Treasure Hunting at Dead Horse Bay in New York - Mudlarking & History Hunting with
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The shores of Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn are scattered with forgotten treasures from the past. In May 2022 I went searching there with New York detectorist and History Hunter @IndianaTones and we found a variety of miscellaneous objects once owned by New Yorkers decades ago. One thing that struck me in particular during this outing, was the abundance of old toys that end up on the banks of Dead Horse Bay - very similar to the Thames. There's always something poignant about finding old toys - particularly when the children who played with them are almost certainly no longer with us. We also found a few objects which took some identifying! It's always fun to have some mystery finds.
Thank you to Louis DeFoe for taking me out on this beautiful misty day to Dead Horse Bay. Louis also searches for lost jewellery for people and then returns it to them.
Thank you for watching. Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video and do go on over to see Louis's channel. He has some great content.
Thank you.
Nicola
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I just got home from Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Couldn’t wait to catch this. Such a great production and detail to highlight this day. Thank you Nicola, I had a great day mudlarking New York City with you!
I subbed and what a great guy you are
Thanks Louis. It was a fab day. Dhb is a special place
@@pattyfarghaly1821 thank you Patty. Have a wonderful summer!
@@IndianaTones thank you . I know yours will be fabulous. Lot's of storms coming this summer they say.
all them bottles and broken insulators!
I wish I could see the UK Custom Officer's face when Nicola's luggage passes under the X ray machine....
I was thinking similarly - how does she explain away a pile of rusty junk! Reminds me of the old joke of the old chap crossing the border every day coming home from work, with a wheelbarrow full of horse muck. Finally, on his retirement day, the customs man asked - ok, tell me, what WERE you smugglng n that muck. The old chap replied - wheelbarrows!
9:00 - common tern
10:58 - laughing gull
15:47 - red wing blackbird
19:10 - spider crab
20:56 - brant geese
23:02 - semipalmated plover
I also saw a sandpiper at the end, I believe the bird with the reddish-purple head was a redpoll, and the yellow one was a warbler perhaps?
@@cyndicunanan400 A warbler, I'm not sure which. Redpolls breed in the far north, so maybe a purple finch. It's been too long since I really knew my northeast birds.
Thankyou for giving us the names of the birds. I was actually thinking while watching this that it would be cool to knowt which birds I was looking at. Cheers from Australia!
@@JonFrumTheFirst I live in Canada. We have redpolls here in winter. They’re quite lovely.
@@cyndicunanan400 Saw that little bird too, a Yellow Warbler...thought it was a Prothonotary Warbler but had red streaks on it's breast.
"PS8" is a school in Staten Island, the pin was a lapel pin from the 1920s or 1930s it was a Best Elementary Schools Award Badge. The school was established in 1915.
Thank you!
PS 8 is also a school in Brooklyn. (PS =Public School, and my initials!)
Hey. Hi Talbertsmom! It's me, Tracy, from Sarah and Mick's channel! ( :
@@patstats1 The school colors for Staten Island were the same as the pin, is also where I found the pin in a photo
That’s great! I was baptized across the street at St Clare’s. I’ll have to get footage of this place!
Waffle away, waffle away. We love your waffling ways.
Horseshoe crabs are indeed, incredible . Their blood, which is blue , is unique in the animal kingdom and subject to much research .
So - all our 'elite' blue-bloods are really ancient crabs! :-)
They’re just really blue blooded lol
It sells upwards for $25,000 a quart. It's used in medicine for lukemia and other young childhood diseases. It gets it's blue color from the high amount of copper in it. Ironically some spiders have the blue blood also because they are related to spiders with 8 legs and everything. Right now only Florida allows licensing to harvest their blood. It take between 75 to 100 crabs to get a quart. The law only allows you to remove 33% of their blood while safe enough not to kill them. I guess if you wanted to be a poaching vampire you could hit that quart with 35 to 40 crabs then you put yourself out of business when you wipe out the species
Hello, so happy you had a great time at Dead Horse Bay. I wanted to share that I used to live off the Indian River near Cocoa Beach/Merritt Island in Florida. We used to walk around along the shore line, find clams etc. One day my fiancé was stabbed by the barb of the horseshoe crab on the bottom of his foot on the heel. It got badly infected but happy to say it has totally HEALED. No pun intended. This happened many years ago. We learned after that to shuffle our feet when we walked so we didnt step on stingrays and those dinosaur crustacean. Love the videos and history lessons.
The badge is for New York City Public School 8 (PS 8), the Emily Warren Roebling School. Emily was the wife of John Roebling, the designer and builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. When John died before the Bridge was finished, she took over and saw the project through to completion.
Yeah, they call those Lady Leg pocket knives. They were popular, they still make them. My grandma had a USN knife, fork, and spoon set that her brother brought back from the Navy after WW2. Those horseshoe crabs aren't in England only because the North Atlantic is too cold! There is no shortage of them here. The Gulf of Mexico is full of them! I guess it is an arthropod....older than dinos, dates back to almost the Cambrian and trilobite times
Those Mattel commercials were cool! I wish I could start over as a kid!👍😆🇺🇸🇬🇧!
My father in law has the US Navy spoon from Vietnam war. He took silver dollars and carefully tapped them into wedding rings from thier birth years.
@@constancemiller3753 Yeah, the used to take silver Canadian quarters and use a spoon to tap them into rings. I have seen rings made from the handles of silver spoons too.
@@justdustino1371
I gave my daughter a key holder made from the handle of a dinner fork on one of those strong rings. It looked to be made from the sort of flatware that used to be used in hotel dining rooms years ago. It has a nice pattern and shines nicely, but is meant to hold up to repeated use and hot water washing. I gave it to her when she got her license so it’s about 15 years old and she’s still using it!
Good to know, because I NEED one of those leg knives
PS 8 The schools in New York city were referred by number. Public School 8.
Would it have been given to all the kids or as a prize at awards day?
Put some luminous brightly coloured tape around your fork handle.
My Grandma used to tell me. " A Penny saved, is a Penny Earned. "
The ring's message, "if you don't open your eyes you won't see the forest for the trees".
I loved seeing the old TV commercials. The little girl in the one commercial was a very young Patty Duke.
Brilliant finds, Nicola. We’re Americans who were actually mudlarking the Thames that week when you were in NYC. (We love Britain and will be back!) Thank you for the continuous stream of fun and inspiring videos. Although we all love finding the rare and truly valuable treasures, your emphasis on the historical and artistic-as well as meeting other people-is what makes mudlarking and detecting so wonderful. Well-done!
How were you able to mudlark the Thames? Was it a tour?
I was baptized across the street from PS 8 @ St Clare’s Church. What a coincidence! So cool.
To me, the ring looks like it says "I see you" (I z yew). It looks like you had a great time! I went to Cape Cod once, and I brought home lots of little beach finds! [Edit: just to add, regarding the ring, Americans pronounce "zed" (the letter "z") as "zee", so that's why I think it means "see")]
yeah you could be right there are two eyes so it would be eyes z yew pronounced i see you eye szee yew
You couldn’t have found a better person to take you out. Indiana Tones is a such a great person he is a family man with 2 girls and a boy and a wonderful wife! He knows his history and is kind to all us newbies getting into the hobby.
Yes Louis is absolutely wonderful!
@@nicolawhitemudlark he helped me with information I live in east Texas and he lives in New Your and had has always helped answer my questions.
A handsome red winged blackbird singing you his song.
I hope the US treated you well while you were here. You’re welcome back anytime !!
This is some of the best mudlarking I’ve ever seen in the United States!!!
Awesome
Watching with a good cup of Coffee this 🌄 morning
Oh man, there is a lot of iron trash on the beach...makes me want to buy a humongous magnet and give it a gentle once over........So happy you were able to enjoy yourself while in New York. I think I'd be too overwhelmed by its size and hustle bustle to venture out. You are a brave lady. I'm sure the subway system there is nothing like the Tube in London. You go girl!
That was so much fun, thank you
Fun!
What a nice gentleman from NYC!! ❤
Wow I really REALLY enjoyed this girl, Thank You so Much! Cheers xxx
Great video! Loved how atmospheric that beach was. Highly recommend wrapping some hazard tape round your tools, so you can see them easily once you put them down…we have learnt from experience 😂 Sarah & Willie x
You have great videos as well! From a fan in Ontario Canada.
Just getting started and that looks like a New York State Police badge at 7:45. You can definitely see the end of “POLICE” at the bottom and it looks like the insignia for New York State. I could be completely wrong, though. Just my best guess.
ETA: Now that I’ve finished watching, I see you’ve found that the badge is a toy.
Love your finds - I think you just have a special eye which you’ve sharpened over your time mudlarking. It’s amazing how much you can find that others would miss.
Wow Nicola! You have more than just the eye of a mudlark! 2:20 you saw a wild yellow bird in New York. THAT is an eye! Ive lived here 43 years and ive only seen Big Bird on a billboard!!! Cant wait to watch this!
That's too funny! :)
Waffling never, I could listen to Nicola all day long. Everything Nicola says is so informative on the many many finds ,she is a true Historian .
Yet another fascinating video on her New York adventures .the shots of nature are so artistic building up the atmosphere of the locations, yes one more Masterpiece videos of Tideline adventures .Thankyou so much for sharing this with us your myriad of fans
I agree!!
I wouldn't mind 's looking at her on the beach all day. She's not exactly tough on the eyes and the accent is a bonus. Next trip to the states I would invite her to check out some beaches in south Jersey loaded with history. I would bet 50 bucks there would be an entire horseshoe crab with the tail. And 0lenty of mother of pearl shells also
Such a great video, thank you!
I never get bored of you or your waffle Nicola 😁❤
Such good fun Nicola! 💕
Police badge? And the coin said Uncle Sam 1950… typing as I’m watching 🤪
I thought police badge as well!
Oh how lovely to see the Yellow Warbler at 2:20 !
Those commercials were fantastic and I laughed
Eyez for you (yew)
The little boy with the horse is just adorable, playing cowboys kept the boys so busy at one time.
Great show , Loved the old commercials too .
Thank you 🙏
Yay, first! I've been waiting for this!!!
Oh! You were so lucky with the wheat pennies! 😍
Love the wee book locket
Awesome video! That black bird you saw was a red winged black bird. The males have beautiful red and yellow coloring on their wings when they fly :)
Spring time birds. They are among the first to arrive here in southern Ontario and have a distinctive song. Frequent marshy/wet areas and a delight to see when they arrive.
Around here Redwing Blackbirds are extremely territorial and will dive bomb you if you try to walk the walking path too close to their nesting area... very vicious birds. But pretty.
Love your orphan shelf
16:58 Wow im 17 minutes in! You ALREADY had an incredible day! That locket is awesome!
Thank you Merrill!
I owned a tiny locket just like that as a little girl. I don't know who gave it to me or where it may have gone...but I wore it for years.
Absolutely brilliant as always Nicola
Omg. I watched. Roy Rogers show every Saturday. Wow. That was in the 50’s.
Tidewater orphan. awesome. So much pollution on that island. Appalling. I would not think any guns found around there are toys. lol. Really nice seeing you mudlark in America. You have such a calmness around you Nicola. I really enjoy your videos. They are so peaceful and interesting.
Thank you ❤️
I want some of the bottles that are laying everywhere!!! Oh the things I could make!😊
Nicola, your videos get more and more entertaining and interesting over time. Loved the old toy ads and if course the nature shots and the lovely music. 💝 Thanks so much!
Love love love this video
Glad you got out or New York with your life !
He is the type of guy that you wish would find a real treasure. Great personality.
Pretty cool to have you in America 👍😁
Always a pleasure, thank you!
this is maybe a random TMI comment but I'm rarely relaxed these days but the second i start one of your videos I just feel so calm!! Thanks!!!
I'm so glad they give you a feeling of calm xx
31:59 min. Nice that you were there, we followed the anniversary on TV !
Very interesting video. I enjoyed the trip down memory lane with Roy Rogers. My brother was with a concession company back in the 60s and early 70s. He met and served fiddle sticks to Sonny and Sher, a very young Michael Jackson. He knew who they where but it never excited him, until one day in Canada, during some down time, an older couple set down to talk with him. It was Roy Rogers and Dayle Evens.
The King and Queen of the Cowboys. Shame the museum closed down in Victorville.
An Aussie here..... What are fiddlesticks? I've heard of the expression 'fiddlesticks' but didn't know you can serve them. Something to eat maybe?
@@helenbartoszek243 it is an ice cream bar dipped in chocolate and rolled in peanuts. Back when my brother was doing the concession they had ice cream in sheets and would cut it in front of the customer.
@@georgeearls3338 Thanks !
Great video... sad in a way as well. We're looking at the results of a few hundred years of human presence. Apparently the generation before ours left behind a lot of glass and metal. All we'll leave behind is a ton of plastic. Sometimes, I shake my head at what we've become.
Thanks Nicola, that was fun. I have a couple of horseshoe crabs too!
You waffle Nicola never, you are always a pleasure to listen to. This was very interesting and thank you for sharing it! Cheers from Norfolk.
Absolutely love the video.
I simply can't believe the amazing things you find Nicola. The glass marble, the locket, the pocket knife shaped like a lady's leg! So fun!
Just catching this one tonight! So interesting all the stuff on Dead Horse Island! 💙
Love from the old lady in Texas God bless you
Hello Nicola this is glenna from wv USA. Yes those are eue trees on the ring. I also think the z is an n on its side, and the 2 eyes stand for see. So if read from bottom to top it would say see inside you. Meaning look into one's self for answers to life's questions. Very awesome find!
@Indiana Tones
Thank you for including the fauna and flora in your films. Thanks for being a friend to this lonely woman. God bless.
The knife is called a Rough Rider leg knife.they still make them
Smashing Nicola, loved the whole thing, till next time x. 👣🍁🇨🇦🐘🤗🧡
Thanks Nicola. Great video! The boot shaped knife is actually a bartender's tool. The boot heel opens bottles, there is also a corkscrew for wine corks and a knife blade for cutting the wax or paper seal around the top. Much Love
We’re they old?
@@lori8553 Not that old although some were made in the 80's. I still see them in catalogues occasionally. Much Love
So envious of your trip, think Lewis was your top find in this video! What a nice chap, he was very kind to give you those beautiful gifts.
I agree Karen! X
Thanks for the commercials! Love them! Haven't seen them before.
Wow Nicola. Congratulations on 136k subs. That’s great! ✌️ 🇺🇸
love watching these on a different beach
What a cool place to investigate. Thanks for the Vid!
Fun video, thank you.
Terrific finds Nicola, glad you got to meet the gang. So nice having you here in the states👋👍
Awesome! Good to see you in the US. You gave me a great interest in mudlarking and I thought all was gone here in the US. Thanks for this video. Very very cool.
Welcome to the US!! I hope you come to Texas sometime! We'd love to have you!
25:18
That bird toy is so cute
Penguin I mean
Welcome to the USA! Have fun, Nicola!
Loved the banter on Dead Horse. One of my favourite episodes of all. Well done Nicola. Loved it.
So many delightful finds in NYC. Thanks for your lovely videos. Love the inclusion of the natural sights and sounds.
Great video, so glad you found treasures while here in the states 😀. Thanks for taking us along!
😂 Those adverts were hilarious! Great finds, especially the book locket and Indiana Tones seems like a lovely man. I am really enjoying your trip to the USA 😀💗 x
Wow great finds!
WOW
Fun day🎊💝beautiful video✨
The little girl in the odd hat in that old TV ad for that vending machine toy or whatever it is was the actress, Patty Duke. She looks younger there than when she was in the 1962 movie "The Miracle Worker", for which she won an Acadamy Award as Helen Keller.
So interesting seriously.
I was so surprised to see the title of this video of you being in New York last year !!! That's wonderful that you come to our country the USA !!! Have you ever been to NC, you would love our coast & our favorite thing to collect off the beaches 🏖️ is seaglass of all shapes & colors & they are beautiful !!! There's other treasures to find also. Awesome you found a horseshoe crab. My daughter & I have touched a live one at our Nature Center in Asheville, NC & the animal person turned it over so we could see all it's little short legs & told us to feel of the legs & their legs were moving the whole time & we did & it tickles your fingers & hands 😅 !!! I think 🤔 that they look like an old army 🪖 helmet !!! You found a lot of interesting things Nicola & your friend too !!! Enjoyed your video very much !!! ❤️🙂
8:30 Nicola just unlocked Haagen Dazs!!!!! Silver Washington Quarter. Great find!
Hi Nicola! Just watched Merrill 's version of your visit with him in NYC too! ( : I love Horseshoe crabs! Not to swim with.ol, but they are fascinating! ( : They are direct descendents of dinosaurs in that they have not changed since then, so I have been told. I have a large. Full exoskeletons, a big and a small one as part of my sea treasures/she'll collection! ( :
Soooo much metal on the beach in NY! So many coins too! It's awesome! ( : Love the lead toy too, shame about all the missing heads though! ) : That knife handle has got to be done on purpose from that knife handle and I agree with Louis, it may be a bottle opener too! ( : Ooh...I love the crystal prisms that hang down on a chandelier! They are sooo gorgeous! ( :
I think the coin you found is very old, Nikola! ( : That palm tree broach is very cute! ( : Oh wow, that is a really lovely marble, Nicola! ( : Wow!! That locket is amazing! ( : And a beautiful, delicate little buckle! ( : Another marble?! You are getting your marble eyes on for sure! Yesssss! ( :
Great story about Louis finding a ring that was lost! ( : That's so funny people ask Louis to find their rings for them! Wow, that is sooo cool, that looks like an old gun. If it is heavy, I would guess it is real! ( :
I bet it was amazing to see the Queen's platinum Jubilee celebration! ( : Bummer about not saving the shark too! ) : Yayyyyyyy! Your horseshoe crab made it back home in one piece! I was afraid it might break! ( : They definitely do look like trilobites, I agree! ( :
That coin was definitely not a quarter! It is a NY world's fair GW commemorative coin?! Wow! ( : Uncle Sam 's play money from the 1950's! Sooo cool!! ( : Lol! That Roy Rogers hat was hilarious! ( :
Was used f7e; ) '
Those old ads were great!! Soo cheesy and funny! ( : William KornX! The amber bottle you found is really pretty, considering what it was used for! Lol! ) :
Yayyyyyyy! Another video in NYC! That's fantastic! I cannot wait! ( :
Thank you so much for sharing all these amazing finds from NYC! You definitely were not waffling either. Sweetie just joyfully sharing since amazing pieces you found! Sooo nice! ( : Love. Tracy ( : ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks Tracy xx
What a lovely lark some great find. Love the NY larks . Thank nicola
right after you found that first wheat penny you found an old police badge, thats cool!!!!!
…. Great video, … just waiting for the next one now 😁 ⏳ x
Thanks Nicola!!
It was a perfect atmospheric day with Louis, he mirrors your sweet calm nature. Some great finds, your palm tree sterling Silver brooch and the book locket…loved the seabird captures too! PS peace dollars are huge only made in silver, so that copper coin with the bust could be a commemorative presidential coin. Enjoyed this!
Thank you xx
I'm amused by how taken you are with the horseshoe crabs. They are EVERYWHERE here. (I live in New Jersey.). I guess you don't see them much in the UK? I always think they are so ugly. BUT, here is some more interesting information about them for you: Their blood is bright blue. And their blood is useful in looking for contaminants in vaccines. It's worth a google search. That locket was beautiful! What a great find! The only thing I can think of that PS would stand for is "public school". In NYC the schools are often numbered and a student might attend (I'm making this up) PS 124. And that world's fair coin was absolutely fascinating!!!! That was a GREAT find!
Years ago, I brought home a beautiful horseshoe crab shell from a vacation staying on the ocean on Cape Cod. It was absolutely huge - about a foot and a half long! It was in absolutely perfect condition (poor crab was dead and the soft body and legs gone).