100 year old dump finds! braving a blizzard to buy some antiques!

Heavy snowfall? No problem! I trudge along in the winter snow and find an ambulance full of collectible railway items, dump found bottles and more! Another day and another adventure here at Curiosity Inc!
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Thanks for watching and see you all soon!

[@sueteran]

You really need to put a link to your EBay in the description. Every time. It will definitely help drive business.

[@FordFracture]

As a kid I lived next to a old dump that was active for more than 100 years I can remember digging around in the late 60s and early 70s and finding cool bottles and plates and when my mom moved out in the early 2000s I clean out the house and garage and found all my hidden milk crates full of my forgotten Treasures .

[@angieblake5007]

How do we get your email address? I've got some bookà that may interest you. Thank you, Angie Blake love your videos!

[@ShipCreek]

Im loving the Hans "Im home honey" youve added to your intro this year.😁👍

[@lcostantino7931]

Absolutely, love hearing Hans say that.... Uplifting... 😁

[@lorileach1369]

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[@Plantsandtoyhorses]

I love that you added the clip of Hans saying "I'm home honey!" to the intro segment! :D

[@missrosietee]

I really look forward to your vlog style videos. I live in a city where I have very few friends (it's also no really a family friendly city) and I really love listening to your busy days as I would with a good friend!

[@sandranokes7443]

My Dad was an Engineer on the Northern Pacific Railroad, which later became the Burlington Northern Railroad. He retired after 36 years. I've found a few pieces of their stuff but not much. Hard to find. I still have some of my Dad's "time cards", and things he used. He retired back in the 1970's. Nice find on all the railroad stuff.

[@stbernieluvr69]

That foot warmer is called a stane pig or a stone pig here in Scotland, they were filled with hot water and used to heat the bed. I've got 7 of them in various sizes I use them as door stops.

[@LittleCarol]

Hi I remember those too, Mum used to rub them across the sheets before us kids got into bed so the sheet was warm. We called them hot water bottles. Lancashire England was very damp pre central heating, but it was perfect for weaving cotton in all the old mills.

[@bioLarzen]

" I use them as door stops" Now, that's what I call a hot stop ;)

[@elizabethbard5135]

I remember them too. I grew up in the 50s, we had one to warm our bed. Our earliest 'house' was a railway carriage, so no central heating.

[@alisonscurr4395]

@@LittleCarol The elderly lady I lived next door to used to have some and that's what is was used for.

[@elizabethbard5135]

Seems these hot water bottles were used a lot here in the UK!

[@monabale8263]

12:26; Nicola White of Tideline Art loves to collect these. She is a mudlarker and does most of her exploring on the Thames. She said these are called vulcanite bottle stoppers. (she has hundreds of them.)

[@heehaw8401]

Mona Bale love her and Si Finds!

[@mblum1611]

As a big fan of the Murder, She Wrote series, I have a very fond affinity for Underwood typewriters. There's just something so fantastic about the mechanical action of an analog typewriter! Some day, I should get one for myself.

[@lizbrown7232]

Manual typewriter is what we called them.

[@lifelongcollector1737]

I love it when one of your vintage clocks starts to chime in the background.

[@williamberger2178]

Alex, only your channel would have 242 likes and 0 dislikes. You and your store always bring a smile to my face.

[@richardbrooks3569]

I remember that we had a couple of Underwoods in our typing class. I really liked the action of the Underwood. That was 60 years ago. I can still type with all of my fingers, which is an accomplishment because I am a woodworker.

[@scottsteinberg9190]

I recognize Tim in your video as my neighbor growing up. Small world!

[@alohajanes3185]

Hans and girlfriend are so cute together. You did the right thing helping him get a new life🙏🏻God bless you and friends

[@MissLoriAAnne]

The HP sauce name stands for House of Parliament. I’ve been learning quite a bit about the old bottles. I luv the old aqua blue ones!

[@Gotholia]

Fritzsche brothers Musk oil , wow!!!! This is some really rare stuff, and musk doesn't lose much intensity in oil! Such a good find! Well done!

[@curiousfirely]

Ah ha ha! The 'Daddie's' bottle made me laugh, as I have an apron which features an old advert for this sauce!

[@cc-carol5951]

That one picture of a house reminded me of the Potter's House, especially before Hans trimmed the trees.

[@teresahepplewhite9828]

That's exactly what I thought.

[@ph3657]

I just love Hans at the beginning! 😁 I think it's cold all over and worse in others. You're worse. I hope you have food in the store besides candy in case you ever get stuck there. And a cot, etc. I Love that little glass bottle top figurine.

[@steventripp8709]

I was just checking out KZbin to see if you had posted any new videos. And here you are. 😀😀

[@gooberzmom]

In the mid '90s I dug up an old dump behind my home( built in 1893). I found some old embossed Scott's Emulsion bottles (cod liver oil mixed with lime and soda-yuk!)--a large ink dispensing bottle with a pouring spout, cobalt blue milk of magnesia and bromo-seltzer bottles, dozens of Moses Attwood jaundice bitters bottles which were high in alcohol content. There were also literally hundreds of flavored extract bottles most of which were 90% alcohol. That was the way polite ladies hid their drinking habits back then. Bake a cake, take a nip or two or ten then when it's done, daintily retiree to their room for the Victorian ladies afternoon nap or possibly have a ''fainting spell'' attributed to the heat in the kitchen.

[@peterhendry2154]

Hi, it's not just a foot warmer; it's actually a hot water bottle. Those old ones take the weight of the bedding off your feet and are toasty all night. Shame the top is missing as the rubber seals are probably still available.

[@jojocatattack]

I learned how to type on a very similar Underwood. Looking at it, I could smell the lubrication oil used to clean the strikers. We also hand inked the ribbon to make it last a long time.

[@kristineguetschow9134]

Nice finds. You always impress me with your knowledge of just about everything.

[@the-chillian]

I'm old enough to have needed a typewriter in college. If anyone is wondering why the Underwood had no number 1 on the keyboard, most manual typewriters lacked them. You were expected to use a lowercase L for a 1. Given the typeface, the glyphs would have been practically identical. PS. There's a Canadian connection to the Evangeline hot pepper sauce bottle, even though it's from Louisiana. It's a reference to the poem "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about an Acadian woman's search for her lost lover after they became separated during the expulsion of the Acadians. As you probably know, many Acadians settled in Louisiana, then a French territory, and their descendants are today known as Cajuns. Notwithstanding that heroine of the poem ultimately settled in Philadelphia, she's a celebrated figure in Louisiana.

[@mozu517]

Yes, I thought I remembered doing that!

[@kscheuerman5378]

Alex,Thanks for sharing what you are up to today. Take care & God Bless.

[@bethpeelar3435]

I love seeing all the old things you buy. The history, my father in law worked for CN here in Ontario would live it. He is 89 and got to travel free anywhere CN could go. What a great history our country has. And to let you know when l come to Edmonton again I am coming to your store.

[@pauljefferies2091]

Some of them bottles can bring a lot of money. Been collecting more than 40 years and I see a few in there that were most likely worth more than what you paid for the entire lot. Your bottle guy is getting a absolute steal!

[@panamared354]

I've read that before water purification of modern times that people drank spirits because of the unhealthy water source i.e. river and streams. Thanks for sharing

[@the-chillian]

You cannot drink spirits for hydration. What you may be thinking of is beer, and to a lesser extent wine. Beer was safer because boiling the water is a step in brewing it; this kills harmful microorganisms. Even kids drank it, but the daily drink was "small beer" that often had less than 1% abv. Stronger beer was for adults, and wasn't the regular drink. Wine is of course made from juice and not water, but it does have some anti-microbial effect, so even if diluted it can make water safer (but not 100% safe) to drink. One can be assured the wine itself is safe even though there's no boiling involved because if it were not, the wine would have spoiled in the making. (Modern winemakers add sulfites prior to fermentation to prevent this.) If wine is any good at all, it's safe. The anti-microbial properties are less from the alcohol, which isn't strong enough to disinfect, but from some of the phenols and other anti-microbial substances it contains. That's why red wine is better for this than white. Distilled beverages -- i.e. spirits -- are safe from microbes both because there are multiple steps where the ingredients are raised to boiling, and also because of the high alcohol content in the final product. But it's not something that will sustain you when you need water.

[@panamared354]

@@the-chillian I'm not a drinker, I thought all alcohol were sprits. Thanks for the clarification.

[@rundoetx]

You are correct, Sir. I was gonna make this post before I saw yours. Thanks for posting. (Love your screen name)

[@basstrammel1322]

My grandma made some pretty unique beer with low alcohol level, because the water in the farm well would be nasty in the summer. Recipe passed down from generations, had a thick and sweet taste to it with dense foam. We drank this as late as the 90s, when I was quite underage, without getting any kind of buzz. It makes sense that this was a common drink through history, and I feel lucky that I actually got to experience that first hand.

[@aceofspades9503]

Also the yeast used in the brewing process will eat residual microorganisms.

[@colleenosullivan857]

Cloves used to be used as a pain reliever for a tooth ache

[@echoedinnocence]

You can still buy clove oil for tooth aches still. 👍

[@shadowsflame_4007]

I tried it just last week! It did not work! I left it on the tooth for over an hour.

[@drfreud65]

@@shadowsflame_4007 There's some stuff called Dr Dent's Toothache Gum. It's got clove in it, but it's moldable like a clay. You put it over the hole causing the toothache and seal it from the air. It works VERY well.

[@tiffanygreen2523]

Works on my cracked tooth.

[@Unclejake]

Yes, the US Navy used oil of clove to pack my dry socket from pulling my wisdom tooth, had to go every day for a week and have it repacked until it healed.

[@robynw6307]

Sometimes alcoholic drinks were safer to drink than dirty water back in the past.

[@chuckyboy7940]

Yes. This is why beer was brewed. The water was dangerous.

[@user-cs3hi8zp7p]

Surprised Bobble didn't run through the door at the first clang of the bottles!!! Edit: Glad he added to his collection!!

[@starcloudhidden8074]

Lots of bottle finds an ♥️here. Thanks for sharing A.

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

Me: "I don't think I want to see another antique unboxing video." Alex: *uploads unboxing video* Me: "OMG I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!"

[@henrys3629]

I need to display my raillroad stuff better. Totally forgot what I even have. Treasure hunt! That fixtures catalog is amazing!

[@lb128f]

Great stuff, Alex...thanks for sharing!

[@GuanoLad]

That Smarties ball game, there used to be one of those with different graphics and prizes in a Fish and Chip shop we used to regularly visit when I was a child in New Zealand. That one you have looks almost exactly the same to the smallest detail, so it's possibly manufactured at the same time and same place.

[@mollyk.4031]

I loved seeing that old Underwood typewriter, it reminded me of my mom's. Something else I noticed about it, there's no "1" key. When I was learning to type in high school, our typewriters also lacked the "1". You have to use the lower case "L". And it thrilled me to see the lone little Pepsi salt shaker. I have a pair of Pepsi salt & pepper, new in the box. My mom bought them for me in the mid to late 60's.

[@dorothyrobddau7394]

Born in 1948..as I recall Smarties were little fruit candies. Think of Pegs, no chocolate. Alex you halled some wonderful collectable bottles. Mostly thick and dark brown because light could break down the product. Also good disguise for alcohol.😍. Love and blessings from Boston, Ma. USA

[@carolreynolds3650]

Hi C I, the little glass child, is a candy container, missing stopper, your foot warmer, usually taken to church, open cars or carriges, since most were unheated at the time! Great stuff, so interesting! Best, Carol

[@roseyrosita1017]

Gosh Alex, you are a walking Wikipedia. Very impressive! I learn a lot from you.:)

[@mcwatersd]

Interesting unpacking. Happy to see Bob was able to find something of interest. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤

[@janelow2613]

Haha, I'm eating a tube of Smarties as you showed the Smarties gaming machine xx Janie Dundee

[@annetteamerine6055]

Love to see what’s in the boxes you find. Cool bottles!

[@laurierutan10]

Love the finds, glad you shared

[@kaseythomas9646]

Nice to see a fellow Minnesotan in your store, wish it could be me!

[@karenmiller2974]

So happy to see you did not strike the keys and get ink on the roller. So many of the abandoned storage locker buyers ALWAYS STRIKE THE KEYS INKING UP THE ROLLER GETTING THE BACK OF YOUR PAPER DIRTY.

[@sarabert63]

Here in northern Missouri it has been raining and snowing at the same time which makes for one slushy mess. It will freeze tonight and tomorrow the roads will be like a skating rink. We haven't had a blizzard so far. I feel lucky. Love your videos.They are so educational.

[@esthersacilowski641]

Hi Alex 🙋 The reason, people drank, was this was their medicine ! Don't forget , there was no Tylenol or Ibuprofen, or even nerve medicine's, & antiseptic ! The list could go on & on ! My husband's grandmother, drank apricot brandy , before she went to bed & she lived to be 93! 📷 ☕ Esther from N.Y.

[@djtrishm]

wow that typewriter is in very nice shape. Love the green wine glass and the bottles are great! Trish

[@kellykeller9640]

Alex if you lived back in them days you would probably like hooch too lol...times were much harder...God bless.😃

[@nancymontgomery8897]

Hey! Bottle Bob is wearing a Curiosity Inc shirt. That little oil can is cross collectible as a coin bank. Love seeing the railroad items.

[@LIBICU812]

Back in the "old days" fresh and safe drinking water was hard to come by so that is why there's so many alcohol bottles found in old dump sites. It is said that the US founding fathers were constantly intoxicated for the same reason.

[@janeschiffler5347]

I had one of those Underwood typewriters when I was a kid. Used to type my papers for school on it. The keys would jam if you typed too fast.

[@FlaNative3]

Every manual typewriter would jam if you typed too fast. My friends & I were really excited when the electrics came out, we had a friendly competition to see who could type the fastest on them LOL. That was entertaining in the days before Xbox, YT, Netflix, cell phones, Twitter, Snapchat ...

[@andreaschumann231]

Great video the assortment of bottles in awesome and all of the vintage Canadian train pieces are awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[@ianmacpherson2409]

Years ago there was a big push to keep ones bowels "loose". I once needed to help my Mom to the washroom. She was recovering from a broken hip She needed to empty her bowels, upon sitting down she made a funny series of sounds. Asked what the hec that was about. Mom told me that was how they told to do every morning. Those were the days of caster oils and many other potions. Ah the good old days. Really enjoy your programs!

[@mikealmere70]

They needed degestives because they ate only preserved foods in winter, and meat was often fatty, and a bit off.

[@keljo123]

I love those old pictures! I so love your unboxings. You find the coolest things and the way you explain everything is just perfect. I told my husband we are going to vacation in Edmonton, Canada in the summer. I can't do those cold winters. I think 25 is freezing cold here in Florida.😉

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

Thanks Kelly Jo!

[@mariauschak9899]

25 is 80 here in the summer. lol

[@deniseboldea1624]

To be fair to the old timers, whiskey actually had a number of uses from medicine to cleaning, so while the majority of the booze probably was to "keep warm", a lesser percentage went to those tried and true home remedies.

[@naomialaniz373]

I love the bottle box contents and seeing those old containers and those embossed ones

[@matthewdavey6064]

Beardless Bob The Bottle Man! Thanks again for sharing.

[@bueford668]

The light fixture book is worth around $160 or more to the right person. I have sold a few over the years. I'm still climbing in attics, barns, basements and storage units for our auction service after 40 years. It is just to much fun and excitement to give up. Good hunting.

[@timthejewler]

Amazing Alex, thx for posting 😉

[@toyhappyutube]

An antique Zellars bag! Seriously though, the last Zellars (across the street from me in Ottawa) is having a closing sale right now and is closing at the end of this month or next

[@Epitome613]

I was thinking the same thing! :D

[@marlenekutcher938]

Sure miss that store. I refuse to shop at Walmart.

[@Psyteth]

I miss Zellers. I even liked their in-store restaurant. Pleasant memories always going to one with my mother and grandma. Walmart doesn't have the charm it had, though I could be bias due to nostalgia.

[@myriammoquin2684]

Cant believe you still have a Zellers. We lost ours in Edmonton at least 10 years ago.

[@toyhappyutube]

Myriam Moquin It unfortunately was little more than a dumping ground for clearance stuff from the Bay. It finally closed and the sign came down right at the start of the quarantine.

[@julier1616]

So interesting. Learning lots about collectibles and antiques watching these videos. And the info from subscribers in the comments 🇨🇦👍😊

[@aserta]

Even if bottles aren't your speed, that was a nice catch.

[@cliffypoo11]

blizzard: feel my wrath.. Alex: im goin' pickin'

[@cynthiaamitrano8915]

Always finding new old treasures.

[@alainab7912]

I watched a something that talked about people having stomach issues back before refrigeration , food quality control, and because of the chemicals used to preserve food which was literal poison. So people were always buying tinctures and remedies from chemists and what not to cure their stomach pains.

[@brianlippert3455]

Hi Alex wanted to say I enjoy Watching your channel it is very interesting it was great what you did for the artist at her funeral and bring her house back to a beautiful home looking forward to more great videos.

[@patrickprior4393]

Awesome again 🎸 🎸🎸 🎸

[@cynthiacleaver9742]

Yay!! New goodies!!👍

[@chuckells5220]

Wow, that house keeps giving! Major bounty!

[@robsgirl7778]

Those photographs are so neat! I love old photos

[@bethanychamberlain7047]

Great unboxing episode! Thx

[@deborahfromdcspetersoncity9213]

Some really neat items from that lot that you picked up.

[@patricksnow1700]

While your dealing with a blizzard down near Calgary we’ve been enjoying T-shirt weather +9 Enjoy watching your channel always interesting to see what treasures you find

[@AndyGeesGarage]

Love the lighting book. Actually spotted the ones in my bathroom that I restored that came from the Sylvancroft Mansion in Edmonton as you flipped through it.

[@cathyb2204]

The Safety Car catalog seems to be specific to railroad car fixtures. A rare find!

[@janetflint2817]

So exciting watching to see what’s in the boxes☺️👍

[@LauraLouise008]

Cool stuff and glad Bob got the stash of bottles!!

[@TLMarzewski]

Love all the bottles!

[@crinkle2649]

People back then didn't eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, that's why they needed stuff to move things along.

[@rachelh5211]

Very true. They didn't have access, and/or couldn't afford, as many types of food as we have today which help provide a balanced diet. If the staple of their diet was rice, potatoes, bread/grains, or other similar types of "binding" foods (even meat), that would have explained the need for all those laxatives.

[@rdhudon7469]

My parents were born in the 20's and their generation even ate seasonally . You had the root cellar for apples and potatoes . That is why some still get a naval orange in their Christmas stocking as it really was a treat back in the day and would stave off scurvy . Lol

[@joycemccallie9722]

I really love the old things you get,it brings back some memories but all in all I love old things, I have some old bottles and other things and my daughter calls it all junk, that's okay cause I like it all. Wish I could go through some of your stuff but you re so lucky to be able to reserve some of the past.

[@charlotteh71]

The foot warmer is an old equivalent of a hot water bottle They were put in a bed before you went to bed to warm it up. You can imagine how cold it used to be. They're very common in the uk and you can pick one up for around £5. Maybe it's been brought over from the UK. Keep up the good work

[@MoggiesTen]

I watched some mudlarks dig a bunch of those footwarmers out of a dump in England a few weeks ago on a video. Some of them had the original stoppers. I believe they were Vulcanite.

[@krystaldelmonico9282]

I LOVE the penny top counter !!!

[@FlaNative3]

Love watching your videos, Alex! Seeing the snow makes me feel cooler, which is a trick since I am having bad hot flashes and live in SE Florida where it barely ever gets cold ... haven’t been able to put on a sweater in about 5 years ... 🥵 I know, I know, we all have our crosses to bear!

[@TravelingNana]

Such a great collection of great things!

[@jjo5375]

I wonder if the first glass twist-on glass stopper of a Kewpie doll was from a perfume bottle? In any event...another fun unboxing visit! Thanks! : )

[@deecarson3343]

WOW people from 🇨🇦 sure luv their “liquids”. Alex you amazing to go out in the snow and not to play. I see a snowflake ❄️ and I hibernate.

[@leahr.2620]

The lighting book and the typewriter are way cool. 👍👍 As soon as I saw that stoneware bottle I was wondering what it was, a hot water bottle, very nice.

[@jeanettcanham9059]

We still have Daddies still in the UK it's classed here as brown sauce. Often in a plastic bottles these days.

[@tomfrazier1103]

The glass firetruck was a candy container. I've only dug broken ones. All types of vehicles, telephones, animals &c. I've found broken "Army Bombers" too. The oil can is a mini of a "4 gallon Standard Oil" can. Chinese wholesale food still comes in them. They were s standard container everywhere into the mid century. As a kid I had one packed with survival food from the 1961 missile scare. Canadians are that much closer to the USSR. Here in Hawaii they are made into iconic dust bins with a handle for sweeping up.

[@reggiewright4094]

Nice meeting you bob, any friend of Alex's is a friend of mine. I'll have to checkout your bottle collection on facebook.

[@rahla53]

Love the way you recycle every single item you find, good eye!!

[@Ernest_More]

Amazing! I LOVE your videos.

[@creatuitiveguru]

Wow, that Underwood is super NICE. 😻

[@kate9576]

Love how you added the Hans clip.

[@thecrystalcrow]

Buchanan's Black & White whiskey - my relatives!!!