An old photograph found in a bank vault leads us to things that weren't meant to be found.

[@cynthiajenkins6835]

Wow!! The blue salt and pepper are beautiful. Great dig, really liked the root beer bottles..

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

extract bottles in different colors. they will display so nicely.

[@lorrie5422]

Love to see the clean bottles at the end of video!

[@FiveStringCommando]

34:10 I like it whenever you explain details that determine style, era, manufacture method, etc. when you hold items up. I’ve been watching you dig for a while, but wouldn’t be able to identify like you could. It’s fascinating, but it’s a whole different level of fascinating when you share details as you did around the timestamp above.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks! I appreciate the input!

[@MadelineRose-ep7fj]

It is amazing how much you can learn from Tom's videos. I wonder where beer was exported to. Was it just back East😊.

[@lynnell5993]

​@MadelineRose-ep7fj LOL, I think beer was exported to wherever men were to be found, meaning everywhere!

[@alxandrjw]

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having some issues with the editor of your old channel, but I greatly prefer the overlays on this channel. The text is much easier to read. Thank you for continuing to make such great content!

[@shable1436]

What issues

[@karenwright9123]

Hey Tom!! I hope you are somewhere enjoying a great Labor day weekend,relaxing and having fun!! This was another set of interesting digs.

[@pattimessenger6214]

Mom used to buy Hires Root Beer extract. It came with instructions to mix with water, sugar and yeast! We made home made root beer every summer. And, always, at least one bottle would explode or blow its lid. I remember my brother and I scrubbing root beer off the ceiling, walls, counter and floor. If we were lucky, it would blow its top. If the bottle exploded instead, we also had to clean up broken glass! But the root beer really was delicious!

[@alanatolstad4824]

Wow, amazing story!

[@PamelaZurawik]

Me too. My folks were young and Dad insisted this be done in the basement and fermented in the under ground pump house. It had a wonderful taste that was never replicated in commercial root beer in New England.

[@alanatolstad4824]

@@PamelaZurawik Amazing.

[@smo-guiver8315]

Mine too. Can't get Hires any longer but most brew shops that stock ingredients for making beer and wine at home also sell soda extracts. One 4 ounce bottle will make 5 gallons of root beer. I use 2.5 pounds of honey with 2.5 pounds of cane sugar.

[@alanatolstad4824]

@@smo-guiver8315 I love hearing these stories!

[@karenfrance2382]

Love your posts. You are a lot more knowledgeable and relaxed when filming your videos 😊

[@ABeautfulMess]

Who knew watching Tom dig could be so relaxing..thanks😊

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Another successful educational experience 👍🎉 The delphite blue shakers are beautiful.

[@lonniekruse5562]

Hello Tom if i may, you tube thought i should watch you so i did. now i can't stop. you sir are so fun to watch and the stuff you know and share would hurt my head if i knew that much. Thank You! you rock LonnieRay

[@ChildOfGod0777]

Hi Tom, I found your new channel recently, I love watching all the old things you dig up, my favorite ones are the blue glass, I love anything in blue glass! I hope you can grow this channel!

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Tom it is always so exciting watching your channel. Nice jug, salt and pepper shakers and all of those beautiful old bottles. You work so hard and so dedicated in finding history. 👍😀👏

[@TomAskjem.]

Thank you!

[@carolynsimone8647]

​@TomAskjem. Below the plains..just posted new video 🤷‍♀️

[@andrewowens9382]

Hi Tom 👋 👋 👋 👋 it's great to watch your channel again 😀 👍 I I'm always amazed when you find a site you wouldn't think there was any human activity looking at the land until you Mark out the pits 😊and you find the artefacts of people's who were living there 😀 you bring it back to life 😀 history in the making 😀 all the best Tom 👍 👌 doing a good job 👏 Andrew south wales uk 👏 👍 😀 👌 🇬🇧

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks!

[@jillabigaelsmith]

Glad to have rediscovered you, Tom!

[@tinaj984]

Shakers cleaned up beautifully. Thank you for great digs!!❤

[@toddroderick6024]

So happy I found your new channel. Love your videos!

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@terrencebuller7676]

Hello Tom, great program as always. Some really cool finds. Stay safe and look forward to watching your next program 👍

[@fiorenzaattanasio4796]

TOM GREAT FINDS. YOU ARE THE BEST. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ❤️🇨🇦

[@patablanche5075]

Root beer smell is better than some smells you encounter😂

[@solanisomeni]

Exactly what I was thinking when he said that it "reeked" of Root beer... 🤢😂😂

[@bethcorey6022]

Me too, used to love the smell of R.B. When I was a kid ❤

[@jetstreek17]

Glad to have you back doing vids. I love this channel and what you are doing. Thanks

[@eburro62331]

More great finds! Really like the blue shakers!

[@marydilley4455]

Hi Tom! We found your new channel and are back to watching your new episodes. Sure enjoy how you explain everything and take time for research. Also love to see the bottles cleaned up. Thanks again for bringing us with you to these digs!

[@dannmccord1923]

Lots of awesome bottles. I enjoy your videos so much. Always looking for them .

[@tammyaskjem9871]

Fantastic video, Tom!! My favorite find was the salt and pepper shakers! Beautiful light blue glass! Thanks for taking us on the dig with you! I’m looking forward to another video next Saturday!!

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@Digger-rn9yh]

Great video, awesome haul!!! Love the hutch!!!

[@cherylgates4410]

Thank you for another great video. Love those blue shakers. Amazing color!

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

I think they are actually blue milk glass.

[@lyndamac1058]

Hey Tom a lot of people from the old channel don't know you have a new one. I guess they will find it one day, I didn't know either until it popped up :)

[@speedfreak8200]

Boing

[@sherimiller5857]

I got really excited when I stumbled across the new channel, I like this one better!

[@stubstoo6331]

​@@sherimiller5857pretty hard for Jake to run a channel without Tom.

[@Spikedgriffon]

People have been talking about the new channel, on the old channel.

[@margaretlazzaro5585]

That’s how I found out. It popped up

[@patty4091]

Very nice finds! I enjoy your videos.

[@RosannJasso-ku1vx]

Tom, glad I found you again, you’re so informative and knowledgeable!

[@GinaMacArt]

While it is exciting to watch you unearth old treasures, I would love you to do a video showing all your treasures after you have cleaned them and brought them back to life. 😊❤️🙏🇦🇺

[@chancebyname5049]

Another Super Video. Thank You..

[@Fevebblefester]

When I was young in the 1950’s I remember my Mother buying Root Beer extract and mixing it with cold water and ice for me and my brother. My folks didn’t buy much soda so it was a treat for us.

[@warrenmink2429]

Hey great video Tom , glad I found your new channel , love the great history your digging up , I can almost imagine the people standing on the platform at that train station , very cool man .

[@melindawhite5198]

Love the work you do and thanks for sharing it with us

[@sekaf4125]

very clear video, LOVE IT. Keep up the great work!!!

[@marilynbergemann6927]

Thank you for this last day of August video.

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Kinda funny catsup bottles. Is lot of good finds in both dogs. Thanks for sharing Tom. Stay safe.

[@susanblackley7065]

Yikes! Another watery dig! Still great to have you back on the YT!

[@sarahtalbott4025]

So glad I found your new channel, I really missed your videos.

[@ToddTheJoker]

Messy but fun dig Tom! Thank you..take care

[@cyamonday]

Great video…..appreciate the clarity !! On my phone could see the cinders/pebbles…looked live !

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks! We actually record with a cinema camera in 4k at 60fps!

[@deannacolombe5671]

First time watcher so interesting you do a good job explaining and dating items

[@markmcintosh9448]

Enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@tarrasams7423]

Hello 👋 from New York You guy's found some amazing finds my favorite find was the blue salt and pepper shakers thank you for bringing me along with you I can't wait to see where you go and what you find next ☺️

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@fishinwidow35]

That salt and pepper set is beautiful. As always, the crockery is my favorite.

[@aicirtkciub9167]

Happy to see new videos ! I alway learn something. Like blind pigging 😄

[@Missangie827]

it's just amazing that what was a thriving area 100 years ago looks like a field now -

[@daciaclewis]

Tom, learned from an antique seller today in South Carolina that back during the War Between the States, plantation owners would put their silver and valuables in stoneware crocks or enamelware, then drop it down in their privies. They knew the Yankees would look in there. Sounds like it could be true, of course, I wouldn't know for sure, but it makes for a good story.

[@mandybrown7758]

Hey Tom excited to see your finds

[@CatCmdr]

Every time I see you in water, I’m like Ohh Noo!! Someday we may see you in a dive suit down there! 💙

[@pixielated2003]

I'm addicted and can't wait for the next video thank you

[@daviddarrall9384]

Always something new! Well done 😊 UK

[@shanbadg697]

I used to drive truck for Garner Trucking, Inc. Findlay, OH, their biggest contract was with Heinz Inc., at the Fremont Plant, ketchup all day long! I can still smell the tomatoes, that’d be brought in by farmers, on trailers called ‘trays’. I only use Heinz ketchup. With all the ketchup bottles being recovered, I’d love to see if you find Heinz products. We’d deliver 45k/lbs of ketchup to grocery warehouses east of the Mississippi River. Anything beyond that, train cars were loaded. I had no idea how many different companies made ketchup. In the different Heinz plants there were displays of the bottles that were used since their inception. I’d sell those bottles to them.

[@marywagaman7570]

Lots of good finds

[@nancywindbigler6434]

I found you!!! Really been missing your digs!!

[@TomAskjem.]

Welcome back!

[@debbejones6086]

Another great video thanks 😊

[@deannasmith6866]

Thanks Tom for another great video!!!

[@Marlon-vt8tt]

Nice !!! 🤘

[@Sctronic209]

Glade I found your new channel.

[@davevollbrecht9489]

Another great video buddy keep um coming

[@patsykenny9188]

Love your stuff thank you hello from Ireland

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@patsykenny9188]

Your a great gut this is from Nana aged 72 really your great

[@solanisomeni]

I really love these longer uploads. ☺ But still hate it every time you say, "this pit is done". Loved the matching salt and pepper shakers and the hutch. I'm also old enough to remember the Root Beer extracts... 👵😁 Looking forward to next weeks dig.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@samsager1]

That's hutch is totally Kiewel!! 😂 Great digs!!

[@bluecorona868]

love this content thankyou for sharing;

[@Thetimecapsuletx]

What a great advertisement for the root beer company. Dug out of a pit 100 years later and still retains its aroma.

[@louyeo6571]

Another great video Tom, I was wondering what you do with all your finds?. I’m always amazed at how far some of those items travelled over a hundred years ago.

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

He keeps some, sells some, gives some to the property owner and donates to museums. He says he has only 10 or so bottles in his personal collection.

[@phylliscommeree7115]

Amazing that the aroma of root beer still strong after 100 years! Great dig.

[@jaybirdjargon]

Has to be better than some of the other things he might end up smelling down there.

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

I was thinking that too!

[@Moxieman]

Tom ..below the plains and Tom askjem I understand this is very difficult to do this type of content for many reasons..I would like to see the content of . Everything even the traveling. The good people you must meet and whatever I just don't see guys like your age into old stuff and h😅historical value places like Dakota's have

[@Slippy260]

These videos are oddly satisfying.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Awesome finds!

[@stephentaylor1637]

Tom always look good in a hole ? Best bottle seeker on social media ! 👍 💂💂👀 UK 👍

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@atuuschaaw]

Amazing! ♥

[@randolm7698]

It always puzzles me to see you find so many perfectly good stoneware crocks/bowls/jugs that were discarded. My mindset is that in the early 1900s people simply couldn't afford to waste like so many do today.

[@fnx3744]

Cool video, it was interesting to see how much was buried in the old out house pits! Hot local tip though: You wouldn't have to dig through nearly as much shit to find quality antiques across the street at Audrey's Antiques!

[@ritahall8653]

Good job

[@exscapegoatpowerfulhealer9685]

Hi, Do you sell any of the bottles etc that you find digging these holes?

[@juliadplume3097]

I always try to imagine what the owners reactions were to damaging the artifacts before discarding them in the pit as well as the reactions of people who accidentally dropped items into the pit (like a chamber pot, pocket knife, coins, watches..etc.).

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Tom, have you grown webs between your toes yet? Moss on your back? I doubt it. A rolling stone gathers no moss and you just keep on rolling! Great digs! Great hutch! Those were blue milk glass shakers. Keep on digging!

[@alanatolstad4824]

My thanx to the photographer for giving me improved views of the finds!---30:12 I found an interesting article about a woman named Harriet Hubbard Ayer, who's initials just might be the ones on your bottle. Fascinating story, even if that's not her bottle.---I kept waiting for the story about finding that old photo in a bank vault. What happened about that?

[@TomAskjem.]

I found the picture in a collection of roughly 20,000 historic ND photos. They were stored in an old bank vault in Devils Lake, ND. The Glen Jorde collection. I sorted through it all, it took me a couple weeks. I scanned thousands of pictures. There was one of Delamere that showed where the buildings once stood. I used that to line everything up.

[@alanatolstad4824]

@@TomAskjem. Wow. I'm with you, about loving old photos! Suppose that has anything to do with us growing up in ND?!

[@lynnell5993]

​@TomAskjem. Very good detective work, Tom! My granny was born in 1900 Fargo, ND. I was thinking about her the whole time you've been digging ND. I would have loved to buy that bottle you dug up that said Fargo ND. Keep up the great digs!

[@carolynsimone8647]

These were really full of item...the salt and pepper and the hutch was my favorite...can't believe you found the hutch and it was gorgeous cleaned up...thanks for sharing your finds....🥰🥰

[@sunrunneroldbottels223]

I can see why there were few town dups around. For 40 years people used their back yard for one. lol.

[@Fevebblefester]

You have to wonder about the quality of the cooking at the hotel restaurant considering how much catsup they used. 😹

[@fishinwidow35]

It wasn't the cooking but the meat itself. Refrigeration was not great.

[@benhurley-cp3ur]

What do you do with all the stuff? Do you have a dedicated space for display?

[@lizmbrad]

That's what I'm curious about as well.

[@stubstoo6331]

​@@lizmbradI know some people don't do FB, but Tom has fifty thousand followers there. He post daily, and all your questions have been answered in his post.

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

He keeps a few special ones, gives some to the land owner, sells a few occasionally, and donates to museums. Sometimes the bottles are reburied if no one wants them.

[@tahudack7785]

Tom, I was first seeing your videos on the other channel. I didn't get the reason for the split but found you here with this one. I asked on the other channel what you do with the artifacts you have dug up.

[@TomAskjem.]

Some are kept, sold, given to the property owner and donated to museums. If no one is interested we throw them back.

[@VolcanoTimeLapse]

Nice digs!

[@mikehisey2631]

Show us some stuff you find after you clean them and get them home. Some of your collection would be great to see

[@deannasmith6866]

If you watched the video til the end Tom does show some of the items he has cleaned 😊😊

[@TomAskjem.]

I post some clean-up pictures at the end of the videos. Right now I only have five bottles in my collection. I sold most of it years ago to fund some book projects that I’m working on. The collection was so big that I didn’t feel safe leaving the house. I sold it for over $100k. Now I’ve decided to only collect the absolute “holy grails” of each state. That way the collection stays manageable and I can easily tuck the bottles away when I go on vacation.

[@mikehisey2631]

@@TomAskjem.thanks for the response

[@denigong9708]

Also his Facebook is the place to be for all of that

[@cheryldolence6596]

I love watching your exploits. What to you do with all the things you find?

[@michaelmartinjr5398]

At 25:07 what was that silver thing you yanked out snd threw behind you like it easnt even there? It had to be something, wtf

[@TomAskjem.]

It wasn’t silver. It was a broken ironstone china water pitcher. A plain pattern. Incredibly common. I’ve dug hundreds of broken ones; no one seems to be interested in them. Even the whole ones are difficult to sell or even donate to museums unless they’re ornate.

[@DarjeeLiArts]

Hi Tom! Thanks for another cool dig. I have a question: what kind of soil would you say best preserves labels? Ashy soil like this stuff, or dry dirt, or sloppy mud?

[@TomAskjem.]

Sometimes ashy soil, sometimes wet soil. Sometimes just the perfect conditions if say the pit filled up quick and multiple bottles were thrown down and some protected the labels of the others from the elements.

[@DarjeeLiArts]

​@@TomAskjem.Thanks so much for answering! I love my weekly dose of bottle digging with your video ❤

[@jeffclark2725]

Just found out you have your own channel, bring it on for the future

[@TomAskjem.]

Thanks for watching!

[@southdennismotorsports]

Is there a way to submit your own property to be excavated? I have a prime spot with tons of local history in South Jersey!

[@TomAskjem.]

Feel free to message me the details to my email or on Facebook. Do note that I’ve been swamped lately and my inbox has been flooded; it takes some time for me to respond but I will get back to you. I appreciate the invite!

[@connieholley1124]

First liquor jug seen dug from a pit. And wow, did they love their ketsup.

[@Spikedgriffon]

I’m happy for you when you find a hutch!

[@paulapridy6804]

Like this channel. Better format, better editing.

[@TomAskjem.]

Thank you!

[@marquese1960]

That amber coloured flask was interesting.

[@berkleywoman]

Well root beer is a better smell than the alternative. Obviously some soda fountain, saloon or restaurant either went out of business & rather than transport the left over supplies they dumped it hence all the extract bottles in the same spot or they thought the extracts had gone bad.

[@AcmeAce]

Do you metal detect the holes for coins ?

[@TomAskjem.]

I do not. I’ve had several detect the tailings over the years. The coins are always in cull condition from the acidic soil in the outhouse and the groundwater.

[@Nates38487]

Hi Tom i just found out about your new channel i was watching the other and just thought i read some comments and read about you moving to this channel hope all goes well. anyways ive always wonder what you do with all your finds if by anychance you plan to sell some of the finds? its amazing how many history is buried i love it your goving it another chance for people to enjoy learning about them all keep sharing them to us thank you

[@stubstoo6331]

A few of us have commented over there telling people about Tom's channel. If you do FB follow Tom he has fifty thousand followers and post daily what he's doing and digging. Any questions you have have been answered in his post.

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

He occasionally sells some finds.

[@marjoriesmith3320]

I had to google "blind pigging". great term never too old to learn

[@kimswisher1937]

Tom. What do you do to get your bottles so clean?

[@TomAskjem.]

Sometime just soap and water, other times muriatic acid

[@dai-nippon_digger]

Brah, you make up the fact I never find any bottles today.

[@user-mf6wg9wo3y]

I would love to buy the blue shakers!