I'm no expert but that mineral looks a lot like Rainbow Jasper. It originates in Africa and India. Those striations or scratches (hard to tell from the video) could be left from when it was crudely worked for whatever purpose it was used for. Nice job on the finial too.
So amazing to hear that whirlygig! Just think....the child who last played with it is long, long gone....but we can hear the same noise 500 years later! Bit spooky.
If the nails are ever long enough, you could make a ring or bracelet. I love the idea of reusing them in projects. It's a shame, previous generations trashed the Thames, but it's preserved it now... I'm fascinated with these videos.
We used to make these using big buttons. My brothers would get them going and then let them touch us girls hair. Let me tell you they hurt when you get them wound up in your hair. This was back in the 40’s and 50’s and I showed my kids how to make them in the 70’s and 80’s. Fun memories.
The research you do on your finds is very much appreciated . It's always good to know about the items in ones collection , and you bring up the most interesting things that happened in History . Thanks for sharing your world with the world Simon . Best Regards
I would say the large chunk of mineral is probably Hematite due to the metallic sheen when wetted. It can be crystal form and the metallic sheen comes from the iron content in the matrix
That whirligig is a cool little thing. I like how the children's toy is a piece of serrated lead spinning at a few hundred rpm close to your face, seems completely safe.
What you call a whirly gig we called a hummer. We used to make them from a large button. The string on yours needs to be shorter, then it will spin faster and louder. If it is worked against a window it will scare the crap out of who ever is in the room🎃😁
Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada, your "whirligig" , we used to put a big button on a string, and played with them when we were younger. Only thing mother didn't like untangling it from our hair, lol.
I never cease to be amazed how much "stuff" winds up in the river, from all eras. It's like the river was treated as one big garbage dump . . .and sometimes still is.
Very cool to catch Foxy Loxy in action on the beach! Thanks for showing how the whirly gig works, I had no idea, it sounds a bit like my cat's loud snoring. 🐱
Si! Love the key ring but you need to polish them so you can see the beautiful copper color. And recommend putting the hole toward the sharp end so you don’t stab yourself when reaching for your keys
When I was a child we could get cardboard ones of the whirlygig and got them in cereal packets. Played with them for hours. They were patterned too xxx
Your lamp really did look more amazing with the steampunk finial!!! The whirligig...the garnets and coins and friends....what an amazing time you had. Hope you find out what the red stone is!!!
The mineral you find at 4:45 I strongly believe is a large piece of rough carved Red Garnet, which is usually quite dense and heavy. And the rainbow effect is called chatoyancy, which you see with some forms or garnet. It was used as an abrasive material commonly during the industrial revolution.
"They didn't have planes back then to ruin their videos" - made me LOL! I would love to see you put a collection of items on your etsy store like a couple of brass nails, some pins, and a garnet or two. Perhaps package them all with an ink bottle? $$$
Clever you. love the Steampunk dial!!! I remember doing whirligig with a large Mother of Pearl button from Moms button box. There was no effort to make noise, just the fun of it.
The antique fidget spinner put a smile on my face for some reason. Square nails are elusive for me. But I’d want a *bunch* with drilled holes to make an Alexander McQueen-esque spiky type necklace.
Omgosh I never thought you had foxes in the city his glowing eyes when you pointed the torch were amazing always expect the unexpected on your videos Simon that's why I love them always an exciting treasure hunt
There are foxes in practically all cities and towns now. What with lockdowns and less people around they come in because it's easier for them to find food around restaurants, fast food outlets etc. 😊
You are an amazing artist and I love how you share and teach...learn so much from you with each video I watch...Thank you for your time and talent🇨🇦💖🇨🇦💖💖💖
Awesome finds si. I love how you have garnets just laying around. Heres an idea maybe using the old nail, curl the end abit and put a garnet in the curled end to make a keyring or jewellery item. Love watching, thank you.
I love you Si!!!!! Such great videos filled with interesting stuff!!! Thank you for all the history and creative uses and that wirly-gig demo!!! I'm sending you big hugs from
The meteorite lol was used for sharpening knife blades. Matt, nice haircut. Oh my gosh, I played with the whirleygig as a child! Boy that dates it!😂 Blessings
Love the addition to your light. It is the perfect finish to an already great piece of art. Your creative eye spots art where many wouldn’t. Looking forward to seeing the garnets used in a piece of jewelry. I bet they will be amazing. Nice to see Matt with you this time. Have a great week and keep safe.
Hi Si, I really like and enjoy your videos. I remember my grandmother making me a whirly gig with a big 2 holed button. I had a lot of fun with it . It made wonderful whizzing sound. Keep up the hard work. Take care and stay safe. PS I love your up cycling idea's as well . The pub table is great.
Whirligig - The first fidget Spinner :D On the nail key ring, it may be more functional for keys if you put the nail on a large jump ring or hang it from a chain?
That whirligig is so cool. When you first found it I was like what kind of button is that. Haha. I really like the topper you made for your light. Awesome!
That whirligig makes a very “modern” noise for the 16thC - and it kept Simon happy for AGES. So children would have been fish in the proverbial bucket. I so enjoy your videos, but they are tinged with envy at your finds. I’m in NZ and we find nothing like you do. But I will persevere. I’m a born fossiker!
The toy was awesome to listen to. Great finds today.
I can just hear some Tudor mother yelling 'You'll take your eye out with that!'
LMAO
HA HA! :-D
"It's all fun and games til someone loses an eye!" Now you know where that saying came from!
I'm no expert but that mineral looks a lot like Rainbow Jasper. It originates in Africa and India. Those striations or scratches (hard to tell from the video) could be left from when it was crudely worked for whatever purpose it was used for. Nice job on the finial too.
So amazing to hear that whirlygig! Just think....the child who last played with it is long, long gone....but we can hear the same noise 500 years later! Bit spooky.
I know, crazy isn't it!
If the nails are ever long enough, you could make a ring or bracelet. I love the idea of reusing them in projects. It's a shame, previous generations trashed the Thames, but it's preserved it now... I'm fascinated with these videos.
“You can see how this might amuse a child” Si says, as the whirligig whirls on and on... 😉
lol 😊👍🏻 👣🧡
❤️ Love the repurposed finial but I’d cut the lamp pipe down to bring finial closer to lamp.
Fascinating! Whirligig! 😱
Loved the garnets too. Great crafts Si. That’s for a night out on the Thames! 🦋
I’ve seen ones that whistle!
And on and on and on 🤣😂🤣😂
We used to make these using big buttons. My brothers would get them going and then let them touch us girls hair. Let me tell you they hurt when you get them wound up in your hair. This was back in the 40’s and 50’s and I showed my kids how to make them in the 70’s and 80’s. Fun memories.
The research you do on your finds is very much appreciated . It's always good to know about the items in ones collection , and you bring up the most interesting things that happened in History . Thanks for sharing your world with the world Simon . Best Regards
Aw thanks GT! 👍🏻🐾🧡
I would say the large chunk of mineral is probably Hematite due to the metallic sheen when wetted. It can be crystal form and the metallic sheen comes from the iron content in the matrix
Hello to Simon and friends !! The large mineral looks like marble .
That is the coolest thing ever. The 500 year old whirligig. :)
Thanks!
I like the idea of the coin being used as a washer. It could really make something special.
I really liked the mid-video upcycling break, it's better then when they are at the end.
Si, you and Nic are so artistic. Very cute lamp and finial!
That whirligig is a cool little thing. I like how the children's toy is a piece of serrated lead spinning at a few hundred rpm close to your face, seems completely safe.
Haha, when i were a lad...
Cool Wirly gig, awesomeness
What you call a whirly gig we called a hummer. We used to make them from a large button. The string on yours needs to be shorter, then it will spin faster and louder. If it is worked against a window it will scare the crap out of who ever is in the room🎃😁
Haha no way 👍🏻🐾🧡
I love the whirly gig! My grandma used to make them for us using a large button and butcher string!
Back during the depression in Toronto, my Dad and his siblings used to make whirligigs out of old buttons. Cool find!
You show off! I’m so jealous of your garnets, all of your loot for that matter! Bravo with all those tiny lucky treasures👀🔎
Thanks Gigi! Got one with your name on it
Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada, your "whirligig" , we used to put a big button on a string, and played with them when we were younger. Only thing mother didn't like untangling it from our hair, lol.
We used to make those toys with a button in the 60’s and we called it a vurrvurr! Cool Simon.💫
I never cease to be amazed how much "stuff" winds up in the river, from all eras. It's like the river was treated as one big garbage dump . . .and sometimes still is.
Very cool to catch Foxy Loxy in action on the beach! Thanks for showing how the whirly gig works, I had no idea, it sounds a bit like my cat's loud snoring. 🐱
Si! Love the key ring but you need to polish them so you can see the beautiful copper color. And recommend putting the hole toward the sharp end so you don’t stab yourself when reaching for your keys
When I was a child we could get cardboard ones of the whirlygig and got them in cereal packets. Played with them for hours. They were patterned too xxx
We used to make whirligigs as kids in the 50s, either out of stiff carboard or thin wood.
Great whirligig. My Grandad made me these when l was a nipper about 65 years ago!!
Your lamp really did look more amazing with the steampunk finial!!! The whirligig...the garnets and coins and friends....what an amazing time you had. Hope you find out what the red stone is!!!
I played with those as a kid in the 90s. Crazy what people used to do before we spent all our time staring at screens.
Yes we made things! Lol
The mineral you find at 4:45 I strongly believe is a large piece of rough carved Red Garnet, which is usually quite dense and heavy. And the rainbow effect is called chatoyancy, which you see with some forms or garnet. It was used as an abrasive material commonly during the industrial revolution.
Thanks Billy. I’ll look into that! Cheers 👍🏻🐾🧡
Amazing that a child’s toy from 500 years ago is still around and played with today. I remember making one in elementary school, in the 2000s
We had plastic whizzers/whirly gig as u call them in gradeschool and we would fight them against each other till one broke!!! Very cool memories
Nice steampunk upcycling! That stone you found could be tourmaline.
Thanks G 👍🏻🐾🧡
Just love that lamp with it’s steampunk dial 😀
Thanks M!
Love the light you made and the garnets are beautiful even the pins.well done all of you, thank you for sharing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cheers Chris 👍🏻🐾🧡
The light with a prism turned out absolutely incredible ! Great segment !
My dad used to make me whirligigs out of jar tops, loved them
Quality
Simon loving the Finale🥰
Thanks 👍🏻🐾🧡
Very cool to find an old toy and bring it to life again. Another episode I love! 👍
Cheers Lance!! 👍🏻 👣🧡
I’d love to buy some of those garnets you found on the Thames!
"They didn't have planes back then to ruin their videos" - made me LOL! I would love to see you put a collection of items on your etsy store like a couple of brass nails, some pins, and a garnet or two. Perhaps package them all with an ink bottle? $$$
Clever you. love the Steampunk dial!!! I remember doing whirligig with a large Mother of Pearl button from Moms button box. There was no effort to make noise, just the fun of it.
Yes it's strangely addictive 😊👍🏻 👣🧡
Arent the strings a bit too long???????
Me, too! The fun ended if you got your hair tangled in it.
Fantastic finds today! Imagine...just picking up garnets like candy!
Such a satisfying sound!!
Whirligig is so cute and fun! And so many cloth seals and garnets!
Amazing to see the whirligig working after 500 years a toy from the past in 2020.....
Spot on 👍🏻🐾🧡
The medieval toy was so nice to listen too. I love the lamp. You have the perfect eye sight to look for those garnet things.
Wonderful !
Thanks Ad!
I just love the garden it's I watch other mud like responding and I just think it's one of the most beautiful color stones and make some jewelry!!
The antique fidget spinner put a smile on my face for some reason. Square nails are elusive for me. But I’d want a *bunch* with drilled holes to make an Alexander McQueen-esque spiky type necklace.
You could try turning the brass/copper nails into rings.
I read somewhere that cord threaded through a coin kept them together.so if fell in sea you would not lose your loot.
I loved that you recreated the whirly-gig toy! It sounds like the ocean when it slows down..kind of hypnotic!
Yes it is!
19:08 SI you missed a coin!
Just on the right of your hand next to the box there is a button or coin, something copper and round.
Love the old telephone.
That was a purchase : )
Love the funky finial!!
Thank you! 👍🏻🧡🐾
Love the Whirlie Gig! Great job as always!
Thanks Shawna! 👍🏻👣🧡
Great finds again on the foreshore ! Love the whirlygig such history .... still amuses today .
I'm 59 and we had a toy like that. Probably a plastic wheel. I had long hair and I remember loosing some in the play. Easy to get scalped, hahaha!
That smoothened reddish stone brings me to the thought that it was used to sharpen blades.
Nice save on the historic whirligig and lead seal.
I had a toy when I was a child like that. It didn't make noise, but if you got it going fast it would light up.
The wife and I Just found this channel. So interesting to follow your treasure hunts. Especially love the history lessons.
Cheers Chris!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Omgosh I never thought you had foxes in the city his glowing eyes when you pointed the torch were amazing always expect the unexpected on your videos Simon that's why I love them always an exciting treasure hunt
There are foxes in practically all cities and towns now. What with lockdowns and less people around they come in because it's easier for them to find food around restaurants, fast food outlets etc. 😊
Thanks Shell!
Same here in San Francisco except it is coyotes!
I can think of a few people that would love a whirl y gig!
great video as usual Si - I remember playing with a whirly gig when I was a child. i think it came free ina comic.
Love seeing guys out having fun. Want to get over there. 🌞🏝
Garnets & gadgets & seals OH MY!! Your lamp creation was awesome too!
❤️ to watch you share The Thames & treasures! Keep them coming! GOD Bless you!
Haha, will do thanks Sheryl!
Great finds! Love the lamp. You're so creative.
Spooky, cool and wonderful to hear its 'voice' rediscovered after hundreds of years!
The Whirligig is mesmerizing - I think I could do that all day long too-
14:32 with that George half penny I think I see a small metal face in the mud up close to top left on screen.
We used to do that with the big buttons
You are literally making my heart happy ♥️thank you 😊 xx
You are an amazing artist and I love how you share and teach...learn so much from you with each video I watch...Thank you for your time and talent🇨🇦💖🇨🇦💖💖💖
Cheers Brenda 👍🏻🐾🧡
I find your videos so mesmerizing and relaxing. Absolutely love your prism lamp! Big thanks from this subscriber in the Missouri Ozarks, USA 😊
Love your finds! Your knowledge of old things is great.
Thank you! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Awesome, a five hundred year old fidget spinner... Love any kind of history! Cheers for sharing!!!
We used to have the string shorter, I think! I was a child in the 1950s/60s. Lovely demo! 😊❤
Beautiful prizm lamp you made Si think you could up cycle almost anything I like the old phone my grandma had 1 like that that was made in Bakelite
Thanks Cath! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Awesome finds si. I love how you have garnets just laying around. Heres an idea maybe using the old nail, curl the end abit and put a garnet in the curled end to make a keyring or jewellery item. Love watching, thank you.
Another great video. You bring history back to life . A real education.
Really enjoyed it.
Could've had another half an hour on the whirly-gig though lol : )
Haha, I did!
wow, wow, wow what an impresive find , a wherly gig
Cheers Phil!
Love from the old lady in Texas may God bless you always
I love you Si!!!!! Such great videos filled with interesting stuff!!! Thank you for all the history and creative uses and that wirly-gig demo!!! I'm sending you big hugs from
Sorry.. didn't finish!! Sending you big hugs from Baja California Mexico. 💜🤗
Hi Marcie! Thanks sweetie! 👍🏻 👣🧡
Love💙💛🧡 the lamp!
The meteorite lol was used for sharpening knife blades. Matt, nice haircut. Oh my gosh, I played with the whirleygig as a child! Boy that dates it!😂 Blessings
I love your creative ideas.I would love to be able to come there and do what you are doing.
Thanks Kathy - maybe one day!
Love the addition to your light. It is the perfect finish to an already great piece of art. Your creative eye spots art where many wouldn’t. Looking forward to seeing the garnets used in a piece of jewelry. I bet they will be amazing. Nice to see Matt with you this time. Have a great week and keep safe.
Cool toy I thought it was a part to a clock or huge button lol
Here in Chile that toy where known as "run-run", i guess because the sound it makes.
I’ve never seen a toy like this before. Interesting.
Nice video, Simon. Your finds, especially that 17th century seal were amazing.
I also liked how you interspersed artwork and mudlarking. Thank you.
Hi Si, I really like and enjoy your videos. I remember my grandmother making me a whirly gig with a big 2 holed button. I had a lot of fun with it . It made wonderful whizzing sound. Keep up the hard work. Take care and stay safe. PS I love your up cycling idea's as well . The pub table is great.
Thank you much appreciated!
Whirligig - The first fidget Spinner :D
On the nail key ring, it may be more functional for keys if you put the nail on a large jump ring or hang it from a chain?
Fascinating finds out there on the Thames.
I LOVE the whirlee-dig!!
That whirligig is so cool. When you first found it I was like what kind of button is that. Haha. I really like the topper you made for your light. Awesome!
Fun episode, Si! I love the upcycle and refangle projects!
That whirligig makes a very “modern” noise for the 16thC - and it kept Simon happy for AGES. So children would have been fish in the proverbial bucket. I so enjoy your videos, but they are tinged with envy at your finds. I’m in NZ and we find nothing like you do. But I will persevere. I’m a born fossiker!