Find After Find Mudlarking the Thames BUT Can you See What I Missed? (I Bet You Can't!!) May 2024
Vložit
- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- It's only when I watched the footage that I spotted something I missed! But Can You? I walked right over it. I bet you can't :). What a bumper day on the Thames mudlarking with Oscar Potter, the Otter Mudlark. Also, I find something - my favourite find of the day, that I have restored by my friend Christine. What do you think of the transformation?
As always thank you for watching and don't forget that if you want to try mudlarking you have to have a permit from the Port of London Authority.
See you Soon.
Love Nicola xxx
Oscar would be perfectly cast as Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice, so very handsome and charming. Christine is so talented, and delightful, I find so many sad old brooches in antique stores in need of her skills. I follow The Chelsea Flower Show from my home here in Michigan, and all of Great Britain seems to have had a very wet spring. We've had a classic spring here, just the right amount of rain and sun, so my rose garden is exploding into bloom. I have two Lady Emma Hamilton roses, but I think I'll rename one of them after you, the blooms suit you, and you should have a rose of your own, for all the joy and comfort you bring us.
That's so lovely thank you ❤
It is a toy gun mechanism, the pin in the circular chamber is for a roll of "caps" and the pawl is the mechanism that pulls the caps under the hammer to make the bang! Good find!
Phil
i wouldnt have guessed it was from a toy! it looked too well made. good i.d.!
I can smell this comment!
I think you'll find it's from a toy Winchester rifle.
@@Eyeball1975 I loved the smell of caps...
@@257lennygJust like the one I had as a youngster in the 1950s.
Beautiful colorways by Christine in the restored brooches. Sensitive approach.
Great finds.
So restful watching you poke around and come up with all those intriguing finds.
Love the little fox, and seeing all the bird activity along the river. Thanks!
All the best from The States.
The coin with a woman planting a tree, is a German money: 50 Pfenning. It was valable from 1948 to 2002.
I am visiting London in August and my sister got tickets for us to go on a mudlarking excursion at the Millennium bridge! I told her about watching your videos and that is why we are going!
Intresting.
I hope you both have a wonderful time. Hope the weather is kind during your visit. Best wishes from an always slightly wetter Scotland! 😂
I'm jealous!
I am green with envy! Hope you have amazing finds
I hope you each find a wonderful clay pipe bowl WITH WORDS AND/OR DESIGNS 😃🤞🤞🤞
I seriously *love* seeing all the fun and curious things you find on the shore. But another big reason why I enjoy your videos so much, is your kindness. 💖The way you feed the sweet critters that show up on your window sill. The way you appreciate all the beautiful wildlife you see during your outings. And the way you always wish everyone watching a wonderful time and remind us to do things we enjoy. You're such a precious person! Your videos bring so much comfort! 😊
Best wishes from the country where the 50 pfennig once came from.
Thank you ❤️
Christine’s transformations of those brooches are wonderful ! I also loved the lucky 🍀 shamrock cufflink , so sweet 🙏🏻
Your find of the live bullet (looks like a 9mm parabellum) reminded me of a bit of trivia. During the war, the Army were testing prototypes for what would become the De Lisle carbine, a shortened commando rifle with an integral supressor. It became one of the quietest firearms ever made and, remarkably, it was tested by firing into the Thames from the roof of the New Adelphi building, and gauging whether passers-by heard the shots. None did. Not sure they'd get away with that now!
Thank you
A shy cat and a fast working jewelry restorer, surrounded by rhinestones. Lovely…
I loved seeing Christine work! Your videos never fail to entertain and educate!!
Thank you ❤️
What a fun and interesting lark, Nicola! It was wonderful to meet Christine, and she did an amazing job on your brooches.❤
Christine's meticulous restorations reminded me of one my moms sayings..."it's like milking an ant"
😂😂😂 Utterly love it, thank you!
I never heard that one before. 😅 I shall be using that. Thanks.
So glad Nicola popped back up in my feed! A few serene minutes shutting out the noisy world allow me to go about my evening with a renewed smile.
You two have found a great spot to find things this time! The Thames just keeps giving up history doesn’t it?!! Great finds!!! Thanks for letting us share your joy!! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh my goodness. Christine is awesome. You find the most interesting things.
Hello Nicola! It's wonderful to see you back you have been missed. Thank you for sharing your time with Christine. She is a very talented and patient woman. her talent is unbelievable. We really enjoyed time with the kitty cat as well. Look forward to seeing you on the foreshore Again next Sunday. My day is not complete without you! Much love Tom and Peggy.
Love back to you xxx
Wow! Christine did such a beautiful job!!!
Christines workshop looks like mine. I love it ! The birds turned out beautifully. Such a cute cat. ❤
Hi Nicola, I live in Wiltshire near the Dents factory, there were many glovers here about back in the day. Many of my friends and neighbours Mums and Grannies were out-workers, stitching the soft leather at home to boost the family's income. Glove making is much more complicated than you would imagine, the local history society occasionally has talks on the subject.
One can always appreciate a friend who can read a tiny button.
When we lived in Germany 72-96 it was very popular to always have a 1 pfennig on you. If your table did a pfennig check and you didn't have on you had to buys beers for the table. I still have mine from when I was 16 in my purse. Just for nostalgia.
*Nicola, great finds 🙂 It is Monday 3rd June 2024 today in NZ (as I type this message) so it is Happy King's Birthday today in NZ. So it's a long weekend holiday down here.🙂nz*
Thank you for filming the birds. and the shoreline too.!!! I apreciate to see London !! 😻👌⏰
I’ve sent this to my son whose nursing a broken heart. I’m trying to get him out treasure hunting in some way. Great therapy.
Amazing Nicola. As Steve aka Rusty said. Best in the business with si finds close 2nd for me.. absolutely amazing lady and give me alot of fun watching 💚
Thank you!
You stepped over a pipe at one point, but that's OK! Some other lucky mudlark will be thrilled to find it I'm sure. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures! I love mudlarking with you from NJ.
It's been almost a year since I had the pleasure of talking to you on the Thames. Miss London. Love watching the family of birds swimming along and the jewelry fix up. Hello from rainy gray Seattle.
A fellow Seattleite met Nicola!!! I feel thrilled by association!!! 💨🌦 🙋🏽♀️ from Ballard
I love the little Dent's button....if that button could talk!
Nicola, I'm wondering if you might comment on the Port of London Authority stopping the issuing of Permits to search the Foreshore. I was all set to visit London and discovered the Permits were no longer being issued. Sad in Vancouver, Canada
That’s why though. They are supposed to be for people who live in London, not for thousands of tourists to come walk the banks and take things home with them. Mudlark at home.
Hi Nicola, 👋 from a cloudy drippy day in northwest Oregon. It's been great watching your adventures. I loved the pottery finds. It amazes me how beautiful they can be. We are looking forward to summer as well. Thanks, see you next time.
I too am in Oregon ! 😊 Mid central Oregon coast. Drippy , drenching, blustery atmospheric river dumping on the coastal mountains. Where is our summer!😮
My week last week was a bit crazy. I’m in Garland Texas and that is Northeast of Dallas. We had some bad thunderstorms and a tornado went right over us. So lucky we only lost a big limb out of a tree. We were without power for 2 days and some are just now getting power. My daughter and I drove around the town there were enormous trees uprooted and went through roofs of houses. The damage was very widespread. Just glad we are all ok. Thanks for this nice video, I need a pipe next time! lol
I am watching her video and your comment showed. Wild because I live in Garland as well. Off 30/Bobtown. I have creeks I walk for old bottles, marbles and vintage treasures. I upload videos on tik tok. Would love to find the things she finds!
Great job, Christine, on the restorations!! Love when something is given new life!! The kitty reminds me of my 8 kitties who raid my craft room which is located on the 3rd floor. They bring me 'presents' all the time, like a piece of ribbon, or elastic, or yarn (their favorite)! They once unraveled a ball of yarn by bringing it down the stairs from the 3rd floor to the first! Take care, Nicola! God bless!
What a great video! Really enjoyed seeing yours and Oscar’s finds. Especially loved your time with Christine and her fur baby. Watching someone create such a beautiful transformation of a river worn piece is true entertainment. The colour selection brought those pieces back to life. Her talent is evident in her work. I know you will cherish these even more now. Thank you for sharing. Have a great weekend and keep safe. 😊🇨🇦
I liked the pins and watching how she restores them.
🙋♀️❤️. You know all the best , most wonderful people!
I'm so lucky ❤
That rugby badge is beautiful. Well done!
The day looked just right for mudlarking Nicola. And some good finds to boot. The highlight of this lark though were the clips of the geese and their beautiful little brood and the fox at the end of the video. Said it before, you have a wonderful eye for the wildlife. Thank you and keep well.
Thank you Ian and Sue xxx
You got me looking here in the USA!! I can't believe my finds!! Love your videos and love your kindness !!
Hi Nicola, thanks for once again for taking us with you on the foreshore. I was really disappointed not to see I am Brett behind you in the round up. Hope you are keeping well? and hopefully see you soon on the foreshore again. By the way you walked past a pipe at 12 minutes and 17 seconds I still have my eye in need to get myself back on the foreshore 😊💚🏴
I LOVED this video! From the handsome mudlarker friend, to the great finds and of course the artist's funny cat 😂😂😂
Great outing, beautiful repairs on the brooches!!!!
walked right over a pipe with your pink boots LOL you got enough pipes though. Love the clover thing and the young ducks. Think you should make a vest covered in the buttons you find. Thought you could make buttons out of the pottery shards you find also.
Christine is wonderful! Thank you for sharing her with us. I was suprised that she just clean the brouch with no refinishing before the stones are added. Fun to know! ❤ ❤🇺🇸
I love the four leaf clover cufflink!!
I was drawn to the 1944 half penny... from the year I was born. Always love your Thames mudlarks.
Another lovely day on the foreshore. Christine did a great job. I used the motif on the button you found (posted at 16.08) as a basis for doodles. So thanks from Laura in Maine, USA
I love Christines organised chaos 😊
Very fascinating for you to find 3 bird pins on the Thames at different times. Christine did a beautiful work on all 3 she’s very patient and talented. Nicola you certainly find some unique and unusual pieces of history. Stay happy and healthy always. Until the next time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
Loved how the restored brooches came out! How she manages those microscopic gems! I’ve done it and it’s not easy.
Thank you Nicola for this video. Wonderful finds. I love the restoration of your brooches. Take care.
I spot a pipe Nicola. Surely you didnt leave without 😂 oops.
Thanks to Oscar for sharing his finds with us. What an amazkng little button that was, that he found. Eagle eyes or what. 👀
I loved the little Cockerell you found. Such a personal item. So lived at one time, onlyvto end up in the rubbish. Then washed up so many years later, for you to find. I wonder if all your broaces of birds came from the same person. A house clearance after a passing maybe?
You never know what will turn up on a lark on this very soecial river. The eons of waste thrown into it, could turn up any day. Instantly thought of as treasure.
Thats what makes it so exciting im sure. 😊
Thanks for sharing Nicola. Xx
Greetings from New Zealand, it's humid and cool at the moment. It is Winter here even though the trees and some flowers are quiet confused, and blooming.
It was so enjoyable to see you today on the shore. And I love it when you video the ducks and the fox at the end. Your friend Christine did a wonderful job on your broches. Also your friend finding the clover was beautiful. So many amazing finds. I am unable to get out and do fun things like this so it is nice to be able to enjoy it on your adventures. Thank you for sharing.
The Irish coin with the hen is an old penny. Really enjoyed your mudlarking!
Beautiful, but too hot here in Southern Vermont! Thank you for another great video! Love the cockerel restoration ❤
Now I’ve just seen the end of your video and you shared Oliver’s face , I can see why you offered him to share “your hot- spot “ . Im still giggling over that thank you much ❤️.
😂 I didn't realise what I'd said!
Hola Nicola y compañero de aventura ,que bueno verles muy buen video y hallazgos .Bendiciones❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The most smallest things can tell the biggest stories .. that's beautiful Nicola ❤
To me, the best CZcams channels make me feel like I get to tag along with the host. You do just that and for that reason you are among the best.
Thank you! You made my evening ❤️
@@nicolawhitemudlark NP
Christine is a marvel! The cockerel is new again! You are so amazing Nicola, you bring out the best in your guests/friends in your vlogs. Thanks for providing us with wonderful content full of historic and local lore. You too are marvelous.
Beautiful opening sequence and music.
I think that is part of a "cap" gun from what I could see.
Thank you ❤
The rugby badge was in such excellent condition, it did had the pin on the back.✨️✨️✨️
In addition to enjoying the actual mudlarking videos, I thoroughly enjoy getting a glimpse of the lovely community you are part of. Love Christine's restoration work and the folks you mudlark with are always fun to 'meet.' Thanks for sharing your mudlarking world with us! Your videos provide much needed respite during these challenging times.
The birds are beautiful. What a transformation
Beautiful restoration of the piece of jewelry. A talent for sure. Rainy yesterday, but that provided the opportunity to wash the beehive boxes stored behind the garage. Today is sunny, so I get to watch foraging bees check out the now clean boxes.
It must be wonderful to have bees
I just love your videos. I was watching closely for what you missed, as your titled directed .... at the 12:17 mark, it looked like you step right next a clay pipe with your left boot. I doubt myself, because I happen to know you're drawn to clay pipes like a laser beam. I so enjoy trying to spot things with you. Here in America, we think 400 years is ancient. I envy your chances of finding true antiquities, with just your next glance or scrape. Please keep fulfilling my dreams of discovery. Know that you are, as you continue with mudlarking the Thames, for all of us fans. Thank you so very much.
Thank you ❤
She did a BEAUTIFUL job on those pins!! ❤
Oh those brooches are beautiful!
It's raining here in Scappoose Oregon. Thoroughly enjoyed the video. The pins turned out beautiful! You are looking particularly lovely today in blue. Thank you!
My dream is to mudlark with you and Simon. I love your videos and hope to see you sometime in the future!
I cant believe you stepped right over a clay pipe and didn't bend over to pick it up. I was yelling at the computer....NICOLA THERE IT A PIPE RIGHT BY YOUR FOOT..so sad you couldn't hear me. Cheers from Camilla in Colorado.
The brooches turned out quite beautiful 😍
I love all your fines that you had today and I really enjoy when we are asked to look for something that you’ve seen in the mud!! I noticed that you didn’t find one pipe, I love those pipes!!
I did do a Google pictures search, and this was the closest model that I came up to for the gun. It’s called a Marlin Safety Model 1892 Receiver. It seems to be around that timeframe that these guns were being made, and they all have something in common with each other by the looks of it.
It was great meeting your friend. I tried to get a picture of the glue she used for her bead work. I had a vintage purse and on the handle part there was some stones missing, but the lady had them in a small envelope in the purse so I took out some glue and I proceeded to attach the baby blue gems. When I put them into their spot where the glue was waiting for it and here the gem turned dark and I don’t know why it did that, so I’m hoping the glue that your friend used, I could find it on Amazon because I have several other things that need fixing, but I don’t want to chance it by ruining it.
Thank you for another great video Nicola have a great week!!🌊🐬
Thank you!
Hi. It just started raining in Miami. Another fantastic video. Enjoyed watching Christine deftly bring the cockerel back to life. Oscar had some pretty neat finds.
Nichola this is wonderful💖 I absolutely adore watching all your finds 🤗 you're fantastic! Bless you lovely lady and so talented .🙏❤
Thank you so much!
Enjoyed the video very much! I'd be a boring mudlark; I'd just be picking up bricks and iron staples.
Just watching you on Roux down the river here in Australia, well done.
Oh excellent I hope you enjoyed it ❤️
Awesome findings with lots of lovely information about the finds along with the beautiful restoration of the brochures .❤
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ♥️
That is amazing ! I repair and make jewelry and never seem to have the right sizes!
Watching from across the pond. In Newfoundland Canada. 🇨🇦 we are into our 2nd week of horrible cold damp weather
at 12.16 u walked straight over one of your favourite things... a pipe! i can only assume you were looking at the ducks!🙂 great video...as always👍🏻
I have several pairs of Dent gloves as well as a handbag, they are really nice.
What a fantastic transformation.
Always good to see you. You are so authentic in your enjoyment of life and all it has to reveal! In or out of the mud! Your tender appreciation for our companions on this earth so poignant, it moves me to tears. Thank you for being so lovely!
I enjoy your videos very much as learning about histroy is alwats interesting. My favorite things are always any wildlife footage in show and yes the litte family of geese at the end were very charming. History and wildlife rock and so do you Nicola!
Thank you ❤
Good job, Christine!🙂
I love buying beat-up brooches/pins at yard sales and “fixing” them. I don’t have the Mayans to enamel so I mix powder pigments into epoxy and use that as enamel.
Having a sense of an object through a trowel, it’s amazing how that actually works
I find that Nicola's switch to vertical stripes ||| is nicely figure-enhancing!
The "Winchester Rifle" mechanism is for a toy cap gun. The "caps" were little blobs of suitable explosive on a narrow roll of paper, which was advanced by the mechanism for something like a hundred shots a roll. This actually evolved from a priming mechanism for an (American) Civil War-era muzzle-loading carbine for grown-ups, which replaced individual loaded metal percussion caps with a similar roll with a number of caps on it. This was less fiddle than the metal caps, but not very weatherproof (paper!) and it didn't address the main issue, which was loading the main charge of gunpowder and a ball, ready to be fired by the cap. I did once see a roll of caps for the actual carbine and it differed from toy-gun caps in being wider, the blobs of priming compound were much bigger (made a much louder bang and a bigger flash, which was the actual point) and there were also sprocket holes in the paper so the roll advanced in a much more controlled fashion. This item fell into the hands of a school friend whose father often went on business trips to the USA and tried to buy "rolls of caps" in a real gunshop! The toy gun caps sometimes went bang because of the (friction) advance mechanism rather than the hammer that was supposed to set them off, so it's easy to see why the rolls of caps for real military carbines had sprocket holes!
Amongst Oscar's finds is a "pinfire" revolver cartridge, which is a few years later than the rolls of caps but not very many years later. Pinfire cartridges were invented as a way of converting existing percussion-lock guns to breech loaders, because they work by the hammer coming *down* onto the pin sticking up. The pinfire system rapidly fell out of favour for large rifles and shotguns because it was possible to set the cartridge off, outside the gun, by accident if it was dropped and the pin hit something, or if it just got knocked whilst in someone's pocket. The heavier the cartridge, the more likely such an accidental ignition was, and the worse the consequences because black powder actually explodes and a goose-gun cartridge had a lot of powder in it. Pinfire revolvers were popular in Europe and made in vast numbers in Belgium. Nearly all pinfire revolver cartridges have a metric designation in whole millimetres from 6mm to 11mm. My best guess is that Oscar's cartridge is an 8mm, but it might be a 9mm. (It probably has a single numeral on the base of the cartridge saying what it is.) The rival rimfire and centrefire systems prevailed because they were safer, and it later turned out that making smokeless pinfire ammunition was more or less impossible because the pin goes directly into the cup of an internal priming cap, and smokeless powder needs a much stronger explosion from the cap to get the powder burning and that might even drive the pin out of the cartridge. In any case, there was always a bit of gas leakage around the pin, even with blackpowder, and that's why the pin is always pointing up and away from the shooter's hands and face when it is fired.
Nicola's small cartridge looked like a .32" ACP (aka 7.65mm Browning) to me and this was introduced with the 1903 Colt Pocket Hammerless model, which is a direct descendant of the 1902 Colt "sporting model" pistol which she found in a recent video. John Browning also designed a much bigger 1903 model for FN which was closer to the 1902 model in size and power, but was a "hammerless" (there is a hammer, but it's inside the slide and can't catch on anything) design like the 1903 Colt. Colt had a licence to sell his designs in the Americas, FN (where he mostly worked) sold his gun designs almost everywhere else.
Thank you Matthew! ❤
Great Nicola💥💥 love the Cockrell 🐓🐓 grand Larking 👌👌🇬🇧🇺🇸
Awesome, playing with the cat.
Sundays are always better with a video or 2 from my favorite mudlarkers, you and Simon. What a group of glorious birds you have now with your restored brooches. Christine did an amazing job. The coins were very nice and thank you for sharing the stories of not only your interesting treasures but Oscar's as well. Have a great week!
Excellent finds!! ❤❤❤❤
Love the broaches…. From a grey damp Sequim, Washington US
Great and finds and interesting history
Oh what a wonderful outing again :) , and yes I think I know what you missed 😁, timestamp 12:17 ...I just said to myself "did she really missed that"? And then second guessing what I saw and had to go back to watch again. So yes I think I saw what you walked over :)
Yes!
Watching Christine inserting new stones in the cockerel brooch reminded me of my Mum who used to make jewellery many years ago. She would buy the mounts and all the stones at a wonderful craft shop in Wallingford, spend hours in the evening sticking stones into the mounts and then selling them on her stall at local craft fairs.
So talented it turned out spectacular.
Your friend Christine was fun to watch. She did great work and seems like a nice person.
I will love to do some mudlarking. I used to do fossil hunting in Florida. The items you guys find are amazing.