We Went Mudlarking in a Beautiful Place where not many people go. I was surprised at what we found!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2023
- Every Sunrise brings New Surprises! Guess where we went mudlarking! I recently met up with fabulous foursome, Kathy, Roger, Matt and Ollie who took me mudlarking somewhere where not many people go. Join us as we search for historical treasures left out by the tide. Matt then showed me his collection from over the years.
Thank you very much to the Guernsey Mudlarks for taking me along with them!
When Nicola uploads and the first thing you see is a seagull pitter-pattering in a puddle, you know you're in for a treat. Thanks for sharing another adventure!
Anyone know why they do that? Is it to clean their feet?
@@lkgrave4959 No, it's to drive small creatures out so they can eat them-tiny shrimps etc in the water and worms when they pound the grass.
@@hoosiersands Makes sense. Thank you.
I think Nicola will come back as a seagull on the Thames. Playing in the mud and searching in the seaweed.
@@lkgrave4959they're trying to get food to the surface. We do similar looking for clams which did themselves down into the sand.
Nicola White I Found the pottery @6:17. it is a Pitcher "Antique Mariners Compass Creamer Pitcher Adams Tunstall England est 1657 c1900". Says on the top "The Mariner's Compass" Edit: The site Ruby Lane goes on to describe the creamer pitcher as " A rare Adams Tunstall England Mariner’s compass creamer or small pitcher with brown trim on rim and handle. On body there is the Mariner’s compass pointing North and is a Tall Ship both in black. Marked with the makers mark which was used turning the turn of the century 1896-1921".
Great job finding this!!
Great job!
Thank you so much that's brilliant!!
Wow! Fantastic job finding this! Very cool to see it complete.
That’s so great!! I just started looking when I came back and saw your comment. Good for you, that’s so exciting!!😍😍💥💥
Right at the beginning of video the shot of birds feet moving back and forth like a dance. Extremely funny. Great shot
Hi Nicola, the ship and compass are from an Adams Tunstall creamer. I've sent you a picture on your Instagram. Greetings from Holland!
Thank you!
Wow! Also worth mentioning Matt’s genuinely impressive collection of finds. His displays are absolutely stunning. Nicely done, Matt! You have an impressive eye for showcasing all your brilliant and curious finds!!
Thanks Christopher, yes, you are right. They are beautiful finds aren't they?! xx
I really enjoyed listening to Matt share his finds. I giggled a bit because his passion for his finds matches mine for my Southern California beach finds. Fortunately, this channel is a great audience for the enthusiasm in contrast to my friends who basically accept my obsession with the hunt and finds. 🤭❤️🩵
I can see why you coveted the Red Sea glass. I can see that being turned into a pendant. The shape was just right.
I loved the video, but I have to say that the seagull doing its little stamping dance really made my day. Thank you for sharing your adventures with me. Much appreciated.
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When Matt speaks of marbles from the UK he is pointing out something really interesting: Guernsey is part of Great Britain, but not part of the UK. For various legal reasons, that's why a lot of international banks have Operations centers there (including the bank I work for).
That's my mini contribution for this week 🤣
Thank you for your mini contribution which I appreciate!
I couldn't resist your challenge and it turns out there's a whole range of lustre jugs, plates, dishes etc with sailing boats and compasses called Mariners' Compass by Sunderland & Tyne. Lovely finds that day. Good luck for your next Guernsey lark.
Thank you! That's very useful! x
This summer my husband and I went camping with our family at the Snake River down below Jackson Hole Wyoming between Hoback Junction and Alpine Junction where we ran the Snake River three times a day on our 10 man rafts. Great times. Then we traveled back to California where we live in San Jose with stops in Craters of the Moon National Park in Idaho, Hines Oregon, and Willow Creek campground in the Sierra Nevadas.
I love the seagull dance at the beginning of video,nice relaxing lark & a beautiful day!
I loved the opening credits of the seagull tap dancing in a puddle. What a hoot!🤪
Oh Nicola! What an absolute treat to be back on the island of Guernsey! That little seabird dancing in the mud was a great opening scene to your wonderful video ... really enjoyed that to a T! A lovely group of mudlarks to spend your time with and the collection at the end of the video was mesmerizing! Good on you Nicola! Five for you! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks Janet
Fantastic collection, love that dog so much!
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OH BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!! I LOVED YOUR DANCING ALBATRAUCE BIRD!! THX NICOLA, ALWAYS MAKE MY DAY! ❤🧡💙💜
Please tell Matt how much I admire how he displays his finds. The glass “Chinese checkers” board is an ingenious way if showcasing marbles.
Hi, Nicola - Susan from Shelburne here. Last week I had my right knee replaced, so I have all the time in the world to search! This was actually an interesting find, produced by the William Adams Pottery in Tunstall. You can google Antique Mariner's Compass Cream Pitcher to see the original. They figured it was post 1896, but pre-1921. Enjoy your trip to Guernsey.
Wonderful Thank you Susan! That is very useful. How is your knee? My mother had hers done last year. I hope you recover very soon! Love Nicola
@@nicolawhitemudlark It's early days! Getting it functioning will be my job this summer. I'm working on the basis that it will be ready in time to return to school (for us, the fifth of September this year).
It was 103 degrees today in Southeast Texas. I stayed in my recliner with air conditioning wide open. I would love to be out there with y'all.
Where I live we have had 10 summery days,in Yorkshire. So you can fling some heat in our direction.😊
I just love watching to the very end. Thank you.
Thank you Linda! ox
I think you should make a fish sculpture out of your china bits!!! Love the one with the sails and compass !!!!⛵️🌊
The Bellarmine that he said looks like someone added the face is actually a 17th century German Bellarmine wine bottle. ❤
Thank you!
Hi Nicola, the bit of pottery with the ship and compass is from Sunderland and Tyne Luster Pottery. Look for Garrison Pottery as this is what this transfer was called.
Thank you!
He has an amazing collection
Those places are always amazing ... remote and quiet :) and sometimes full of surprises!
You always bring a smile to my face. I am heading to Stuttgart next month to visit my mother.
The holed pipe stem at 12:28 made me wonder if it was "pennywhistle" for a child, made from a broken pipe stem by a local Grandfather, or a pipe maker, capitalizing on the broken stems during manufacture. I think if you were to ask those marbles like 19:00 where they came from, many would tell you from the slingshots of kids, shooting at seagulls.
I wish all these things could talk!! good theory on the pipe stem with holes
It's hilarious to see that seagull clog dancing!
I know! I love them!
Thanks for this great video Nicola❤. I loved the little frozen Charlotte and the little dog of uranium glass! For vacation I went with my daughter to Brighton for 10 days. Last year we had a wonderful holiday there. This year I found, or should I say something found me, corona...been quite ill but am recovering now. I had a great find though in a flea market. About 30 years ago my father brought me a little silver plated left boot from the Portobello Market in London. Now I found another one and yes it is a right one, so after all these years it's a pair now. That was my best find!
Have a great week, love, Nicole.❤
Thank you Nicole! I am so sorry that you haven't been well. I hope you are much much better now and taking it easy. Fabulous flea market find. That was obviously meant to be. Love Nicola
@@nicolawhitemudlark Thank you Nicola, doing better every day. And yes that flea market find was meant to be. My father told me that if he could give me a sign after he passed away he would. I'd like to think this was a big sign, it does not matter whether it is true or not, but it makes me feel good. Love from me.💕
Excellent to see so many friends with the same curiosity and interest you have
Loved the Guernsey mudlarks what a wonderful group of people. Loved Matt’s collection and love your video adventures. Looking forward to watching your American adventure, yes, it’s been hot over here. 🥰💕❤️👍👍
The Belermine with the odd applied face may well be quite valuable as it may be a knock off. There are many cases of faking something else in order to get better pay for what is quite often an inferior product or riding the coattails to gain a following for a new better version. These are often worth more both in value and in historical interest and context.
Thank you! good point. It certainly is unique.
People have told me that I'm losing my marbles but now I know where they are -- Guernsey?
ha ha yes that is right! x
You are a busy lady. Thanks for sharing your adventures with me and your You-Tube followers. Each week you surprise me. Enjoy
The pipe stem bits that are worn smooth would make such lovely beads! Matt really has a gift for displaying his finds. Lovely.
I hope your Sunday is going better than mine. I had to work on a lawnmower today. Every muscle hurts and I feel like I got mauled by angry bears!
Soldiers used to flatten musket balls to make poker chips and I've seen them shaped into dice, and carved into chess pieces
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Hi Dustin. Oh my goodness. I hope you recover soon and your muscles feel better. Interesting facts about musket balls! xx
Great video thanks. And I loved Matts collection…..fabulous and so nicely displayed. Wouldn’t want to dust it all though 😂
Miss Shaw would surely have been mortified to know that people would still be talking about her less than svelte figure 125 years later!
That's hilarious! :) Poor Miss Shaw
Lovely folks! Thanks for taking me along on your adventure!
where have i gone this summer? i'm bed bound so can't physically get out, but so enjoy going along on your adventures. i am blessed to be able to explore all over the world via the internet. thanx for sharing.
Thank you for watching Teresa. Sending you much love. Nicola xx
What a nice change of scenery, Nicola! You are so very fortunate to be able to whisk off to the States for vacation, then travel to see family in Guernsey. Thank you for taking the time to send a lovely video our way during your travels. You are looking very relaxed these days. Good on ya' mate!
Thanks Steve! ❤️
@18:53 Antique swirl German Marble (they made big beads like this also!).
Hiboys good 😂thanks hi girl good thanks 😅😂❤❤
Thank You Nicola…❤
Another Brilliant Programme Buttercup !!!!!
Always Interesting !!!
You Are A Star !!!
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Thanks dear Roger. You are a star too. Thank you for your support. Love Nicola xx
I went to Missouri for my birthday month. I live in Florida and went to visit my daughters… when I returned to Florida I have decided it is time to move north back towards Missouri… I don’t know if that will be Tennessee or Missouri. Please wish us well in our new endeavors. 🥰
Thank you!!
Loved the whole video. Adored the seagull stomping mud. How cute! Never saw a seagull look so cute!
the one that stole my sandwiches was not so cute!!
@@nicolawhitemudlark oh no!! Not cute at all!
Oh … I think those Bellarmine are the most amazing vessels! I too would love to find one someday.
me too!!
My daughters and I go crabbing in deep rock pools left after the tide went out, and we'd use just a long pole with a hook on the end. Sometimes we'd get a few 5-inchers, other times netting small fish popularly known as 'whitebait' and small brown shrimp we'd go home with a bucketful for our tasty dinner. Nicola, your time looked just as fun, and yes - that flattened piece of lead is definitely a flattened musket ball because its weight equaled an original. At this time of the year, Guernsey is so lovely and your video is enchanting. Thank you so much! ~Wendi 🌻🌻🌻
Thank you Wendi! I love rock pooling. My son once even found a lobster. xx
Poor guy rescuing that lady in heavy ,wet ,long clothes ,dress, undergarments, petticoat and probably coat in March. Wow! That is a deed. Glad you had fun maybe next time you will find a marble.
Winter here in oz so enjoying watching your summers holiday and any mudlarking adventures.
Nice to see the Guernsey Mudlarks, looks like a lovely place.and love the uranium glass. Have a good trip and look forward to the next video
I have to say you are the kindest person what a joy you are. Thank you for the videos.
What lovely people on the island doing what we all love to see! Meeting new friends is so fun! You look so happy and beautiful with your family!
Sending lots of love and peace, hoping for fun finds and mudlarking memories! ❤😊❤
Thank you Mary Helen. Sending you much love over there xx
I love that round piece of wood that your friend displayed his marbles on, it was so cool.
Ohhh gorgeous Guernsey🥰. Some interesting and pleasing finds… I hope Roger found his whole pipe and had a wonderful lark on the Thames. Thank you Nicola, a lovely video🙂
Thanks Charlotte!
Nicola he is correct a flatten musket ball I found one from seige of Colchester you must visit old seige House in Colchester see musket balls lodged in building have a beverage too there great finds 👍🐾🦊🇮🇹🍻
Have a great 2 weeks with family Nicola. See you soon.
You look so healthy and well. 😁
The seabird or gull at the end is doing the happy mudlarking dance. Everyone is hunting for treasures. 😂💃💃💃
The "museum" collection pieces are stunning. 🎉
The marbles, sea glass, etc. 😍😍😍
We went to Italy for 3 weeks. We got bombed out by a massive weather event at Largo di Garda. Massive hail smashed our campervan and everything in site for many kilometers. So that was abit stressful. We drove more South. I found a campsite near the beach 30kms away from Rome.
I went sea shell and pebble hunting. 😁🌊🌈
I have been binge watching your TV shows on London Live. I hope there are more to come. You are becoming a national treasure Nicola x
So glad you enjoyed them! Yes series 2 will be coming soon xx
For an American it's fun to hear all the accents 😅
we have so many accents here it's true!
brilliant video nik. great finds with them hawk eyes.
Thank you my dear xx
Watching the seagull doing its dance routine was hilarious Nicola. Thank you.
What struck me even more than the finds you showed us today was the brilliant blue of the sky on that day. Here in Wisconsin, we've had smoke from Canadian wildfires obscuring the sky for the entire summer. I'm an amateur astronomer, so I keep a close eye on the sky, and we've not been completely smoke free for months now. Sometimes it's thin and very high up; other times we've been able to smell it as it blocks the view of even nearby hills. I have not seen a pristine blue sky since late winter/early spring. It's sad, and worrying, so the spectacular sky in your video was very welcome.
On a less downer note, Matt's museum showed us how well dedication and patience can lead to amazing finds given time. I especially loved the lighter-colored sea glass.
I'm in Minnesota and it's been horrible with respiratory stuff. Take care neighbor.
Unfortunately the fires are still not under control. It’s been a tough year for us Canadians
@@julielumsden5184 it has been horrible. Hope you are well.
@@julielumsden5184 Whenever I look up at the smoke, a part of my sadness is for what I can only imagine it must be like for all of you.
I'm so sorry about the fires. I hope that the end is sight. we are lucky that we do not have large fires here thankfully. And yes, I love Matt's seaglass collection xx
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Love all the history, imagine that piece of pottery lying in the mud just a few hundred yards away from where it originated.
Your videos always put a smile on my face, every week. Interesting how different the finds are at the sea! Great finds by everyone! Love from Ohio!
I'm so glad they make you smile! xx
Thank you. Great outing.
Hello Nicola! Loved seeing the seagull (?) doing the dance of his people! He or she performed beautifully for you. What an interesting place to mudlark with cool sea creatures mucking about with you. I hope your visit with your family goes well and that all are happy and healthy. Hope someone is looking after Momma Fox and her kits while you are away. Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. I hope you know what a wonderful channel you have. I could go on and on about the positive attributes, but I do believe that the best part is that this channel feels clean, refreshing, accepting, and a very happy place to be. You afford us a place to go to be entertained and educated at the same. I hope you will stay for a very long time. As always friend, I am sending you big hugs and much love from Tennessee. ❤❤
Hello Lynne, thank you for your lovely comments. It really made my day. I'm glad you enjoy the channel. It's a great pleasure to share these adventures with you. My daughter is looking after the wildlife windowsill and foxy loxy is apparently well. Sending you much love over there in Tennessee! xx
I too enjoy your wildlife. I would love to sit & watch it all go by. The foreshore at Guernsey seems emense. Nice group of people with some wonderful finds. It's amazing to me how many different ages of goodies continue to pop up. You are blessed to be local to so many wonderful places. I love it all.
Thank you xo
@@nicolawhitemudlark thank you for keeping an old disabled lady entertained.
Hey Nicola!!!..... I have found what that piece of compass pottery is!!!! I have found a photo of it.... it is 19th century English Lusterware Mariners Compass Jug !!!! Its a smashing looking large jug!!! So proud I actually found it for you!! x
Brilliant! Thank you
That was a lovely tour! And now I am going to practice my Seagull dance moves. ❤️
good luck on the moves!! xx :)
Happy Sunday 🦢🦆👍👍👍👍
Some awesome that you got to have fun with your family and friends who you met again stay blessed and see you again on the next episode 🙋♂️👍😇🙏🌺
Nicola the compass shred are a antique English creamware teapot transfer printed with ship and compass England c. 1770. There are a beautiful picture on Pintres of one.
The Mariner's Compass was a very popular design used on jugs, mugs and bowls in the 1800s, and there were many 20th century reproductions.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Always happy to see your friendly face, you show up in my part of the world about 10 am on Sundays.
One of the bits of unsorted ordnance in Matt's collection looked like it might be the bottom of a 13.2mm Mauser cartridge. Apart from being semi-rimmed rather than fully rimmed, these look like a big .303" British cartridge, for the simple reason that when the 13.2mm cartridge was developed towards the end of the Great War, the Germans were planning to use a Maxim-type machine-gun to fire it (against both tanks and aircraft) and that's the best cartridge-shape for a gun which pulls the cartridge _backwards_ out of the ammunition belt before dropping it _down_ and feeding it _forwards_ into the barrel. In the event, the machine-gun was too complicated to develop during the war, but a single-shot bolt-action anti-tank rifle was made to use it, and again the cartridge shape was suitable. After the Great War, Germany was banned from developing machine-guns so that sort of work moved to Switzerland, and by the time it moved back to Germany, a much more modern machine-gun had been developed, but the cartridge wasn't changed. It didn't see a lot of service in WW2, but it was a defensive gun on some large transport aircraft and on all sorts of militarised trawlers and fortifications, so I'd expect to find one in Guernsey if I found one anywhere, especially on the shoreline or the harbour. Like the RAF, the Luftwaffe had decided just before WWII that a 20mm autocannon firing explosive shells was a better anti-aircraft weapon than a heavy machine-gun and German ground forces used a completely new very high velocity 8mm round in their anti-tank rifles. (Hitler had to go, cap in hand, to General Franco for the tungsten to make the bullets for these and other super high-velocity guns and he didn't enjoy it. He told his staff afterwards that he'd sooner have all his teeth out without gas than endure another interview with Franco! Franco probably saved quite a few allied lives by driving the price of tungsten up to the maximum that Hitler was able to pay.)
The flattened musket ball came from an unrifled gun (or a shrapnel shell: early ones were filled with the pre-existing standard ball for the Brown Bess Musket because the tools for making those still existed and were going begging) and probably hit stone or brick rather than hardened steel. If lead projectiles are spinning fast when they hit hard objects the spin takes the mass out to the edges more so you don't have so much in the middle: often you just get little bits of lead radiating out from the point of impact and leaving "star" marks on the hard object.
There is a lot of overlap between small musket and pistol balls and large buckshot for shotguns. The .36" ball fired by the original Colt Navy revolver was the same diameter as an "LG" buckshot pellet for something like an 8-bore coach gun. Many 19th century air-rifles fired .30" diameter balls: this was the "Special SG" buckshot size and you could buy those in bulk because there would be nine or even twelve of them in a shotgun cartridge for deer or other large animals.
Thank you Matthew for your expert advice as usual!! It is much appreciated! Love Nicola xx
Thanks for taking us along mudlarking in Guernsey Nicola. Loved seeing Matt's amazing collection of treasures and everyone's finds that day. ❤😊
Thank you for taking us on such a lovely mudlark, it was very interesting and i hope you discover many more finds. Enjoy your holiday.
at 1:07 I suppose it's ment to be August 2023?
Great Video as always and lovely Island.
at 6:07 its a part of a compass rose: SW-southwest, (S)wbyW is Southwestest by West, WSW is WestsouthWest, WbyS is West by South, WEST is... West of course, WbyN is West by North... Would be lovely complete. But the numbers around are odd, normally its a 360° Circle with west on 270°. maybe it was different in the past. or they were Numbers for a clock in the middle.
Thank you!! no it was august 2022 but it took me this long to make the video for some reason!!
Love the bird dance! 😂 Super finds! Looks like a great day. ❤
Spent the summer laid up with knee surgery and watching your and others mudlarking- thanks!
I hope you're well on the way to recovery! X
What an amazing collection that man has and there's still more to be found!
Enjoyed your island hop lark. Thank you.😊
Thanks Jane!
Hey. Great video. Thank you so much. I did want to let you know. The teeth you find might be ivory. Here in the USA some of the old moose teeth are ivory. So if you can do check out the teeth you find and have found. Thank you for taking us along with you on another fantastic trip!!!!!!!!
Thank you Helen!
My favorite of your finds are the bottle toppers.😊
This was an interesting show and always enjoy the wildlife & birds you include.
Nice finds Nicola !!! Like Matt's collection of Bartmann Bottles !!! Enjoyed your video very much !!! Much love 💕 !!! 🙂
Stunning sky!
Well Nicola we were at the seaside on Saturday......it was pouring with rain.....so I fed a few starlings and a seagull. They were most appreciative x
today we had a swim in the sea even though it was full of jellyfish blown in by a storm!
I love the way you give atmosphere at the beggining of your videos and makes one feel lioke your there with you. Great video, great place. Enjoying also your short videos on Facebook page so one can see you more than once a week.
Thanks Jeff! so glad you continue to enjoy the videos. thanks for your support. Yes, the fb videos are edited by an external company but I think they do a good enough job. x
You been digging with Bottle Nerd! My american mudlarker! I follow him on youtube! He's such a funny guy!😂😂😂
He is! Cant wait to make the videos!
This is excellent stuff. Getting out into the fresh air and finding history at your feet. Well done!
Very good video as usual thank you. Now Nicola, I have some info about broken pipe stems, around the east coast here apparently the old fishermen use to put holes in the stems and make whistles, have you heard of that? Anyway just thought you would like to know this piece of useless information 😚Enjoy your break, love from Norfolk.
Thank you Roy! That is very interesting about the broken pipe stems. They would make great whistles it is true xx
Ohhhh the Bellarmines! How glorious!
Sunderland and Tyne luster pottery mug. Maybe 😊
Thank you
I knew how much you wanted that piece of red glass that looked just like a fish fin 😂
I love the puzzle pieces of decorated pottery. Gets you brain going.
It's always a good time with you Nicola!!! ❤❤❤✌️✌️👍👍So relaxing
Thanks Linda! xox
My Summer in the States(America) has been watching Mudlaraking. Do too a fall and injured my left side rib-cage. Traveling been limited,but still get enjoyment watching U-Tube Travels. When heal up...going to traveling and enjoy life😁
get better soon!! xx
What a treat to see you mudlarking with such friendly people. They are so generous and kind. I would love to have the full piece of pottery with the fantastical nautical pattern.
me too! I think i will have to buy a whole piece. xx