I Found an Amazing Artefact in the Thames .But What does it mean!? Mudlarking with Nicola White
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I love a good mystery and in this video there are two wonderful mysterious artefacts that I found very recently in the River Thames. I was shocked when I found the first one and I would love to know the meaning behind it. Several ideas have been suggested to me but no-one really knows so far! Can you help me to ID them? If so, please comment in the comments section below this video.
Also during this video I am distributing 20 messages in bottles in London with a surprise inside with a view to sharing some Christmas Kindness. Did you find one? If so, please email me on nicola.white@tidelineart.com and let me know!
Thank you for watching! I wish you a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
If you are tempted to try mudlarking you do need a permit from the Port of London Authority and currently they are not issuing any more permits. We will see if this changes in due course.
You can follow me on twitter and instagram and facebook (yes, way too many social media platforms!). you'll find me @tidelineart and on fb Im Nicola White Tideline Art
Take care and see you again soon!
Nicola
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Happy Christmas dear Nicola! You look fabulous enveloped in gold. A few thoughts about your finds: The clay female figure has a Mary Magdalene vibe about it, which is in marked contrast to a Virgin Mary figure. The triangular jewel has a mid 20th century vibe to it. Are there hallmarks? Have you acquainted yourself with local jewelers of that era? As an adjunct to your beautiful kindness project, I'm a tireless genealogical researcher and whenever I can identify a town or village my ancestors are from, I go to Google Maps and they always show me where the nearest pub is. I want to contact a pub and donate either a pint or a meal to their patrons who are either alone or without a place to go. Do any of your followers want to join me on this exercise?
That is so kind Chris. Thank you very much.
Virgin marry or a pagan fertility statue, but it has that style of the common "Mary" depiction......I'd say for sure one or the other but more than likely it's a not good carved Mary is my guess
no Mary virgin that is black magic figure...nothing to do with religion...
Maybe this little figurine is a votive statuette - Roman or later. It could be related to the healing or the hope of healing of an illness of the lower stomach or of the womb.
Goldsmith/appraiser here. The brooch had a bezel set centre stone, probably glass, I'd be willing to bet you've got an old hat or scarf pin from the 50's or 60s. Merry Christmas Nicola!
Since I couldn't participate in your wonderful bottles of kindness, I did a "virtual message in a bottle" from across the pond in NH, USA. I sent the $5.00 (sorry; not pounds) to our local food pantry, which does so much in our community. I had a link, but I can't attach it here.
Hope the coming year brings you peace, joy and prosperity, Nicola!
Thank you so much Daniel! ❤️
The idea is certainly catching on. I will try it here in South Australia
Looks like you found an angel on the sand!Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to the Fair Lady of Mudlarking. Looking forward to the 2023 treasures you will be discovering!
Hi merry Christmas!!!! Hoping your holiday dinner was fabulous! The item that looked like 3 thistles bundled is a military cap pin. I was watching a video of Si Finds where you are both detecting and someone found a cap pin that was complete but what you found is a piece of it. I think the video was 5 months ago. Love your channel. Thank you for sharing your fun with us!!!!
Happy Christmas to you and your family and to squirrel also. ❤
Hello Nicola, happy holidays. The ornament with the missing stone looks like a brooch that you could wear on your neck with a silk scarf or something similar. I also think the bent lip was purposely created so that you could tie the scarf around it so that it was right side up.
Merry Christmas Nicola, it's Boxing Day here in Australia so it's day that you catch up on great videos and wish that you hadn't eaten or drank so much!
I so love commercials this time of year guys
Hay Nicole. If you get any information on the women figurerine please let us know. Thank you. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍.
Pretty confident that the female figurine is an erotic pipe tamper. I didn't see an exact match in my very short image search, but there were some similar. The triangle thing is the top of a hat pin. Again I didn't find an exact match but if you do a Google image search for "triangle hatpin" you'll see others. When I first saw those bottles I thought you would throw them in the river! I hope you get some replies. It was a lovely thing to do. Happy New Year!
Hi Nicola merry Christmas!❤️❄️ the ivory figurine you've discovered is a chinese medical model for doctors usually from the 50s! The ladies would use it to point out and show the location of the pain!! The complete ones have a wooden bed where is attached to on a laying down position ❤️❤️ I love it!!
Oh wow, I forgot about that. Good catch.
Wow!!!
What a fascinating little figure.
My thoughts exactly, my father has a larger one, six inches long, he picked it up when he was overseas in the early sixties, it’s made of ivory and lays on carved wooden base.
I, too, thought that she might be an anatomical model, especially for gynecological issues. I saw a similar ivory figurine on one of the US shows devoted to people finding odd objects.
Thank you everyone for your amazing comments and ID suggestions! I so appreciate them. Thanks too for your Christmas wishes. Sendng you all much love. Im looking forward to sharing the results of the messages in bottles experiment! :) Love Nicola xxx
Hi Nicola. I found one of your unidentified objects. It is indeed part of a hat insignia as shown in this video starting at about 6:00 ruclips.net/video/DreN0ohtszk/видео.html. Much Love ❤
@@janpenland3686 thank you for that.
I think you may find that she is a decoration for a cocktail glass, my mother saved two they got on there honeymoon in the early sixties but this could be older
Nice clay pipe! Now you have to find the original box and it's a nice display item! I guess it's over 100 years old?
@@janpenland3686 you're very confused my friend.
Merry Christmas Nicola! I never thought I would spend a year as a widow, but this isn't my first Christmas alone, with the others in my household off with family, but last Christmas my wife was in hospital, and getting worse... So, watching you this morning helped make the morning so much better. I will go out to her parent's later and give them each a little gift. Her mother never much liked me, but I'm trying to kill her with kindness.
I’m so sorry you’ve lost your wife. I have been alone for many years and I know it’s tough. Sending you blessings.
Hope you are blessed with kindness in 2023.
@@jennifermorrison229 Thank you so much. I couldn't believe I ever even got married, but there were some complicated reasons, mostly dealing with money.
@@joellenmeek658 Thank you, I am hoping I don't lose any cats in '23, but I'm keeping an eye on my oldest since she's too feral to take to the vet.
Bless you, love your sense of humour though...I too am alone, I am also battling bowel cancer which is a bit of a worry..I actually do have two grown sons but I am estranged from one and as yet at 6.30pm have not heard from the other ... I'm not an awful person or anything, I'm just very quiet and think I get forgotten...but I'm also very aware there are many words off than I am and I send you all love, strength and hope for a wonderful new year...things can only get better can't they?
Thank you Nicola for your very welcome company....xxx 🇬🇧🎄💖🎄🇬🇧
I once saw aceramic figurine of a mature woman made in China. I was told that it was used by the woman patient to point out the location of her ailment , very modestly, to the doctor. Furthermore, I was told that there were a variety of these figurines , each one specific to a part of the body.
Yes that's what I thought of when I saw it, though it looks European rather than Chinese. She certainly looks pregnant, perhaps it might have been a votive offering thrown into the river by a woman hoping to bear a child, but I'm not an expert so I'm only guessing.
I was just about to say the same. franc may be right either. Maybe it's for prudish Victorians copying the Chinese idea for pregnant women seeing a male doctor.
I just recently subscribed to your channel, and "binge watched" several of the videos. But I wonder, have some of the finds that you couldn't identify, the mystery finds, finally been identified or explained? Could you do a video on that?
Love the channel and especially the way you present it. I always have to smile when you sing "exciting!" 🙂
Happy Christmas and a happy New Year!
Nicola's excitement for the adventure and thrill of discovery is like a magnet for me.
My work holds the same thrill and adventure, but in remote locations.
This is why youtube can be so awesome, non Hollywood, real people doing real things.
Merry Christmas, and best in the new year to you too.
Merry Christmas!
I think the figurine you found may be a representation of Venus or Aphrodite. There are many similar statues where she is seen with breasts bared and holding up one side of her dress.
Hope your New Year brings more wonderful finds!
I still wonder if the lady is a medical assistant. could she have been used to communicate with non-verbal or non-english speaking women about exam or symptoms? Anyway, perhaps a mystery and secret is a good thing to remain. Perhaps the museum folks will figure it out. Thank you for a wonderful year filled with adventure. Wishing you a peaceful new year and many great excavations
That's a fantastic thought. I've only ever seen those type of little dolls once in a documentary.
I think the triangular object with glass stones is the top of an Edwardian hatpin. It looks quite Art Nouveau, which would be right for the time when hats were enormous, and showy decorative hatpins were fashionable. Also, you showed a find on a recent Si Finds video of a silver item that you thought had been bashed about by the Thames. I think it is a novelty pillbox in the shape of a brazil nut. If you google "silver brazil nut pillbox" you will easily find images of similar pieces.
Thank you!
I believe it is a fashionable ladies turban pin from the 1920’s
Yes I thought the triangular piece might be the top of a hat pin too 🙂
Came here for this. I purchased what was labeled as a button with that exact extension from an estate. I really believe what I had, and what Nicola found, are hat pins.
It does have that “Third Eye” appearance.
Nicola, thank you for being you. So many wonderful experiences shared. Christmas joy to you and all.
Were have I been, I have never heard that Christmas song before. I loved it. And I love watching you find all the amazing treasures. Thank you Nicola.
ITS a Christmas angel the knot is the head two wings a Halo YOU can get the rest...A very nice find on Christmas.
Maybe the tiny clay woman was a figurehead on a model ship. Merry Christmas!
Object at 20:49 is the end of an Edwardian hat pin. The pin would have been very long to accommodate the large hats that were fashionable.
Merry Christmas and happy new year. Just rejoining your channel after three months. Was hospitalized for a injured right leg and Covid 19 for three months. Hopefully you and your family are well. Will enjoy watching your video today! Cheers Nicola! ❤😊
Your beautiful little figurine reminds me of the figurines that oriental women used to indicate where their pain or trouble was for a doctor, who wasn't allowed to examine them except through. a drape.
Thank you Nicola for the love, compassion and generosity you give to the world, and the [passion for walking through the frozen mud in search of neat finds, it makes Sunday a treat for me. I hope you've gone to sleep this Christmas night full of love and joy. Sending you love from Maine
Kind of wild to think that you're the first person to hold some of these items in 100-200 years.
I loved the quick-walking tour of London as you placed the bottles! Even if only one is opened/read and responded to -- it will be fascinating to see how it works out! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year, Nicola! Thank you for _all these wonderful mudlarking videos_ you've made and this is absolutely great! You have enriched our lives with your finds of items we never even seen before, and my young daughter is fascinated. She sends her love to you as do I. 😊😊💝💞
Enriched our lives??? Lols
6:55 the lady holding her stomach is most likely an offering thrown into the river for good luck or protection, the fact the woman is holding her hand over her stomach might indicate that i was given as offering to protect her either during child birth and or pregnancy
Thank you for the Christmas joy, Nicola, for the footage, and the messages - sharing Christmas cheer! PS: Hope you are out showing that fabulous outfit a good time!
Thank you for the surprise Christmas video, Nicola! What with your family coming, I certainly didn't expect anything this week. I hope you enjoyed seeing your Mum and the kids and grandbaby. You are such a treasure, Nic, and do indeed hold history in your hand each week for all of us to share. Looking forward to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2023!
Happy Christmas Nicola. Might the Brooch-like ornament be a clasp from an evening (hand)bag? That’s what it looked like to me. The little figurine looks like a naive sort of gent’s pocket amusement….can imagine sailors in a tavern, giggling over it! Other than that I would say fertility symbol although I would have expected it to have a swollen belly. Looking forward to seeing what feeds back from tour bottle project. Thanks for all your interesting blogs. Good luck for fruitful mudlarking in 2023 x
First thing I thought of when you found the triangular object was a catch for a handbag. The whole thing looks quite robust and the projection on the back had a fairly deep groove all round which would snap into a lightly sprung catch on the front of the main part of the handbag. The mounting on the front probably held a semiprecious stone.
Have a great time over the rest of the holiday.
Nicola, you are an amazing person who brings plenty of joy to others and spread it all over. Thank you for being such a nice person. In today's societies with so much hate and violence, it is easy to forget about the few really wonderful people like you who still exist. I wish you a happy New year of more joy and wonderment, good health, and more mysterious finds.
Happy Holidays Nicola, i've been watching you forever from the state of Ohio here in the USA. I go on many adventures myself, do a lot of bottle digging and metal detecting and i think we all kind of have the same time of spirit, that just gets giddy at finding and saving something historic. I have watched you pull out hundreds of those pipes it seems like and i just have dreams of going there finding one and using it to smoke out of for the rest of my life..lol have you ever found any that you think could still be used? Happy hunting and happy holidays you beautiful soul.
The little lady is wonderful, and the 'broach-like' item makes me think of some sort of hair ornament. All in all, great finds... Merry Xmas!
Your videos are always my private time. There wasn't much of that on Christmas day (I'm very blessed) and so I'm watching this on Dec. 26 in Texas, USA while drinking hot tea. Your videos are always a treat and the music that you chose was lovely. Thanks for my weekly virtual trips abroad.
What a treat to see the foreshore today!! Love bottle stoppers....why??? I bought an old apothecary jar at an estate sale full of beautiful glass stoppers! Wishing you a blessed Christmas from across the pond! Thank you for putting up this video today, Nicola! X
The badge with the three loops and the rope tassels, is part of an Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry cap badge, you have it upside down 🙂
Merry Christmas to you and your family Nicola! Thank you for sharing this video with us today, it sure brightened up my day. Many of us spend the holidays alone and it is wonderful to see your beautiful video this morning. It almost feels as though we are celebrating with you. I just love your “Message in a Bottle” idea and anxiously look forward to see the responses you will receive. Also, you look lovely in your Christmas attire. I especially admire your earrings! Sending you big hugs and much love from Tennessee.
Closing out another Christmas evening watching you and your adventures. I read some of the comments and you bring many people joy. Keep living your best life and thank you for sharing a bit of it with us. Merry Christmas. ❤️❤️❤️
Great video, nicola very merry Christmas to you
Oh My Lady!! My HeaRt Absolutely Leaped for JOY!! GOD BLESS Ya Beautiful Lady to You & Your LOVING Family ;] Charles Dickens would be Absolutely Filled with Christmas Cheer!! ;] Honestly…King Charles should Make You ‘Dame Nicola White’ The Queen of Thames MudLarking Pipes ;] ~HAPPY CHRISTMAS~ 🎄 ~HAPPY CHRISTMAS~ 🎄 “‘All the Best in 2023 “Let’s Hope it’s a Good One”
Oh,what a delightful gift you and your channel are! The beautiful scenery and music is just magical..I can't express how much I truly love you, your work and the history you bring to life..A very Merry Christmas Nicola, good health and happiness for you and yours and the UK..love from Ontario, Canada
Happy Christmas Joanne, from Dorset UK. Nicola is lovely isn't she x
Double Thistle & Wheat-sheaf! So, it may well represent Farmers of Scotland? Or possibly, a pub by that name.
Or more believable, The Logo For A Scottish pub, affixed to a Beer Pump,
or affixed to A personal Pewter drinking Tankard, that were often left hanging above the bar?
or, a logo placed Above a Door??
What a warm and generous spirit you are, Nicola! Thank you for the many wonderful videos that are totally addictive and super fun. Happy New Year from the USA!
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Merry Christmas, Nikola! I think your messages in bottles is a great idea and I’m looking forward to the videos you may get from this. I was wondering if the little figurine could have been a doctors “ modesty doll” which were often mounted on wood and instead of the patient have the doctor examine her, would point to the part of the doll where the problem was. Thanks again for another great video! 🤗
That was my thought, too. Isn't that a Chinese custom? Don't know why I think that, but think I saw it somewhere.
I am watching this in July 2024. Nicola, you are so cool! Good Night to All!
Merry Christmas Nicola and family. Thank you for another year of awesome mudlarking adventures!
Derek N from Oregon.😊❤☃️
Happy Christmas to you too! Greenwich Park looked lovely with all the snow. Thank you for the video!
Hello, from New Zealand, Nicola & followers. What a delightful idea to drop these Christmas surprises all over town. It's a gift for all of us, the finder who gives it to the final recipient, then all the way back to us via you, the results surely being a thrill for all. I love that. A happy New Year to all
Omg the bottles!!!! You had me sobbing at the idea of it and your unbridled joy at leaving your little blessings all over town for your fellow Londoners.
I wish you the best for upcoming new year!!!
❤️
Merry Christmas Nicola!🤞
hello nicola its detectorist daz from eastwood nottingham just to say your amazing at what you do mudlarking on the themes [ would love to do mudlarking but where i live its a minors town dh lawence town .i do metal detect but is very hard to get permissions.any have a lovely xmas love detectorist daz.
What a wonderful, generous thing to do at this time of year! I hope, as you do, that at least some of the bottles end up bringing something good to someone out there. And you gave us a whirlwind tour of spots in London that, even as far away as my little town in Wisconsin, USA, we are familiar with. I hope one day to see them!
I hope 2023 is a fantastic year for you!
What a great video again. Thank you Nicola, do hope a bottle floats to Australia, what a wonderful idea.
Merry Christmas Nicola. You’ve been a real bright spot throughout the year. Wishing a very happy mud larking new year to you. I can’t wait to see your next batch of finds 😊
Hello Nicola..!!🙂 I find this videonof you very charming..!👏👏 Thank you for your nice pictures following the Thames, ...🐍🪿🦢🦭 I adore. Ithe little statue..is sulfurous attitude, i know.!!😮 Nice end ofvideo on christmas bottles..🩷 au revoir Nicola..Greeting from France.🤗🇫🇷🇪🇸
Merry Christmas, Nick! Very enjoyable outing, thank you. As to what you referred to as a ‘thistle’, it looks more like the small ropes, knotted in the middle, then a further knot near the end of each tassel. If you look closely under zoom, you can clearly see the twists in each rope.
Such a lovely broadcast. You have outdone yourself! Blessings!
Got to two seconds and clicked the like button, as usual. You are an inspiration to me and many many others. Keep on keeping on Nicola. x
What marvelous earrings, thank you Nicola. Best of holidays
Merry Christmas, Nicola, and Happy New Year. May the new year bring you greater than ever treasures. I have found a channel I think you will like checking out some of his videos. his name is "Dan Hurd" He is in Canada and he has come across garnets in a river that has them laying in the water. Also, an Island in Hawaii has a beach covered in peridot gemstones.
I'm in Hawaii, what island are the gems? If it is on my island I'll take a look!!! Lol Merry Christmas!!!
@@HiSkippy the peridot beach is on the big island.
@@HiSkippy You have to watch his video, I don't remember.
Nicola, thank you for your kindness! Here in America, we could use a bit of that. I am a huge Tudor History nut in Pensacola, Florida. I keep away from our knackered times by hanging out vicariously in the 15th and 16th century. I love seeing all the cool things. I'll probably never make it to Britain, but thanks for bringing a bit of that to me. Plus, mudlarking in Florida would be downright deadly, unless we had the three days of lower teens around Christmas! Otherwise, we have spiders, snakes and all the nasty things that can downright ruin your day. Happy New Year!
Wow...what a great project!
You are amazing!!!🥰👍
Looking forward to hear more about how it worked out...May the new year give you a lot of love and great things...greetings from Sweden🇸🇪
That was really nice of you to put those bottles out. I feel most people will do what you asked and help someone less fortunate. That’s two gifts in one. One for the recipient and one for the giver. You looked very happy too!
I love the joy and wonder you have in this life. You shower these feeling everywhere you go, making the day better than it would be otherwise. Happy Christmas, and may the blessings you spread be returned to you tenfold.
Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad. Great video, excited to see about your messages in a bottle. Amazing how you always find a spectacular clay pipe. Continue enjoying the season and hopefully your family. 🎄☃️🎅🎊❄️🎉🎠🐕🇺🇸
Happy Christmas and have a wonderful New Year Nicola!
I love the Christmas Kindness message in the bottles Nicola. What a great way to share. See you in the next year/video. Hugs from The Netherlands.
Hey, Nicola! It occurred to me that you might enjoy having a jeweler’s loupe. It will help you examine items really close up in detail. Get a 10 power buyer’s loupe. Maybe, if you have not done this already, find an ultrasonic cleaner. They usually come with a basket to immerse an object in a detergent water solution. I worked for a manufacturing jeweler at one time, and we used it to clean polish off jewelry.
Merry Christmas Nicola, in one of your video's did I see you wearing a Canadian toque in the snow? What a gracious young lady you are doing with all bottle's, I thought you were going to throw them in the Thames, but, what a surprise leaving in different locations around London, there are so many homeless people out there and they deserve to have a Christmas joy as well, hopefully people will think about them. What a beautiful ending to your video having a boat ride on the Thames with all the lovely lights. See you next year, have a wonderful New Year. Neil.
Happy Christmas Nicola 🎄 What a wonderful idea with bottles, can't wait to see the responses! It was so great to see your mom and dad on Manchester Mudlarks live. They are the sweetest! ❤
How cool are those bottles!! What a wonderful idea!! And if someone finds them and sends a video…..this is very special. Hope you have and have had a beautiful Christmas Nicola! This is very cool!
Thank you for another year full of wonderful finds, Nicola! This channel is such a joy to watch.
I enjoy your mudlarking, I enjoy your wildlife ( it’s very special). I enjoy your back-in-
Hi Nicola, from Grapevine, TX. I’ve been really depressed lately and this vid has brought my spirit up.😊 Watching you find amazing stuff is soothing. This vid has it all finds, animals, holidays, field trip, Xmas music and a treasure hunt. I hope that your Xmas/New Year went well. G_d bless you for what you do, much love to you and your family. - Ehm in Grapevine USA.
*Kia ora (hello) Nicola, what a very generous thing you did with all 20 bottles. I sure hope you do get 20 great responses back. I hope you had a great xmas day with your family... and we will see you again in the new year. Lets all hope 2023 is a much better year. Lets all travel safe out there on the roads over the xmas holiday season. so lets all keep the rubber side down and shiny side up, from this kiwi across the oceans down in Aotearoa New Zealand.*
Love your well made videos and narration! Your enthusiasm and curiosity is contagious . Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!🎄 Thank you for a wonderful year of treasure hunting! It’s always a joy to tag along with you!💕Tennessee Nana
Warmest regards Nicola, hope your studio dinner was as fabulous as you are! Hugs from snowy Vancouver Island 🇨🇦 Pamela Oh, need to add that your bottle idea is wonderful, what a terrific idea, I'm inspired to try something similar! And, perhaps the sparkly triangular object was a decorative shoe buckle, most of the bit where it would clip on is missing, I've seen some very similar to this one 😀. ❤️
I live in Prince Edward Island we had no snow until today, but had some horrible winds up to 120kph., I love watching Nicola's videos, makes the day worthwhile, Merry Christmas from the East coast.
Shoe decoration was my guess.
I love your bottle project! I have done random acts of Christmas with my children since they were small! This year I have been knitting hats and scarves to give away as it has been so cold. Much love from Canada!
Nicola I have loved your videos for all the things you’ve taught me about history but your beautiful heart is what holds me here!! How I love what you’ve done with the bottles! Spreading kindness in this sad world today speaks volumes to me about you and your character. You’ve inspired me to do random acts of kindness in the coming new year! I’m sure you’ve wondered why I always refer to you as my friend I’ve yet to meet, well this video is the perfect example of why! I try to surround myself with kind, positive people and you are definitely one of those kinds of folk! Happy Christmas my friend I’ve yet to meet!! May your new year be filled with love and blessings!! Much love from DeeAnn🇺🇸🎄🎁
Thank you ❤️
What a lovely surprise in Aug 2023!Nicola running around beautiful London on a blessing run. Would love to know what the results were. Do you have video about that?
Thank you for the joy you deliver in each of your videos. This retired lady appreciates all you get up to.
Blessings + love, wendy
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and much love to you, Nicola! I wish you good health, peace, and joy for 2023. ❤️ From Kentucky
It was worth a watch just seeing you running around placing the bottles. You really looked like you had a great time. Merry Christmas 🎁
Another beautiful present from you to the community around you and beyond, Nicola! I hope you get lots of people responding to your act of generosity, by sending you a video of how they spread some holiday cheer to someone who truly could use it. Brilliant idea! I just know they won’t let you down! Happy New Year!❤❤Jan and Dave
Such a nice, unique social experiment!🤗 I am excited as well to see what kind of reactions you will get!!!! Thank you btw for the lovely tour of London! A city that is on my bucket list to visit….Wonderful finds and video, Nicola. You are a true sweetheart(one of a kind ♥️) May 2023 be the luckiest year ever for you…Blessings and love send from Canada🙏🏼🍀🫶🏼👋🏼🇨🇦
In my opinion I believe at 21:41 you have a representation of a “straw dolly” or “corn dolly” which was a good luck symbol made at the end of the harvest. Although it looks like rope, it’s actually twisted straw which were formed into various symbols including “corn maidens”. A very appropriate find for the new year!
Merry Christmas! Much love from.upstate New York!
Nicola, I have often wondered if the clay pipes were sold with tobacco already in the bowl? Could you address this in a future video?
I will. But yes sometimes they were prefilled
Thank you for sharing your kindness through out your city. I hope you are pleasantly surprised by the outcome and encourage others to do a little more than they would normally. We all could use a little more kindness in our lives :) Hope you have a wonderful New Years!
Have you ever seen the video from a few years ago that was Joshua Bell. He’s a world class violinist. He played in s public place and it seemed like no
one noticed !!!! A few people did but sadly most just walked by- sad
But on that note , good luck with your project!❄️
Thank you
Absolutely loved this, thank you! Your finds were awesome and your message in a bottle drops in London was inspired. Mostly though just seeing the London landmarks and river were gorgeous and nostalgic.
If you watch The Lighthouse by Robbert Eggers, Robert Pattersons charactor has a similar figurine he carries around with him.
Oh so interesting thank you!!
Your videos are so wonderful on so many levels and for so many reasons. You are a National Treasure.
The appeal of your channel is its normality, no fluff.
Beautiful footage from around London! I don't how people who seen the bottles could resist opening them. Anyone who finds ine and can be a part of this experiment will be very fortunate.