Hitting an Unbelievable Jackpot Buried Under a Vacant Lot for 120 Years
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of The Cottage House in Cherryvale, Kansas. Parts 1 & 2
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This guy has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of bottle glass...combined with the ability to dig like a badger!
Incredible variety of drug store bottles. So very different from the usual liquor and beer bottle finds. Loved this video.
Good video. I really enjoyed it.
When I was a kid I loved to go bottle digging. I've got boxes and boxes of them still. It is great fun. Every hole is a treasure hunt. Bottle digging's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get......lol
Some really awesome finds to bad all the sodas were broke
When you fill in the pit, do you discard all the broken items or take them elsewhere? I still would like to know if you sell any bottles on ebay. Thanks.
we arent currently selling anything on ebay. we are considering starting a store, but we im not sure when that would be. if we end up doing it we will for sure let it be known in a future video. and yeah, the broken stuff we just put back at the bottom of the pit, cover it with some of the cleaner dirt, and then we fill the pit in on top of it, so that way we dont further break anything. we actually give away a bunch of the stuff to local historic societies and museums or the landowner. we drive around with such a packed vehicle with all the equipment, that we usually dont have room to take everything with, so we just take the best stuff. thanks for watching.
Lotta work there bro
I'm retired from the Tulsa Area Medical Examiners Office and you dig almost like a forensic dig, which is a HUGE compliment! I used to use a tea strainer to sift thru layer of a dig for bone fragments and evidence, and 2" an hour was FAST for me with all the photos I had to take. THOUSANDS (sometimes tens of thousands) of color slides to document EVERYTHING in the grids. When and if I found what NOBODY wants to find, the artist's brushes come-out to brush away the dirt and the squeeze air bulbs to "preserve the evidence". The glass changing color tells you "stuff" if you are smart enough to know what it's telling you about what it's been in contact with, how long. In 34 years, my NOSE became a forensic tool too. You do great work. You should be very proud of preserving some of our History.
Hi everyone! just a reminder to hit the like button and leave us a comment. it really helps us out if you do! thanks, hope you enjoyed!
Do you have a website to sell your finds?
not currently! but if you wanna add us on facebook you can DM tom over there, and he pretty much responds to all the comments. we are gonna start saving some more of the stuff we find in the future so if there was anything you wanted you can message us and hopefully we will have it. or if you have any requests just message us over there and we will write it down. i already got a little list. its just "below the plains" over on FB as well. thanks!
@BelowthePlains glad you are in a position to collect. Go RUclips!
I just read an article from an archaeologist complaining about Tom digging their future dig sites. Like most college educated people, they think only they know how to dig artifacts. Consider this archaeologist are slow, they require a large amount of money to get them started and they use their students as slaves to do the work. Plus they want to stop people from using their own property by passing laws to stop digging and building until they have the time to study the area. and only they are allowed to say yes or no to a building project. It is all about money... and their ego. In my opinion Tom is doing a great job. Keep up the good work.
My answer to that is the same one I have for people who comment about how 'terrible' it is that 'classic' cars are being destroyed in demolition derbies: if you wanted it saved so badly, you could have gone out, found it and bought it, just like the derby driver did. If 'real' archaeologists want to dig these sites, why aren't THEY tracking them down and contacting the property owners, themselves?
Academics are painfully slow to start anything. Then drag it out for as long as possible. All the while getting paid. Like the gentleman said - if you want it go buy it.
I would love to know more about you, Tom. How did you come to discover digging outhouse pits as a thing? How did you learn all this information and history about, well everything you discover in these pits? These videos are just wild! Thank you.
Yes, we want to know! Like...all of it.
@@christinetarquin3773 Sure beats getting high on drugs or sitting in an office with a boring job.
I really appreciate all the hard work and dedication you guys put into your videos. This one was truly amazing. Thanks for taking us along for the ride
Thank you very much!
Very nice videos. Appreciate the imagery and historical facts on screen. So interesting and Tom is extremely knowledgeable. Thanks!
I'm new to your channel, but have been a bottle collector since the early 1970s. I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but those amber glass syringes you found so many of, are syphilis syringes. The fact that this was a hotel site where you are digging, should give you an idea what went on in the mid-western hotels of the 1800s. The good news is, those vials are usually hand-made and worth a good sum. The early dumps in New Orleans are full of these.
They didn't have TV in those days, haha. Can't imagine inviting friends over to view your syphilis syringes...
Do you save the bottles etc. and sell them to pay for future digs. I really admire the depth of your knowledge. Thanks for sharing. Julie
Had a wonderful day helping you with the digs...I learned some things and appreciated your teaching and cheerful wholesome manners. Thank you. See you at sun up!
Your enthusiasm is contagious! I really enjoy watching your digs. Every time you dig up a blue Bromo bottle it reminds me of my Grandpa standing at the kitchen sink mixing and drinking his Bromo. Back in the early 60’s. Makes me smile every time.
haha oh wow! ive never actually seen it in real life! yeah those bottles are really pretty, i noticed whenever i post a video with them on tiktok that the video does very well.. probably because theyre just so cool! thank you for leaving us such a nice comment, we really appreciate that! and thanks for watching!
I think C.H.WARD had somebody addicted
He said the city was under prohibition… I’m guessing the local druggist was addressing the people’s needs.😅
Yep, you beat me to it. Was about to say the same thing
Someone was clearly not doing well, but probably felt no pain.
Hhhaaa!!!
I disagree. Local pharmacist put a lot of things beside pain medicine in there embossed bottles. I've had embossed bottles the same bottle with 20 different labels .
Found & subbed right away over a year ago. I've watched all your vids & never miss new ones. You work so hard, share your vast knowledge & make this old ladies day❣ This dig was amazing. Thank you so much.❤
haha thank you! wow, youve been watching for that long?! we were just getting started about 14 months ago. thanks for watching and sticking with us! cant wait to get to working putting out another 14 months worth of content. thank you!! thats very kind, and we appreciate that very much
It would be nice to see some of the best or at least your top 10 finds cleaned up. Nice work your a digging machine!
I think the Cottage House might have had a little side business. I can’t even imagine how many amazing items were broken.
I really enjoy y’all’s digs. Even if something is as common as a listerine, you give it a moment in the spotlight.
Awesome finds!
thank you! i really appreciate that! and yeah its fun to learn about some of these companies and im happy to parse thru it and find out whats most interesting and share it. i really appreciate that. and yeah, we are pretty sure that the same outhouse pit what used and cleaned out multiple times, because we found 1 bottle from 1885 inside. and there were no other pits on that lot.. god i can only image the stuff that they cleaned out of that thing, kinda makes me sick thinking of how good it could have been. anyways! thank you for watching and leaving us a comment!!
@@BelowthePlains Have you ever located a site where honey dippers (those businesses that removed privy contents and carted them away) emptied their tanks?
That dig is what dreams are made of. Thanks for taking us along.
Holy hell, what a find. Lets get these guys to 100k subs.
This was the most amazing dig. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the next gem to come out. Was super excited for you. I love collecting bottles and I was so jelly. That ♡ bottle priceless. I can’t wait for the next one. I really love what you do.
I am from Australia & subscribed close to about a year ago & have watched all of your vids. Really enjoyed this dig, well done mate, looking forward to see what you pull up in the future.
Just discovered your videos a few days ago. Very fascinating to see younger people doing what my father did for years when I was a growing up. These bottles you find are so beautiful and important to our history. Your so well educated in this field, it blows my mind.
My only question is, why are you not going through the dirt that is pulled out? Or are you? Seen a few coins pop out during your digging and I cringe every time...lol just sayen
I get what you're after... Maybe try a more thorough search some time. Could make for a great video. This could be a history channel show in the making in my opinion. Your pretty good on camera and your formula works. Not to mention, you know what you're doing.
Thanks for the videos.
Experience & knowledge must guide them to spend their time wisely. People just don't toss money down outhouses, so why bother?
I watch for 1905 items because that is the year my grandma was born. It is interesting to see what was available when she started her life. Thank you so much for doing the digging and research that allows me to think about her.
glad to do that! and glad we could bring back some fond memories for ya! thank you for watching and leaving us a comment!!
What a dig, greatly appreciate all your hard work and editing, great content! Continued good luck and digs like this.
thank you! thats very kind. we appreciate that, glad you like the channel! and thanks for watching and leaving us a comment!
That really was an awesome dig. Thank you for saving our history one piece at a time!!
thank you, and thanks for watching and commenting!
Weren't the advertised graphics so delightful in the day? The artwork, the beautifully dressed subjects with colorful attire and hats. Very romantic-like.
Wow! A very productive pit. The number of folks moving through the area must have been 10 fold vs. North Dakota during the same time period.
Your knowledge of antique bottles boggles the mind. Knowing exactly what a bottle is simply by its shape or size, while it is still in the ground is pure talent and very impressive. I'm a 61 yr. The old woman who started bottle digging at the young age of ten when my older brother let me tag along with him and a friend. I think he just wanted a pack mule since I carried all of the equipment for them, lol. But that was fine with me and gladly did it as I liked spending time with him, especially bottle digging. Suburban Archeologist. When I got a few years older, my dad went to the local Radio Shack and purchased the latest model metal detector. I fell in love with that hobby too, and have a couple of different model detectors. I live in the N. East, and most privies in our area were very deep, some 15 ft down before you hit the top layer. Most we have dug have been brick or stone-lined and in amazing shape( the homes they served were built in the late 1600- early 1700s). That deep of a privy pit usually takes a few people to open up and haul up the buckets of dirt as well as the finds.
This privy you are digging is a dream pit for many. I would rather find them this shallow, especially now that I am getting old, lol. I did convert an old golf bag and caddy into a bottle-digging cart. It's perfect for long-handled tools as well as gloves, rags, hand tools, and different-length picks that I made. I installed a small 6-pack sized cooler onto it as well to keep the" cool wraps" and my lunch. I also use it for metal detecting sometimes. It had 6 " wheels on it, but too thin for rolling in the woods. So I installed some wider, solid rubber tires onto it.
You impressed me enough to gain my subscription, and that is saying a lot for me. You remind me of my brother and his knowledge of bottles at age 13. Heck, he started digging at age 8 when a new kid moved into the neighborhood and introduced him to the hobby. They instantly became best friends and when they were not wandering the town looking for new dumps, they were playing with their GI JOES or Major Matt Mason's.
@CrossGrain Wood Products you're a fount of info and ideas. Be cool if they had you on as a guest! Small world! Really enjoyed your comment and insights about your brother😊❤🎉❤
That sure beats getting into trouble with the law or getting stoned with drugs, but still weird for young kids.
Thanks so much for sharing your story! It’s a neat look back “into the day”. It’s great that you have such great outdoor hobbies to keep you occupied. Would love to see Tom tackle one of the digs you describe lol! Again, thanks for sharing your wonderful story!
Thank you Tom for not using curse words or any vulgar language, that is almost impossible to find these days, a RUclips channel where in the host does not care what manner of Filth comes out of their mouths! May God keep you and Jake add whomever else works with you guys safe in everything y'all do! BTW, I collect old wheat pennies, my oldest is from 1917.
So much broken glass. I was praying for your knees and screaming "Gloves" when you reach for another bottle. Y'all definitely heat the 'mother lode', what a wide assortment, many I have never seen on past videos, very exciting. And so many cold cream jars and the other bottles with embossing of company and product name. Great job team.
All of the info and advertisements you put into your videos is what makes your channel stand far above all the others. i appreciate your knowledge and hard work that you put into these things. thanks for sharing, glad you found such a good one
I think if I were to hangi out with you my blood pressure would return to normal! Love your channel! When I was a child I wanted to be an archeologist, all my friends wanted to be Cinderella 😆.
Glad I finally got to see what you look like too! 48:34 . You're so cute! Anyway, thanks for the digs.
A never ending story! And that's just one small patch! I would never have the energy. Well done for all your work. UK
Hi , I’ve fortunately just found your channel and find it fascinating. I would love to know more about the process of finding where to dig and see your collection of rare items you may decide to keep ? I think everyone would really enjoy seeing how you clean and possibly restore finds. Thank for sharing your hard work.
The Kilmer building is right down the street from my old business. It still stands today. I believe it was called Kilmer's "Swamp Root". Binghamton, NY (also the hometown of Rod Serling)
Off the charts guys ! What an amazing jackpot of finds. Surely one of your best digs ! Best regards and wishes always !
I find your videos relaxing to watch. What do you do with all the bottles you find? You must have a massive collection
I can’t believe how much you found, and you were only about 8ins down, that was incredible!! I love the cobalt blue Bromo bottles, how cool is that?!!
Where can I get one of those flat, 2 prong diggers?
Wow, I have never seen so many different bossed bottles and slicks in my life coming out of that hole. Congratulation Tom and Jake.👏😀👍
haha yeah it was a good one, i think we found more embossed drugstore bottles than slicks actually! thanks for watching!! and always commenting!
These videos are awesome. They are demolishing an over 😊100 year old site near my work. And I find myself looking at the dirt piles for bottles. Those construction guys probably find lots of cool stuff. It's fenced off so no one can get close.
You gott wait till they go home for the evening and make your way in places like that
oh yeah, they find stuff all the time! whenever we see them ripping up a block we will go up to them and give them our card and tell them that if they find anything else, they should call us. we've snuck onto construction sites on sundays before when no one is working, but we havent done that in years.. found some good stuff! thanks for watching!
Cherryville is part of my childhood. My grandmother love to drive over and have lunch. We lived in Coffeyville. Do you ever sell your bottles I would love to buy one! Really enjoyed this video.
Wow this pit just keeps giving and giving. Amazing finds.
thanks for watching and commenting!
That was quite the hall, very fun, thanks for dig, lots of broken glass glad to see you wearing your gloves. Be safe, you and Jake keep the history alive, lot of love. Afriend.
thank you! that really means a lot to us. and yeah, lol.. we do wear gloves more than it may appear in some videos, the only time we take them off is to operate the filming equipment.. we get cut from time to time, but we are generally pretty safe.. but you have no idea how many times we get that comment lol. thank you. and thanks for watching and leaving such a nice comment
I do realize that you ware your gloves but sometimes when you get excited because the object has embossing, so you throw off the right hand glove but through the excitement you don't always put back on right away and as you say, your working in an old outhouse generally, bacteria, tetanus, and all thoughts crazy thing from back then and yes I know you are, and do try, I'm just a worried old fart that doesn't want any thing happening to, 2 of my favorite u-tubers, so bare with me, I'm on the worry watch. Lots of love. Afriend.❤
In the mid 1990s I purchased 150 acres of land in New Mexico from different land owners. There was an old Inn that was once on the land. The only remaining part of the Inn were the remains of three outhouses. The Inn was demolished circa 1920. In one of the outhouse remains, I dug down about 2' and found a stash of gold and silver coins from Mexico. There were hundreds of coins from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The box and contents weighed 85 pounds.
All coins are safely kept in a very secure location since the found treasure is very valuable. I don't need the money by selling them, but have chosen to hang on to them for when the SHTF.
That glass egg reminded me of something from my childhood. My parents raised chickens and bought these large ceramic eggs for the same purpose, they put them in the coop, and the hens would lay all in the same place instead of making nests around the house.
Anyway, one summer I went out to feed and water the animals and collect eggs, when I found this huge black snake wedged in the chicken wire. It must have thought it hit the jackpot, but the dummy didn't consider it had to get back OUT of the coop after eating the biggest eggs it had ever seen in its life.
So, yeah. Fake eggs attract both broody hens and hungry snakes.
Where we lived in rural Illinois (admittedly, it was more rural prior to my arrival) the trash, tree leaves and clipping ended up on a pond in the rear of the property. Dad had dreams of filling in the pond (the pond was referred to as the swamp in mosquito summer), but there was only so much to place there. Some neighbors would sometimes dump their refuse there. My uncle worked in oil burners for heating and would cart out slag removrd from furnaces he serviced. The pond would dry up to some extent and dumped glass bottles would float up when the area refilled. My older brother (and later scientist) remarks how much he enjoyed throwing rocks at floating glass bottles. In the winter, we could skate there in areas without too much plants poked through the ice surface.
Although it didn't occur to me at the time, I guess the vegetation contributions probably could have been considered compost.
This comment is already too lengthy, but ... quite a few deceased pets from our Chicago relatives came to be buried on our property, but none to my notice ended up in the pond itself.
Have to tell you how much your videos have improved..since I found your channel, I've gone back and watching the older videos..great job...🥰
haha yeah i know.. i look back and criiiiiinge! but i understand that i had to make all those mistakes to learn to not do them ever again.. the wind in some of those videos made me physically ill the first time i heard it.. the only way to fix it was to spend everything we made the first half of a year to buy better equipment!.. there are a few videos that i think i could remake and update them to the current format and im planning on doing that in the coming months.. i wanna re-do that one where we found those target balls. thanks for watching!
I realize that dishes, cups & crockery broke due to everyday life & usage.
But you're so rough digging UP or digging out a bottle. That while your mumbling about all the broken pieces . It seems you're contributing somewhat to the broken pile.
Pops here. Outstanding videos on the digs, but you leave money on the table, by not showing follow up videos of the pieces found cleaned up.
Absolutely amazing!!!I can see the back breaking work your doing and understand how difficult it is to do this type work , but holy cow what an reward in this pit ! Absolutely the best bottle digging video I’ve seen to date , bar none . Thank you for your dedication, and congratulations on this phenomenal day ! Thank you for sharing.
Jolly good day! Hath thou been to the C.H. Ward trap house today my good man? If so, could I trouble you for a ride? I’ll gladly pay you a mercury dime.
what a lucky haul. really happy for you guys, you deserve it.
Please will you explain ‘tooled top’ and all the other descriptive words you use ??
Tom would love to know if you sift the dirt you pass up, with all those bits you could miss something or even find the pieces to finish a broken piece of china. I so enjoy what you do but the ability to do that up north likely not as easy. Less towns. And looks like a sponsor maybe?! Carhartt's anyone?? LOL
Wonderful dig, mesmerising, one of your best yet for sure. Enjoyed every minute, thank you for taking us with you👏👏👏👏
If love to see a video of these cleaned up with some sunlight behind them to show off the patina
Here I was thinking this was your day job.Apparently you are multitalented. I was amazed to see your collection and restoration of vintage cars , sleighs, original 2 seater Pontiac carriage,and the stove.How did the guy who did the video manage to gain entry to your inner sanctum.You did not appear to be top comfortable with it.Your a serious guy but very serious regarding your endeavours.Amazing .. 🙏🏻🫣😉Stay safe 🙏🏻
Man, what a find. I love finding old bottles. I've never hit a mother load like that b4
Wow, Tom; you certainly discovered the “Mother Lode” with this Dig! Overwhelming with the amount of artifacts there! Truly love the Cobalt Blue Bromo-Seltzer bottles! Intrigued with the massive collection of C. H. Ward bottles and wondering if you might know what names the Initials may stand for. Amazing the amount of hard work y’all put in to bring these videos to us! Keep Safe & Healthy!!!
Wow what a loaded pit. You really found some beautiful and amazing bottles .i bet you guys are really tired when you work so hard to make a awesome video. I just love your videos. Cant wait till the next pne
Would love to have you look around my grandparents old farm in Big Rapids, MI! I know there were at least two outhouses! Love what you do!
@@Fritzi2253 yep, that's correct. Or if people lived on top of a hill, the garbage usually got tossed off the opposite end the prevailing winds blow. Even the, it was a lot more convenient to toss your stuff while making a trip to the outhouse
@@Fritzi2253 It was a convenient garbage pit, especially if an outhouse was at the end of its lifespan, or the house got indoor plumbing. Better than a pile of garbage. Recycling wasn’t a thing.
@@Fritzi2253 You're obviously young.
What is the haul for all your work $$$
That's a pretty corny, yet naively charming poem on the Solon Palmer's Florida Water advertisement you featured on screen. Those historical tidbits are part of what distinguishes your bottle-digging videos from others on RUclips. Not a fan of the "Ya Dude!" high-fiving hype of some RUclips video production, I appreciate the relaxed and knowledgeable narration you offer while excavating a pit. That said, I got a kick out of the excitement (justified) frequently detectable in your voice during this dig--made me smile and even chuckle a little 😄!
The above noted, I would still like to see you guys return to featuring more of the pre-excavation probing like you did in early episodes on your channel; it was also a distinguishing feature that set your videos a notch above others IMHO.
yeah we are gonna start incorporating that probing and stuff into the videos, we've gotten that request a lot and we will do that in some videos in the future. a lot of these videos we filmed a year ago, and we are just trying to get some of the older ones out (because the camera and filming and audio is lower quality). but we will do that
and thank you! thats so kind. glad you like the history. i always wondered if ppl were even reading it. i try to find the most intersting things to put up, and its kind of a pain, but.. we gotta stand out somehow. and honestly, i like the idea of adding everything i can into a video, if i think it will make it better. it would be so much faster if i didnt add any of the info, but.. it wouldnt be something id be satisfied with. thank you for watching and commenting! i really appreciate the comment
Awesome finds, I was telling you all the way through this how amazing the finds were 😂Thank you so much, totally shared your excitement.
haha glad to hear it! thanks for watching and leaving us a comment, we really appreciate that!
I think we need to use more glass then plastic containers ago
Incredible dig. Congrats on all the amazing finds.
haha your name is awesome! i know ive seen you comment before and.. thats so funny! thanks for watching and commenting!
Do you run a metal detector over the spoils before you back fill?
Why the f dont you keep all broken PCs of the porcelain pcs. Glue um because someone will find value in it even broken. And your fkn rough when you dig.
hahaha when we are digging, and find ornate stuff, we set it off to the side, and at the end, we see if we can piece most of it back together, and then if we can, we take it with and glue it back together. in some of our videos, you will see some of the pictures of the dishes that we find, but to be completely honest, finding a good piece, AND then finding all the pieces of it, is pretty hard to do. but we definitely do try!!! thanks for watching
Wow, that must have been fun! Just about every scoop brought something out. Nice pit and great video.
You guys worked so hard! Tell me there's a part 2 coming? That pit can't be done, right?
haha yeah.. its done.. i actually had cut it into two parts and was gonna release it back to back. and then release the full version a month or so down the road, but i made a giant mistake and released the full version!!
@@BelowthePlains It was one of your best digs EVER ! (at least since I have been watching you )I didn't want it to end . Take care guys !
@@BelowthePlains oops! Just found your channel, I love your style, it's very calming and enjoyable, not to mention allowing me to vicariously enjoy something I always wanted to do. Your knowledge and annotations, plus the methodical style, wow! Sorry for the accidental full posting, that's got to bite.
It hurts my ears when you scrape, but the finds are incredible. I love history and historical sites. I get to live through you. I feel like I'm right there with you.
What a haul. Be great to see the bottles cleaned up... especially the rare ones.
I know this is old video but I am 63 year old nurse I have been collecting from my childhood. Those long slender amber pieces you do not know what they are! They are plunger for syringes. You will also find them white to go with clear glass syringes, and frosted. I knew all of my great grandparents they and my grandparents lived into their 100s.
Glad you enjoy keeping history alive.
So excited, new episode AND it's over an hour long!🎉🎉
I feel your excitement for the find. Congratulations on such a great find!
My new favorite YT channel! Makes me want to go to my great grandparents farm and look for the outhouse pit to dig it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!
No doubt they would want you smelling like a sewer when you turn up for dinner!
I was just thinking the same thing! Who would have ever thought we'd consider such a thing! Great grandmother would be horrified!
Wow what a score!..congrats..are you on ebay?..if so i will buy something off you
no.. not on ebay. um you can hit up tom on facebook and ask him about it.. its just "below the plains" over there. just DM him and he should get back to you shortly. thanks for watching
Is is possible to make your font at the top of you screen bigger? My eyes aren’t the greatest even with my glasses off and 6 inches from the screen.
yeah.. its a struggle to fit the stuff.. ive taken it up a few sizes, but i can do it a little more.. no problem. might be a few weeks until its bigger and it wont be by much.. but i can do that.. its just a balance between trying to make it easily legible and small enough to fit.
This one was amazing! I really appreciate you giving we viewers a few seconds to check out the findings by holding them up for us to see! Really like that! Can't wait for a new dig!
New to the channel. Did I read that you place the glass items etc. Back into the dig pit when done?
yeah some of the broken stuff and the newer stuff, generally anything after 1925. we typically take the best stuff and then give the bulk of it to historic societies and who ever owns the land we dug it on. but sometimes if there isnt any room in the car and no one wants it, we will rebury it, but that generally doesnt happen very often
Wow fantastic dig great finds so much embossing this time , this dig was my favorite of yours so far. I live in the vicinity of Binghamton , Ny . I have found a few of Dr. Kilmer’s bottles , but not the one with the heart ❤️ that’s an awesome find !
I live between Cortland and Norwich NY and think the kilmers oiment pot was a great find. Good luck in your upstate hunting.
@@markandrews2942 I really like upstate Ny. I am in Pa. Just south of Binghamton, yes agree that also was a rare find !
Excellent show, thanks, what deal might you do with the land owners who give you consent?
I've lived in Fort Smith Arkansas for 22 years now and never knew about the sparks drugstore until I read the info you posted about that bottle. There are 2 main hospitals here, one was St. Edward's and the other was called Sparks. Theyve both been bought out by larger corporations now..Sparks was in the old part of town and has been around for a long time. I guarantee that the Sparks name comes from that pharmacist.
yeah, thats the most interesting thing that i find, is when i find old brands that are related to modern ones.. those "amour" face creams and stuff i found out is the same company that makes all those canned meats today, like i think "armour's vienna sausage" and possibly even spam. whenever i can make that connect to the modern day, it blows my mind. thanks for watching! and thanks for the info
How can you tell a pit has a lot of glass before you start digging?
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we use probe rods. its very crude and sometimes you can be way off on your estimation. but basically how we find the pits is we probe the yard, until we hit glass.. sometimes you will probe and his a bunch of glass, sometimes you wont hit much, but there could still be a bunch in there. this particular pit we thought it might have been from like the 50s or something because there was so much glass in it.. we almost didnt even dig it. i remember we couldnt get the probe rod in deep enough to touch the bottom, because there was so much stuff inside. hope that was easy enough to understand. i think we show ourselves probing in some of our other videos, so im sure if you are watch some of our other videos, you will see what im talking about. thanks for watching
Tom, and Crew.... You're a lot better than anyone else in your genre...I try not to miss anything you post......🕊️ It's downright appalling the amount of narcotics added to those quack meds 😮...It took the Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug act to stop those idiots....
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It is strange that once you could buy Coke a cola with cocaine in it .
@@eaglerider1826 Back in the day they put all sorts of things into sodas and patent medicines, including opium, hemlock and a host of other not so great things.
What do you do with all these bottles you find. Do you sell any of them?
Right? I would love to buy some a Milwaukee stuff he’s found.
What a crazy video! Glad u guys got a good one. You work hard and make great content, you deserve it. Thanks for sharing, happy easter
thank you! we appreciate that
Great videos, so much history. I am glad no more bottles have blown up on you lately. That was scary. How often do you come across bottles with original contents still in them? Would be interesting to have the liquid tested to see what's it made of or has become. I would think the salves, ointments may have some residue In them but mabey not.
yeah we find those salves full all of the time. it looks just like slightly dried our vaseline.. we actually pulled a bottle out recent that had some red liquid in it, and we both winced at it.. we are actually gonna put the video out where that bottle blew up soon. its probably the fullest pit that we have recorded. wasnt as good as this one, but it had a lot in it.. i probably would have started it sooner but... im dreading how long its gonna take! well thank you, and thanks for leaving us a comment!
how long does it typically take you to open up a pit before you hit items?
Usually about an hour. the stuff was really high on this pit, but typically its about 3 feet down. depends on the size of the pit, but usually with both of us digging, we start finding stuff after about an hour, sometimes up to 2.... once it gets longer than that, we start to get worried
Some great finds . My grandfather would place glass eggs or white doorknobs in the hen nests to kill snakes that eat the eggs . The snake would swallow the glass egg then kill itself by wrapping itself around a tree trying to break it .
Love your channel dude never miss it but have a question....do you have another website where you show your finds after there clean and talk about them? Or have them listed for sale? Thank you
we dont, and we didnt keep much of them over the past few years. only the nicest stuff. but we might in the future. but what you can do is add us on facebook, and talk to tom directly over there. he runs the facebook and I (jake) run the youtube channel. if you message him over there and ask him, im sure you could ask him about something.. we have a list of items to look out for for ppl and we can add it to the list.. if you ask us for something in the comments of the video theres a good chance we wont see it, because we do try to respond to a lot of the comments we get, but once we start digging again this year, we probably wont have enough time to go thru and respond to ppl.. but on facebook you can just direct message us and we will see it for sure.. its just (below the plains) on facebook.. thanks for watching and thanks for leaving us such a nice comment, we're glad you like it!!
Love your videos :) Sorry if repeating - What do you do with all the bottles you find ? And do you ever metal detect for coins in the pits ?
What a day and what a treasure trove !!!! Especially that dr kilmers ocean weed heart remedy bottle
WOW Awesome finds👍 Thank you so much for y’all’s hard work and time.
ah, thank you for watching! we really appreciate the nice comments!
Now thats an awesome bottle dig, all tooled top and variety! 👍
I watch a lot of mudlarking videos and came across your channel. I love how much you know about the bottles and explain it to your audience. It drives me a bit crazy seeing all the broken blue china, spongeware, etc. left behind. All I see is great material for mosaics lol… And I think a lot of those broken bottles could be cut and polished to be used as vases…. You could have a side business selling shards etc to crafters and artisans.
Comment, comment, comment. Hopefully this is enough Comments for this amazing awesome episode. You guys rock. Thanks!!!
haha yes... that was perfect. thank you very much, glad you liked!
I would love to see a video of the bootles you have dug up already. Your knowledge on bootles is increadible! You are inspiring!
What a dig!! Cherryvale Ks - birthplace of Vivian Vance(I Love Lucy) and silent film star Louise Brooks…who grew up in my hometown of Wichita.
An ultimate dig would be the old Occidental Hotel in Wichita.
I guess there was a push to discover a use for the off products from meat packing; lard in cold cream, oil products for hemorrhoids, and then added some combination of opium or alcohol and call it good! I guess this is American ingenuity! I’m interested that pure food and drug act coincided with the push for prohibition.
yeah there was a lot of changes going on in the early 20th century. they passed something called the harrison act in 1914 which banned opiates and cocaine in the US and the prohibition in 1918. i think there was a lot of backlash because a lot of these products were used to treat teething babies and it would end up killing them, and they invented heroin which was marketed as "addiction-free morphine" which obviously wasnt true. but im sure theres a lot more nuance to the fact that all of the cleaning up of the pharmaceutical industry and prohibition happened within a short period of time.. and that armour stuff blew me away when i realized that it was the same company today that produces all of those canned meats like:vienna sausage and i think even spam. whenever i can link an old bottle to a modern company its blows my mind. and how the sanfords ink company is now the company that makes sharpies! i always find that so cool
@@BelowthePlains my MIL , from ada OK, still had a pharmaceutical bottle of liquid opium in 1960 which was prescribed for teething babies! I’d guess parents of teething babies took a few swigs as well😂