False teeth and gun! We find weird 1960's relics in the Woods!

hello okay so we've been doing some research during lockdown and today's the first day we're allowed out um into our local authority area yeah and so we've come to check out some of those places and here we are at one of them so let's see what we can find let's do [Music] it [Music] okay well the stuff here you can see lots of stuff bottles but it's just modern 1960 stuff you can see it all the way down this bank um there is older stuff here because this we found it oh that's an ashtray oh it's a funky ash tree it's like pearlescent but unfortunately it looks as if the oldest stuff is buried and there's just modern 1960s rubbish on top sadly okay so i've just found this plastic fish and it's all squashed but i think i'm gonna keep it that's what i think is um in the 60s they've been fly tipping on top of the old rubbish dump here i found a bit of plate here and it's got like zoom in it's got a picture of houses or a big house or something on it this is like a jungle very difficult to move around in here oh my goodness oh you see all the stuff now loads of looks very 1960s rubbish but um it's worth a look let's see wow it's lots of it okay and i've found more of the same plate here but this bit's got um a a cow and fields on it hmm wonder if i'll find any more what's this is it more of the mysterious plate oh oh my goodness wow i love that this must be from the center of the plate it's a man on a horse and a beautiful cottage with sheep in front of it oh i absolutely love that okay i've just had an oh my goodness moment because can you spot it it's a marble and it's massive wow my that that's amazing what's that oh my goodness i think it's what's it snoopy dog oh it would have like walked along when you put it on a sloppy sloping surface got his front legs missing sadly something else there another piece of plastic well there's loads of stuff look at all of this look at all of that goodness gracious that's beautiful take that for beads plastic toy it's a pretty blue pill bottle oh and what's that oh look it's an a for alex oh i like that little bottle but look baby's leg oh what on earth there's another bit of oh looks like a toy handcuff i remember having these bits of wire mostly glass bottles and jars this piece of tin lid has a steam engine on it a pretty glass decorative jars i'm sure someone would have some use for some of these things okay so i found this bottle it's really unusual shape i don't think i've ever seen one like this before and it's got um something on the bottom something london so i might keep that and look it up to see what it what was in it it's got like a chisel edge so not sure what that is found another one of these little glass vials and they were for putting pills in they would have had a cork but um this is a 1960s dump so yeah maybe it was old rubbish that the flood thrown away cleaned the cabinet bathroom cabinet out for the first time in 30 years i think i've just found a whistle i think that's all that is oh i really want to try it yeah i think that's some kind of whistle that's weird space phone oh my goodness it's some sci-fi thing some sci-fi toy that's so cool not usually into plastic stuff but that is interesting look at all these there's a little tiny kid's shoe there look and oh a piece of an oil lamp where the wick would have come out turn that to um to push the wick up it is a little glass bauble a little christmas ornament and it's a funny little baby thing and i think this is older than the 60s it's made of glass blown glass i think this might be a little bit earlier more like 1930s it's got that cupey doll look oh that's gotta go on our christmas tree hasn't it at christmas oh my goodness i love it oh a weird little thing and over there it's all toys today there's a gun definitely not a real gun but it's a gun oh these bottles still have the stuff inside look oh that is gross let's go and oh i'm crawling on my hands and knees under here oh my goodness oh oh this is a struggle there we go that's a little toy gun okay i had to crawl out from underneath the undergrowth but yeah that's a little toy gun tin gun probably belonged to some little boy or girl tiny ponds cream cold cream jar a whiskey flask a tube of something ribbon oops ribbon dental i think it says ribbon dental cream never heard of that it's probably still got some in it has it's got some in but it's gone hard i don't think i'll be using it here's a little trinket dish molded glass i think it's whole it's just got a tiny chip out of it so i might keep it oh no can you see what i can see it's quite well camouflaged let me zoom in it's dentures oh alex will love this she's coming over i'll let her dig it out well pick it up alex is happy because i found her some dentures oh my god oh my gosh my bucket looks fine oh my gosh they're not very old though they're practically fresh oh no let me zoom in oh no that's horrible oh no oh my goodness that's nasty alex look it's all worn down oh no it's been well used over the years that's really horrid oh my goodness that is quite disturbing it is oh that's put a smile on your face alex literally oh my gosh i love it oh smile for the camera okay so dentures were on my bucket list for this year and here they are they're so worn down someone's been wearing these for a very long time 1960s dentures oh that is morbid i love it later we discover dentures or not a modern invention stay tuned to hear the hideous history of false teeth oh a multitude of stuff here this looks like a hole oh no it's not hole if it was i would have probably taken that to use at home unfortunately i'm gonna have to leave it it's an old tail victorian tile see someone's stockings nylons um struggle our way up this bank side that looks like oh there's a pair of men's braces well it's off the pyramids braces rather this fine turned out to be something far more interesting find out more later in the roundup and what else is there here oh my goodness oh look there's a hot water bottle gummy vice versa pleasure i think that's how you say it in german a little bit knackered though this looks like a bottle of milk of magnesia but it has the actual milk of magnesia still in it which is really weird what on earth body part alert it's a leg oh that's pretty horrible yeah a plastic doll's leg with a split open foot oh my goodness i think i found something interesting no ah alex just found a christmas tree decoration i found another one wow it's like a little house or something look oh my goodness i love it wait a minute what's that another one right next to it the same oh wow what are the chances that's crazy oh my goodness i love them i found an old lipstick here i'm going to see if i can open it i'll tell you what i think i'll open it at home it's quite interesting i didn't expect to find this on 1960s dump it's a vulcanized rubber bottle and it's got globe leaf on it well that's interesting this is just a massive struggle oh no let's go back as you can hear we're very very close the road so noisy but i found a vulcanite in the bottle noble nobles i think that's um gala shields which is expected since it's a border town and we're in the borders so i think i'll take that stopper not the bottle i found an old paste pot but interestingly it sells a lid on and it says sutherland sadler sutherland's meat paste don't often find them with the cap still on and it's another piece of old type it has something there just this just looks like two words no it's something dot dot dot dot dot can't make out what it is something that starts with a c oh that is so interesting i love this i can't remember what kind of type this is called though that is wonderful i love that i'm gonna try and i'm gonna try and stamp that back at home there you go a nice teaspoon you never know it might polish up i'm finding loads of stuff i didn't think 1960s would be so interesting look at this beautiful milk bottle oh my goodness this car it's got the fourth rail bridge on it that oh wow the first maid oh my you know what i'm taking that love it wow i never thought i'd be so interested in a 1960s bottle look at that i found this whole dish which i'm gonna take because we can decorate it and there's just so much stuff there's boots there's everything something strange here i thought it was twigs at first but oh my goodness i have a feeling that was vic's vaporub there's another milk of magnesia bottle it's got no embossing though so yeah here's that um that little cottage thing that i found like a really rustic almost like a tree house it's crazy okay look at this it's um i think i even remember these they sort of clipped together plastic jewelry the the little um bead things all clipped together i've just spotted something what is it it looks like a tiny bottle it is wow look how tiny that is a tiny little bottle it's got something on the bottom savile hot bottle from the tree it's in this holly tree ah that's a an aerated water it's another nobles one that i found earlier this one says um aerated water gala shields on both sides and it's got the stopper in so i'm going to take the stopper for a vast stopple bopper collection i can literally see rubbish that's almost on the road down there okay guys i've done it again i found a pipe bowl [Laughter] it's a pipe bowl oh yeah that's got to be 1960s at least no maker's name on it it's a pipe bowl though come on [Music] [Music] bye [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello okay here are our finds from our 1960s dump yeah i know we have actually found some unexpected things because we were expecting to find older rubbish there but instead found this more modern stuff yeah i think the older stuff was probably underneath and more modern stuff had been dumped on top yes i'm really quite surprised at how interesting it is these are all our sort of toys this here though is a little um it's a check one chinese ceramic house on stilts and it dates from the 1950s and they also did like little fishing men and little men sitting cross-legged and things that people used to put on their bonsai tree displays they're so cute maybe we could put it in our fish tank yeah looks like oh i like amongst our little succulent plants because we've got a few succulents um yeah all of our plastic stuffs mostly toys and it will probably be go in the bin it'll be recycled into something new this is a space phone and it's a walkie-talkie and we've got a picture to show you of that there would have been two of them and they would have had a string that went between them um it's also a whistle yeah so just scared the cat and i don't know if anyone remembers making walkie-talkies out of tin cans and pulling a string between them that was sort of the same principle for this yeah this is a baby food um like a baby milk powdered milk measuring scoop and yeah so these will just all end up being recycled i think this is um pluto it would have been a walking dog down a school desk or a slope yeah um little daisy chain plastic beads there's a for alex here yeah um we've got some vulcanite bottle stoppers um and this interesting gun here so yeah it has mi5 stamped on it and i think it's related to james bond probably and it fired caps yes it would have went bang yeah there'd be a little roll of um red caps and they would have this mechanism that would have wound them on and you could fire them one after the other yeah i think um i think we had some toys like that guns um moving on we have this piece of type and i can't remember what kind of type it is what's it called like lino type or um something like that it's typeface anyway yeah it's typeface and it says com which is really weird it just says co double m and then um a line of dots yeah so so i'll show you a picture of what that looks like so com could be short for any amount of words communication and things like that so we're not sure it's a mystery so this little buckle it was really quite encrusted and alex has managed to clean it up lovely and it's actually quite interesting because it's part of the buckle from a world war ii webbing army belt dating from the 1930s that's really cool because um i thought it was like a buckle of some old man's braces or something um yeah but i showed it to mum and mum was like yep that's one of those so that's pretty cool we got a world war ii relic there which is really interesting yeah um and some unusual finds in the middle here um these are really cool actually unexpected little finds and these are also from the 1930s and they are actually christmas tree light bulbs and they would have had a screw top attached to the top part there and if you see they've got a clear piece of glass running through the top to the inside and i think that would have been attached when it was screwed into a bakelite holder which had a bulb in it which would have sent the light through the top of the screw thread and into the bulb so not actually bulbs themselves yeah so the light just would have shone down into them but these would have been painted um so i think that's going to be one of our christmas projects yeah so we don't want to say too much about them but we think they date from anywhere from the 1920s to the 1930s yeah they have the glass um and this is kind of like a cupey doll kind of vibe like inspired kind of thing that's very creepy it's creepy i don't like it but it's still going on christmas tree i really yeah i don't really like that but um not my kind of thing but yeah we'll still hang on our christmas tree and these are little cottages but yeah well they're japanese oh they're japanese made in japan so we'll i will look forward to decorating these and repainting them and playing them on our christmas tree at christmas so next we have um a frosted glass bowl probably a trinket dish yeah we like trinket dishes but we don't often find them and it's a lovely pale blue color and a really old um plate yeah look that crazing is just gorgeous isn't it it's like a pattern it's like it's being done deliberately time and weather has done that that's beautiful we're gonna decorate it but it's tempting to just kind of leave it as it is yeah i think we should just leave it just looks like has a c on the back which isn't very helpful um and then next we've got mum's beautiful marble oh yes wow i love that marble it's beautiful it's got a bubble in the middle look at that it's all wiggly wobbly it's quite big yeah it must be a shooter marble but it's a beautiful machine made marble so it probably dates from 19 anytime yeah from right from the the beginning of the 1900s to well 1916. to this dump yeah to the 60s um and then what nails we got bottles these are um just cute little bottles and we can't help but collect cute little bottles this is black glass it is in fact a scent bottle from the 1930s and 40s for mischief scent and it would have had some of them had a bakelite top hat shaped box and some just had a normal cardboard box um unfortunately you can't smell this but it did have its original original lid on and when i took it off um you can actually smell the perfume still which is incredible i was smelling something from the 1930s 40s wartime yeah unfortunately you can't smell it but it smells like you know we didn't throw the lid away incidentally it was so corroded yeah i just crumbled to nothing and the rest of the bottles this bottle here is on the bottom of this bottle it has find later strangely because we did find it london and that was actually called dry fly sherry and it's a miniature and it dates from about the 1950s 60s so it goes with the date of the dump miniature bottles are just so lovely um this is a medicine bottle um and this is another miniature like whiskey bottle something like that and then our mystery bottle here which is really unusual well we know it's a milk bottle or a cream bottle and it's um printed with a technique called pyroglazing which was introduced in britain in 1929 and it was an application of heated enamel put on using the silkscreen method british milk bottles were first produced by the express dairy company in the 1880s and before that milk was delivered in churns and it would have just been ladled out into any receptacle that the person of the house took out to collect the milk in and firth maid is a mystery because we've looked this up and tried to research it but we found absolutely nothing have we no we also can't find out anything about trestle and mcintyre limited but you know there you are it's a mystery it is so if you do know any information about this bottle and we'd love to know we love it we love that it has the fourth bridge on there definitely isn't that lovely so yeah that'll definitely be going on display because that's just wonderful um and then of course we've got another tiny little vial we've got a collection of these now i'm pretty sure they had pills or something in them yeah i've seen some of them with needles in and and all kinds of different things now we've got this plate over here which i think is absolutely gorgeous look how pretty that is pretty pattern and this is they're all from the same plate and i managed to find a whole one online and the plate fragments are from heathcote china and it dates from 1912. yeah so this is perfect for jewelry making and we could cut this out or make it into some kind of christmas decoration yeah something like that because it's a bit big for jewelry yeah because it's quite a big scene so but it's beautiful yeah we'll see okay so i bet some of you are thinking oh we've forgotten something ah it's our teeth oh i love these brilliant vines i think they're horrible i love them i love them but i think they're horrible they've got the imprint of the person's gums yeah look oh look at that so yeah that's really quite morbid really and i actually like um that you can see it's worn away look how far that's just worn down so and on this side more than that side so they've i don't know more on that yeah this is a side they chewed more on or just yeah really it's really morbid and really interesting at the same time alex was so excited when i found these i know i wanted to find a whole um set of dentures for ages but finding these prompted me to do some research about false teeth and so i'm going to give you my short history of dentures but you didn't expect to hear that today i never expected to write anything about it the short history of dentures coming right up it is believed that the first false teeth were made by the etruscans in about the 7th century bc roman texts record that they also produced teeth using bone ivory ox tooth and even woods such as pine and boxwood more recently a set of partial dentures were discovered in an ancient family tomb in italy these are thought to date from between the 14th and the early 17th century making them the oldest known dentures in existence after this it seems it wasn't until the 18th century that dentures were to make a comeback although the materials used hadn't really changed at this time dentistry and the production of artificial teeth became a booming profession the wealthy were consuming more and more sugar and early tooth whitening solutions being acidic dissolved the enamel as fast as teeth were being pulled so the demand for replacement teeth was growing and it was only the wealthy who could afford them an ivory denture set with human teeth could cost as much as a hundred pounds in today's money that's approximately eleven thousand pounds there were many dentists advertising in the newspapers of the time with claims such as being able to clean the blackest and fowler's teeth in a few minutes as white as ivory and to set in artificial teeth not to be distinguished from real by the best judges but it wasn't just men who practiced the profession in an english newspaper advertisement of 1774 we read of a mrs d saint raymond who practices the art of scaling cleaning whitening preserving drawing and transplanting teeth the advertisement goes on to claim she occasionally draws teeth and stumps even the most difficult to be got out and when the skill of other practitioners proves ineffectual she makes and sets in artificial teeth and also transplants natural ones from one head into another worryingly it also states that she is to be found at mr benjamin yates's iron gate maker near saint werbrust church in 1744 alexis du chateau invented a process for making dentures from a kind of porcelain but it was french chemist nicholas dubois de chamonn who perfected the process with his mineral paste overcoming the problem of shrinkage during firing chaumont was granted an inventor's patent by king louis xvi but was forced to flee to england to escape the french revolution on arrival in england he was granted a 14-year patent for the exclusive manufacture of his invention and was supplied with porcelain paste by the wedgewood company but these teeth were usually badly fitting and unhygienic and their unrealistic appearance often made them the subject of ridicule as in this cartoon by english caricaturist thomas rollinson depicting monsieur de charmont showing his mineral paste teeth to a potential customer george washington is famed for his false teeth which were erroneously rumored to have been made of wood washington did in fact own several sets of dentures in his lifetime some of which still survive appallingly some of these were made from the teeth of slaves set into pallets of hippopotamus ivory and even lead human teeth were in high demand and dentists often placed advertisements for them in newspapers this encouraged not only the poor to sell their teeth but also grave robbing and the collection of teeth from the battlefields of waterloo the 19th century didn't see much improvement in the manufacture of falls teeth until the invention of vulcanized rubber this proved ideal as it could be molded to the shape of the recipient's mouth and quickly replaced the use of ivory but it wasn't until well into the 20th century with the invention of modern plastics and resins that real improvements were to be made in the production of dentures well i'm glad i don't have to visit an 18th century dentist that's for sure i know it's pretty grim it's a whole history a whole history of teeth and those lead um palettes don't sound very healthy at all yeah and you know george washington's slave teeth i know that's just the most horrific thing absolutely hideous and i suppose that rich people would take their servants along and i don't suppose they had much choice either no okay all that leaves is to say a big thank you and goodbye and we'll see you again next week bye and action [Music] and action [Music] i think i'm too close good shoot all right you

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Published: Mon Apr 12 2021