I have seen those letter openers before. It came in a set with the quill and ink well, it dated back to mid 1700s. Great find man.

@tarafoley6030

2 жыл бұрын

Stunning to find how Old something found can be, yes?

Brad, whenever you straighten an old item, heat it with a torch to anneal it, and it won't break. I've fixed some pretty crushed items like thimbles and stuff heating it. Heat until it just glows, no need to go crazy. That's a fun day you had there.

@GMMD

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jay, I would rather keep the patina intact

@jaystrongbow9435

2 жыл бұрын

@@GMMD I can appreciate that.

@lta6494

2 жыл бұрын

I used to anneal pin heads for injection molds when they came back from heat treating. I haven't thought about my time in the metal shop in 30 years!

@PaulBrown-uj5le

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that.

@jimmyjones6298

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chief.

Definitely a letter opener. I’ve actually found a letter opener detecting before. Odd but very fun find. Nice work, Brad.

Tags may have been for post boxes. The bend in the letter opener may be by design. Imagine a letter flat on the desk and the angle would make easier to use if you were sitting, so don't straighten it before you do a little research. Great video Brad, Thank you.

I believe that's a letter opener because that decoration at the top looks like a big fluffy feather that they would put on old quill pens. Also Hair pins were always round like chop sticks and smaller, never flat. Awesome finds too.

Hey Brad. Nice day! Thanks for taking us along. By the way, I like the alternate tuning on the intro guitar. Very nice.

Those tags are used just as you described. They are sometimes called chits which is an English word that basically means a promise to pay or a check. They were also used in mining to keep track of who was in the mine. A local hunting club uses them to keep track of who is on what stand. In all of those cases, that number would be a single individual. When used to keep track of who was issued what equipment, like in a prison, a worker would carry several chits with the same number. He would get it back when he returned the equipment. Thanks

@TheHellFlower1

2 жыл бұрын

We call tickets (the ones that come through with orders on them) "chits" in the professional kitchen too.

Brad, your commentary and description of the treasure you find makes your videos great. I look forward to Friday for that reason. Chill Bill can tell a story also, hope he is back full time soon. Thanks for sharing with us!

Hi Brad, love your work and videos very much! That letter opener looks to me like it has two or three symbols of New Zealand - the tree fern and the tiki - a tiki In Māori mythology is the first man created and looks like the symbol from which the fern leaf starts. The decoration down the blade looks also like native tribal symbols and design. You may be detecting the house of a whaler or sailor as a fellow like that would surely live on a site with water views like your detecting. Could be wrong but curious mix of related symbols and design there. Do some googling on my suggestions. Cheers From Vic in Brisbane, Australia

@alanaschneider1496

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying this! As a New Zealander, I practically fell off my chair and started yelling at Brad that thats a New Zealand Item 100% No doubt about it!

The letter opener is quite beautiful, congrats on the great find.

I found some similar tags in an old mining town in Montana. An old timer identified them as Miner's tags. Kind of an ID badge. They had to hang them up on a board when they came out of the mine so they could make sure everyone was out at the end of the day.

@debbieflaherty1975

Жыл бұрын

I’m so grateful to you for posting this information…. I was hoping someone would. Thank you 🙏

I'm going with the letter opener, looks like a high end letter opener. Nice finds Brad. Thanks for sharing. Take care

@iriswaterford8881

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you koslund11. It is a letter opener, I have several in different sizes, yet most times use a pen to open a letter. A hat pin is thinner so a woman can put it through the hair and her hair.

@tarafoley6030

2 жыл бұрын

Iris Waterford ... As a woman, fascinated with history thru my grandma & great aunt ... I can't picture a woman, taking the chance of cutting her hair by using this piece in it. Letter opener for sure.

@iriswaterford8881

2 жыл бұрын

@@tarafoley6030 yes a hat pin can be pierced through hat and hat, or weaved through if you have fine hair.

Finding a place like that would make me want to pitch a tent and continue detecting for as long as time would allow!

The ladies of Northern Mudlarks channel would love the things you found today.

Nice finds Brad! Letter opener is awesome! I'm headed out to an old German submarine base from the 40s here in Fl. Wish me luck

It's a quill feather on the letter opener. How lovely! 🤩

Kind of neat that it sits under water most of the year and you make it back for a revisit during its window of opportunity. I always love finding marbles when out detecting … bonus! 💥

Great finds. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

Nice finds Brad..Thanks for taking us along.😊

Brad, a good day on the hunt .. The letter opener / Hair Comb Stay is particularly nice, as is the glass bead .. Thanks for showing and reminding me of the "monochromatic" color of early Spring in Vermont .. Soon to be wonderful, multiple shades of Spring Green spreading across the landscape and mountain sides .. You never let us, your viewers, down with your clear narration, your extensive varied knowledge of all the artifacts that you discover when you're out on the hunt .. Thanks for sharing.

That letter opener is interesting. The Fern is of course New Zealand and the section below the fern looks like a stylized Maori face. Maybe from someone who emigrated? Great location.

Your theory on the "25" and "71" tags is more than likely correct. Tags for employee OR! a piece of machinery. Case in point- I drove trucks for 40 years. 34 with same company. We were issued keys with tags VERY similar to your 2 for trucks we drove. Brass tags with stamped #s on them. I still have 3 or 4 of them, so, in the future when perhaps my or your grandkids are metal detecting around my ole homestead- they'll find them! Haha! Great video Brad! As always......

What an amazing place. I’m headed to Vermont in a few weeks to hunt for treasure with some friends. Love the fancy letter opener. Another great video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I have found only 1 letter opener in my 8 years detecting. Yours is super beautiful Brad!

boom 💥 Friday is hear hope weel has gone well cracking job as well looking forward to the next 👍

Hey Brad, great video, as usual,, lol I think I recognize the tube you showed in the wrapup as the inner tube to a powder measure, for a blackpowder type maybe a musket. Keep up the great vids.

I like the letter opener and I can identify with your urge to straighten it out. Just drives you nuts, doesn't it?!! Love your video's and I'm glad winter is over so that you can get back out there.

Brad early on in the video you were looking at surface finds and tossed a small rod like thing. You said not sure what that is.. Briefly seen but could be a corset hook or crochet hook. Well done always enjoyable.

Brad fantastic video. What a beautiful location. I think that is a letter opener. Love the buttons, a great place to keep returning to. Happy Easter to you and your family.

The graduated cylinder could be one of two things depending on how large it is. First of all, it could be a powder measure for reloading pistol shells. It appears to be too small for most hunting rifles. If it's much smaller than that it could possibly be a measure for dosages of medicine either for humans or for farm animals. Home remedies often came in bulk jars and required measurement to get the proper dosage.

what a find, that letter opener is beautiful! so many cool finds.

It was a great metal detecting day! Love your videos!!!

Some nice relics on the day Brad. That letter opener is sweet. Lots of buttons and a sweet bead. Plus an IHP. Happy hunting and be well

The letter opener is a beauty. It looks like a museum piece! Love the buttons and tags!💖

Exciting place. Black buttons and beads usually mean a time of mourning was present.

Definitely a letter opener Brad, awesome find!

Cool, because of people like you we can find out more about our ancestors. Love treasure and artefact hunting.

Fantastic hunt Brad! Enjoyed you going over some of the items you spotted on the surface too!

Interesting location Brad. I bet it has more to give. Curious finds! Let us know if you get a confirmation on the letter opener

That kind of hunt is usually a fun one. Nice letter opener, too!! Stunning!!

@brendabrooks6334

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there Brad I believe those are sheep tags. That's what we used on our farm. And you kept saying the site was an old farm.

Brad I like to find things like that. You don’t have to find gold to have a fun hunt. But of course it is great to find gold and silver

That is such a wonderful place with a great history. Great finds.

Hey there Mr. Brad. Lots of interesting surface stuff there. I like picking the top mostly because that's what I did as a kid. I was always looking at the ground finding pieces of glass, cool little rocks, bird eggs, stuff like that. The only place I actually dug was in a huge ditch that ran alongside one of the houses we lived in when I was a kid. Now that was a cool place, lots of little seashells there. I thought that was a marble too when you first showed it but a bead is neat too. I think that fancy stickpin/letter opener was for a hair decoration. My mom had something similar that went through a large tortoise shell comb that she had for years. Ladies with long hair often used those to decorate their updo's back in the day. Anyway, if you find out exactly what it is please let us know. Thank you for sharing your fun with us.

Wow Brad that is a great find..love that opener 👏 👌 🙌 👍

I was watching the English Antiques Roadshow and they said that ferns were very popular in Victorian England (1850s to the (1890s) and they appeared on everything from pottery to gravestones.

Great hunt!!! The letter opener is gorgeous!!

Awesome video Brad. Thanks for taking us with you.

Wow, at last a bead!!! I've never dug one myself but I'm super glad to see you find one. The new music is nice toon

What I think is going on here: the river is depositing stuff in and around the foundation walls, that boulder, and the hole. It wasn't necessarily a dump, the river is doing that. Definitely a Letter Opener, and the artwork is a curious thing for me. A letter opener is such a utilitarian object that most folks would use a knife. Indeed, my search found more Saber shaped letter openers all the way to the Georgian Era. Or they WERE a cutlery handle pattern with a modified blade. Your's is so highly decorated, and on the blade!... almost like it wasn't meant to be used, just look good on the desk top. Then I remembered what was so familiar about it. I've googled letter openers for all the major periods that would apply to this site, and I can't find anything close to that... but souvenir letter openers got closer. I think it's modern [20th Century] and a souvenir, everything about it looks like the Souvenir Spoons. The construction looks flashy at first, but it also is a bit cheesy, because it is so highly decorated. Truly expensive letter openers were made in precious metals. Hat Pins did get to be enormous, but they had small round shafts. The longer they got, the more substantial the shaft had to be, and yes, they were lethal. Some cities began to BAN those larger hat pins, because they had a spike in crimes using a large hat pin. Even a murder case, where a woman claimed she fought off her attacker with her hat pin, and killled him. and I think she was convicted, because the victim was her husband and money was involved. Thanks for taking me to places that I will never get to see, and it's always fun seeing what you pull out of the ground.

Brad congratulations on all those great finds. Love watching your videos and thank you for sharing…

New music sounds great! I'm always impressed when people can find good stuff along rivers - my experience has always been that they are littered with modern trash and layers of silt/ debris from years of flooding. Nice work!

@GMMD

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben!

Great place to hunt! Thankyou for showing us.

Cool area to hunt for treasure. Very neat letter opener. Thanks Brad for taking us along with you.

IMHO, you nailed it, letter opener and it is fabulous!

Sincerely, thank you very much (reflection). We appreciate you greatly (family). Be blessed, you and yours (Brad).

Wow Brad your finds are awesome congratulations love your videos

Great hunt .Always a pleasure to watch pal thanks for taking us along !

I think the letter opener is something special, every house would have a knife they could use to open letters. Whoever owned it must have really wanted it.

Nice finds Brad. The letter opener may have come with a slightly cranked handle so it would sit up on the desk so you could grasp it easier to pick it up.

Love this hunt. Great finds!

Great finds , I love the beauty of old things they just don’t make things the way they use too. Really enjoyed your video.

Cool finds. I enjoy following you. Have a happy Easter weekend.

That letter opener is one of my favorite finds of yours ever.

I look forward to Friday and seeing what you find! Always fascinating!

Yeah "71" my birth year. Yes I'm old. Lol I know how good you are at research. Maybe you have an old map of homesteads. That is so cool to have the opportunity to check this area. In my town they lowered one of our 3 rivers during a huge tunnel project. I found some really cool things while the river was low. It used to be the main way to travel into Fort Wayne in the 1800s. Great finds!

Closest thing to the English mudlarking that I have seen here in the US. In Vermont of all places...who would guess that.😆 My guess...letter opener, for sure.

Love your program. I am 73, probably one of your older viewers, but please don't take it wrong, but you and some of your friends are truly hot. Just because I am oldI can appreciate all things that are attractive. That includes your scenery. I used to live in northern NH, so your woods remind me of the area. Keep up the good work!

My vote is a letter opener. Nice finds Brad!

Bits and pieces of history! Fascinating!

Nice finds Brad,I truly dig your videos.

at 14.29 i believe the metal object with graduations on it is used to measure gun powder ..nice find.

I have never mentioned how bad ass your intro music is. You are inspiring in many ways Brad Martin. Thanks for doing what you do.

@GMMD

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe!

In Sweden older powerlineposts hade taggs like yours. Happy easter to you and your family.

Would this be considered your first mudlarking video!? I really enjoyed this! Thanks again Brad for so masny hours of entertainment!

Just found your channel….everything is so enjoyable to watch. Your commentary is so calming….glad I found your channel and I’ve subscribed.

thanks for the wonderful video!

Nice hunting spot friend. Got out the other day with my cheapie treasure pro and hit a couple stone walls, always finding odd made farming tools mostly, maybe a black powder bullet or two. ✌🏼💚 from the southern part of the state.

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Brad, your content is always interesting and well put together. Thanks for bringing us along!!

@GMMD

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

Great tour of the lake at low water level l THANK YOU!

congrats Brad on finding those awesome finds especially the ornate letter opener

Congrats Brad!! 🎉

Nice finds , I enjoyed the video , Thanks for sharing with us.

Really cool Brad, just like Mudlarking in England! And yes, I love the haunting Loon call across the lake in Wisconsin. When I lived in Colorado, I would listen to the Loon call on KZread. I now live in Pennsylvania, but haven't come across any Loons yet.

So glad i found your chanel. Ive been binge watching for houurrs

Amazing finds!

The small brass tube is a black powder measure or a shot measure. Likely a spout to a flask.

The letter opener could have been a family heirloom , things like this were passed down and used for generations . You should take it to a museum for a positive ID as it may be worth quite a bit of money . It could possibly be as early as 17th century .

@JohnD.1969

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I am the 4th generation to have our letter opener.

8: 24 - Letter opener. Exquisite! Nice find, Brad. I haven't watched since you were in France.

Working my way backwards in videos here, glad I started watching again 😊

Hey, Brad. Loved the video of your finds. My favourites are the letter opener and the glass bead. It's too bad you have to wait another year. I bet there are even more interesting objects yet to discover. Thanks for sharing. Stay healthy and safe 👍🏽 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Hauntingly beautiful sound is the loon's call. Also that of a train whistle way off in the distance. Two of my favorite sounds!

Seem to remember some dairy cows in the pastures circa early 70's had round, brass, numbered ear tags. Just a thought. After the great flood of '27, quite a few reservoirs were built to control the watersheds. Whole farming communities were flooded. Always wonder what lurks beneath while fishing in those locations.

Wonderful site and video Brad! Now I have a question. Given that this was the site of a home or dwelling of some sort, there was also a stone foundation that was shown with what appeared to be a dark hole beneath it. Assuming that was a collapsed basement space? Why didn’t you go search the area under the foundation? Unless it was still submerged but it would have been nice to hear some kind of reason why you weren’t exploring that space? Sad that you won’t get back there until next year. That spot is a gold mine of goodies!! Do they drain that lake every year?? Wishful thinking….. great video overall!! I would love to have been able to poke around in that spot! Lucky you!

That's a awesome find !!!!!

Love the new guitar intro Enjoy your video's I used to live in Vermont way up by Quebec border

Awesome letter opener 👌 👏 I love it!

So cool. Much love from California.

Great adventure as I can always depend on you to do.

Great new music.