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Hi I’ve been watching for a bit and don’t usually say anything but I’m curious how you got started! This pit is loaded. I like the shoefly flasks and the ball neck amber bottles. They would be a conversation starter if I reused them for liquor!
I was in an antique shop yesterday and found myself looking at all the old bottles, saying, "Hmm, that's a tooled top bottle. ".. thanks guys for educating me, whether I wanted to be or not 😂
The thin glass tube with a base is a thermometer holder for next to a sick bed, it usually held isopropyl alcohol which “cleansed” the thermometer between uses.
The glass panes could be photographic plates for the wet collodion process popular into the early 20th Century, rendered mostly obsolete when a dry-emulsion process was introduced. If they measure 4-3/4"x6-1/2" it's quite possible and would explain why they found their way into a trash pit of that era.
I really like the new camera angle. Instead of just looking down on the top of your head this makes it seem more like we are there with you. This is one time to be grateful smell-o-vision has not been invented yet!
Hi Andrew,thanks for the digs we enjoy.At the end you usually show 2x screen shots of cleaned items,would really like to see more cleaned items,Cheers.
Tom, the size of that pit was incredible. The bottles with the stoppers were awesome and loved the Watkins amber. You uncovered so many intact bottles, looked like nice soil to dig as well. Great job and filming from Jake.👍👏😀
I think the hotel must have had a saloon on the ground floor & a doctor's office or a surgery upstairs -it would explain the nutty number of liquor bottles along with huge numbers of pharmaceutical, bandage and chemical bottles.
with all the liquor bottles and the gauze jars, maybe a bar brawl ? if anyones inclined, could check out newspapers from then.. so much history in the holes you dig.. thanks for taking us along..
Some great and rare finds. They are indeed amazing and probable holy grails to someone. Collectors are probably salvitating over some of these. To the uninitiated their just bottles; to the knowledgeable they can be worth big money, tens of thousands is not unheard of but not common. I pulled an old bottle out of the St. Lawrence river ,round bottom with a glass ball in the neck. Traded it for a case of bear, I now know I should have kept it, they may be common elsewhere, but rare to find in this area. That was over 50 years ago, I would today rate that as a unicorn.
Wonderful all that found bottles. I'm from The Netherlands and here I dig with freinds on a dump out of Haarlem. Lots of ink, milk and perfume bottles.
Love that video I'm in California and it's hard to find sites to dig anymore. Had some good ones in San Francisco with most bottled from 1870-1890 bitters beer bottles. All your videos are great keep up the good work.
Holy Moly, amazing amount of bottles. Because of all the medical bottles, could there have been a sickness or blight that infected the town? Just curious. Great program. Take care and stay safe. 👍
Wow!!! So many unbroken bottles and glass containers!!! Who needs bubble wrap when you can pack a privy full of poop and bottles for a hundred years and only having just a few of the bottles breaking!!!😊❤
The test tibe thing with the footed base was probably a urimeter. Urine would be put in tube and another thermometer type thing would be placed into it. It told the DR what the specific gravity of the urine was. AKA checking for dehydration. If it's what I believe it to be.
Hello. I am new to your channel and I truly enjoy what I have viewed so far. I am curious if you ever show how you clean your finds and where you sell them. Do you have a shop? Thank you for your time.
we were planning on setting up a shop this winter. probably wont start on it until after new years. and we actually get that request a lot, to show how we clean them up. we use acid and stuff like that, and everything is frozen right now. so we can probably film something this coming spring. we actually get asked that alot, but last summer was so chaotic, everything just kinda fell by the wayside. well, im glad you found the channel! thanks for watching
I have a question, and it would be great if you did a video on the subject. How do you know where to dig? it isn't like a metal detector would work, and since it is glass, it shouldn't create a sinkhole that would persist. It seems to me that even if you knew where an old building used to be, there would be no signs where something was once buried or burned when it is many feet under the topsoil. over time the ground should level itself out due to rain and wind. I find this very confusing. what method do you use to find these exact locations?
Please tell what you do with all these old bottles? I dug a couple of times around old buildings back in the 70's. My favorite was a big ole clear glass Apple shape bottle😊
They liked their liquor cheep, their flights rough and then burned the place down! 😂 Seriously though... I was sad for you that so few were embossed but WOW that was a haul!
12:25 Bell & co Orangeburg NY. Seen them embossed Bell-Ans as well. There's also a Bell-ans version in slightly lighter amber that just says Bell-Ans. Similar shape to those cobalt bromo seltzers just smaller. They were some kind of indigestion remedy. Dug a few of both in an ash dump.
Ok you made me look up the Lithia tablets. They had lithium in them. This led me to Lithia Springs Ga. The springs also had a high lithium, and mineral content. It was a spa and the water was also bottled.
Those small, rectangular, stacked glass panels remind me green house glass panels I used to replace on my father-in-law's greenhouses, when I was newly married. Don't know if they used green houses in the west, but I'd be willing to bet, that's what they were used for.
What an extraordinary dig! Maybe you could team up with a candle maker to put a nice scented candle in all those gauze bottles? I'd buy one. It would really show off the bubbles in the old glass. Happy Holidays!
Willmar Steam Laundry and Bottling Works, because they go together. This was filmed in August or September? You guys will have to road trip south at this time of the year.
What a haul. Bravo. 👏 👏 I'd love to see your collection. I bet it's incredible. Do you have it on display someplace for all to see? You're so smart. Would like to shake your hand. Also do you ever find coins in your pits?
Enjoy your videos....do you have any videos of you cleaning your finds and what do you do with all these? Got an online store where you sell them. Thanks for the feedback....
Greetings Tom, that "test tube" @ 3:59, A cylinder with a base plate looks to me, to most likely be a graduated cylinder, labware, used to measure small volumes of liquids
Just out of curiosity do you do any sifting? Because as you pull out bottles Im wondering if the stoppers are pulled out and thus lost in the dirt. Or is it easy to see with all the dirt? Just a thot.
For the sterile gauze jars I’m thinking serial killer, magician or con artist living at the hotel. Maybe the con artist has a young orphan assistant who loves grape juice. Or perhaps just a doctor after all. Congrats on the rares. 😊
Tom - What you do is AMAZING! However, is there a possibility of purchasing some of the bottles you find? Being in the Health Care field, I am extremely interested in the prescription bottles, or any bottles that you find pertaining to medicine. I absolutely love the medicated gauze bottles, especially from that time period. I am older, so I do not have Facebook and the like. Maybe if you throw me a shout out after this post on how to contact you in a different way, I would be grateful. I hope to hear from you soon! Thanx. 21:54
I am surprised that with so many having water in them that they didn't break open from freezing. Are they below the frost line, I know it gets cold in N Dakota.
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Hi I’ve been watching for a bit and don’t usually say anything but I’m curious how you got started! This pit is loaded. I like the shoefly flasks and the ball neck amber bottles. They would be a conversation starter if I reused them for liquor!
Hey man, fascinating channel! What do you do with the bottles after finding them?
bell ans pharmase
@MrCaissed he got started in the back yard of his family farm in North Dakota. Plenty of good articles on him if you search his name.
Do you ever sell any of your discoveries to random people? I like some of the flasks that are dark amber colored with its stopper.
I was in an antique shop yesterday and found myself looking at all the old bottles, saying, "Hmm, that's a tooled top bottle. ".. thanks guys for educating me, whether I wanted to be or not 😂
Me on eBay looking up Hutchington sodas from DT and googling tooled top
The thin glass tube with a base is a thermometer holder for next to a sick bed, it usually held isopropyl alcohol which “cleansed” the thermometer between uses.
The glass panes could be photographic plates for the wet collodion process popular into the early 20th Century, rendered mostly obsolete when a dry-emulsion process was introduced. If they measure 4-3/4"x6-1/2" it's quite possible and would explain why they found their way into a trash pit of that era.
Could you please show us 1 day all your lovely collection of stuff you have found xxx❤❤❤❤
I am 65 and started digging when I was12. Fun to watch. Lots of time and lots of work. A true labor of love.
You do the work and it pays off ... Nuff Said 🎉.
haha thanks for watching!
Every dig you have a find of lifetime...
So glad you found the hutch...and all the hundreds of others . This was an unbelievable amount of bottles ..thanks for sharing...🥰🥰
I really like the new camera angle. Instead of just looking down on the top of your head this makes it seem more like we are there with you. This is one time to be grateful smell-o-vision has not been invented yet!
The pits don't smell unless they're beneath the water table
The window panes were such an interesting find! ❤
So much fun to watch
haha thanks
Hi Andrew,thanks for the digs we enjoy.At the end you usually show 2x screen shots of cleaned items,would really like to see more cleaned items,Cheers.
Yes I want to see these Cleaned! And also his collection
Probably in a museum folks
Amazing!!!!!🥇🇺🇲.....you guy's are true detectives!!!!!
Tom, the size of that pit was incredible. The bottles with the stoppers were awesome and loved the Watkins amber. You uncovered so many intact bottles, looked like nice soil to dig as well. Great job and filming from Jake.👍👏😀
More exploring ! YAY!!
I think the hotel must have had a saloon on the ground floor & a doctor's office or a surgery upstairs -it would explain the nutty number of liquor bottles along with huge numbers of pharmaceutical, bandage and chemical bottles.
with all the liquor bottles and the gauze jars, maybe a bar brawl ? if anyones inclined, could check out newspapers from then.. so much history in the holes you dig.. thanks for taking us along..
Thank you again and absolutely delighted for your awesome finds, well deserved 🌟
Some great finds for sure. Like all the brown square gauze bottles too. Happy digging and have a great day. Happy Holidays to you and yours
Beautiful bottles cleaned up. Stay well.
Some great and rare finds. They are indeed amazing and probable holy grails to someone. Collectors are probably salvitating over some of these. To the uninitiated their just bottles; to the knowledgeable they can be worth big money, tens of thousands is not unheard of but not common. I pulled an old bottle out of the St. Lawrence river ,round bottom with a glass ball in the neck. Traded it for a case of bear, I now know I should have kept it, they may be common elsewhere, but rare to find in this area. That was over 50 years ago, I would today rate that as a unicorn.
Another awesome dig! The Leintz Hutchinson Soda bottle was the high point! thank you and take care guys! I look forward to the next dig adventure!
that was a gnarly looking "use layer." make sure you have your shots up to date.
Love your wealth of knowledge on the things you find!
I've been waiting for the appearance of the Holy Grail ... You're gonna find it...!!! Thanks again for your very well done posts🤓...😊
those glass panels maybe old glass photography panels....have seen them about that size
Love your show tom askjem 😊
Thank you! we appreciate that
Your welcome tom askjem keep up good work 😊
I love those hutch soda bottles too I wish I had one from valley city north dakota that would be awesome
Wonderful all that found bottles. I'm from The Netherlands and here I dig with freinds on a dump out of Haarlem. Lots of ink, milk and perfume bottles.
Thanks Tom, fascinating finds. It must have been a lovely time before plastic!
Always interesting your finds. My favorite part is showing some of the nicer pieces at the end cleaned up. The amber covered glass, really pretty.
These under the plains are very redundant!!! Love it ❤!¡
could the flat pieces of glass be old photographic plates ?
I think they are to.
Love that video
I'm in California and it's hard to find sites to dig anymore.
Had some good ones in San Francisco with most bottled from 1870-1890 bitters beer bottles.
All your videos are great keep up the good work.
You can tell the good by the calming voice 😊
Excellent!
Holy Moly, amazing amount of bottles. Because of all the medical bottles, could there have been a sickness or blight that infected the town? Just curious. Great program. Take care and stay safe. 👍
Hi Tom and jake another good pit and a that was a big pit so many bottles and quiet a horde well done both 👏 👍 Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Another great job
Boy Tom that pit was really loaded. Awesome with all those beautiful. Have a happy and merry Christmas. Love your videos
And another one w Tom just killing it! N.T.
I'm thinking that perhaps someone had a limb amputated or a very bad wound that needed new dressings often....such a great dig!
I’m glad to see the rest of this dig
Such amazing finds😊
Wow!!! So many unbroken bottles and glass containers!!! Who needs bubble wrap when you can pack a privy full of poop and bottles for a hundred years and only having just a few of the bottles breaking!!!😊❤
The test tibe thing with the footed base was probably a urimeter. Urine would be put in tube and another thermometer type thing would be placed into it. It told the DR what the specific gravity of the urine was. AKA checking for dehydration. If it's what I believe it to be.
Is it possible the glass panes are for producing negatives for photos?
Hello. I am new to your channel and I truly enjoy what I have viewed so far. I am curious if you ever show how you clean your finds and where you sell them. Do you have a shop? Thank you for your time.
we were planning on setting up a shop this winter. probably wont start on it until after new years. and we actually get that request a lot, to show how we clean them up. we use acid and stuff like that, and everything is frozen right now. so we can probably film something this coming spring. we actually get asked that alot, but last summer was so chaotic, everything just kinda fell by the wayside. well, im glad you found the channel! thanks for watching
Those antiseptic gauze bottles were used as spice bottles in my mom, family and friends in the 1950's
Wow. You had to work this one with so much in it.
I have a question, and it would be great if you did a video on the subject. How do you know where to dig? it isn't like a metal detector would work, and since it is glass, it shouldn't create a sinkhole that would persist. It seems to me that even if you knew where an old building used to be, there would be no signs where something was once buried or burned when it is many feet under the topsoil. over time the ground should level itself out due to rain and wind. I find this very confusing. what method do you use to find these exact locations?
Another awesome dig man ! Wow ! Thanks for sharing
Amazing how many glass containers are unbroken in your pit... That's kinda unusual....Glad for you...🌟
Please tell what you do with all these old bottles? I dug a couple of times around old buildings back in the 70's. My favorite was a big ole clear glass Apple shape bottle😊
Love watching the channel. Is there an episode where you explain things like use layer, what the different bottles mean etc?
Hell yaaaa!!!
They liked their liquor cheep, their flights rough and then burned the place down! 😂
Seriously though... I was sad for you that so few were embossed but WOW that was a haul!
12:25 Bell & co Orangeburg NY. Seen them embossed Bell-Ans as well. There's also a Bell-ans version in slightly lighter amber that just says Bell-Ans. Similar shape to those cobalt bromo seltzers just smaller. They were some kind of indigestion remedy. Dug a few of both in an ash dump.
Nice Hutch!
Ok you made me look up the Lithia tablets. They had lithium in them. This led me to Lithia Springs Ga. The springs also had a high lithium, and mineral content. It was a spa and the water was also bottled.
You are a digging fool! Another awesome video.
BLUMPKIN TIIIMEEEE!!!!!
Another great dig
Maybe the Doctors office shared the outhouse with the hotel. Maybe the Doctors office was in the same building. Lol
Incredible!
I'd love to buy a few of your Brecht bottles! My son is a Brecht from Michigan. They would make a nice Christmas gift!
Another great video thanks 😊
Those small, rectangular, stacked glass panels remind me green house glass panels I used to replace on my father-in-law's greenhouses, when I was newly married. Don't know if they used green houses in the west, but I'd be willing to bet, that's what they were used for.
The footed base piece looks like a graduated cylinder used in a lab.
Or to measure medications for the doctors office.
Wow ! You may need to bring some backfill dirt on this one !
Thank. You!
Awesome
What an extraordinary dig! Maybe you could team up with a candle maker to put a nice scented candle in all those gauze bottles? I'd buy one. It would really show off the bubbles in the old glass. Happy Holidays!
Willmar Steam Laundry and Bottling Works, because they go together. This was filmed in August or September? You guys will have to road trip south at this time of the year.
In pharmacy we used the long tubes with the footed base all the time for mixing operations.
What a haul. Bravo. 👏 👏 I'd love to see your collection. I bet it's incredible. Do you have it on display someplace for all to see? You're so smart. Would like to shake your hand. Also do you ever find coins in your pits?
What do you do with all the slick bottles? I’m sure you sell the better and rare bottles. I bet you have a garage full of bottles. I like your vids
Enjoy your videos....do you have any videos of you cleaning your finds and what do you do with all these? Got an online store where you sell them. Thanks for the feedback....
Could those glass plates be photographic plates?
Greetings Tom, that "test tube" @ 3:59, A cylinder with a base plate looks to me, to most likely be a graduated cylinder, labware, used to measure small volumes of liquids
Amazing! 300 + and such a long pit! Y’all had to be tired after filling all that back in.
Cool video! If you find 50 of the same type of bottle and they aren’t very rare or collectible, do you just re- bury them? Thanks!
With all the gauze, was this a hotel/TB clinic possibly? Incredible pit!
Just out of curiosity do you do any sifting? Because as you pull out bottles Im wondering if the stoppers are pulled out and thus lost in the dirt. Or is it easy to see with all the dirt? Just a thot.
awesome video
Do you ever find other things like coins and jewelry?
Looks like a small volume graduated cylinder used in a pharmacy.
Exactly what I thought, too!
Nice hutch.
I love those little juice bottles. Do you sell them?
My guess with all of the gauze jars, it that a dentist 🦷 worked out of the hotel.
Wow, is all I can say!!!
For the sterile gauze jars I’m thinking serial killer, magician or con artist living at the hotel. Maybe the con artist has a young orphan assistant who loves grape juice. Or perhaps just a doctor after all. Congrats on the rares. 😊
Tom - What you do is AMAZING! However, is there a possibility of purchasing some of the bottles you find? Being in the Health Care field, I am extremely interested in the prescription bottles, or any bottles that you find pertaining to medicine. I absolutely love the medicated gauze bottles, especially from that time period. I am older, so I do not have Facebook and the like. Maybe if you throw me a shout out after this post on how to contact you in a different way, I would be grateful. I hope to hear from you soon! Thanx. 21:54
Are you selling any of the gauze jars? I would definitely interested if you are!
Hey Tom. What do you do with all the bottles you find?
Do you sleep onsite when so many bottles are on the ground? I wouldn’t want to leave them overnight. Another great dig!!
Good question! I always wondered where they sleep if they're far from home.
I am surprised that with so many having water in them that they didn't break open from freezing. Are they below the frost line, I know it gets cold in N Dakota.
What do you do with all of these hundreds of incredible bottles? Enjoy your videos.
When you find intact glass pay, what do you do with them? I would’ve interested in purchasing some.
thanks for the videos. if you use an old hand towel to wipe off the bottles you wont need to take your glove off so much