Old Map Led Us to RARE & VALUABLE Buried Treasure! Threadless Insulators & Pontil Bottles Privy Dig

[@harryhumstone3149]

Fun video guys . I’m a huge Glass insulators collector this is a great video and I enjoyed I used to do this when I was young myself but we didn’t have KZbin unfortunately now I just find them at yard sales. Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful holiday

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks for watching Harry! Glad you enjoyed. Not sure what route we will take yet with the pieces. We have many interested in buying them. I may look into having them professionally repaired. What are your thoughts?

[@shakascloset1700]

Awesome finds. I was unaware of the threadless insulators being so valuable. I shall keep my eyes open for those.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks! Not every threadless has extreme value. But these ones in particular are very very rare and desirable

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Great finds enjoyed the video

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Awesome finds! Enjoyed watching!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks!!

[@detecting_with_matt3643]

This is awesome! Great finds! Can’t wait to see what the other pits have!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Matt! Stay tuned 😎 gonna do them all in order

[@ryanmcmurray4879]

was a fun pit for sure

[@garrettsubproductions8705]

Super cool threadless fine

[@TxOutlaw13]

Sweet pit, y'all had a fun day!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching

[@tarrasams7423]

Hello 👋 from New York Thank you for Bringing me Along with you Guy's I can't wait to see What you Guy's find next 😀 😊 Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎅 🤶🎄🎁☃️🦌⛄️🙏

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Tarra!! back atcha 🎄 🎁

[@DIGGING.DISORDER]

Some nice finds 🍻

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks buddy it was a fun pit for sure!

[@nydiggersteve7047]

Oh man, killer insulator. I found a surface find threadless and dug a very rare one. I'll message you later with a pics, good ones!

[@thomaslockwood8870]

I subscribed after watching this video. Real good 👍😊! Wanted to see video of the other pits.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Thomas! Really appreciate that

[@kristidavis9945]

Dang that’s the longest ring tone I’ve ever heard lol. Nice insulators.❤️

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

🤣🤣🤣

[@RIBottleguy]

Nice pit! The Seth Arnolds are from Woonsocket, RI. He was quite successful so even the pontiled examples are fairly common. Still a fun bottle to find!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Taylor! He must have been successful alright. We dug 7 whole examples and 1 or 2 broken in this pit. None pontiled though. Thanks for watching!

[@DetectDigSmile]

Great finds, I have fund some insulators

[@ICrailroadprod.2007]

Never seen a tillotson like the in in your thumbnail. Very unique.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Insanely rare! Would've been huge $. thanks for watching!

[@jewelryqueennz]

Cool video

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed

[@PlaneDiggerCam21]

Gosh, what a killer pit. That New London flask really made me cringe being a Southeastern CT digger, lol.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks for watching!! This one was such a fun pit. This was our best lot yet. Nearly 8 pits on this lot

[@markandrews2942]

Great video. Chamber pots often slipped from hands and nobody wanted to carry them out to dump anyway. Keep finding the good pits and may all you guys have happy holidays and new year.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Mark! Back atcha!

[@metaldetectingwiththesilva8311]

Enjoying you videos guys! Where do you get your probes from? I've been metal detecting for 30 plus years. It's a bucket list item to dig a privy with Pontil Bottles!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks! "Old West Bottles" has great probes. We had one from "singing privy probes" but liked old west better

[@metaldetectingwiththesilva8311]

@@ParlorCityPickersDiggers Thanks for the advise! Really appreciate it!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

@@metaldetectingwiththesilva8311 Not a problem! We eventually plan to do a video showing exactly how we go out and find privies. Step by step

[@metaldetectingwiththesilva8311]

@@ParlorCityPickersDiggers I'll be looking out for that! I've detected around some cellars up here in new England that have odd depressions in the ground nearby that I thought were not wells, maybe they are privies?

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

@@metaldetectingwiththesilva8311 Could be! You don't necessarily need a probe in that case. Could do a test hole if you already suspect an area of being a privy. Sometimes the depressions can be seen. We have found them this way many times. Of course the probe makes it easier. We have dug some that were so obvious, a probe was hardly necessary. Love those ones!

[@davew5511]

Im. New. From. Tik. Tok. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks so much! Was so much fun doing the LIVE and chatting with you guys

[@jerrysadventures8952]

Merry chritmas ☃⛄

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Merry Christmas Jerry! 🎄

[@debraporch7888]

Shane, Loved the video! Congrats on digging your first pontilled bott.I can't believe that there were that many Winslow botts,. Did that mean parents were drugging the kudos before a train ride? What about all the cough meds? And it was so cool to see those threadless insulators. I was sad you didn't find a whole one or a least mostly there. Are you going to keep the insulators pieces in your collection? IMO you had the best piece of insulator? A lot of sweet items were pulled that night. Shane may you have a blessed 2023.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Thanks Debra!! Almost every pit in this neighborhood had at least one Mrs. Winslows soothing syrup bottle in it so it must have done its job well, though having a very negative side effect on the babies health unbeknownst to the parents I'm sure. We are going to probably end up selling the insulators. A lot of people are interested in them, even just the broken pieces. We have pieced together one that is about 70% intact (the one in the thumbnail) and the other pieces can piece together about 2 more that are roughly 30-40% intact or so. We may look into having them professionally repaired. Not quite sure yet! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed!

[@ChrissyEis]

Nice job those PO bottle s are hard to find I probably only found 3 in my digging that were whole but I got a lot of the sand base bottoms

[@laurelshugars2866]

I'm only halfway through this video and rooting for you to find a complete insulator....

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Let me know when you finish it! Don't want to ruin the surprise

[@spanishFriedEggsOnYoutube]

Since you have a near full one i would just glue the pieces together so they wont fall apart when you pick it up.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Probably going to have it professionally repaired or sell to someone who would

[@Buddystemz]

How do you decide who gets to keep what? Whatever you dig you get or split valuable ones after selling?

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

It really just depends. Typically we draw straws and go around in a circle taking our picks one by one. We are all very lenient though and always find a way to make sure everyone goes home happy no matter what. If it is something very valuable, we usually will sell and split the proceeds

[@joncathcart1118]

"Looks more like 8 inches" 😂

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Hahahahah glad someone caught that

[@carolmay5168]

Much better without the loud music😀

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Which part had loud music?

[@carolmay5168]

@@ParlorCityPickersDiggers The episode where you mentioned turning the music off because of the copyrights of what was playing. I couldn’t really hear what you were saying until the music disappeared😀. It was the music on Rob’s phone.

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

@@carolmay5168 Ahh gotcha! Yeah we try to be careful with that

[@craigholden564]

​@@ParlorCityPickersDiggersThis stuff is fascinating to me! I'm assuming these pits are old outhouse pits, but why does all this stuff end up in an outhouse and not in a dump? Especially old insulators that were not typical away from a railroad environment? You would think they would just be dumped along the tracks?

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

@@craigholden564 Hi Craig, glad you enjoyed the video! Be sure to check out some of our other vids if you have time. These are indeed old outhouse pits. Typically people in the city would throw trash into the outhouse pit because it was closer/easier to discard of rather than having to haul it off to the dump. Since there was already a deep and smelly hole right in the back yard, it just made sense to throw trash there and keep the "nasty" stuff all in one place. As for the railroad insulators, that part I do think is rather odd. Maybe they were already broken when discarded, and since the outhouse was so close to the tracks (literally within 100 feet) perhaps they throw the pieces there to avoid having broken glass laying around the tracks as a potential hazard. We have dug several pits with insulators in them, but never any intact. Some weren't even close to railroad lines which made it even more strange!

[@Elijah_donnini]

How do you convince land owners to let you dig ?

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

We just knock on their door, introduce ourselves,, and tell them what we do. Usually I mention that we have been researching their area and if we have the sanborn maps ill show them those as well

[@lindalee9868]

Why did you make the hole so small

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Not sure what you mean by that. The pits were originally dug back in the 1800s and then the walls lined with stone, brick, or wood (in this case, stone). However wide/deep they dug the pit way back when is exactly how wide and deep we will dig it today. Anything outside of what they dug and constructed won't be holding any artifacts

[@lindalee9868]

@@ParlorCityPickersDiggers didn't realize it was that kind of pit. I just saw the sides in my mind falling on you guys. You found some great stuff

[@robertmcfarland3323]

Man I hate when your in a hole and people are hovering over you and tossing bottles or fragments above you!!

[@ParlorCityPickersDiggers]

Not sure what part you're referring to

[@seanknecht4075]

A lot of times the cough killers was straight morphine or opium I have had both before it will kill a cough as well as any other pain LOL LOL LOL old medicine bottles I would say 70% or even 80% of the time contain an opiate or a Nymphetamine I am 30 something my body is not good can't get out to do stuff like bottle Digger stuff like that😞 happens life sucks LOL least I can watch it LOL LOL