Massive Haul Of Coins And Relics

Today we review the massive haul of relics and coins that I found recently by simply fanning the river bottom with my hands while snorkeling at the site of an old river dump. This dump was pushed into the river over 70 years ago and contains all sorts of goodies including coins, silver, marbles, bottles and so much more.
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[@lucasdog1]

4:20 A tube from "knob and tube" wiring, the tube would be set in a hole through a framing member, like a joist or stud, and a strand of wire would pass through it, keeping the wire insulated from flammable parts of the house. 5:15 An old radio AIR CAPACITOR TUNER. the first half fits together with the 2nd part, fin and fin, and would be rotated together to receive different frequencies. The first half is called a stator, the 2nd part with the shaft attached is the rotor. 9:12 The heating element from a car cigarette lighter. The coil would get red hot to light your smoke.

[@dabprod]

Exactly right on the radio tuner "capacitor".

[@TristramSavage]

Those "tubes" make excellent knife sharpeners...your welcome. Lol

[@chetthejet3896]

Right you are.

[@politicalfoolishness7491]

The thing with fins looks like a variable capacitor from an old radio.

[@wintuwarrior5266]

They're called Air capacitor tuners and they are indeed used in what we now call vintage radios

[@politicalfoolishness7491]

@@wintuwarrior5266 correct - that is the better term to describe them.

[@jogden6632]

That is a plate tuning capacitor. Both of the fin pieces go together and mesh.

[@laker3]

Variable capacitors are often used in L/C circuits to set the resonance frequency, e.g. to tune a radio, or as a variable reactance, e.g. for impedance matching in antenna tuners.

[@Mck236]

Nope. It’s a flux capacitor

[@drifter82935]

Those two items at 5:20 do go together and that is a variable capacitor that is used to tune a radio. The fins would mesh together but never touch and that is what changed the station you were listening to. It at one time had a string and guides that moved the needle on the dial as you turned the knob. You can also find them in old televisions but they will be more complex and longer with rotary switch contacts at the end.

[@jamescrabtree4358]

When i touched one of those as a kid it shocked the crap out of me .should those have electric in them?

[@aquachigger]

I finally made the video to show you guys the things I found in the river a few weeks ago when I went snorkeling. Many of the items I am unable to identify, and if you know what they are, please let me know. I hope you guys like the video! Here is a link to the video where I found the treasures on the table. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4jEgodmo9tpl80 Special thanks to all of my supporters over on Patreon! Follow Chigg’s Army! My Patreon: www.patreon.com/aquachigger Instagram: instagram.com/aquachigger/ Facebook: facebook.com/chiggsarmy/ Twitter: twitter.com/BeauOuimette T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachigger/ Thanks for watching…. The Chigg

[@maxedoutmegablith6473]

Yep, as someone mention those Fins are part of an Air Ganged Capacitor from a vacuum tube radio. Some transistor radios had them years back. Air gangs were very commonly used to tune for example and AM radio. As mentioned, to tune in the dial to your desired favorite radio station or stations.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Just bought an Ace 400 package. Thank you Beau for the videos and inspiring me to do this.

[@barbielee7523]

Ink pen Nib , very cool!

[@silverwheelspatriot1764]

I heard kitty in background

[@davestelling]

@@maxedoutmegablith6473 Bingo!

[@jonlennon3348]

6:20 is a ball bearing cage to hold the bearings in place.

[@dangilley4251]

Absolutely on the right track. Specifically, it it is from a thrust bearing like those used in a TV stand

[@carltonbauer2779]

3:27: maybe the "front plate" is the cover plate for the inside handle of a car door. 9:13: maybe the "spring" is a heat element for a car cigarette lighter. I like this format. It is like the "I Spy" books, but for detectorists and finders.

[@JDeuro7]

Correct on the car cig lighter

[@dougalexander7204]

What a haul of gewgaws, doodads and doomoms. Amazing. Much appreciated Mr. Chigg.

[@VincentNajger1]

You forgot the wachamajiggs ..... plenty of them in there lol

[@doomguy584]

You forgot all the thingamabobs

[@dougalexander7204]

@@VincentNajger1 dang, you’re right.

[@dougalexander7204]

@@doomguy584 another one? It was a big table.

[@janvafa9959]

Also domahickeys!

[@TheSportsBoffin]

The part of the pen is a nib to a fountain pen. It looks like a Parker fountain pen...Parker is a major pen manufacturer.

[@jeannemackenzie4404]

Shaeffer ink pens also had nips. It was vey popular at that time.

[@c.t.murray3632]

That's a great collection. That's fun. And your cat is absolutely gorgeous.

[@gaiterbugg]

11:37 looks like the eye piece to a microscope. Love watching your videos and seeing what you find. Am a cat lover, too. Stay safe and keep on digging.

[@rudigermany]

Very exciting finds. Good entertainment.Greetings from Berlin Germany.

[@helenburke9507]

I saw several pieces that I know. The key with the rounded end was from a spam can. You had to attach it to the can and then twist the key around the can. Very sharp edges. Thank You for all the memories of your finds. Hugs to all you’re tended four paw baby pls.

[@barbarafritchie2000]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@donnabroussard4548]

Those bead chains were also used as light switches . Pull chain, like on ceiling fan or light.

[@milwaukeeroadjim9253]

Also seen the bead chains used as pull chain inside of toilet tanks

[@AdamosDad]

5:20 air capacitor used in older radios. You have both sides; one moves inside the other. 8:32 quill. 11:40 microscope eye piece.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Some great goodies Chigg be safe and GOD BLESS

[@johnlord8337]

The 2 multi-panelled metal plate sections appear to be anything 1900s-1930s electric and radio technologies of a rheostat (like the insides of a radio dialing mechanism to get the right frequency, they interwove their panels with each other creating a specific frequency. It is also possible to be part of a variable transformer, amping up the voltage or amperage of the current for volume in a huge radio - industrial or military/govt design.

[@oldbamadirt2148]

You Are Right

[@brian70Cuda]

I thought it looked like a tuning capacitor as well.

[@CrankyBuzzard]

Correct. It's a variable capacitor

[@rustybracewell4424]

it's at frequency tuning dial for old tube style radios... have several old radios from the late 30s to early 40s AM table radios that are identical

[@jethomas232]

At time 3:14. The little chain could be from an old pull chain on a light, also maybe the chain to a bathtup or sink stopper. At time 5:18. the two pieces might be the, I think, to a radio. I love your videos, makes me wish I could get back in the field and hunt. Thanks fo letting me see your finds.

[@christopherreinsmith1401]

Chigg, im glad to see, you are never burned out! Love how you clean out the water ways, ( river janitor ) , I know you don't like to be called that!

[@Fred-tr8zg]

Nice finds Chigg, thanks for showing them , catch you on the next one. 🇺🇸

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@dukeluke9219]

That small circle thing with the 7 holes and spring on the opposite side is part of a cigarette lighter from a car I'm sure.. burnt my finger as a wee-lad messing about in the parents car hahaha

[@mathewdavis-adventuresandd6643]

That's where I've seen that before. Lol.

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Thanks for sharing with us. Neat finds. See ya. Next time. Cute puppies.

[@lawrencedoe8011]

5:17 Fahnestock clip next to the radio tuning capacitor 5:56 and 7:29 finger levers from player piano for reroll, tempo and soft pedal since the foot treadles block access to loud and soft pedals 7:33 bit key (not a skeleton key) 10:03 barrel key 11:33 microscope ocular lens

[@BigJohn4516]

the ball chain could have been from dog tags, but I think it was probably attached to a sink or bathtub stopper. There was usually a hole in the faucet for the ring at the end of chain. The electrical insulator was used in knob and tube wiring to pass through joists or studs. You also showed a part from a variable capacitor, typically used to tune a radio or TV receiver.

[@eba44]

the ball chain could have been from dog tags, but I think it was probably attached to a sink or bathtub stopper (or a light pull-string/chain)

[@manchaug]

5:35 multi layered metal plates. That and the half round set are "tuning capacitors" from an old radio.

[@michaelbronsteijn8492]

On the left side: Key's 🤣🤣🤣 ❤️👊 Nice video's as always. Greats from Holland 🇳🇱 The Hague. 💛💚👊

[@threewheeler624]

Thank you for a good video. Interesting.

[@Burgert1776]

Can you do an update video on that hoard of silver coins from a few years ago?

[@tvtam1]

hi Chigs your fin items at 5.36 to 5.48 are radio tuner fins the actual interlock with each other as the dial is turned and they then bring in the signal of the radio station. Really enjoy watching your videos. So keep up the good work Tam from Dundee Scotland

[@johnriley215]

5:27 is a radio tuner. The second piece rotates into the first piece to change the frequency. 6.11 is part of a ball bearing. This houses the balls and keeps them separated. The ball a little later is probably from this bearing. There would be another piece that holds it all together and some seals. 9:18 could be the element from a car cigarette lighter.

[@terryl4219]

100% correct !

[@andreamills5852]

4:22 Electrical insulator , Used to insulate the old cloth covered electrical wire in the wood framing of old house's. Make great knife sharpeners.

[@TristramSavage]

Too right! I was gonna say that...lol

[@ronhoy8913]

at 3:26 is not dog tag chain , but rather stopper chain for tubs and sinks.

[@pfarnsworth84]

@4:08 those are reeds from a pump organ. Found in theaters before talkies and of course other places. If you clean it good, you should find an indication of what music note it is. I found one when doing a bit of detecting next to my job's office, where our landlord is building a parking lot. Long story, slightly shorter: there was a theater on that block in the 1910's and a few more nearby. My guess is, it came from an organ from one of them. Our building, although from around the 1940's, is in the oldest part of town, dating back to the 1700's, and was the market square. In fact, our building was apparently built on top (but slightly further over) of another that existed in 1755. The 2 buildings which were next door were from the late 1800's, but were torn down about 20 some odd years ago. In building the parking lot, the remaining concrete and brick underneath was dug up, so of course I just had to look. Part of the property at the back doesn't appear to have had a structure on it according to the Sanborn maps, and it seems like it was a dump site for the nearby buildings. Found over a dozen in-tact bottles from 1900-1940's (including a large clay Carter's Ink bottle!), an oil lamp burner, square nails, bunch of unidentified stuff of course, and a whole bunch of coal, and ash. Coin-wise, I only found a single wheat penny, and can't make out the whole date, but it's 19_9. Something about the gray clay, river, or coal ash (probably) was not friendly to metal in the ground. A lot of the glass even seemed to have a strange iridescence to it. Also seemed like there was a fire at some point, based on a layer of black carbon I found a foot or so down in one part of the lot.

[@diecast_MikeEspo]

Wow wow , great finds Mike

[@normawinton6832]

Quite the variety Beau! Put those silvers in some heated up peroxide and that should help followed by some Lemmon juice.

[@carrie1kretz361]

At 11:23...the letter H I believe was a hair barrette. I had some like that when I was younger.

[@unclejustin7267]

5:40 When I was a kid I found an old cash register after a flood. Those were inside, I think it was part of the mechanism that lifted the price blocks into the viewing window.

[@TheStwat]

Oh my god, that cat is so gorgeous. Oh and the finds are great too. :):):)

[@jamescrabtree4358]

The peace you thought was feeler gauge came out of an old radio .you have the mating peaces. The peace with the dial knob would pass through the stationary peace.And i touched one in the back of my dads radio and it was my my first time getting shocked.

[@carlgranger9902]

The round thing with the glass at 11:48 looks like the eyepiece lens from an old Microscope.

[@tommy2facetv]

My thoughts exactly, or a telescope.

[@katelittlewolfwelshrosesan3630]

Fun to see these, Chig, almost forgot about that haul ! ... ALL THaT CUTLERY!!!! Its astonishing ! Did a fancy restaurant slide into the river?? Or was there some kind of custom in that region in that time frame of just throwing away knives forks and spoons after a meal? " Done with your meal, kids? Give me yoour plates.... Ill just scrape it all into the trash..." " don't forget to throw away the silverware, mom !" WEIRD! lol

[@philipdear224]

just amazing what you find in rivers

[@angelzipp]

The black handle razor is a 1930s-1940s Schick Injector. The other one is a 1930s Gillette New.

[@brianwaskow5910]

You found your lost marbles, good for you.😁

[@robwilliams287]

I believe that pen tip is called a nib.

[@johnnyphillips9735]

Nice finds Mr chigg thanks for sharing 👍

[@dyannejohnson6184]

Any video you put together is worth it

[@near--zero]

the crickets, cat meowing and otherwise silence is soothing.

[@garrykellogg3215]

3:24 That went to the front of a File Cabinet, possibly Library Related. 4:20 Home Electrical Insulator that ran through the Houses wood structures (IE=Beams, Struts, Headers, Supports). 5:16 Electrical Related. The piece to the Right is Cammed. I'd say a Panel Box Components. 6:10 That's a Locking Plate for some old Farm Equipment. 11:04 I'd agree. 11:38 Mono-Glass or Telescope Eye Piece. 13:18 Cool Chinese Coin (Lower-Right with a Square Hole in it's center). 13:48 What a handsome cat, and polite. 13:40 Looks like a candle stick holder.

[@gimpycaver110]

Beau, about 541 you talked about 2 items with what seems to be blades that rotate inside each other. What it looks like to me is parts from a radio booster usually in a tubed box that tunes or increases signals by boosting the signal. When people talked using CB's or Ham radios, the tubed boxes boosted the signals for talking skip.

[@PracticalOutdoorist]

Great stuff there! @2:34 Top left are engine valves. @ 6:20 that thing held steel ball bearings, you have a part of a half

[@gregharris4101]

Hello Chig, at 6:15 is roller bearing cage half. The balls were down in the recesses with another cage half turned around the other way completing the cage. At 9:00 is part of a dovetail rifle, or musket sight. some revolvers had similar sights. At 3:30 I believe that is an ID card holder for an index file drawer. At 5:20 I believe that is a very old T.V. tuner, or possibly short wave radio tuner.

[@lavenderrainbow5041]

10:16 - this reminds me of a Christmas wreath brooch from AVON. It's missing the sparkly stones. The bow part is the bottom :)

[@Teleman01]

5:24 looks like old tuners from an old radio. Probably an adjustable capacitor etc..

[@michaelhargis7036]

Chigg, I see you found my marbles (4:05) I lost those the day I got married. Now that I'm divorced, Im curious is there any chance of you returning them to me? 😜

[@slimwantedman6694]

2 of them look to be worth a few bucks.

[@nancyk3615]

Hahaha

[@DimTavis1]

Your cat kept meowing in the background and he sounds like my cat. I talk to my cat so I was responding to what I thought was my cat. Now I realize I was meowing to an empty house like a crazy person.

[@johnlord8337]

That is a removable and changeable nib for a fountain pen

[@WayneTheSeine]

That second to last object is obviously a Samsquanch ear spool. I have seen them wearing those.

[@Bee_Charming]

That’s a haul! Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@jonlennon3348]

At 5:26 you had some stacked aluminun plates which were out of tube radios which tuned in the station. They intersected one another to find the frequency a radio station put out.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Agree.. You beat me to the punch. But I agree 100%

[@MAINELYDIRTFISHIN]

longtime supporter, much respect to you sir. i give kids detectors away to secure the future diggers of our hobby. gave 11 away in July and about to give 20kids detectors away.

[@robertevans8024]

The thing you said was a reed from a harmonica looks like a buckle part from the old winter snow boots we used to wear.

[@robertwhite7083]

Hello from Harpers Ferry West Virginia There’s a lot of engine valves. That’s a lot of stuff found. Love it.

[@Sarah-gc2ze]

Good evening x

[@aquachigger]

'Evening

[@ghostdigger4877]

It looks like a candlestick holder. Love your videos.

[@greghomestead8366]

Time stamp 3:00 I'd clean that garden hose nozzle. A lot of them have patent dates and can be collectible. They're also just neat to look at on a display shelf. My oldest one is 1877😁 Have a Jesus filled day everyone Greg in Michigan

[@rastaralph7154]

@9:22 looks like a lid for a smoking pipe to keep it burning slow. I remember my granda had one.

[@TheRealDToTsO]

Allot of those battery core have a brass rod running through them with connector at top that's threaded, yours might be missing, I've found allot in the desert next to old mines in the burn piles!

[@VickyGeagan]

Chig, at 5:32 is a tuning capacitor from and old tube radio. Both of those to pieces interlace within each other. The plates move and change the capacitance. The can be purchased on ebay complete. A lot of people are using them to build am radio loop antennas. At 9:14 is a radio tube mounting plate. Most likely from the radio that the broken tuning capacitor came from.

[@billywilliams2521]

At 5:24 those are parts of a tuner from a radio, very certain. I used to take them apart, lol. Had fun putting the radios back together.

[@cgtbrad]

Correct. It's a variable capacitor - the two parts mesh together.

[@colin5021]

It an air capacitor, cheap to make for low power applications e.g. radio as several have pointed out. The two parts did NOTtouch, just pass by and the electric field varied with the overlapping area.

[@djlancer88]

Man I missed your videos so much, been away for awhile. Now I get to binge a bunch =D

[@deanfeltman1089]

HEY CHIG,AT 16:01 I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A TUNER FROM AN OLD RADIO TO CHANGE THE STATIONS.

[@johnwalsh5762]

My wife says you get neat stuff and your cat is beautiful!!!

[@brctom1]

@14’ or so, that’s one pretty kitty…😊😊

[@bmattison]

I kept stopping this video to see which one of my 7 rescued cats was wanting in or out. After my third search I finally decided it has to be one of Beau's cats meowing in the background! Finally one of his cats makes an appearance.

[@IbleedINC]

Hahahahahs

[@ClintsHobbiesDIY]

5:17 tuning capacitor for a radio. 9:13 end of a car cigarette lighter maybe. 11:40 eye piece for a telescope or microscope. Nice vid.

[@julielumsden5184]

Chig it wouldn’t be a hunt without you finding something mason jar related

[@truthseeker2900]

The two pieces of concentric fins I believe are the workings of an old radio tuner. The curved one would pass through the straight one and dial in the stations.

[@matesematese1572]

Aquachigger someone else rubbish us someone treasure you can fund out who was there too by finds great haul dude fascinating stuff 👍🐾🦊🇬🇧

[@m123isforme2]

The Chig showing us how they come with the “I Spy” books 😂

[@Andrew-cl9wt]

Are you going back to look for the M cave? That was a interesting film

[@toddtrotter458]

Love hearing Cicadas in the background.

[@rastaralph7154]

@5:29 it's a part of a radio. It's either the volume or the tuning dial but probably the volume because speed controller's have the fins and it works because there's more or less resistance when there's more contact with the metal.

[@hensleyshobbies-doug7761]

Back when I was a kid, they had a big sinkhole that folks throwed their garbage and junk in, big big sinkhole and this farm behind us had a big sinkhole back in one of their pastures they throwed their junk in, but yeah I remember going through those and finding things that went back to the turn of the century maybe before. But these sinkholes I'm talking about I believe we're actually part of the cave systems that are around here, Russell's Cave, mainly, nowadays it's called Russell Cave, there's a road named after it and a elementary school named that too. But that Russell Cave is part of a larger cave system, and there's different systems down there that will take you to Boonesboro ( KY), and other systems that will take you to other locations, there's caves all over KY, and Central KY mainly.

[@richardwarnock2789]

Kat talks for the Walks!!!; )

[@duckscustomgarage9239]

Chigg those 2 thing at 5:30 you taught was for gapping plugs are tuners out of old radios. Thy go together one slides threw the other

[@brianperrett4429]

At 5:53 the two things with fins are two parts of a "variable capacitor". The fins of the two parts mesh. One side is stationary and the part with the lovely curve rotatates on a spindle to vary depth the vanes are meshed, but the vanes on the two parts do not touch each other. An air gap is maintained between each of the fins, or plates. Adjusting the depth of the mesh varies the electrical capacitance of the assembly. It is typically used to tune a radio to the frequency of the different stations. That one looks to be a type in use up to the 1930s or 40s. Smaller versions are found in modern radios.

[@Stever-il3rb]

That white porcelain just you picked up was for the old two line electric wire system in houses it was called knob and tube and that is the tube . They would drill holes through the studs and put them in and then put the wire through them.lots of houses still have these in them they didn't bother taking them out when they switch the electric wires to grounded wire over if they switch the electric over.

[@desirichert9394]

At 6:28 looks like a bearing race or part of one. At 11:45 that is the end of an eyepiece for a microscope. At 13:16 that is a Chinese coin of some sort it has a sqaure hole in the middle of it.

[@GC_420]

@11:45 I thought the same thing, part of a microscope/field glasses/opera glasses...or, part of an old rifle scope, like from a .22 or something smaller.

[@Itsmeehhhhh]

Fascinating.

[@timothysheetz1235]

6:12 dust cover for a bearing, i bet the ball you found fits perfect into the slots

[@RemusKingOfRome]

I'm running around looking for my cat, who I thought was meowing for me .. only to find out .. This is the problem with 5.1 Speaker system .. meows come from all directions .. LOL BTW, love the ending trailer with the pup and kitten.

[@joepasco1420]

At 8:00 that's an open comb safety razor.

[@werner.x]

5:20 onwards, variable tuning capacitor from a radio, both parts go together, high capacity with plates all rotated in, low capacity, when the moving plates are turned completely out.

[@mathewdavis-adventuresandd6643]

Maybe or maybe not. 3:13 The beaded chain looks exactly like the chains that I used to pull to turn on and off lights generally in an old shop or pantry, when intact they were 6 inches to a couple of feet. 11:33 The disk with the glass center may be the front lens to an antique brass kaleidoscope. They made some beautiful kaleidoscopes way back. I have a handmade brass kaleidoscope that I picked up in England and the front lens looks very similar to yours.

[@savannahdan3919]

Heck of a haul. Did you happen to weigh it all. 😄 Please know that we get as much joy from from watching your adventures as you get from living them.

[@Uncle_Bucks_Forge]

The things with all the fins are variable capasitors. One use is when you use to turn the knob on your radio it was turning the fins on one of these.

[@TangoCharlieAlpha]

The "sight gauge" looks to be the eyepiece to an old kaleidoscope.

[@johndodson4527]

Those porcelain ele.tubes are great for for sharpening knives