I'm almost 100% the lead backed "tag" is a printing press plate, almost all the ones I have seen are lead backed and any image inside usually has designs on whatever object is being printed.
I thought so, too, when I saw it. So, maybe someone was a printer and had a press in an outbuilding, kept locked for security. Or an inventor of a thing with levers, who paid a newspaper to fashion an advertisement, and when the ad had run, the printer gave him/her the “original”. Either way, that might explain why the family could afford a “chandelier” and a cruet.
@@susanbdusan2785 Would explain a few things that's for sure, the one I have has a pocket watch ad on it, found on park property that used to be farm land.
Brad, I've been watching you for several years now and never missed a video, I love them all. However I always wish that you would have a short follow-up at the end showing the more interesting finds of that day , all cleaned up with any information you found out about them. Several other detectorists do this on their videos and it adds a very satisfying ending.
Great hunt! The 'spoon' is, I believe, half of a set of sugar tongs for putting sugar cubes in your cuppa tea. The handle could also be from a Tantalus, the common companion to the Cruet set that ensured at least your guests could get a drink. You need to remember that many household items were bought from a catalog and shipped, disassembled. To be put together on arrival - That does sound very familiar, doesn't it? Even pieces of large furniture. Sears Catalog memories.
Even house kits were sold in the Sears catalog between 1908 through 1940. We have a couple of really cute houses downtown that were bought and assembled on site.
The Sears catalog homes were called American Foursquare a, although they came in many sizes and layouts. They were assembled in the Midwest and sent, as a kit, by railcar to be assembled. I live in one in Vermont. They often have some Craftsman styling.
@@deirdreshaw2761 agreed! My wife and I almost bought one in Maryland after we got married. They are great homes and have several standard extensions. Solid and comfortable.
Hello from Ontario, Canada. I'm enjoying your videos a lot. I Detected for 25-30 years and think it's an amazing hobby. Just wish I was still doing it, but age got in the way. Got some great finds over the years though.
The printing block has or looks like a seed planter, my Grandparents were Sooner in Oklahoma, and had one similar to yours. It would dig a hole and the other handle was pulled to drop the seed or plant. From the late 1800 to the early 1900.
Interesting suggestion!!! Having seen the full sized signs you may be right. I grew up not far from the train station in my hometown. They did have some interesting signs
I love the way you try to figure out the story behind the artifacts. How did the padlock get broken? Why is the spoon modified? How did kids play with a toy gun? Etc., etc.😮
It's me again Brad. Great Hunt. Love the altered Spoon. Love the toy gun. I've never seen a double wick lamp either very nice piece. Congrats on the Silver Coins Wheaties and all the Relics. Take Care Brad
Hi Brad! The toy gun is a repeating rubber band gun. The end of the barrel has a sort of a "V" notch where a rubberband is stretched back above the trigger area and a spoked wheel holds the rubberband. The spoke is clicked back a notch and then another rubberband is loaded. More rubberbands are loaded until full. To fire, the trigger is pulled and launches a rubberband until it's empty. Basically a repeating semi automatic rubberband gun. I'm guessing 1950s to 1960s era. When was aluminum used for toys? After WWII? and when was rubberbands invented? Great channel Brad, thank you!
That small spoon may be what is known as a "salt spoon". It might seem out of place except for the presence of the Cruet Set Handle. Great site and well produced content.
That's the first thing I thought too, it's the right shape and size for an old fashioned salt spoon that was used prior to shakers. It would have accompanied a salt cellar, usually a small wooden box which would have been passed around to guests on the table.
The double wick thing is from a paraffin heater, set with a small blue flame and a T shaped chimney on top. I have one and it heats my green house in the winter, 1 gallon per week.
Hey Brad; those look like winch controls from a turn of the 19th/20th century winch. If they were logging out there it could be of that. The previous commenter said it looks like something from printing press but you have to ask yourself what would it be doing out there.
Hey Brad I've dug something similar to your mystery piece you found. Mine belongs to an Old Powder Pistol or Rifle. It's part of the plate where the Hammer ofthe gun would be. It looks like the ends of your piece is broken. Take Care Brad
Glad to see you out enjoying your summer and your Deus machine. Hope the family is well and thanks for posting another adventure Brad! Mike in sunny Florida
hi brad , another great day out detecting and always very informative , I've learnt so much by seeing what you find , as well as the beautiful areas you detect , thanks , rob from australia
I own a two wick lamp. They do throw more light. Used it extensively during a power outage 45 years ago here in Virginia. Has a typical clear chimney with a beautiful green shade. I think it was probably used in a typical 19th century parlor when guests came calling.
It always blows my mind that you can find coins & trinkets out in the middle of the woods. I picture in my mind how it must have looked without all the small trees..just the old large ones.
Hi Brad. Great video, they just get better and better. I love the music, the nature and scenery shots as well as the detecting . Keep it up and thanks. Andy
I'm always pleased to watch another adventure, thank you. I'm thinking the levered and lead backed piece may go with military insignia of some sort. Things made of sheet brass were often stiffened with a lead backing. Just a guess. Have a great day.
Some great finds, as always. I love to hunt these old walls also. I wish you to snap your finger and go back and see what it looked like when the people lost there items.
I think I remember that lever is from a farm tractor label for the gears and PTO but not sure. I just read other comments about the print plate is right but my Great Uncle had a tractor with thee same gear lever set up and a brass plate next to gear box.
Sweet woods hunt, Brad! I've not found a double wick lamp myself either. Now, that is on my bucket list. It looked so high-tech for back in those days.
I have a brass padlock identical to the one you found. But mine is complete. I didn't find mine in the woods. Got mine for 2$ at a yard sale years ago.
Good morning Brad. I love your videos and have a question. Do the people who invite you to their land expect you to give them the items you find, or do you get to keep them?
I’m pretty sure he’s mentioned it a couple times over the years but I believe they work it out before hand. Or he shows them what he found and gives them the option.
@@CaptAxolotlyou’re right. He has covered it and that’s how he handles it. The land owner gets shown everything and gets to choose if they want anything.
Just a guess, but I think the historical economic times may determine what you typically find in detecting old home sites. When times were very lean folks probably were a little more careful with their few possessions and less likely to misplace things, or one generation’s treasured items may not have held the same value as the succeeding occupiers of the property. As always, great video!
Very nice interesting finds with some silver plus that last piece. The double wick generator is a new one for me. That lead backed piece looks like it has 2 wheels on it. Probably a stamping print piece.
hey Brad I'm pretty sure the mystery item is a printing plate possibly a masonic item.....I've enjoyed watch your adventures as I have my morning coffee.....Quadra Island BC Canada....thanks Paul
The small spoon looks similar to a item I’ve seen used in chemistry for dispensing small amounts of chemical/pharmaceutical powder. The spoon is for dispensing and the spatula end is for making a paste.
Would love to see an image from that plate piece. Looks like some type of early sports equipment. I get a real kick out of identifying the flora and fauna that you photograph.
Hey Brad love your channel so to begin loved the series your did with Eddie i can't spell degrous lol where is the second one you teased lol... That's not the reason I'm leaving this comment you made excited about detecting i know 99.99 percent of signals are junk i have no dillusions of finding billy the kids jars of gold coins they say he buried in our area i live in fitchburg mass. Like 2 miles from the new Hampshire line. There are rumors that he buried gold up in these areas. That being said i love your way of doing vids so the last few weeks i have been looking for a detector that works and isn't so cheap.. middle range..i remembered my brother. That has money lol .. Got one like a year ago. So i asked him witch one he grabbed and he said a very cheap one... Lol he never used it still in the box so i asked him if he would sell it to me he said yes 40 bucks so that worked for me . He came buy the house i gave him the 40 bucks. And i got the box never used it was the nokta simplex plus with the blue tooth headphones so i was very happy this machine is ok not top of the line But for 40 bucks great deal so that being said i went on you tube and looked up best detectors for beginners. And the reasons I'm sending this comment is because yes the simplex was at number five. Lol there were a few other ones. Number was your machine if your still using the deuse2 (spelling,,). And the number one was a machine i forget the name but it was like a ctx 3030 not sure id that's it but it was 25 hundred bucks LMAO how is a25 hundred dollar machine for a beginner if you still use the dayus2 (again spelling) that's still 15 hundred bucks so in conclusion of this silly comment what do you think of the simplex plus. Thanks i watch every one of your vids Saturday morning with my coffee
This is so vicariously fun and interesting~! I have my first metal detector and stuff to go with and to protect it, within my view right now and completely unused. Care taking of an invalid just doesn't let me out...except through your eyes and thoughts. Sometime soon, though. For now, I detect in Vermont, soon in Oregon.Thanks.
I'm almost 100% the lead backed "tag" is a printing press plate, almost all the ones I have seen are lead backed and any image inside usually has designs on whatever object is being printed.
I believe your right on the printing press plate
That was my thought, too.
I thought so, too, when I saw it. So, maybe someone was a printer and had a press in an outbuilding, kept locked for security. Or an inventor of a thing with levers, who paid a newspaper to fashion an advertisement, and when the ad had run, the printer gave him/her the “original”. Either way, that might explain why the family could afford a “chandelier” and a cruet.
@@susanbdusan2785 Would explain a few things that's for sure, the one I have has a pocket watch ad on it, found on park property that used to be farm land.
Agreed. It was a permanent piece that was reused in different ads. Looked like a piece of farm machinery?
Brad, I've been watching you for several years now and never missed a video, I love them all. However I always wish that you would have a short follow-up at the end showing the more interesting finds of that day , all cleaned up with any information you found out about them. Several other detectorists do this on their videos and it adds a very satisfying ending.
Great suggestion
and like to see more on the deus settings an program you use
Please please! You peak my interest and then - - - I never get to know...
Suggestion : at the end of your weekly videos, include any updates on mystery items from the previous one.
Nice finds , I’m 80 so you’ve found things from my era.
Great hunt! The 'spoon' is, I believe, half of a set of sugar tongs for putting sugar cubes in your cuppa tea. The handle could also be from a Tantalus, the common companion to the Cruet set that ensured at least your guests could get a drink. You need to remember that many household items were bought from a catalog and shipped, disassembled. To be put together on arrival - That does sound very familiar, doesn't it? Even pieces of large furniture. Sears Catalog memories.
Even house kits were sold in the Sears catalog between 1908 through 1940. We have a couple of really cute houses downtown that were bought and assembled on site.
@@terryt.1643 that's right! We too have many Craftsman homes in our neighborhood.
The Sears catalog homes were called American Foursquare a, although they came in many sizes and layouts. They were assembled in the Midwest and sent, as a kit, by railcar to be assembled. I live in one in Vermont. They often have some Craftsman styling.
@@deirdreshaw2761 agreed! My wife and I almost bought one in Maryland after we got married. They are great homes and have several standard extensions. Solid and comfortable.
Hello from Ontario, Canada. I'm enjoying your videos a lot. I Detected for 25-30 years and think it's an amazing hobby. Just wish I was still doing it, but age got in the way. Got some great finds over the years though.
A dime and a penny! Makes cents! Love it!
This was a very cool video!!!!! Your '40's finds circled my birth year which made it more fun to watch.
The printing block has or looks like a seed planter, my Grandparents were Sooner in Oklahoma, and had one similar to yours. It would dig a hole and the other handle was pulled to drop the seed or plant. From the late 1800 to the early 1900.
Still a joy to watch,and your wrap up segment on your finds😊.
The picture of the levers remind me of the levers used for manually changing the track direction on a railway line.
Interesting suggestion!!! Having seen the full sized signs you may be right. I grew up not far from the train station in my hometown. They did have some interesting signs
Thank you for creating such insightful, thoughtful, quality, content. The best.
Top of the morning all. what a way to start the day, coffee some kind of danish . Brad on the 65 inch and me in my recliner wow! thanks Brad.
Love digging old locks. Miss the intricate details that were included on almost everything years ago.
I love the way you try to figure out the story behind the artifacts. How did the padlock get broken? Why is the spoon modified? How did kids play with a toy gun? Etc., etc.😮
Brad I’d love to see a video of your collection of lifetime finds. If you have a trophy room or display.
Yes!!!!
Me too!
I concur...
I'm 72 yrs young and like a kid, I can't wait see what you dig up Sir. Happy hunting.
let's go let's go treasure and adventure!✌👵
I just love the way you metal detector with what you find its just great.
It's me again Brad. Great Hunt. Love the altered Spoon. Love the toy gun. I've never seen a double wick lamp either very nice piece. Congrats on the Silver Coins Wheaties and all the Relics. Take Care Brad
Hi Brad! The toy gun is a repeating rubber band gun. The end of the barrel has a sort of a "V" notch where a rubberband is stretched back above the trigger area and a spoked wheel holds the rubberband. The spoke is clicked back a notch and then another rubberband is loaded. More rubberbands are loaded until full. To fire, the trigger is pulled and launches a rubberband until it's empty. Basically a repeating semi automatic rubberband gun. I'm guessing 1950s to 1960s era.
When was aluminum used for toys? After WWII? and when was rubberbands invented?
Great channel Brad, thank you!
Morning coffee with Brad❤
HEY! Good morning Brad and thumbs UP!!
The mystery find, to me looks like the inner workings of a very old lock. 🔒 Of some kind...... Awesome 👍
That small spoon may be what is known as a "salt spoon". It might seem out of place except for the presence of the Cruet Set Handle. Great site and well produced content.
That's the first thing I thought too, it's the right shape and size for an old fashioned salt spoon that was used prior to shakers. It would have accompanied a salt cellar, usually a small wooden box which would have been passed around to guests on the table.
I agree about it being a salt spoon.
The double wick thing is from a paraffin heater, set with a small blue flame and a T shaped chimney on top. I have one and it heats my green house in the winter, 1 gallon per week.
Well that's pretty cool too learn about, thank you for your info!!
Thanks again
Love your videos. Always informative and entertaining. Thank you
Like stepping back in time with every hunt you take us through- fantastic scenery and loads of history- well done!
I am continuously amazed with the quality of your photography!!
Great video Brad
Awesome finds Brad. The spoon looks like it had been modified to be a snuff spoon!
Another great video.
Great finds
Thank you Brad for the adventure , seeing beautiful scenery and sweet finds ! Take care , stay safe and healthy !
Great hunt 👍👍❤️
Love your vids.
Thank you!
Very nice finds. I love the double wick lantern piece. Thanks for sharing. What an amazing hobby.
Best intro on the internet.
Good morning from Copperhill Tn.
Great finds Brad! So interesting to see what you find And for the lovely nature 'pics' you show us. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures!
Yep love the nature shots too
Fun way to start my Friday! Love watching your hunts. Once again, thank you for sharing. Happy hunting.
I enjoyed the video, nice finds, I’ll catch you on the next one 🇺🇸
Love ur hunts,thanks
Hey Brad; those look like winch controls from a turn of the 19th/20th century winch. If they were logging out there it could be of that. The previous commenter said it looks like something from printing press but you have to ask yourself what would it be doing out there.
As always love your finds! Love history and things you find to go with it
Fantastic hunt. Thank you.✌❤
I LOVE the spoon!
Gotta love the silver and relics. That double wick lamp is sweet but that spoon id the star of the day.
Great finds. Still loving your channel.Happy swingin n diggin Brad.👍😘
Your adventures are so exciting and entertaining thanks
Hey Brad I've dug something similar to your mystery piece you found. Mine belongs to an Old Powder Pistol or Rifle. It's part of the plate where the Hammer ofthe gun would be. It looks like the ends of your piece is broken. Take Care Brad
Greetings from South Carolina
Glad to see you out enjoying your summer and your Deus machine. Hope the family is well and thanks for posting another adventure Brad! Mike in sunny Florida
hi brad , another great day out detecting and always very informative , I've learnt so much by seeing what you find , as well as the beautiful areas you detect , thanks , rob from australia
Congratulations Brad on your great finds . Many interesting finds Ty for sharing
Love watching you dig the old relics out of the ground so much history in what you do 👍👍. Great videos look forward to seeing the next adventure.
I own a two wick lamp. They do throw more light. Used it extensively during a power outage 45 years ago here in Virginia. Has a typical clear chimney with a beautiful green shade. I think it was probably used in a typical 19th century parlor when guests came calling.
Good morning and Happy Friday! Thank you Brad! ❤
Good afternoon from Portugal.
Maybe turned into a sugar spoon or a spoon to stir tea or coffee? Very cool finds.
Amazing finds there Brad
It always blows my mind that you can find coins & trinkets out in the middle of the woods.
I picture in my mind how it must have looked without all the small trees..just the old large ones.
I found a quarter shot with a 22. Still have it. Love the videos
love your videos really enjoy the shots 9of nature that you give to go along with them
Hi Brad. Great video, they just get better and better. I love the music, the nature and scenery shots as well as the detecting . Keep it up and thanks. Andy
I am hooked started watching and binged . Now I look forward to the Friday next. I had been to Vermont, Burlington to be exact .
I enjoyed your video.
great stuff thanks
As always love your hunts!
I agree that the mystery item is a printing block. The image looks like the mechanism from a casement window, perhaps?
I'm always pleased to watch another adventure, thank you. I'm thinking the levered and lead backed piece may go with military insignia of some sort. Things made of sheet brass were often stiffened with a lead backing. Just a guess. Have a great day.
Great stuff, Sweet home lolly Wolly love it man” keep up the great work❤
That lock is a Yale & Towne. It was a beautiful Gold Plated design. Worth around $250 in good condition
Always enjoy your videos
Thank God it Friday Brad day thanks😊
i love hunting in the woods .. great video
Some great finds, as always. I love to hunt these old walls also. I wish you to snap your finger and go back and see what it looked like when the people lost there items.
Good Morning Brad !!!!!
Could the spoon have been modified to be a measuring spoon?
Snuff?
A medicine spoon - apothecary?
I think I remember that lever is from a farm tractor label for the gears and PTO but not sure. I just read other comments about the print plate is right but my Great Uncle had a tractor with thee same gear lever set up and a brass plate next to gear box.
Interesting finds!
I actually had one of those brass Yale locks beautiful working condition with the key and yes they are heavy locks
Sweet woods hunt, Brad! I've not found a double wick lamp myself either. Now, that is on my bucket list. It looked so high-tech for back in those days.
I have a brass padlock identical to the one you found. But mine is complete. I didn't find mine in the woods. Got mine for 2$ at a yard sale years ago.
Hey Brad, I also think the mystery object is a printing press plate. To me the motive looks like a part of a broken wooden pasture fence 😅 Nice finds!
Hmmm interesting
Good morning Brad. I love your videos and have a question. Do the people who invite you to their land expect you to give them the items you find, or do you get to keep them?
I always wondered that.
Me too
I’m pretty sure he’s mentioned it a couple times over the years but I believe they work it out before hand. Or he shows them what he found and gives them the option.
@@CaptAxolotlyou’re right. He has covered it and that’s how he handles it. The land owner gets shown everything and gets to choose if they want anything.
In a previous video - he said that yes, he turns over his finds and gives them the option/choice.
Just a guess, but I think the historical economic times may determine what you typically find in detecting old home sites. When times were very lean folks probably were a little more careful with their few possessions and less likely to misplace things, or one generation’s treasured items may not have held the same value as the succeeding occupiers of the property. As always, great video!
Very nice interesting finds with some silver plus that last piece. The double wick generator is a new one for me. That lead backed piece looks like it has 2 wheels on it. Probably a stamping print piece.
hey Brad I'm pretty sure the mystery item is a printing plate possibly a masonic item.....I've enjoyed watch your adventures as I have my morning coffee.....Quadra Island BC Canada....thanks Paul
The small spoon looks similar to a item I’ve seen used in chemistry for dispensing small amounts of chemical/pharmaceutical powder. The spoon is for dispensing and the spatula end is for making a paste.
Thank you for the information!!!
The duplex wick could be from a paraffin heater.
I remember having one in my bedroom in winter back in the 70's in rural Scotland
Nice lantern part
Would love to see an image from that plate piece. Looks like some type of early sports equipment. I get a real kick out of identifying the flora and fauna that you photograph.
Your cruet set handle could also be from a cake plate. Handle screws into the middle and small cakes and pastries around it. I have such a plate.
If you have a stamp pad, stamp the plate and show us the image. Very cool finds.
Hey Brad love your channel so to begin loved the series your did with Eddie i can't spell degrous lol where is the second one you teased lol... That's not the reason I'm leaving this comment you made excited about detecting i know 99.99 percent of signals are junk i have no dillusions of finding billy the kids jars of gold coins they say he buried in our area i live in fitchburg mass. Like 2 miles from the new Hampshire line. There are rumors that he buried gold up in these areas. That being said i love your way of doing vids so the last few weeks i have been looking for a detector that works and isn't so cheap.. middle range..i remembered my brother. That has money lol .. Got one like a year ago. So i asked him witch one he grabbed and he said a very cheap one... Lol he never used it still in the box so i asked him if he would sell it to me he said yes 40 bucks so that worked for me . He came buy the house i gave him the 40 bucks. And i got the box never used it was the nokta simplex plus with the blue tooth headphones so i was very happy this machine is ok not top of the line But for 40 bucks great deal so that being said i went on you tube and looked up best detectors for beginners. And the reasons I'm sending this comment is because yes the simplex was at number five. Lol there were a few other ones. Number was your machine if your still using the deuse2 (spelling,,). And the number one was a machine i forget the name but it was like a ctx 3030 not sure id that's it but it was 25 hundred bucks LMAO how is a25 hundred dollar machine for a beginner if you still use the dayus2 (again spelling) that's still 15 hundred bucks so in conclusion of this silly comment what do you think of the simplex plus. Thanks i watch every one of your vids Saturday morning with my coffee
This is so vicariously fun and interesting~! I have my first metal detector and stuff to go with and to protect it, within my view right now and completely unused. Care taking of an invalid just doesn't let me out...except through your eyes and thoughts. Sometime soon, though. For now, I detect in Vermont, soon in Oregon.Thanks.
The instrument that looks like a baby spoon actually looks like an old doctor prod,used to hold your tongue down so you can see the throat
Interesting finds, Brad!! That mystery item looks kind of like a plow, but just a guess...... I'm happy to have met you in NC Digstock.