A Strange Sink Hole Opening by a Creek Leads to the Find of a Lifetime from the 1880s

[Music] this thing was catching my eye whoa that's something [Music] else there was a Monumental amount of ground to cover out here you can see there's trees bushes I did notice this old oak tree I thought this thing must have been here 150 plus years the ground hadn't been worked much around it if you notice you'll see a sink spot off to the side there I had pushed a probe Rod through the ground I hit a loss of compaction some objects possibly some ashes that's a good indicator of an early sight I noticed something interesting if you look close sticking out of the side of this oak tree you'll see some wires I'm guessing this is SE old clothes line it's typical they would have put an old ouse in the vicinity of the clothes line This is obviously grown up over the years it would have been closer to eye level it's been here a long time I'll get this thing opened [Music] up [Music] down roughly a foot I've been hitting all kinds of fragments we may have our first whole piece look at that St Jacob's oil St Jacobs oil LTD Baltimore Maryland USA this was a very popular patent medicine during its day it's a tooled top this thing's well over a 100 years old looks like we have some kind of a chalice look at that that thing is intact now uh you'll see all these specks that just dumped out those are undigested seeds this is an old ouse pit I think we're digging in look at this this thing's Pressed Glass these are almost always broken that's why they were discarded maybe someone dropped this down the pit by mistake this pit is just loaded there's another another piece don't want to break anything to carefully kind of dig this out crola Dr Wards medical company Winona Minnesota I don't dig these very often I think this was a hand cream of some sort a little glass lid this could have been to a little uh jar of some sort it's a would have been a glass on glass seal huh some little uh the apothecary jar it's an earlier one it's not a ground lip but uh it stayes back to the turn of the century looks like a patent Medicine of some sort over here it might have another piece wow I'm amazed at how much stuff is in here what do we have here new Bros herpicide kills the dandruff germ that's a tooled top that is wild it's got a kind of indented top on it I may have heard of these before I don't know if I've ever dug one and another one this is wild okay looks like some kind of an extract bottle almost a semi Cathedral style these could have held like lemon vanilla extract of some sort they could have also held medicines it's a ball neck panel style bottle now what's going on with this looks like there's a maybe some kind of a piter or broken pitcher here I've been finding fragments to it look at that wow that thing's Pressed Glass I think yeah you know it must have broken so they discarded it there we go I was Finding fragments of this kind of semi- porcel laying on the ground this is flow blue they call it flow blue because the blue pattern sort of flows out from where it was stamped this was a high-end piece for its day all these broken canning jars I usually find these broken as they would have been reused otherwise what's going on here the JRA Watkins medical company Winona Minnesota it's an early machine made jar this would have possibly held something like a some kind of oint Vaseline now this one over here is unusual it's a milk glass maybe Medicine of some sort I know uh a common one in milk Blass is Hagen's Magnolia balm I've dug those before but uh I don't see any embossing on this one yet it's unusual to find bottles of milk glass whoa GW lared perfumer New York I've never seen one of these that thing is beautiful I'm guessing this is from the late 1800s you can see that solid use layer this was a well-used pit I believe they had 11 children on this farm so there was uh them the parents and Farm Workers this would have been a likely filled up quick there we go another piece to that teacup look at that pattern that is unbelievable another St Jacob's oil W this is a popular product during its day the cork top broken lamps folon company Chicago fley cream okay so yeah it's got some good embossing the most common one I find is foley honey and Tar this is a very popular company for its time what's going on with this old dinner plate Royal Stone China Wedgewood in company okay uh that was another popular company of its time this was English made this was a kind of utility type plate what we have here another little prescription bottle no embossing you see it would have had a paper label on the front of it there no way look at that it's a hot handled Sad Iron these would have sat on an old coal burning stove would have used it to press clothes it's a heavy this a really heavy piece we have stuff just falling out here looks like another kind of a cream of some sort some kind of toiletry bottle cork top Tool top looks like we got the top to something broken canning jars a look at these a lot of prescription bottles these held medicines uh anything that would have been prescribed by a doctor back in the day look like the shoulders blown out must had something land on it back in the day but this is a big bottle there's more down below this is wild look like a Watkins okay this is a classic one yeah Watkins whenona Minnesota I find these in early homesteads all over the place the place I grew up on I actually found some of these buried out in the woods there's something down below here huh might okay there's actually some embossing on this thing oh pompan massage cream it's almost like a little sample size I've dug bigger ones I think I've dug these as far as yanking South Dakota look at all the stuff in here another little prescription bottle sometimes these will have the local uh drugstore name on them everite I think this might have actually been an oil type bottle I've seen advertisements for this early 1900s bottles falling out some ink bottles uh Tool top still has some red ink in it and another one this is unusual shape these usually have the company name on them these don't but has almost like a cylinder Barrel type shape here we go FL Duren druggist crookton Minnesota this is a straps side prescription bottle this thing dates back to the 1880s I'm going to check the bottom here sometimes these have a patent now U okay this one's just the Whittle Tatum company this was a popular style used by them in the 1880s krton isn't far from here so it makes sense why it would be in the pit a liquor flask that's a Shoe Fly style this was popular in the late 1800s early 1900s uh has a strange top it's kind of fluted it's unusual H all kinds of unusual pieces here Elian Manufacturing Company chemists and perfumers Detroit Michigan still has some product inside of it some kind of uh skin cream it looks like some kind of prescription bottle here I no embossing this is an early one though it's a Philadelphia oval style it's got a prescription lip on it dinner plate that's a Ironstone China piece got some great crazy you'll see all these lines on it that's from weathering being in the ground so long the elements huh the genuine huh corn corn here l r hofflin that's unusual why Big's cornar de hofflin never seen one before looks like a sample siiz medicine if you look you'll see all these specs these are all undigested seeds from the use layer of the ouse these are likely from Tomatoes raspberries vegetables things along those lines but uh within it here we got all kinds of stuff that would have been thrown down got a prescription bottle no embossing looks to be a Circa 189 95 AG Anderson druggist krton Minnesota made by the Whittle Tatum company this is a fairly common one I've done a lot of digging in kooken there's all kinds of variants of this but this is a 1890s example saw this uh look like some dinner wear that was thrown down some wooden handled stuff that is crude looking that's early it's a a three-pronged fork that's really cool here's an old one wow that's a Blake style this thing's possibly from the 1880s still has the cork intact and another one of these alician Manufacturing Company toiletry bottles to top and a little uh maybe another prescription bottle round style the prescription [Music] lip this thing was catching my eye whoa that's something else it's a child's cup it's got a lion on it it's got a early kind of pink maroon uh transfer onto it it's a called a transfer we piece there's no markings this is definitely English made no end in sight we are really into something here look at that perfume bottle Chicago kirkin Company Chicago little Tool top piece looks like some kind of iron stone plate wow that's a tack any marks no marks no maker marks that's a heavy duty piece though look like it must have been chipped up so they discarded it solid use layer this I think is the base to a lamp yeah it's got a kind a heavy Stone type thing I think I found a piece to it a glass piece with the metal sticking out of it this is just falling out of the side it's a candy dish lid I think it's a cut glass maybe Pressed Glass of some sort you can usually tell oh that's a cut glass lid sa Wallace drugas and stationer crookton Minnesota that is wild I'd say this is about 1905 based on the style of lip it's a little rounded these embossed ones are good wine bottle huh Portland Maine as hens okay I've dug a good few of these this was a skin cream product it was very popular it's a tooled top it's got a early sharp lip on it this uh milk glass bottle see another GW LED perfumer New York you don't see these milk glass pieces very often this is a really special bottle this is absolutely wild we widen this thing out this is one of the biggest pits I've been in we've got all kinds of pieces exposed down here looks like we may have some kind of an ornate lamp base looks like a milk glass there's dinner wear all over look at that it's intact that is really something there must have been a globe that sat on top of this it's likely a pressed glass piece looks like a toold top shoe polish bottle no embossing these don't have embossing very often would have had a paper label on it this is just loaded wow look at that pattern what's this say be lenheim Colonial Pottery Stoke England so that was Stoke on Trent Colonial potteries this is really something I mean this is a true Victorian piece look at that design that is amazing I felt all kinds of stuff down here with the trail this pitch is drops in a big old liquor flask uh full Pint yep patented August 9th 1898 this is an Olympia style flask these were popular around the turn of the century broken linament bottle here's a mouthpiece to a pipe looks like it could be Celluloid some kind of precursor to plastic all kind of broken stuff in here they usually weren't careful and they threw it down the pit they just let it hit up against whatever they threw it towards here's something the camera cut out there's some water in a port from the rain earlier but this is a Blake style prescription bottle this is one of the earlier Styles I've pulled up dates back to the 1880s stuff just falling out of the sides here there's a little uh maybe medicine or sewing machine oil it's a tooled top look at all this stuff here's a candy dish lid got an ornate pattern on the inside looks like it must have fallen off a Shelf at some point broke the top another St Jacob's oil Baltimore Maryland I love these things they're a really cool shape got some nice embossing a little uh extract or medicine it's a ball neck panel style bottle they were somewhat generic could have held oils medicines extracts uh would have had a paper label on the front I notic this one just sticking out of the side here looks like a little prescription bottle no embossing no glass company almost resembles a crown oval a slightly different shape though now this thing down here is something it's colorful it's well into the use layer I can barely get my Trel through again this is truly one of the most loaded pits I've done I actually have a bottle or something down there see if I can pull this thing out look at that it's a teac kettle that's a enamelware tea kettle in like a lavender color it's a solid solid lavender color more broken mason jars look at that that's an Amber Inc Carter's looks like uh made in USA has a date I think think 1897 or 1898 it's hard to read it's a different mold there but it's a tooled top wow in an incredibly soft use layer here pieces are just falling out we've got looks like a prescription bottle that's a Philadelphia oval style I believe it's an early style lip still has some [Music] contents this is while I've been pulling up a chunks of this paint paint pigment this was likely what was used on the house maybe interior exterior it's a I'm sure lead based oh wow an old H coffee cup now this is one of those uh doesn't have a handle on on it uh they were made without handles would have had a saucer underneath it it's a standard Iron Stone piece oh wow gravy boat Ironstone China gravy boat uh no markings on it they had 11 kids living in this house so I'm guessing that's why a lot of these dishes got broken this thing's got a glass stopper in an interesting shape melons infants food dollur Goodale Company Boston wow I've dug some of these melons before this has a really cool form to it would have had a cork band around the glass stopper must have deteriorated all right looks like a maybe Vaseline container yeah there it is chesbro manufacturing company Vaseline it's the cork top Tool top version earlier than the threaded tops I find a lot of those it looks like a little pill bottle this thing had really tiny pills in them they claimed to treat all sorts of ailments this one's a early machine-made piece this thing's been trying to fall out for a while now little medicine or extract ball neck panel style bottle some kind of Ironstone bowl a bottle next to it see the ground's incredibly soft in this layer wow that's intact has a very utility piece heavy Ironstone China you can see all the crazing marks it looks like this thing was well used based on some chips on the rim so many broken canning jars in here look at that oh wow it's a glass dish I think it's a Pressed Glass but that's intact I'm amazed look at that could have been for a Preserves on the on the dinner table maybe a candy dish of some sort okay A Tool top prescription bottle no embossing was likely from a local drugstore a drinking glass all the pieces are there this thing is cool it's a I think it's Pressed Glass it's not cut glass it's amazing to think folks that drank out of this over 100 years ago and a candy dish lid wow all the glass for here is really something this is another Pressed Glass piece huh Watkins face cream Jr Watkins medical company Winona Minnesota the Watkins Products were popular here the company's still in business today actually oh Philadelphia oval style prescription bottle know embossing look like it's filled with groundw maybe partial contents and another these are so early I wish these were embossed be able to know what drugstore these came from this thing could actually be 1880s huh what's going on here we might have an intact canning jar look at that he the Bottom's knocked out must have been why it was discarded that's a big one though and it's a clear one it's a clear Mason's patent jar half gallon I don't know if I've ever seen a clear one before it's got a ground lip this thing's early here's the hall if you notice the pits in the background the left side is deeper so I concluded there's two pits here the one on the right we haven't dug yet could be earlier could be newer we got an incredible amount of pieces here though there's a bean pot a lamp base flower pot one liquor flask those toiletry bottles milk glass some from Minnesota some glassware Pieces candy dishes a bunch of broken Mason jars those two were the most intact got that milk glass lamp base some Apothecary pieces inks some medicines or extracts good few prescription bottles including those three from kooken Minnesota some silverware a bunch of press glass couple cut glass pieces a lot of broken Iron Stone there were 11 kids living here as I mentioned so it's likely they broke a good amount over the years well there you have it we'll get this cleaned up and start on the second pit looks like we have our first pieces here ground is a little hard packed but it softened up looks like a cold cream container no markings on it early machine made here we go that's an old prescription bottle uh everite okay I think that might have been an oil of some sort it's a rounded lip on it i' put this thing at about 1905 let's see here a couple things buried down here early machine made ketchup bottle that dates back to the World War I era found a either medicine or extract it's a Watkins That's a classic bottle this is early machine made as well there we go Tool top prescription bottle put this at about 1905 we're off to a good start down about a foot into the ground here looks like got a few solid pieces showing few broken windows all kinds of stuff down here that's an early machine made prescription bottle made by the Illinois glass company [Music] there we go that's a tooled top no embossing on this thing but yeah these both date back to that World War I era it's the transition era from a tool top like this one to the machine made piece I just dug up whoa look at that that's like an Edison style bulb now it's got a some kind of frosting you know these will sometimes have the company name stamped on it like Edison Mazda or national Mazda but I don't see anything right away that's really cool [Music] kind of a cold cream container no markings on it that same World War I era another prescription bottle made by the Illinois glass company and when I say that you can see that diamond in an i that's the mark of the company that's early machine made World War I era oh wow big old ink yeah the diamond Ink company they were a major manufacturer of inks back in the day you can still see there's still a paper label on the front all this stuff down [Music] here there we go it's a Whitmore shoe polish bottle from Boston this was one of the most if not the most popular shoe polish in its time this is early machine made that same World War I era huh that's a looks like a prescription type bottle no embossing it's a early machine made almost a early Blake Style there we go it's a use layer definitely an old ouse pit look at that that's kind of cool ponds okay yeah they were a popular cold cream manufacturer uh toiletry manufacturer I find these bottles all across the Midwest and another cold cream that's early machine made that same World War I era here's a lid to a cold cream container I don't think we found the base to it yet sometimes these will have uh company names on them it'll probably be on the underside here what do we have huberts Professor I huberts Mela cream Melina cream Professor Al Hubert's Melina cream something along those lines maybe we'll find the bottom to it got all kinds of stuff here some prescription bottles this one's been sticking out for a while let's see almost looks like a western bottle manufacturing company thing it's not though it's got the increments on the side I put this thing at 1908 to 1916 stuff all over in here this one is sticking out AG Anderson drest crookton Minnesota it's got a reinforced lip this is in that same 1908 to 1916 range uh likely closer to 1908 broken mason jar another cold cream container oh here we go this one's got some embossing what do we have here resinol Baltimore Maryland these things are so hard to read in this milk glass resinol Chemical Company I've dug these before uh was a popular product back in the day it's got a fully machine made body on it look at all this stuff in here oh what's up what's this May's wonderful remedy Chicago USA it's early machine made never dug one of these is almost looks like a toiletry style bottle oh these roots are becoming a [Music] problem okay you know uh there's no embossing on this thing it's a tooled top this would have been an as hins hand cream bottle from Portland [Applause] Maine huh early machine made it new Bros herp aside for the scalp some kind of hair type bottle World War I era oh here's one a early machine- made prescription bottle made by the Illinois glass company oh wow this is really something skin beautifier goodr Drug Company Omaha USA velvetina that is a beautiful piece that's milk glass uh from the Midwest that's truly amazing a okay this one's cracked it's a sa Wallace drest and stationer crookton Minnesota so seems like this family was getting their supplies from kooken which makes sense as it was the nearest Big [Music] Town this has some really weak embossing on it chamber length olic chalera and diarrhea remedy I think it's the Chamberlain medical company uh De Moine Iowa USA another Midwest piece that's really cool it's blue and there's embossing I got to see what this thing is it's intact Professor I Hubert's Melina lotion Toledo Ohio that's a beautiful color that's it's an awesome bottle it's got some really nice embossing it's a got an early lip on it as well that's amazing huh a little uh Tool top bottle Blake style and no embossing almost a prescription style maybe a medicine of some sort what's going on here that's wild that's a probably got some really nasty stuff in it melons Food Company Boston it's the large size looks like that thing's filled with some kind of oil or something maybe it was repurposed [Music] H looks like some kind of tool toop toiletry bottle no embossing that's a probably World War I era maybe slightly earlier still a solid use layer there we go tooled top could be some kind of a toiletry or maybe a this might actually be an olive oil bottle World War I maybe a bit a bit earlier huh a little H Crown oval maybe Dakota oval style prescription bottle the age is getting better this one's Circa 190 five yeah you know I think these might be olive oil bottles it's a similar style would have had a a foil band around the neck there could have possibly uh held down the wire for the cork I found the bottom uh found the sides there a few pieces left look at that it's uh some kind of a maybe cut glass pitcher yeah I think it's uh actually a Pressed Glass doesn't feel too sharp looks like some kind of a Ironstone coffee cup and a little uh maybe Vaseline container oh has some writing on the bottom what's that say Keller Detroit all right that would have been the company could have been a food bottle looks like it's a fully machine made broken coffee cup there's one more piece sticking out of the side here could it be yeah pompan massage cream I've dug a lot of these this one's uh I think this one's fully machine [Music] made all kinds of broken lamps in here this Pit's done here's the hall everything dated back to Around the World War I era got a decent variety here that light bulb was interesting the Frosted look to it some condiment containers uh those two are possibly olive oil shoe polish some toiletries a lot of prescription bottles here some patent medicines pomagne massage cream an ink well some kind of little pitcher some cold cream container [Music] well there you have it we get this thing filled back [Music] in

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Length: 48min 55sec (2935 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2024