Find After Find Mudlarking the Thames BUT Can you See What I Missed? (I Bet You Can't!!) May 2024
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It's only when I watched the footage that I spotted something I missed! But Can You? I walked right over it. I bet you can't :). What a bumper day on the Thames mudlarking with Oscar Potter, the Otter Mudlark. Also, I find something - my favourite find of the day, that I have restored by my friend Christine. What do you think of the transformation?
As always thank you for watching and don't forget that if you want to try mudlarking you have to have a permit from the Port of London Authority.
See you Soon.
Love Nicola xxx
Beautiful colorways by Christine in the restored brooches. Sensitive approach.
Great finds.
So restful watching you poke around and come up with all those intriguing finds.
Love the little fox, and seeing all the bird activity along the river. Thanks!
All the best from The States.
I am visiting London in August and my sister got tickets for us to go on a mudlarking excursion at the Millennium bridge! I told her about watching your videos and that is why we are going!
Intresting.
I hope you both have a wonderful time. Hope the weather is kind during your visit. Best wishes from an always slightly wetter Scotland! 😂
I'm jealous!
I am green with envy! Hope you have amazing finds
I hope you each find a wonderful clay pipe bowl WITH WORDS AND/OR DESIGNS 😃🤞🤞🤞
Wow! Christine did such a beautiful job!!!
Hi Nicola, I live in Wiltshire near the Dents factory, there were many glovers here about back in the day. Many of my friends and neighbours Mums and Grannies were out-workers, stitching the soft leather at home to boost the family's income. Glove making is much more complicated than you would imagine, the local history society occasionally has talks on the subject.
Now I’ve just seen the end of your video and you shared Oliver’s face , I can see why you offered him to share “your hot- spot “ . Im still giggling over that thank you much ❤️.
😂 I didn't realise what I'd said!
Nicola, I'm wondering if you might comment on the Port of London Authority stopping the issuing of Permits to search the Foreshore. I was all set to visit London and discovered the Permits were no longer being issued. Sad in Vancouver, Canada
It is a toy gun mechanism, the pin in the circular chamber is for a roll of "caps" and the pawl is the mechanism that pulls the caps under the hammer to make the bang! Good find!
Phil
i wouldnt have guessed it was from a toy! it looked too well made. good i.d.!
I can smell this comment!
I think you'll find it's from a toy Winchester rifle.
@@Eyeball1975 I loved the smell of caps...
@@257lennygJust like the one I had as a youngster in the 1950s.
What a great video! Really enjoyed seeing yours and Oscar’s finds. Especially loved your time with Christine and her fur baby. Watching someone create such a beautiful transformation of a river worn piece is true entertainment. The colour selection brought those pieces back to life. Her talent is evident in her work. I know you will cherish these even more now. Thank you for sharing. Have a great weekend and keep safe. 😊🇨🇦
You got me looking here in the USA!! I can't believe my finds!! Love your videos and love your kindness !!
Loved how the restored brooches came out! How she manages those microscopic gems! I’ve done it and it’s not easy.
In addition to enjoying the actual mudlarking videos, I thoroughly enjoy getting a glimpse of the lovely community you are part of. Love Christine's restoration work and the folks you mudlark with are always fun to 'meet.' Thanks for sharing your mudlarking world with us! Your videos provide much needed respite during these challenging times.
Hi Nicola, thanks for once again for taking us with you on the foreshore. I was really disappointed not to see I am Brett behind you in the round up. Hope you are keeping well? and hopefully see you soon on the foreshore again. By the way you walked past a pipe at 12 minutes and 17 seconds I still have my eye in need to get myself back on the foreshore 😊💚🏴
I liked the pins and watching how she restores them.
Very fascinating for you to find 3 bird pins on the Thames at different times. Christine did a beautiful work on all 3 she’s very patient and talented. Nicola you certainly find some unique and unusual pieces of history. Stay happy and healthy always. Until the next time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
I’ve sent this to my son whose nursing a broken heart. I’m trying to get him out treasure hunting in some way. Great therapy.
To me, the best RUclips channels make me feel like I get to tag along with the host. You do just that and for that reason you are among the best.
Thank you! You made my evening ❤️
@@nicolawhitemudlark NP
I was drawn to the 1944 half penny... from the year I was born. Always love your Thames mudlarks.
*Nicola, great finds 🙂 It is Monday 3rd June 2024 today in NZ (as I type this message) so it is Happy King's Birthday today in NZ. So it's a long weekend holiday down here.🙂nz*
I love the little Dent's button....if that button could talk!
My week last week was a bit crazy. I’m in Garland Texas and that is Northeast of Dallas. We had some bad thunderstorms and a tornado went right over us. So lucky we only lost a big limb out of a tree. We were without power for 2 days and some are just now getting power. My daughter and I drove around the town there were enormous trees uprooted and went through roofs of houses. The damage was very widespread. Just glad we are all ok. Thanks for this nice video, I need a pipe next time! lol
I am watching her video and your comment showed. Wild because I live in Garland as well. Off 30/Bobtown. I have creeks I walk for old bottles, marbles and vintage treasures. I upload videos on tik tok. Would love to find the things she finds!
I enjoy your videos very much as learning about histroy is alwats interesting. My favorite things are always any wildlife footage in show and yes the litte family of geese at the end were very charming. History and wildlife rock and so do you Nicola!
Thank you ❤
Beautiful restoration of the piece of jewelry. A talent for sure. Rainy yesterday, but that provided the opportunity to wash the beehive boxes stored behind the garage. Today is sunny, so I get to watch foraging bees check out the now clean boxes.
It must be wonderful to have bees
I LOVED this video! From the handsome mudlarker friend, to the great finds and of course the artist's funny cat 😂😂😂
Nichola this is wonderful💖 I absolutely adore watching all your finds 🤗 you're fantastic! Bless you lovely lady and so talented .🙏❤
Thank you so much!
Sundays are always better with a video or 2 from my favorite mudlarkers, you and Simon. What a group of glorious birds you have now with your restored brooches. Christine did an amazing job. The coins were very nice and thank you for sharing the stories of not only your interesting treasures but Oscar's as well. Have a great week!
She did a BEAUTIFUL job on those pins!! ❤
Hi. It just started raining in Miami. Another fantastic video. Enjoyed watching Christine deftly bring the cockerel back to life. Oscar had some pretty neat finds.
🙋♀️❤️. You know all the best , most wonderful people!
I'm so lucky ❤
great video nicola lovely finds away a nice day on the thames xx
Thanks Sarah I need to come and see you and Mick!! Xx
@@nicolawhitemudlark that would be lovly nicola xx
The Irish coin with the hen is an old penny. Really enjoyed your mudlarking!
Oh those brooches are beautiful!
I just love your videos. I was watching closely for what you missed, as your titled directed .... at the 12:17 mark, it looked like you step right next a clay pipe with your left boot. I doubt myself, because I happen to know you're drawn to clay pipes like a laser beam. I so enjoy trying to spot things with you. Here in America, we think 400 years is ancient. I envy your chances of finding true antiquities, with just your next glance or scrape. Please keep fulfilling my dreams of discovery. Know that you are, as you continue with mudlarking the Thames, for all of us fans. Thank you so very much.
Thank you ❤
The brooches turned out quite beautiful 😍
I cant believe you stepped right over a clay pipe and didn't bend over to pick it up. I was yelling at the computer....NICOLA THERE IT A PIPE RIGHT BY YOUR FOOT..so sad you couldn't hear me. Cheers from Camilla in Colorado.
Haven't seen the pink boots or your lovely son for a while! Hope squirrel is happy and visiting xxx sending you lots of love 😘
Awesome findings with lots of lovely information about the finds along with the beautiful restoration of the brochures .❤
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ♥️
I have found similar jewellery whilst metal detecting, sometimes the stones are loose in the dirt. Have a great week Barbie!
Thank you! You too Ken! Xx
Nicola, i have to say, since May our weather in eastern Canada has been cool, and rainy. At first it was a relief because last year we had forest fires north if us, and quite close too. But we want some sun 🌞 too. Fingers crossed. Many lovely finds 💖 Oscar has a good eye. Christine's work is practically miraculous. I enjoy it very much indeed. She is charming, as is the whole outing
Thank you Sian! So glad you enjoyed it. And I'm with you in wanting some sun xxx
Wonderful finds this weekend ! I love how your friend put new stones in the brooches, it really makes them pop !
The rugby badge was in such excellent condition, it did had the pin on the back.✨️✨️✨️
I love Christines organised chaos 😊
What a fantastic transformation.
My favorite find was the clover cuff link,it is mesmerizing!
But then,I saw Christine bring back to life your trio of bird brooches,wow.
Salutations to Christine!!!
I wonder,does she know how to place a new pinback onto a brooch?
I have a brooch that I found in ‘22,a lovely little lizard,copper.
He is missing his pin.
I would love to pin it upon my hat,alongside the buttons.
I'm sure she'd be able to Charles x
Oh my goodness i seem to have misplaced it!!!!
It’s here,somewhere,I shall find it.
Ahhh why must I keep my home in such disorder???😫
That is amazing ! I repair and make jewelry and never seem to have the right sizes!
I enjoy it when you show the treasures all cleaned up as you go along. 😊
Beautiful opening sequence and music.
I think that is part of a "cap" gun from what I could see.
Thank you ❤
The rain! Oh the rain. Lol I am in Louisiana, USA and we have had storms all spring. Tornadoes, hail, and sideways rain. I know I will be wanting rain come August, but at the moment, I’m starting to mildew.
Excellent finds!! ❤❤❤❤
I loved all the different coins you both found this week. What an interesting cache for the both of you! You have a lovely week with clear skies ahead Nicola! ♥️☘️
Great and finds and interesting history
Thank you so much for showing us Christine's restoration of the Cockrell! I love doing restoration work like this (not Thames finds - more like thrift store finds), so it was fascinating to see how she did it. One thing I learned is that I absolutely need to find the glue she was using with the precision tip.
Thanks also for the duck (?) family shots and Christine's sweet little cat, not to mention the actual mudlarking adventure with Oscar. A wonderful video, Nicola. Thanks!
I love buying beat-up brooches/pins at yard sales and “fixing” them. I don’t have the Mayans to enamel so I mix powder pigments into epoxy and use that as enamel.
Good job, Christine!🙂
Awesome, playing with the cat.
Oh what a wonderful outing again :) , and yes I think I know what you missed 😁, timestamp 12:17 ...I just said to myself "did she really missed that"? And then second guessing what I saw and had to go back to watch again. So yes I think I saw what you walked over :)
Yes!
Dents are still making gloves and other leather goods just down the road from me. Interesting finds as always.
Christine did a beautiful job on all three birds!! Ducklings were adorable!! My part of Florida is dry as a bone, I am having to water my plants and flower beds daily, gave up on having grass, but the weeds are high enough that I am headed out to mow now. Thanks for the wonderful video and taking care of the fox and squirrel!! Have a stellar week!
Love how Christine added t gems and brought ur pins back life!
I caught this at 12:17, stepped over a clay pipe!! Nice looking one too
When you picked up the tiny glass button, you missed the big pot sherd with 'tree' embossed on it! - - - You talking to your fox - "Give me ten minutes - I'll be back in a minute" - - English is such a crazy mixed-up language!
😂
The weather is hot and sunny here in the US. I have been doing wildlife photography the past several months, mostly Bald Eagles and Barred Owls. I also love fossil hunting but do not have transportation to get any of my favorite fossil sites. I'm unemployed and am living on a fixed income.Have a great day and year collecting.
Christine, what an attractive sweater.
I so enjoy your videos and look forward to each new one with anticipation 😊 As my disabilities worsen, I am grateful to be able to "go mudlarking" with you, because you make your videos so interesting that it's almost like being there! Thank you so much, and long may you continue.😊❤
Love the broaches…. From a grey damp Sequim, Washington US
A video full of delights once again. Christine was so fun to watch work, I think the pheasant wins the prize. The baby geese were so cute and your vixen visitor a real surprise. Amazing finds this week. What is the stone in your necklace you wore in the roundup?
Raining here too Nicola. Loved the pins adorbs. ❤️🇨🇦🍁x
Thx Marion. I hope you're well. X
Christine did an amazing job! I think the Pheasant is my favorite. I was absolutely shocked to see the fox! How amazing is that! You said you were giving her chicken wings. I really hope they're boneless because chicken bone is extremely dangerous whether it's raw or cooked 😢
I'm not a "mudlark". But I watch your adventures from time to time. During the week I have cut bonsai, brewed beer, cooked good vegetarian food enjoying the spring sun and watched You Tube😀
Thanks Nicola what a good mudlark for coins, lovely to see Oscar who has a really good eye for small metal bits, loved the cuff links and the rugby badge. also Christine must have the patience of a saint to put all those little stones in those brooches, they look fab . What a gorgeous fox, chewed me up, as up along the Thames this morning and there was a fox which had passed being washed up. Hope your fox got his chicken, have a lovely week
Loved watching the transformation of your bird pins!! Great mudlarking finds!!
Having a sense of an object through a trowel, it’s amazing how that actually works
I hope the fox got its dinner. Oscar made good finds, the tiny button is a great find with your great research to that Nicola. Christine is brilliant jewelry repairer and what a lovely Lady cat she has. Yes, it's raining here in Germany too, today was the first day without rain and I got a nice long walk. Hope the summer comes to you and here too! Let's enjoy !
I find that Nicola's switch to vertical stripes ||| is nicely figure-enhancing!
The "Winchester Rifle" mechanism is for a toy cap gun. The "caps" were little blobs of suitable explosive on a narrow roll of paper, which was advanced by the mechanism for something like a hundred shots a roll. This actually evolved from a priming mechanism for an (American) Civil War-era muzzle-loading carbine for grown-ups, which replaced individual loaded metal percussion caps with a similar roll with a number of caps on it. This was less fiddle than the metal caps, but not very weatherproof (paper!) and it didn't address the main issue, which was loading the main charge of gunpowder and a ball, ready to be fired by the cap. I did once see a roll of caps for the actual carbine and it differed from toy-gun caps in being wider, the blobs of priming compound were much bigger (made a much louder bang and a bigger flash, which was the actual point) and there were also sprocket holes in the paper so the roll advanced in a much more controlled fashion. This item fell into the hands of a school friend whose father often went on business trips to the USA and tried to buy "rolls of caps" in a real gunshop! The toy gun caps sometimes went bang because of the (friction) advance mechanism rather than the hammer that was supposed to set them off, so it's easy to see why the rolls of caps for real military carbines had sprocket holes!
Amongst Oscar's finds is a "pinfire" revolver cartridge, which is a few years later than the rolls of caps but not very many years later. Pinfire cartridges were invented as a way of converting existing percussion-lock guns to breech loaders, because they work by the hammer coming *down* onto the pin sticking up. The pinfire system rapidly fell out of favour for large rifles and shotguns because it was possible to set the cartridge off, outside the gun, by accident if it was dropped and the pin hit something, or if it just got knocked whilst in someone's pocket. The heavier the cartridge, the more likely such an accidental ignition was, and the worse the consequences because black powder actually explodes and a goose-gun cartridge had a lot of powder in it. Pinfire revolvers were popular in Europe and made in vast numbers in Belgium. Nearly all pinfire revolver cartridges have a metric designation in whole millimetres from 6mm to 11mm. My best guess is that Oscar's cartridge is an 8mm, but it might be a 9mm. (It probably has a single numeral on the base of the cartridge saying what it is.) The rival rimfire and centrefire systems prevailed because they were safer, and it later turned out that making smokeless pinfire ammunition was more or less impossible because the pin goes directly into the cup of an internal priming cap, and smokeless powder needs a much stronger explosion from the cap to get the powder burning and that might even drive the pin out of the cartridge. In any case, there was always a bit of gas leakage around the pin, even with blackpowder, and that's why the pin is always pointing up and away from the shooter's hands and face when it is fired.
Nicola's small cartridge looked like a .32" ACP (aka 7.65mm Browning) to me and this was introduced with the 1903 Colt Pocket Hammerless model, which is a direct descendant of the 1902 Colt "sporting model" pistol which she found in a recent video. John Browning also designed a much bigger 1903 model for FN which was closer to the 1902 model in size and power, but was a "hammerless" (there is a hammer, but it's inside the slide and can't catch on anything) design like the 1903 Colt. Colt had a licence to sell his designs in the Americas, FN (where he mostly worked) sold his gun designs almost everywhere else.
Thank you Matthew! ❤
The lark was fun,the birds were beautiful your friends were lovely,and it was a wonderful day!Thank You
Some great finds! I so love watching you and friends. Oh how I’d love to come and mudlark someday. I have a bit of OCD and as delightful as Christine is I couldn’t help but think she needs someone to go in and help her organize her space. I could barely watch but I had to see her bring the brooches back to life! Take care, Nicola. You are the loveliest person and I wish you many more exciting finds. Sally in sunny Northern California (not too far from the pottery beach you explored on a visit to California). 😁
Awesome day out, Christine does some amazing work and the broaches look awesome. Take care and see you on the next one 👏🙏❤️
I love Christine’s chair with all her stuff around her. Exactly how I look on my couch.
Absolute magpie! I am the same!!
Hi Nicola. Sorry about the horrible weather in the UK. I've lived in central Romania since 2010 and it's 30.6C today with only a few small clouds in the sky. Forecast is much the same for next two weeks with the lowest temperature being 24C. However, we do get quite a lot of evening thunderstorms when the heat builds up but they're usually short lived and only produce 2-5mm of rain.
What a wonderful video Nicola. Here in the Netherlands the weather is grey and cold unfortunately. Hope summer gets here soon! Really cannot say what find I liked best. The rugby pin and the cufflinks where beautiful and so was the story of the little glove button. Your friend Christine really made the brooches look so beautiful! And then there was the very sweet ducklins and the little fox. So nice of you to get something to eat for her. Have a great week and wishing you all the best. Love, Nicole. 🩷
I love watching you mudlark... all the fun of mudlarking... without any of the clutter... (as if I don't have enough clutter of my own!)... I just love it. Such awesome finds today. I've had a decent week this week though work has been busy again this weekend. Lady cat is super cute! Oh, she did a fabulous job on the birds! they look brilliant!
As for the weather... It was very foggy this morning when I came home from work but it's rather nice out now. Pretty much rains every other day it would seem... which has meant that my lawn has had to be mowed quite frequently... I have a nice fella who comes and takes care of it for me... (some years ago I sadly developed an allergic reaction to the chemicals in the smell of cut grass... pretty much shuts off my airway... which is sad)... anyway... last night of work for me till Thursday.... so looking forward to the end of my work weekend. Enjoyed the video as always! I do often enjoy seeing all the lovely critters you show in your videos as well... the birds on the Themes and the squirrel friends at your studio...
Some great finds! I so love watching you and friends. Oh how I’d love to come and mudlark someday. I have a bit of OCD and as delightful as Christine is I couldn’t help but think she needs someone to go in and help her organize her space. I could barely watch but I had to see her bring the brooches back to life! Take care, Nicola. You are the loveliest person and I wish you many more exciting finds. Sally in sunny Northern California (not too far from the pottery beach you explored on a visit to California). 😁
That was a great madlark. Christine's workspace looks like mine when I have a project, furry paw included.
Nicola ‘Snow’ White. You clearly have the same ability to attract all the adorable wildlife. No eating any poisonous apples though please Nicola x
Ahah I wish the animals helped with the housework like they do with Snow White!
@@nicolawhitemudlark 😂
What a wonderful video 😊. Thanks for sharing your journey and being so kind 😊👋👋
SUCH WONDERFUL HISTORICAL PIECES!!!
The lever action part from the plastic rifle, is from a toy. A replica of the Winchester mod 84. They were a cap rifle plus they shot a little plastic and brass cartridge. I owned one years ago, it was cool to see it!
Love seeing the wildlife and my fav find was the clover cuff link 😊 I like the 97 button, my son was born in 1997 😊
What lovely pins.❤❤❤
I remember an episode of antiques roadshow where someone brought a complete belamine (sp) bottle and they had found it under their doorstep. Turns out it was supposed to ward off witches.
The gun receiver is definitely from a toy lever action cap gun. You can see on the open side where you would place the roll of caps and the mechanism that advanced the roll to be fired.
Love to watch your videos everytime. I feel you in al your ventures...
Glad you like them!
Such an interesting video 👍 thank you
I'm with Oscar, gaming pieces like dice and dominoes are some cool finds 😊
Congrats to Oscar for finding his two different cufflinks!! The coins really were popping up that lark 😃 In still hoping to find an old more ornate glass bottle stop.
Thanks for the love, please send rain! 😄I'm in the high desert of SW USA, super dry and finally hot. I often tell my English sister (she's in Cambridgeshire), to send the rain!
I don't ever say anything like this in comments but Oscar is one nice looking man!!!!! ❤😊
Brilliant finds & those brooches are fabulous. Thanks
Your friend Christine did an excellent job on your fab cockerel
Every time I watch one of these videos, it makes me want to go to the beach and dig around for stuff! 😂
Lovely restoration by Christine❤
The toy gun was probably a rifle! Good find!
I find it easier to place stones and rhinestones if I use a cocktail stick with a little dab or pva glue on it, so it’s at the slight tacky stage. Of course you have to reapply the glue, then it’s back to tacky again