:05 minutes, the tiny perfume bottle could be the stopper/dipper/dabber to a larger perfume bottle.
Some good digs Tom! Thanks for taking us along! I look forward to the next! I have a feeling you are going to find something extremely unbelievable one of these days! I have no idea what, but I can't wait to watch..lol...take care
Greetings from Western, N.Y. I have been benge watching for quite awhile now. So glad to see a new one posted. I love the history that goes along with this. How many places make glass today conpaired to back in the day? I found it interesting that if they didn't like what they were drinking they could return it! May be that's why so many got sick! Also recycling bottles, someone was thinking outside the box back then. Keep up the good work.I often think about the washing of your cloths, and you should have a sponsor for one that can really get the dirt out. That would be fun! Stay safe.
haha ive been told to get tide to sponsor us from a few people now! gotta send them a message once we get bigger. id be sooooo down to do that! lol and yeah the laundy is a nightmare... if we get really dirt, or if we go on a trip, i will just go to a laundromat a pay to get them cleaned, so that way i dont have to ruin my washing machine. when we are covered in mud, we have to hose everything off when we get back to our houses. because it would literally ruin a washer. lol and yeah i think there were probably more glass manufactuerers back then, there were a ton of little operations, and everytime i read about them, they merged into bigger corps and i think a lot of those smaller businesses from back then are still around but they are probably just 1 of a few big ones who have a bunch of plants across the world. i know basically all beer bottles are made from a few businesses and they just slap a lable on them at the brewery. everything has consolidated, is one thing ive learned reading about all these old products. well thank you! glad you like the videos! thanks for leaving us a comment
@BelowthePlains that's what I do with my husband's clothes after he gets them totally filthy in the garden - I hose them off because I don't want mud in my washer!
There wasn't any trash pick-up back in the day. People dug holes, buried stuff that wouldn't burn. My 1897 house has a pit--found a few things--it's under the house, now, when a room was added on. Relatives in Michigan found their houses pit and built shelves to display it all.
Yes, truly. I owned a house that was built in 1902. When I dug out and rototilled an area for a garden I discovered people definitely buried their garbage back in the day! Most of it was glass and tin, but some neat bottles.
@@MikeD_ The threw stuff in outhouses, too. Cover it over and dig a new outhouse. Check out the story about '150 year old' undigested seeds found in an outhouse--horticulturist got them to grow---old-fashioned, heirloom tomato's.
@@MikeD_ Oh, by the bye, my grandpa buried....EVERYTHING! Behind the house where my ma grew up is buried mattresses, box springs, 2 refrigerators, etc. Pity the fool who decides to roto-till....lol
While watching you dig, I was getting a little chuckle. My grandfather lived in Yankton until 1960, when he passed at 92. He was a severe alcoholic and suffered from chest ailments. I was beginning to think you were in his yard digging up his stuff. The plate is Flow Blue which is English transferware. My SIL has a large collection of it.
The small rectangular white porcelain dish with ridges could be a paint pot, with the ridges separating different colors of paint. The cylindrical metal item with the long tip sticking out of it looks to me like it could be a broken syringe. Great video!
yeah it could be a syringe. i was thinking that because it had some rubber seals on it, but im thinking it was a a syringe for like lubricating a machine and not for use on the body. but some told me the tray was for sugar cubes, but i honestly have no idea. but thanks for letting us know!
@@BelowthePlains I was going to reply the same as this commenter, I've dug similar porcelain trays and little pots and was under the impression they were for paints, only difference being yours has taller sides.
The oil/kerosine lamp burner is a design that has been used since the early 1800s. I have one from Lehman's Hardware in Kidron, Ohio that is very similar to the one you dug up. It is made to fit the top of a canning jar and is a current design from Amish country. I have seen 1860s railroad lanterns that use the same burner.
Hey Tom & Jake, almost 100k!! You guys production is the best in the category! Live every video and get mad when it ends. Always want more! Come on viewers, subscribe & also give these guys a couple bucks a month. Best investment. Can't wait to see what they do with a bigger budget! Thank you, Lou , Los Angeles California.
hahaha thank you! yeah im getting excited to get that 100k sub plaque! it seemed like it was never gonna happen, but not its basically a done deal! i cant wait!! and thank you again Lou from Cali!
Yup - a bread plate, so you had a place to put your roll or bread. You were, way back when, supposed to put some butter on your plate - and break off one piece of your roll at a time and butter that piece. As someone else said, this family seems to have had money!
I use to bottle dig years ago. This reminds me how much fun it was. Finding a bottle, taking it home to do research on it. Once dug an old bottle factory in the UK. So much fun.
👍Thanks for this When I saw that house I immediately thought SD. I grew up out on the prairie & we buried what we could not burn. Moms did cooking mostly from scratch so people didn’t have as much recycles like now.
Love your channel! One interesting observation is the size of the bottles. So tiny compared to the jumbo size bottles of today's products. Makes you think, no?
I was thinking that the smaller sizes were easier to manage in the factory until glass makers were able to make larger containers that were stable in process and shipping.
It's their garbage pit. My parents bought some property when I was a kid and I watched my Dad dig lots of bottles and other treasures from the garbage pit.
I'm with the crowd here, love your channel! Great dig. My husband and I were briefly in Yankton (an hour or so) this past fall on a cross country road trip. I liked Yankton for the size of the town that it is! I need to look into its history after watching so many of your digs in Yankton (but I'm not complaining!). It's great seeing you guys being so ambitious and hard working. So many your age don't seem to know what that is. Anyway, keep on digging! For me the hardest part would be asking someone if you could dig on their property!
Looks like you found an old privy. Back then people just threw their trash into the hole of the outhouse. I lived in Savannah Ga most of my life and with all the historical property there "bottle digging" is quite a hobby for some men and women. One time I found a Burnett's Cocaine Bottle when we were digging across from the Police Dept there. I found it fitting so I donated the bottle to them.
11:31 They started advertisments for Dr Bosanko’s Cough Cure in 1881. That was the same year my grandfather, fisherman Joakim Jenssen, was born in the north of Norway. Sadly I never got to meeting him, as he lost his life when a big wave washed him off the boat in 1946, when my mother was only 14 years old. Since he always wore boots tied to his waist (as was common amongst fishermen then) he didn’t have a chance. The boots soon filled with water and he sunk. The last thing they saw of him, was the tip of his fingers… It’s crazy to see the mentions of such familiar dates in time here on UA-cam. ❤❤❤
As a kid there was a big ditch behind our house that was a place where we threw our trash and people before us had thrown their trash before us. We used all the old bottles as targets. I have thought about for 60+ years
Good Day Tom and great dig as usual. 💪😎 Imagine a triangle when you dig a privy.... newer stuff rolled down from the center and that's why some privys seem mixed date. (Sometimes the privy filled in the center first.) Different reasons I suppose.
i completely agree! the bottles with local embossing on them are the good ones. most of them are blank, but the ones that have the embossing that says the name of the town, druggist's name, or drugstores name on them. those are the good ones!
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Hey, I've been subscribed to your channel since at about 34,000 subs. I haven't looked in to all of your video archive, but I was wondering if you would consider doing a; 'questions and answers' video, where for a period of time Subscribers ask questions and then a Video is recorded answering the most popular questions from Subscribers?
yeah.. i wanted to do a livestream at some point. i was thinking about maybe doing it at 34000, but... not gonna lie, we are both kind of scared of going live. recording a video is one thing, but being live where anything can happen is a whole 'nother beast. but i see what you mean about the pre-recorded video. maybe thats a better way to do it. let me mull it over for a week and when i release the video next week, you should respond to my comment (it will be a comment like this one) just to remind me, and hopefully i will have an answer. will probably wait til after 100k subs either way but id project that to be sometime around 1 month from now. but thank you for being with us early on! we do really appreciate that. but like i said, yeah, remind me in the comments of next weeks video, and make you hit "reply" on the pinned to the top comment that i always leave (that way i will see it for sure, sometimes i get a ton of comments and they can slip thru the cracks)
thanks again.... and for the record, im leaning towards doing it, i just need to figure out the logistics and talk to tom about it
How much do these go for, I'm new here 😅very interesting
@@BelowthePlains
I don't think going live is really necessary. What I've described can work more seamlessly. I've been on many live prodcasts, it can be a real technical challenge sometimes. If you just record a response to questions, it can't really get out of control.
'Til next time. ✌️👉🇨🇦
@@BelowthePlains Hi! You’re at 97.1K right now 👍🏽
Wha do you do with all of the items?
My 7 yr old son just came in the house from out back yelling look what I found daddy.. he had an embossed local milk bottle, I’m guessing 1900. I asked him where did you get that and he said under the back porch !! Perfect condition too.. he’s something else! Now I gotta look
Do it!! And report back!! 😊 Kudos to your awesome inquisitive Son!!
Love it! 😊
@@MrsWeavergotta get over my pneumonia first, but yeah I’m sure there’s more. Home is from 1890.
@@Riverwalker44 Feel better soon!!
@@Riverwalker44 Stay away from that 1890 medicine! :) It won't cure what ails you and might give you something worse.
The short white porcelain dish was used to hold sugar cubes in a fancy way for picnics instead of bringing the whole lidded jar from home, I’ve actually dug some of those in Civil war camps while relic hunting in Virginia and the Carolinas. Good job!!! Love your show 👍
oh really ? how sure are you? i think ive come across those before. for some reason i thought it was like a toy troth for like a horse or something. but i knew it was wrong, but once you get an idea in your head, its hard to get your head out of that narrow box and think about it objectively. but thanks for letting us know. gonna look into it. then next time! its gonna be noted in the video
also, good job (assuming you are correct, which i do)
My grandmother had a small container like that, she used it to hold stamps. It also had a cover decorated with painted flowers.
That's good information. It even had like dividers where cubes would fit right in
So many nice bottles. Sure beats plastic.
I'm so glad people let you dig their properties. Such interesting things from the past.
Schoenhoffen is my mother’s maiden name. That was a good brewery owned and run by her father’s relatives in Chicago. Her dad was a firefighter in Michigan. Lots of German immigrants in the area around Chicago in Wisconsin and Michigan too. Especially migration after 1848.
Thank you, great find. A buddy bought a home in North St Paul MN (1988), found out cottage victorian (1880), and found many historical items (train/trolly schedules, plot maps, ships manifest) when remodeling and digging up the yard.
Yard trash heap. From 1880's to 1920's. Great find!
Did people go out of their way to dump this stuff back then by digging? Were there no trash pickup services?
@Greatlakeskyle. THe house was likely out in the country back then and no there was no such thing as trash pick up so they'd dig a pit to dump all their shit in (both litteral and metaphorical)
During my career, I've done a ton of irrigation installation and repair. We referred to our trade as diggers! I love this program!
haha right when i read the word irrigation, i knew you had come across these sites! whenever we see crews installing water lines or a new building we always go talk to them, and give them our cards lol. i would image there is some guy out there who has come across a million dollar bottle and didnt even realize it! well thank you. glad you like the show
Nice dig guys,my husband marked property lines for a private logging co. 25 years ,he found bottles just sitting on the top of the ground,2 of my favorites are a 14 inch purple pickle jar & a Warners safe kidney & liver cure!Love this dig guy’s so many different finds!
oh yeah those warners are super cool looking. i usually find a few a year. the older ones with the door on them, i assume those are the style you are talking about, the newer ones were kinda plain. Well thank you for watching!
Yes it is the older one,he got me interested in bottles & I dug for years,just walking around the forest where we live,an area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, famous for the 49er gold rush!Thanks again for the entertainment!
I live in a very old home . The barn is my rental apartment. Since I moved here I start doing gardening and found a lot of old glass bottles, very old some beautiful turquoise colors . You encouraged me go back and start looking for something amazing!!!!
Did you watch "Roadhouse" too many times?
If you find any bottles that are cobalt blue, they are worth a small fortune. That is the most prized color for bottle collectors
Well produced video. A delight to watch. Thanks!
@@Nancy-y8q1n really? I have a few. Someone was throwing out a box of old bottles and have a few in there. Some old coke bottles too.
Keep up the fantastic work, Tom. You speak with obvious authority. I never imagined archaeology like yours could be so interesting and shed so much light on the rich history of an area by what they threw away or buried... Yankton residents (and others you've excavated) can be very thankful for the physical and intellectual prowess you expend when unearthing history for posterity.
One man's trash another man's gold I love it I have several old bottles, square nails, Indian pottery .worked on a 1850 farm
Awesome finds Tom. Lots of beautiful bottles. Your awesome
Sunday afternoon. Most enjoyable watching. Better than TV! ❤ UK.
I found the remains of a depression-era shanty town by rail tracks in an industrial area S.W. of Louisville KY. It was exciting. I never found anything else like it. Still have a couple of the bottles! ❤
Had a chance to metal detect an old logging camp in Hinckley Mn that was abandoned due to the Hinkley fire in 1894. Was an amazing experience. The property owner stated they found a fair amount of coins being the loggers would bury the pay sometimes and being the camp left in a hurry they found a lot. The ice road horse shoes were a cool find, they were huge. Lot of glass items and persona effects. Love digging for history..
My California home was built in 1903 and I'm always digging up things in the yard: silverware, marbles, a Chinese snuff bottle, a pig's jaw with teeth in it, rings and jewelry, a '54 lisense plate... Most items are 20th century EXCEPT a Native American shell bead unearthed when digging a tree-planting hole. I display all my treasures in a shadow-box "reliquary" in my kitchen.
Thats awesome! but shhhhhhhh.... i think its technically illegal in CA. when construction workers dig into old stuff, as long as its over 50 years old, they have to call it in, and have it excavated by the state. thats my understanding anyways. but dont worry, i wont tell anyone! hahaha thanks for watching!
I think this is her home she said not a construction worker..
Another great program Tom, look forward to seeing the next one. 👍
thanks!
I liked the bumpy milk glass bottle that was my favorite. ❤
yeah probably mine too. i found 2 other similiar items in 2 other pits in this town. they look like they go to a matching set. i have them all on my shelf behind me right now!
The bumpy milk glass is called hobnail.
Mine too.
A lot of ppl still like to collect hobnail milk glass items. There are SO many different items. I have a Fenton hobnail milk glass oil lamp. Love it.
That was super great! I truly enjoyed watching and also lived the printed information and added images! Thank you!!❤
Fascinating variety in this pit. Thanks for sharing your work and knowledge.
Thank you and thanks for watching!
How do these pits smell? Is the odor subsided?
Thanks for this video. Just live watching the digs and the finds but most of all I love to read the history you give us about some of the companies. Thanks x
haha thank you! not gonna lie, the history is kind of a nightmare because we have to go thru old records online that no one has probably read in 100 years. so it can be a little tedious, but once you find a little nugget of info, it makes it all worth while. Sometimes i find the coolest info on some items and i just cant fit it in the video, so i store it away until i find that item again. thank you tho! we really appreciate that
Your knowledge of bottles is spectacular. Congrats on about to hit 100k. I’m rooting for you and jealous.
29:05 When I was a kid, I would’ve loved those marbles!!! We collected them and played with them, so they were double fun!!! 🤗❤❤❤
I love how beautiful the ad plates are like the Colgate Soaps and Perfume ad or the Kemp's Balsam. Everything was made to be so beautiful back then.
I like the digs where you find weird stuff and not all two or three different bottles it’s fun to see lots of different stuff like this place
haha i know! when we find the same bottle over and over again, i get so stressed out because i know its not fun to watch! the thing is, places like saloons hotels and depots tend to have the best chance to get a high dollar item, but 99% of the other stuff will be blank liquor and drugstore bottles... i *jake* like the house pits, because you find the most random and ornate stuff. its usually like a variety pack instead of a 30 pack or drugstore bottles and beer bottles. its always the houses that make the best videos, thats what i always tell tom
I remember when i was a kid and one of our trees fell in the bk yard so it was uprooted tipped over and i found perfectly in the trunk an old unbroken bottle..i still have it..i nevered thought of looking at the make of it. now u got me thinking 🤔 about it.. thank you ,
Next to my childhood home was a pottery dump. My father still lives there. My brother and I used to dig up all kinds of old prescription. bottles and pottery objects. My mother collected them. I’m sure there are still tons in that ground. It’s in a small town in northeast Ohio called Sebring Ohio. When I was a kid (44 yrs old now) most of the town was employed at the royal china factory there. It’s closed down now. Actually the building got torn down awhile back. But that was where the pottery stuff came from next to our property. There was a lot of glass bottles there too. Old bottles. My whole family worked at that place
this is how people disposed of their garbage in the old days. Where I grew up as a kid, we discovered a few of these dump sites in the woods in our neighborhood. Old bottles mostly, ceramics, and rusted metal beer and paint cans, a few inches under the soil with some sticking out of the soil.
Old dumpsites are the best for finding stuff. I volunteered to help excavate the site of the Stephen Mack house in Rockton, IL back in the 90s. The stuff we found! One volunteer found a piece of pottery that was dated to about 1100 years ago! (The RR Star published a photo of the professor and and the piece) At a different level I found an ash heap with little bones in it; the professor sent it off to Springfield for dating; about 700-800 years ago! And we found coins, 19th century porcelain, a piece of a buckle... Fun times.
Tom, another wonderful site filled with so many early bottles. I loved the blue plate. Great footage Jake.👍👏😀
I'm from New Jersey and even now there are only about 9K people in that community, in the
southern part of the state., I wonder what the population was when L.M. Green Company
manufactured Dr. Boschee's German Syrup and how it made it so far west.
Your digs are always well documented and fascinating!
Thank you so much,
Rik Spector
Loveeeee watching yr videos like to see all those beautiful old bottles
I loved the tiny bottles! They're so cute! Especially the perfume ones 😍 The spiral necked one and the sunburst bottomed one, were stunning! I live in a house in the UK that was built in 1937, and our back garden is full of old bottles and china. You literally dig a couple of centimeters under the grass and you get some lovely old things. Great video! You have a new subscriber in me. Thank you for putting up all the information/dates/history of the pieces too. I particularly appreciated the old advertisements when you could find them ❤ Great video again. Keep it up! Big love from Manchester UK xXx
so exciting to watch
Thank you!
Cool episode. Interesting stuff.
I love your site as you tell a lot of history. I've viewed other digs that are not as interesting. I've even seen from the UK that was ok. Thanks for your work.
haha thank you! yeah i watch a few digging channels from the uk. they are all girls who walk along the beach and find some cool stuff!.. but thank you, we really appreciate it!
Tom I wish you could expand your digs to other cities .I know how difficult it must be and people are not willing to let you .. I have always went to the county to get very old maps of the houses and businesses that are now a field near a government owned laboratory . I I found so many old foundations ..I never dig anything I still found a gold ring and some silver flasks old bottles so many unique things you are a legend !!
Hi 👋 👋 👋 Tom and jake another good video plenty of finds 👍 always fascinating 😀 👍 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀 🇬🇧
Thanks andrew! appreciate you always commenting on the videos!!! it actually does help
Very nice finds, the color on that plate is intense. Also on the chamber pot.
That’s how they got rid of things back then. What a wonderful treasure hunt. The bottles are delightful.
Awesome finds!!! Gotta get out soon!!!
I have just found this site. I would have loved to go digging like this in my younger days. What fun! This may be a silly question but would that have been a trash dump in someone’s back yard? There is so much in that one spot. 😮 What fun!! ❤
What a fantastic pit. Could the small sectioned rectangular white ceramic dish be for paints or was it too deep.
Really cool stuff! I love the whole process.
your knowledge of bottles and other related things is rather amazing
It's always fun to watch you. Enjoy your life. And you're doing what you love. ❤
Thank you!!!!! glad you enjoy watching! you enjoy your life as well!!!!
Funny watching this. As a child I used to go treasure hunting in my backyard and found all these things ! Also went through the old barns in the back yard and found full dish sets and chandeliers. Never realized how valuable they would be . Never kept them . It was so much fun.
This looks like an old dug well that was filled in and used as a farm dump.. All farms had garbage dumps. I’ve lived on two old farms dating back to the 18th century in upstate New York and I found their old dumps. I found old crocks and other intact pottery from the 19th century in them.
I found a Carters ink well almost identical to that in NW Wisconsin while fishing (it was wedged under a rock in the river). Very cool
The difference between a tea kettle lid and a teapot lid is, that tea kettles and the lids are metal and heat up water for your tea.
And teapot lids have a small vent hole
@@kennethstickney8819 And also kettles have the word "kettle" printed somewhere on them. (I will leave the teapot has teapot on them for someone else's cheesy reply)
I love the tiny bottles! ❤ I think that small long sectioned piece is a serving piece for olives or any other condiment. It is quite short and couldn’t hold many but at least they can’t roll away. My opinion for an old antiques dealer. They were pretty fancy back then.
30:33 WOW, cobalt blue mug!!! Beautiful!!! Cobalt was very popular earlier!!! 😊
One dollar cough medicine would be about $37 today. This was a wealthy family.
That's what I was thinking too.
@@hunterstevens45 they’re saying how $1 back then is work $37 in todays value of the dollar. not that cough medicine is $37.
@@hunterstevens45do you understand the value of a dollar? because if you did you would understand what they mean.
Wish I could go digging up artifacts. If I were to ask, people would look at me as if I were an alien and say "Noo? Get lost!" On the off chance they said "yes" there'd be a bunch of snags: you have to get permission from the owners, then the city to make sure you don't dig up any pipes or anything; if you find anything of real value, though you did the work, it belongs to the homeowners and/or the city. If it's junk, you can keep it; you don't have anywhere to store it; and so forth. Always so much tape to get through!
On that note, I'm glad there are some who can excavate and share their finds with the rest of us. 🙂
Absolutely love your videos!! The knowledge and history you have and share is so appreciated. Im in awe of all that you do. Thank you for putting the videos together for us all to see.
As a kid in the 60's I remember an outhouse in Grapeville, Pennsylvania outside a private home that housed the local post office at that time. The train would go by there and drop the mail. Next stop was Westmoreland Glass Co. Bet you could find quite the treasure under that one. Last time I visited the house still stood.
There was no trash pickup back then. They burned paper & cardboard, reused glass bottles as much as possible, composted fresh waste or fed it to farm animals, crushed &/or buried everything else. At 18:05 minutes, the tiny perfume bottle could be the stopper/dipper/dabber to a larger perfume bottle.
For some reason, I love the sound of the spade in the dirt...love your videos.
Very interesting show. I've seen some of the items found in the privies in Williamsburg, VA. Love the history of it.
Some good digs Tom! Thanks for taking us along! I look forward to the next! I have a feeling you are going to find something extremely unbelievable one of these days! I have no idea what, but I can't wait to watch..lol...take care
I love how you give us information about the objects!!!
Greetings from Western, N.Y. I have been benge watching for quite awhile now. So glad to see a new one posted. I love the history that goes along with this. How many places make glass today conpaired to back in the day? I found it interesting that if they didn't like what they were drinking they could return it! May be that's why so many got sick! Also recycling bottles, someone was thinking outside the box back then. Keep up the good work.I often think about the washing of your cloths, and you should have a sponsor for one that can really get the dirt out. That would be fun! Stay safe.
Recycling bottles is just ordinary economics on the cost of making the bottles. Nothing to do with thinking outside the box.
haha ive been told to get tide to sponsor us from a few people now! gotta send them a message once we get bigger. id be sooooo down to do that! lol and yeah the laundy is a nightmare... if we get really dirt, or if we go on a trip, i will just go to a laundromat a pay to get them cleaned, so that way i dont have to ruin my washing machine. when we are covered in mud, we have to hose everything off when we get back to our houses. because it would literally ruin a washer. lol
and yeah i think there were probably more glass manufactuerers back then, there were a ton of little operations, and everytime i read about them, they merged into bigger corps and i think a lot of those smaller businesses from back then are still around but they are probably just 1 of a few big ones who have a bunch of plants across the world. i know basically all beer bottles are made from a few businesses and they just slap a lable on them at the brewery. everything has consolidated, is one thing ive learned reading about all these old products.
well thank you! glad you like the videos! thanks for leaving us a comment
@BelowthePlains that's what I do with my husband's clothes after he gets them totally filthy in the garden - I hose them off because I don't want mud in my washer!
Love your videos. Thanks for another great one
Thank you!!!!!!!
There wasn't any trash pick-up back in the day. People dug holes, buried stuff that wouldn't burn. My 1897 house has a pit--found a few things--it's under the house, now, when a room was added on. Relatives in Michigan found their houses pit and built shelves to display it all.
Yes, truly. I owned a house that was built in 1902. When I dug out and rototilled an area for a garden I discovered people definitely buried their garbage back in the day! Most of it was glass and tin, but some neat bottles.
I was wondering why there's all this garbage out back, but it makes sense as there was no garbage pickups as you noted.
@@MikeD_ The threw stuff in outhouses, too. Cover it over and dig a new outhouse. Check out the story about '150 year old' undigested seeds found in an outhouse--horticulturist got them to grow---old-fashioned, heirloom tomato's.
@@MikeD_ Oh, by the bye, my grandpa buried....EVERYTHING! Behind the house where my ma grew up is buried mattresses, box springs, 2 refrigerators, etc. Pity the fool who decides to roto-till....lol
@@StrawberryCopper Perhaps some future version of a show 100 years on will be doing an episode on what's in grandpa's back yard!
As always.,great finds Tom...Love your vids. Best of luck
Thank you!
Once again I'm blown away with the finds. Great job as always.
Keep up good work tom love your finds
Thanks! and will do!
While watching you dig, I was getting a little chuckle. My grandfather lived in Yankton until 1960, when he passed at 92. He was a severe alcoholic and suffered from chest ailments. I was beginning to think you were in his yard digging up his stuff. The plate is Flow Blue which is English transferware. My SIL has a large collection of it.
You should have a TV show like Antiques Roadshow.
haha maybe someday! it would be nice to have a camera crew lol!
He does! You can find it on UA-cam.
@@BelowthePlains Your videographer is awesome!
Just discovered your very fun channel. Love looking for things too, will keep watching. Cheers and here’s to many good finds! ❣️🍀
Great holes with interesting items in both.. .I just love your videos.. until next time...🥰🥰
The small rectangular white porcelain dish with ridges could be a paint pot, with the ridges separating different colors of paint. The cylindrical metal item with the long tip sticking out of it looks to me like it could be a broken syringe. Great video!
yeah it could be a syringe. i was thinking that because it had some rubber seals on it, but im thinking it was a a syringe for like lubricating a machine and not for use on the body. but some told me the tray was for sugar cubes, but i honestly have no idea. but thanks for letting us know!
@@BelowthePlains I was going to reply the same as this commenter, I've dug similar porcelain trays and little pots and was under the impression they were for paints, only difference being yours has taller sides.
The oil/kerosine lamp burner is a design that has been used since the early 1800s. I have one from Lehman's Hardware in Kidron, Ohio that is very similar to the one you dug up. It is made to fit the top of a canning jar and is a current design from Amish country. I have seen 1860s railroad lanterns that use the same burner.
Great marble finds!!
Hey Tom & Jake, almost 100k!! You guys production is the best in the category! Live every video and get mad when it ends. Always want more!
Come on viewers, subscribe & also give these guys a couple bucks a month. Best investment. Can't wait to see what they do with a bigger budget! Thank you, Lou , Los Angeles California.
hahaha thank you! yeah im getting excited to get that 100k sub plaque! it seemed like it was never gonna happen, but not its basically a done deal! i cant wait!! and thank you again Lou from Cali!
I was thinking the small porcelain dish was for butter pat’s at each plate 😊
Yup - a bread plate, so you had a place to put your roll or bread. You were, way back when, supposed to put some butter on your plate - and break off one piece of your roll at a time and butter that piece. As someone else said, this family seems to have had money!
I use to bottle dig years ago. This reminds me how much fun it was. Finding a bottle, taking it home to do research on it. Once dug an old bottle factory in the UK. So much fun.
👍Thanks for this When I saw that house I immediately thought SD. I grew up out on the prairie & we buried what we could not burn. Moms did cooking mostly from scratch so people didn’t have as much recycles like now.
Love your channel! One interesting observation is the size of the bottles. So tiny compared to the jumbo size bottles of today's products. Makes you think, no?
Family/larger sizes are generally cheaper per unit than small ones.
I was thinking that the smaller sizes were easier to manage in the factory until glass makers were able to make larger containers that were stable in process and shipping.
It's their garbage pit. My parents bought some property when I was a kid and I watched my Dad dig lots of bottles and other treasures from the garbage pit.
Watkins. I still use their products. Both my grandmothers swore by their products.
Always great videos . Learn a lot from watching your videos. Keep up the great work my friend.
Enjoyed the hunt. Love the marbles! Like button smashed!
I'm with the crowd here, love your channel! Great dig. My husband and I were briefly in Yankton (an hour or so) this past fall on a cross country road trip. I liked Yankton for the size of the town that it is! I need to look into its history after watching so many of your digs in Yankton (but I'm not complaining!). It's great seeing you guys being so ambitious and hard working. So many your age don't seem to know what that is. Anyway, keep on digging! For me the hardest part would be asking someone if you could dig on their property!
Love the marbles!
Looks like you found an old privy. Back then people just threw their trash into the hole of the outhouse. I lived in Savannah Ga most of my life and with all the historical property there "bottle digging" is quite a hobby for some men and women. One time I found a Burnett's Cocaine Bottle when we were digging across from the Police Dept there. I found it fitting so I donated the bottle to them.
all that stuff is so neat.... thanks for sharing.
Are any of your finds for sake love your passion and respect for our past. Thank you. I love seeing things I have never seen vefire thanks again
11:31 They started advertisments for Dr Bosanko’s Cough Cure in 1881. That was the same year my grandfather, fisherman Joakim Jenssen, was born in the north of Norway. Sadly I never got to meeting him, as he lost his life when a big wave washed him off the boat in 1946, when my mother was only 14 years old. Since he always wore boots tied to his waist (as was common amongst fishermen then) he didn’t have a chance. The boots soon filled with water and he sunk. The last thing they saw of him, was the tip of his fingers… It’s crazy to see the mentions of such familiar dates in time here on UA-cam. ❤❤❤
What an interesting dig! Not to mention exciting around those gas lines!
Fascinating to watch! Really cool finds!
Tom? Thank you.. thank you and you crew .. for just sharing this with us all. Nk.the gold country..g.c. ca.
Thanks for this video! My grandmother's relatives lived in Yankton at this period, so it was fun to imagine them using these objects.
I've watched a couple of your videos. have you metal detected or found many coins in your digs?
As a kid there was a big ditch behind our house that was a place where we threw our trash and people before us had thrown their trash before us. We used all the old bottles as targets. I have thought about for 60+ years
Good Day Tom and great dig as usual. 💪😎 Imagine a triangle when you dig a privy.... newer stuff rolled down from the center and that's why some privys seem mixed date. (Sometimes the privy filled in the center first.) Different reasons I suppose.
thanks for video good digging
I do frequent estate sales. I picked up some small prescription medicine bottles. Don't know why, but bottles are so fascinating! 😅
i completely agree! the bottles with local embossing on them are the good ones. most of them are blank, but the ones that have the embossing that says the name of the town, druggist's name, or drugstores name on them. those are the good ones!