Tom Askjem excavates the former lot of the Walker Saloon in Grandin, North Dakota #history #treasurehunting #vanlife #asmr #archaeology #wildwest #bottledigging #artifacts #metaldetecting #magnetfishing #mudlarking
27 thoughts on “A Strange Sink Spot in a Vacant Lot Leads to a Discovery Buried Deep Below the Surface”
I have yet to acquire a picnic flask. Because of your digs I have several shoofly coffin flasks plus. It's a joy to see that picnic!! Can't wait to see what else you find! Thank you, Tom!😁😁😍
Hey Tom- my name is Trip Martin I’m 74 and I’ve been collecting bottles for 60 years! I have a collection of about 500 bottles, none of them junk- all before 1900, and many rare bottles- including the earliest black glass Hostetters, a Champion vinegar, a t-x-s morleys hair tonic and too many others to mention except for a few late 1700’s gin and case bottles! Anyhow, my question is this- why is it you hardly ever find square tonics or bitters? Seems strange! Please let me know,okay? Thanks! Love your videos and keep on digging! Your friend- Trip Martin.
I'm surprised your camera guy doesn't keep a bright LED flashlight on hand for brightening up the pit(s) when it gets too dark. I was highly disappointed you didn't keep any of the large coal chunks from the first dig. As noted before, they are a great fossil in themselves, but you never know if one has an extra bonus of insect fossils as well. They never checked for those things back then. So keeping the large pieces of Anthracite is a good thing. You mean to tell me that, from two pits and all that work, you only kept one bottle? That just seems highly unlikely.
My goodness that first pit was murder. I thought the trowel was going to break. That gin bottle is awesome. So we can conclude men took there medicine from the bottle. So very few medicine bottles. Those pumpkin shaped bottles are great.
Hi Tom, i just wanted to take a minute and tell you i really enjoy watching your channels. They are well done and professional. Thank you so much for sharing your world with us. ❤
I can imagine that all of the broken glass in the first pit was during the saloon's wilder days, where all the glass was already broken from barroom brawls. 😉
From the condition of that first pit and all of the broken glass, it’s almost like they threw them as hard as they could into the pit to break them up so they would take up less space. I don’t remember any other pits that you’ve dug that were in that state of condition.
Great dig, Tom! At the beginning I was worried you were wearing cloth gloves. I kept thinking back a video or two ago when you got cut thru the gloves. Glad you had leather this time with all the glass you were dealing with. My two favorite bottles, the shoo fly and the pumpkin seed, lo and behold you hit the mother lode! Do you ever sell your finds?
Was that a quart-sized pumpkinseed flask at 5:15? You didn't mention it being a first, so I suppose you have dug them before, but it's the first one of that size that I have seen. It looks almost off-model at that size.
That pipe is a great find! Show less of the digging & more of just your finds. Shorter videos get more attention than the longer ones for me. Most people just want to see the find & not the work. Although the work shows the efforts one has to go through. Try it one way & then the other to see how many more responses you get.
Sorry Tom but I just had to laugh. My favorite bottles are the Shoo Fly's. (Don't know why). I just laughed every time you dug through 15 broken bottles and pulled out a Shoo Fly! Glad you finally found some nice bottles at the bottom.
I know that all of the bottles that you found on this dig were basically common, I wish you would show more of them cleaned up at the end of your video. They may not have embossing, but they usually have a lot of bubbles and crooked necks etc. and I would have loved to see some of their crudity !
Hey Tom , as a kid I would explore everything, not far from my house was some old railroad track ,right off them is an old layover station , 50 yards away the largest bottle dump ever , I haven't been there in 30 years but it's a lot to it be happy to tell you where
I have yet to acquire a picnic flask. Because of your digs I have several shoofly coffin flasks plus. It's a joy to see that picnic!! Can't wait to see what else you find! Thank you, Tom!😁😁😍
I love the French square bottle
Hey Tom- my name is Trip Martin I’m 74 and I’ve been collecting bottles for 60 years! I have a collection of about 500 bottles, none of them junk- all before 1900, and many rare bottles- including the earliest black glass Hostetters, a Champion vinegar, a t-x-s morleys hair tonic and too many others to mention except for a few late 1700’s gin and case bottles! Anyhow, my question is this- why is it you hardly ever find square tonics or bitters? Seems strange! Please let me know,okay? Thanks! Love your videos and keep on digging! Your friend- Trip Martin.
I'm surprised your camera guy doesn't keep a bright LED flashlight on hand for brightening up the pit(s) when it gets too dark. I was highly disappointed you didn't keep any of the large coal chunks from the first dig. As noted before, they are a great fossil in themselves, but you never know if one has an extra bonus of insect fossils as well. They never checked for those things back then. So keeping the large pieces of Anthracite is a good thing. You mean to tell me that, from two pits and all that work, you only kept one bottle? That just seems highly unlikely.
My goodness that first pit was murder. I thought the trowel was going to break. That gin bottle is awesome.
So we can conclude men took there medicine from the bottle. So very few medicine bottles. Those pumpkin shaped bottles are great.
Favorite is the pumpkin seed bottles.😊
Hi Tom, i just wanted to take a minute and tell you i really enjoy watching your channels. They are well done and professional. Thank you so much for sharing your world with us. ❤
Awesome pits tom congrats 👍
I can imagine that all of the broken glass in the first pit was during the saloon's wilder days, where all the glass was already broken from barroom brawls. 😉
Glad you didn't put your knee on some of that broken glass in the first pit! Hazards of the job I guess.
So fun , what illusive bottle are you still looking for ?
Hey Tom another great video love the large pumpkin seed flask one of them needs to find it's way to my house 😆 😊
From the condition of that first pit and all of the broken glass, it’s almost like they threw them as hard as they could into the pit to break them up so they would take up less space. I don’t remember any other pits that you’ve dug that were in that state of condition.
Great dig, Tom! At the beginning I was worried you were wearing cloth gloves. I kept thinking back a video or two ago when you got cut thru the gloves. Glad you had leather this time with all the glass you were dealing with.
My two favorite bottles, the shoo fly and the pumpkin seed, lo and behold you hit the mother lode! Do you ever sell your finds?
I wonder why the shoe fly bottles aren’t broke?
Thanks again for the awesome entertainment sir.
good dig.
Was that a quart-sized pumpkinseed flask at 5:15? You didn't mention it being a first, so I suppose you have dug them before, but it's the first one of that size that I have seen. It looks almost off-model at that size.
That pipe is a great find! Show less of the digging & more of just your finds. Shorter videos get more attention than the longer ones for me. Most people just want to see the find & not the work. Although the work shows the efforts one has to go through. Try it one way & then the other to see how many more responses you get.
Great dig, Tom! The descriptions were right on and the end pic was a banger! Thanks!
Pumpkin seed flasks are rare for all the bottle diggers in America and England
“This pit is done”. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Love the giant picnic flasks! So cool! What a cool pit…
All kinds of ground conditions in that one pit then the stench hits.
Sorry Tom but I just had to laugh. My favorite bottles are the Shoo Fly's. (Don't know why). I just laughed every time you dug through 15 broken bottles and pulled out a Shoo Fly! Glad you finally found some nice bottles at the bottom.
I know that all of the bottles that you found on this dig were basically common, I wish you would show more of them cleaned up at the end of your video. They may not have embossing, but they usually have a lot of bubbles and crooked necks etc. and I would have loved to see some of their crudity !
Hey Tom , as a kid I would explore everything, not far from my house was some old railroad track ,right off them is an old layover station , 50 yards away the largest bottle dump ever , I haven't been there in 30 years but it's a lot to it be happy to tell you where