Did we just find a WAND at the Victorian Dump? A Great Day of Finds! Mudlarking & Treasure Hunting

[@breathofhome6315]

The glass wand is actually a young unicorn horn...probably a shed so it's next larger horn can grow in. 🦄🤕😁

[@joanneminer7046]

Gail you should write a book with pictures of all the different patterns of beautiful Scottish sponge ware you find. Love your channel.🇨🇦

[@susiekernstein2259]

Yes that's a good idea to write a book about her sponge ware finds

[@kentuckylady2990]

Please do

[@donnaorton9547]

At least show us your collection! I know nothing about Scottish sponge ware There seems to be such a large variety of colors and patterns!

[@laytonjames6418]

Thats a fantastic idea! Would love to see all the beautiful patterns all together!

[@icevoss9917]

And a book with all the best finds too

[@BeccaBeeMe]

Loves it when you share the gorgeous wildflowers where you are!! They're always so lovely and the music you play in the background paints the prettiest picture!! 🎼🎵🎶💐🍄🌾🌿🪻

[@StrawberrySue777]

Remember, the wand selects the witch or wizard. 😄

[@abigaillockey374]

I love your videos! You do what I've done all my life..looking for gemstones, rocks, bottles and treasures in dumps, creeks and old home places. It's so much fun finding something beautiful or unusual that's been buried so many years! One of my favorite videos of yours was in the Scottish highlands. You walked the hills and mountains and the views were amazing! I loved it! I love to hear you both talk about the history and love the music you play. Thank you!

[@traceyhill4929]

Gayle your knowledge is impressive....thanx for sharing it

[@alisebradley6706]

Thank you ladies you've done it again with your amazing finds. It's always a surprise to see what you will find next. 😊

[@nannynobnobs8312]

Gail,you found a unicorn horn not a wand.😊

[@colleenmccarthy-evans3149]

You both are so tender-hearted, and keen to the disequality that still troubles humanity...and still you manage to make me laugh with your pudding doll montages, every time...we have to have a good laugh, from time to time, and I thank you for providing mine today. ❤

[@beckyj1493]

Wonderful finds! Again I love where you put the pudding doll it's just so funny. Always love the nature shots. Sending hugs!

[@pamelahutton3913]

I never ever want your videos to end. I enjoy them so much. I love how you look up the history of the items you find. I also loved Gail's magic wand!

[@ColleenHarriganStaver]

I really enjoy seeing your little mascot, the frozen Charlotte, posing with all your finds. So 🥰 cute

[@bonnieolson8028]

Those half plates makes me think, they would make a great peacock. ❤❤ to you both.🎉

[@kimberlymolitor354]

The soup token was so interesting. I am widowed and off work for 3 months recovering from knee replacement surgery. I am so glad my church has a food pantry that I can utilize to help stretch my budget until I am back to work. So, you are right, nice to see some things do stay the same❤❤❤❤❤

[@cdmikie]

You are so right, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Have a good week!

[@geoWhite]

You ladies are amazing, Lot of knowledge between you. Always brings a smile. Take care and stay safe.

[@vettnetkramer1233]

I liked when the penny doll replaced the head of the crawler. The soup token is cool.

[@elainegill2619]

Beautiful wild flowers footage❤ Your videos are my go to happy place,i love them all.Thank you so much❤

[@phineas117]

Ivy stands for Loyalty and faithfulness. I carried some in my Wedding bouquet. I love the glass wand!!

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

I do too,i think it is a very fancy barley twist walking cane though, ive seen them occasionally in old antique shops😊

[@VickiLong-v4m]

There is also an enormous rise of food banks here in USA. Sad the fact that times have a way of repeating itself. But so blessed to have organizations to give aid to those in need. I love the stories and history of alot of your treasures you find. Thank you both and. Peace to All

[@susancousins8766]

Nice treasures and very interesting pieces! Love the small bottles and the green glass swirl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜

[@mariong.2241]

You found so nice things again. 👍👍 I love the twisted glas rod. Greetings from germany!

[@lucindalandphere860]

The glass rod is a magical unicorn horn ! ❤ 😂

[@diannejones4736]

Hi Gail & Alex, love your displays with the cute little dolls. Makes me laugh, you have a great sense of humor. Love all of your videos. Kind regards Dianne xx

[@yomama8873]

Love the magic wand 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖

[@ElizabethMosley-w5d]

I would have taken that thing that said DOG. I have 3 dogs. I wish you had adopted that other dog also. As crafty as you two are you could have put it on something. Love that bottle with the squished top. Isn't it a pouring spout?? I think that man laying down is a soldier who is crawling so he doesn't get shot. Whenever you say I know someone will want that but it's not me, I scream I want it but you just can't hear me that far away. I would love to have something from Scotland because I am Scottish and Irish, plus a few others thrown in for fun. 😊. Thanks for sharing your videos with us!

[@icevoss9917]

❤ I love the Unicorn 🦄 glass horn twist ❤. You could make a book mark with the Ivy find

[@tinyTears]

When you look at your finds, there is a lot of social history on the table. Thank you for sharing.

[@oh-hellsbells-helen6258]

Hi sweets Leavers Hardware, had been trading in Weston-super-Mare for 129 years and closed doors in 2015..some of us still polish our steps!! its a strip of brass on the edge some victorian houses steps some only have the 1st step or front step others have more..once being a nice seaside town, now most houses been turned into bedsits etc as the town has gone to pot quite literally!! if you contact the weston mercury (local paper) who were neighbours to leavers since 1885 they are only few doors down from each other im sure they will love to do a story of how you found your bottle all the best love and hugs xxx

[@NanaColeen]

Thank you both for this great video👍❣I do not some words you say, but I will figure it out🐚 I am watching your older videos and subscribed the other day. Keep sharing the joy😘 we need it. God bless you both🥰

[@sherriemetcalf7120]

Always love your videos! Thank you for sharing even the items that you decide not to keep. 😊 Looks like it also could have been a child laying down reading a book at 11:50 minutes into the video. Love the soup token; I couldn’t find a picture like that one on line.

[@christhompson4270]

Amazing day out with some great finds too, take care and thanks for sharing 🙏👍❤️

[@fairyacorn4854]

That was lovely and some very good finds I love the glass barly sugar stick wand. Think that should go in the window of wonders as it will catch the light nicely. Great finds and unusual.

[@OzzieJayne]

I didn't realise those clay marbles were also used as dress hem weights til watching Mapperton a few weeks ago where gorgeous Georgian antique gowns had them in the hem.

[@marieellard2973]

“Magic Wand”! Yes! Great video!

[@JudithMcPheron-pb9lv]

Good video & adventure hunt today! ❤😊❤

[@martinemjt]

in canada also,2 million canadians are using foodbanks every month. many living in tents. never was seen before!!!!.

[@beverlyhayshouston2770]

How can anyone survive in the Winter in Canada in a tent? Awful. Trudeau needs to go.

[@janetduncan3243]

I love the wand, but my favorite has to be the dolly that always makes me laugh!❤

[@suzannesheridan9535]

Love the videos, Ladies. Great finds. You might want to consider carrying a walking stick to test the ground in front of you for any holes, just for safety sake. Looking forward to more from a fan in Canada.

[@howardwest1347]

You could sell some of those sweet botttles on your Etsy store instead of leaving them behind. Donna northern Michigan

[@srs9130]

Not sure if that's the dump that's the biggest one in Scotland, but I've been trying to find it for a few years. I'll keep persevering 😊

[@daviddevos3518]

At first I thought it said 'Brilliant Beige', which already seemed like an unlikely combination of words to me.

[@pdrphil8159]

Great finds ladies...

[@Pbav8tor]

The wand would make a wonderful horn for a mulark unicorn.

[@lucymcrae162]

Alex, some of us are looking for ink bottles....some of us would pay for shipping and more....hint hint LOL

[@vickinoeske1154]

haha Oh, soup! Not sour.

[@toniahampton207]

I can't wait to see you cast the Ivie !!! I want to know what you make. ❤ You're gonna have to make that wand your dump wand and take it with you to wand the dump before you start searching ...... lol For a long time here in the USA the brass kick panel on the bottom door that was brass was quite classy. Gale I'd like to know if you're going to put together a sponge wear book with all of the different designs , years and maybe some highlite about the people making them.I think that would be really cool! 😊 Your "choice" follower Tonia Utah USA

[@jennifermorrison229]

I need to know where did Gail get her hat?

[@barbaber8131]

Twisty glass thing could be a glass quill?

[@barbaber8131]

Never mind. I didn’t realize it was so long

[@deeannmcginnis2115]

The lead alloy figure on his belly looks like an army rifleman aiming his rifle; if he still had all of his limbs and rifle.

[@sashakasprzyk5683]

Love your voices.

[@seshanno1]

those crystals in the schist are probably Garnets

[@DeborahPosthuma]

There is a saying, "the more things change, the more they stay the same".

[@nancythompson5055]

You need to get yourself a walking stick or make one for those kind of trips. You can use it to stick in the ground ahead of where you’re walking so you don’t fall in.

[@susanamann1806]

Soup,wand,dog, and bottle for windoww

[@John-s3t6q]

Yes my first wage was £4. 7/6 p for 47 hour week. I did get £6 . 2/6 p a week doing a paper round but had to give it up as i had to be in the wood mill at 7 am. And if we did not get all the jobs done we had to work we had to work the Saturday as well with no extra pay. And had to give my mum half my pay. So yes the times are starting to get bad again but i cannot remember food banks but there were, i think soup places . In my time when i did the paper round i would catch fish from the river or the creek that was near my home. That was built in 1879. And i can still remember the out house with the mangle and earth box toilet . Plus the tin bath . As i was born with a disability and was not able to walk i had to go in to a hospital at three years old and did not come out until i was eight years old. And mist my schooling . So i did see the good and bad in, that time i am now this year will be 70 years old and had a stroke at 47 years old. I have some people that do go to the food banks but i get on without them as now . And well the fish are not so plentiful now with over fishing . So yes i think my five grand kids will find it very hard in the times to come. The rich get very rich and well the poor are so meany now on the streets it is so sad to see. Well i did 33 year in work, so i did my bit for the rich to make them happy , but are they .

[@mnaumoff8396]

Would love it if you could annotate the narrative with the names of the plants you photograph.

[@sharonmartin7626]

Ivy symbolises fidelity (it won't easily let go of something it's attached itself to) and eternal life (because the plant is evergreen). In ancient Egypt ivy was dedicated to Osiris, who represented immortality.

[@janemillen4316]

The figure looks like a soldier crawling on its stomach..

[@gentianvandewerken929]

Love it as always/lol

[@carolf-nf1nb]

I have been watching your early videos. It is interesting how your opinions and selectivity have evolved in 3/4 years

[@dean828]

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[@DMC8707]

Why not make tiny tiny doll house for half cup house. Be crafts creatives. 😊

[@thecourtlyalchemist]

I wonder if this was used as currency. Maybe someone got paid in soup tokens.

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

People have been hungry since the beginning of time.

[@lisamoss5796]

The figure looks like he might be holding a gun or bow and arrow?

[@nannynobnobs8312]

Hi beautiful ladies,my heart keeps going into tachycardia and sometimes A fibrillation,so i am currently using your channel as calming therapy..i don't think you realise what an effect your wonderfully valm and naturally beautiful videos have on your subscribers, thanks for simply being you.❤

[@carlahardwick9908]

I do the same when my heart acts up. Hugs from someone who understands the anxiety.

[@cheriethompson2266]

I miss your shard stories. You discover a bit of history and how folks lived way back when.

[@bkitteh6295]

I hope your doctors get your medications, procedures, etc. all figured out, and you'll be feeling much better soon. These kinds of problems are very familiar to my family so understand a tiny bit how intense these medical issues can be. Watching Gail & Alex is a terrific form of relaxation - I'm glad you discovered them! Relax, watch Northern Mudlarks, and get a bit better every day. Good luck & we'll be thinking of you here in Seattle. ❤😊 PS. I hope you've discovered Nicola White of Tideline Art as well, If you aren't familiar, check her channel out. I think you might find her a good source of relaxation as well❣️. Cheers, 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

😂 youre comment made me laugh,we watch TNM on tv in bed and the reason is its just so chilled and relaxed😂

[@thecourtlyalchemist]

Sending you calm healing vibes, sunshine, and balmy sea breezes from Florida, nannynobnobs. I hope that you will feel much better soon.

[@teresahamilton7801]

adore the little 3-legged pup. he needed to be adopted. thanx as always for bringing us along. so enjoy the wild flowers.

[@kayesdigginit1519]

11:50 is a soldier on the ground with a machine gun. One hand on each handle for aiming. The cute bottle stoppers and the twirlie whirly glass rod. That stoneware bottle is a really cool find a well!!

[@Replicanna-rl6zg]

I thought it rather be a hunter wearing light coloured clothes and not an army belt visible. Toy soldiers were also not that big according to my knlowledge

[@kayesdigginit1519]

@@Replicanna-rl6zg I think it's plain to see that it's a tin soldier. I realize that most have all been smaller versions. This one happens to be larger 🤷‍♀️

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

I do agree, its a soldier on his belly crawling with a machine gun but it could have been like a model soldier for an adult to have and not just a kids toy, its quite big maybe meant for a shelf or a mantle piece😊

[@kimbid44]

You could sell some of your bottles and ink bottles at your store! Would sell so easily! Thank you ladies!❤❤

[@MichaelaC531]

I was also going to suggest this.

[@annenations2010]

Are you allowed to sell the bottles you find that you don’t want? I would love to buy some!

[@stephenraney]

The lead figure could be a soldier firing a machine gun from the prone position 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😎✌🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼❤️

[@sherry-lynnzwaan1432]

My thoughts exactly!

[@lindaleggett3929]

I enjoyed the day with you the finds were great. The little dog needs a ball under his paw . It was a great trip for me . Thanks

[@VenusDeMilitant]

I love the doll holding the Soup token.

[@Claire-be4gd]

So interesting hearing about the soup token great little find , also I remember my Nan still washing her front step in the 80s bless her heart , she would scrub it until it Shined..❤

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

My gran and my mum painted their front door step white i never got around to continuing that tradition😂

[@peggyreid6836]

Thank you both for inviting me along on this muckraking adventure. I love Gail's 'wand' and Akex's little 3 legged dog. I really enjoyed the info about the soup coin. Thanks again for a glorious adventure.

[@melissalillegard7945]

You could have used resin to repair the cracks and chips on that cute bottle.

[@meganwatkins6631]

Get a long walking stick with a cord or leather loop to go over your hand. Then you can test the ground in front of you when you walk through an over grown tip.

[@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl]

Good idea🙂if that was me i would end up down a hole covered in nettle rash😂

[@twobrokeguyz1214]

Great finds, That twisty glass wand would be beautiful if you made a silver handle, and tip for it. You could even make an ivy pattern since you've found a ivy piece. Enjoyed the video

[@heatherlindquist1899]

First! ❤️❤️❤️

[@peterfriel5129]

3rd😐

[@christinekeay8456]

Loved the Soup token, what an interesting find❤️

[@tammykaltreider]

Here in middle Georgia, USA we are in full swing summer time heat! It is a high of 99 degrees Fahrenheit today 🤦‍♀️. Hello summer weather… I know, there really is no happy medium.

[@maryjdavis2609]

❤ I love all the little bottles and their history. ❤

[@jamesrawson6659]

Im so pleased you have put another vid on. I love to hear the excitement in both your voices when you find nice things . Two lovely ladies. Enjoying watching your vids

[@debbiewaksmonski4100]

Loved the finds today!! Well, honestly every week, but there is always something special, isn't there. The soup ticket, is very poignant, and sad. It should definitely NOT be, still a thing today. The twisty glass wand is beautiful. I'm curious, why you don't talk about the window of wonders anymore? I miss it. Looking forward to seeing more of your bedroom renovation, Alex. ❤ Also looking forward to more mudlardks, love that you do them with your mom. Gail, you must be such a wonderful role model. You are both lucky to have one another. ❤ Be watching next week!!!

[@AmyWilcox-xb3sb]

Love the soup token

[@Linda-k2i]

Another great show ladies with some interesting finds. The wildflowers were beautiful, amazing how nature has taken over the dump site.

[@soniaclarke2804]

I see that wand as a great Christmas tree decoration. And i loved that dog sign. I would have taken that but i am a mad dog person

[@ronhuhn7562]

Horn of the national animal of Scotland...ron

[@dave_archer]

Take a probing staff of some sort with you so you don't fall down a hole please. put a strap on it to hang it over your back when not i n use, we don't want to lose you two down a hole 😃

[@carolmay5168]

I was really hoping you had a video today😀

[@vickinoeske1154]

I just love the way you place the penny dolls among your finds.😊 For some reason, I really like the little coin that says 'sour'.❤

[@shantalynn]

I thought it said that, too, at first, but when they showed it more closely and talked about it, it looked more clearly like "SOUP."

[@beverlyhayshouston2770]

I could never leave an inkwell. 😢

[@tonyaxeman4381]

Nothing wrong going to Your local food pantry . No judgement there . I have been doing it for six years after injuries and not able to work I had retired .

[@loisbolton1800]

I love the short musical interludes that accompany closeups of the various flora in the area. Simply beautiful and brings joy to the heart.

[@harrybond1485]

Hello ladies.Alex, I loved the soup ticket you found.The lead figure is idiomatic, could be a soldier.Have a lovely day.😊

[@kayesdigginit1519]

I've been waiting all day for your video to post 😊

[@kirstencook1439]

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[@Pbav8tor]

No, dear ladies. Some things never change. Wealth inequality always has the same social impacts. Too bad the wealthy need so much, much more than the rest of us.

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

We have food banks here also. However, many people are addicted to drugs; and, they and their children may starve if it were not for food banks and the children's backpack programs. We lost our Soup Kitchen during lock-down.