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Albert from Golden Treasure Metal Detectors 2008-06-02 13:33:00 Earlier this spring, Dumpdiggers met Albert
Anderson, the charismatic proprietor of GoldenTreasureMetal
Detectors - Canada's premier metal detector dealership.On the phone Albert’s voice crackles like Jim Rockford’s answering machine, but the resemblance is purely audio; Albert doesn’t look anything like James Garner. On Tuesday May 6th 2008, Dumpdiggers tripped around to to test some gear
Introducing Malcolm Mcleod 2008-05-28 00:15:00 This picture perfectly describes Malcolm
Mcleod . He’s an ace in the hole. His toothy smile raises moral. His sharp tongue keeps everyone honest. At one time Malcolm was called ‘The Captain’, but now seems to have outgrown the title, as well as the hat with the ship’s wheel that inspired the moniker. On Sunday April 26th the Dumpdiggers were in a secret spot which I cannot reveal (y Read more:Introducing
Big Larry digs a hole in Toronto's history 2008-05-13 21:42:00 Big Larry
is a professional excavator with a backhoe and great reputation for finding early Canadian glass and pottery. He brings thirty years of digging experience to the Dumpdiggers' collective. He also brings a backhoe and a healthy sense of humor - here I caught him on the job in the oldest part of the City of Toronto
(east of Yonge st, south of Queen). April 25th 2008 was an exciting
Watermarks on Wood Furniture 2008-05-07 10:26:00 There was a time not long ago when I moved deeper into the heart of Toronto on a quest for a better apartment. I made the switch in the middle of winter, and in the middle of a snowstorm; it was painful on so many levels. But I live downtown now, and all I left behind were bad memories.Like this one particular bad memory I shall relate here:Do you have any watermarks on your wood furniture? Inside Read more:Furniture
, Watermarks
Dumpdiggers finds a new voice on Squidoo 2008-04-24 21:17:00 The earth has turned; all living things are starting fresh again outside my window. The leaves on the trees are green and the entire cityscape is suddenly alive with spring. Timbits has been calling me, and Ace of Spades and even Chester Huff in Kenora – there’s a big dig brewing somewhere and these veterans are eager to pitch a hole. There's excitement surrounding Dumpdiggers.com, and as m Read more:Squidoo
How to Spot Good Costume Jewelry #2 2008-03-29 05:39:00 Your Grandma’s fake jewelry probably isn’t junk, but just how valuable is it? When shopping in flea markets or rummaging through garage sales, Dumpdiggers can spot vintage costume jewelry from well known designers of the 1940’s and 50’s and 60’s. If you are shopping for items in a local market to sell to collectors in a global market, there is nothing better than good fake jewelry. Read more:Jewelry
How to Spot Good Costume Jewelry #1 2008-03-10 00:41:00 Your Grandma’s fake jewelry probably isn’t junk, but just how valuable is it?My eyes fill with tears when I think about how my beloved Grandmother would wear her costume jewelry so proudly - each piece matched a specific dress or hat; worn in rotation, depending on the season, each brooch made it to church about six times a year. I have a shoe box filled with memories of her today. Of course I Read more:Jewelry
Herb Atkinson plans for Antiques Fair in April 2008-03-06 21:48:00 Herb Atkinson manages a not-so-busy antiques store at Queen and Roncesvalles in Toronto, Ont Canada. Sedate Antiques
at 1703 Queen St. West specializes in vintage kitchen and bathroom fixtures. The store is stuffed full of bargains, and only lacks customers. But Herb doesn't care - that's because he's really an interior designer, and the antiques store is just a cover, a place to 'store' all hi Read more:April
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We Find Bone China 2008-02-24 23:06:00 Occasionally diggers discover dishware that isn't damaged. It’s not a miracle. Veteran dumpdiggers don't break much. We find all manner of kitchenware in old dumps, including earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. Among porcelain products, we rarely encounter soft paste, and more often find fine china and bone china. Many well appointed homes in the late 1800’s stocked at least one type of Read more:China
Secrets to Collecting Antique Maps 2008-02-21 20:56:00 Dumpdiggers collect old maps, rich in history. We believe that antique maps are a good investment as, generally speaking, they are still undiscovered among collectibles, which means they are also undervalued.The wisdom in this post is distilled from an old book called Antique
Maps - A Collector's Handbook by Carl Moreland and David Bannister, and from a a terrific new blog called Map The Universe. Read more:Secrets
, Collecting
Beachcombing for Fun and Profit #5 2008-02-16 20:05:00 Five (eight) things to collect for cash on eBay the next time you walk along the beach. At the conclusion of this popular series I must remind readers that Dumpdiggers is the Home of the History Hunters, and the drive to find exotic treasures is only a small part of the passion needed to dig holes in dumps. Dumpdiggers has only strolled along these tropical beaches as a vacation of sorts,
Beachcombing for Fun and Profit #4 2008-02-12 13:33:00 Five things to collect for cash on eBay the next time you walk along the beach. Beachcombing is best when you can take off you shoes and immerse yourself in another temperature to become part of the waves washing the shore. The beach has always been the best place to go and clear you mind; the coast is a wide open space where Dumpdiggers can look for patterns and pearls of wisdom in their ow
Beachcombing for Fun and Profit #3 2008-02-10 08:06:00 Five things to collect for cash on eBay the next time you walk along the beach. Beachcombing is a state of mind, induced by fresh air and the gentle wind near an open coast. The call of the seabirds overhead, and the sound of a wide open body of water command the beach walker to scrutinize the shoreline, ankles deep in wave after wave of aquamarine opportunity... 3. Seashells Dump
Beachcombing for Fun and Profit #2 2008-02-08 08:40:00 Five things to collect for cash on eBay the next time you walk along the beach. Beachcombing is becoming popular again – a morning stroll along the beach with your lover is even more enjoyable after a storm when the sand is strewn with eBay items.2. Fossils Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent of the globe, from Africa to the Arctic. When someone finds a fossil, th
Beachcombing for Fun and Profit #1 2008-02-05 08:55:00 Five things to collect for cash on eBay the next time you walk along the beach. Open your eyes! Dumpdiggers understand that wealth abounds everywhere around us, and it only requires knowledge to harvest the bounty. The wise old man walks the beach and reads it like a book; the wash of pebbles and wood behind each rolling wave are like the words flowing together in the sentences of a good adve
Irradiated Glass, the Amethyst Color of Greed 2008-01-31 21:19:00 Sometimes called desert glass, or sun-colored amethyst glass, these pretty purple bottles are fake; their color is artificially produced by gamma radiation in a lead lined chamber by an unscrupulous merchant with one motive – profit.Irradiated glass is a problem for bottle collectors and a nightmare for insulator collectors. That’s because there are so many irradiated insulators on eBay and Read more:Greed
, Color
, Glass
Find Rare Coins in Pocket Change 2008-01-28 18:48:00 The Wise Old Man is a good numismatist that ponders his pocket change. He sometimes smells the bills in his wallet and studies the stamps on his letters, and he inspects every coin he receives for clues to the currents in his life. Dumpdiggers will sometimes find old coins in the drawers of decomposing furniture, or under the baseboard trim in old houses. Coins are sometimes discovered un Read more:Change
, Pocket
Relics of the Fur Trade #4 2008-01-25 14:11:00 Should the Dumpdiggers unearth a forgotten fur trading post from the late 1700's, what kinds of relics could they expect to find? Glass Trade
Beads Any glass trade beads found in Chester Huff's secret dig site on Lake of the Woods would pinpoint that historic fur trade company's European supply line. In the 18th century, Venice no longer enjoyed a monopoly on glass production, but this cit
American Bottles FOR SALE at AUCTION 2008-01-23 06:13:00 Dumpdiggers has a new friend in Rod Walck, the proprietor of the Galleria Auction which is headquartered in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. This online auction house specializes in antique bottles, glassware & stoneware.Unlike many other North American
websites, Galleria Auctions doesn't inflict the usual 10% surcharge on the seller. In fact Rod doesn't charge the seller anything. Rod Walck seems co Read more:Bottles
Geocaching Collectible Coins 2008-01-21 05:58:00 Dumpdiggers love Geocaching – this new sport (it all started less than ten years ago) is a great way to stay in shape, see the countryside, and interact with family and friends while sharpening your own skills as a treasure hunter. In fact geocaching is kind of similar to relic hunting but without the rich historical rewards. Sure there's some plunder, but the sport actually requires participant Read more:Collectible
How To Find Old Dumps #3 2008-01-19 10:11:00 Of the six different types of dumps mentioned in How To Find Old Dumps
#1, the most common example is the farm dump, and that’s because every farm had one (and sometimes two). Farm dumps are not good digging. Like the miserable poverty of the first settlers, these dumps are filled with hard work and offer very poor returns. Most farm dumps are small - they were used infrequently, sometimes seaso
How To Find Old Dumps #2 2008-01-17 19:13:00 Much like a Kung Fu sensei reminds an acolyte, ‘only by evolving beyond your greed will you ever become rich’, I used to feel the same truism applied to treasure hunters. The Dumpdiggers Handbook instructs each reader that 'only by fostering a genuine passion for local history can you ever hope to uncover lost historical relics'. That’s a nice idea and I imagine that such a sincere pas Read more:Dumps
How To Find Old Dumps #1 2008-01-14 10:53:00 When ordinary people wrap their minds around the possibility of digging up antique glass bottles and pottery in forgotten heritage sites outdoors, their first question is usually, Is it legal? and that's soon followed by, How do you find the best places to dig?These two prime questions are uniquely connected; amateur archeology on private property is legal enough, and finding the best places to di Read more:Dumps
Relics of the Fur Trade #3 2008-01-12 11:16:00 Chester Huff is still digging pits in Kenora, or rather somewhere outside the town on the north shore of Lake of the Woods, Ontario. Friends tell me that he’s dragged an ice fishing hut over the excavation (for warmth) and he found a rust covered iron beaver trap six feet down. According to a very reliable source, he sold the item online for 120 bucks! If Dumpdiggers unearthed a forgotten f Read more:Trade
eBay Scavenger - How to Find Stuff to Sell 2008-01-10 08:09:00 Six months ago I wrote an article for Bizcovering magazine entitled, How To Find Stuff To Sell on Ebay, Scavenger
s find the best stuff to sell online.To my satisfaction, the article soon became a very popular and has now been viewed almost a thousand times. As of this morning it has earned $3.54 in that author rewarded web 2.0 world. What's more exciting to me is that the Stanza corp protects th
WWII Canada Meat Ration Token 2008-06-12 20:32:00 meat ration token1Originally uploaded by roberrificThis stiff navy blue cardboard token was issued to the Canadian people during and after World War II. There were several reasons why food was tightly rationed during the 'war years'. This is a reminder of that time. Sugar, coffee and tea were strictly limited because they were imported products. Meat was another story altogether. It was exported Read more:Canada
The Robert W Campbell Bottle 2008-06-14 12:16:00 Dumpdiggers visits the Toronto Archives Three Tuesdays ago, Malcolm Mcleod surprised me with a Toronto druggist bottle on which my full name appears in the embossing. After beholding this relic, I set about a quest for more insight into my own genealogy. Have a look at this 5 oz medicine bottle. Although a little dirty, its in good condition. The stain from the original contents is still Read more:Robert
, Campbell
CNE blue ribbon HON DIRECTOR 2008-06-24 16:50:00 CNE blue ribbon HON DIRECTOROriginally uploaded by roberrificI found this for sale on Queen St on the weekend; it was for sale for $45Now is this the 1957 CNE - HON DIRECTOR medal?Is this the director's own blue ribbon symbol of authority? 1957 was the first year that the Queen Elizabeth Bldg was open to the public.Now who was the HON DIRECTOR?
Inks Found near Toronto’s First Racetrack 2008-06-23 09:53:00 Dumpdiggers walked Queen St west all the way to Roncesvalles yesterday. This part of Toronto
is littered with cut-rate junk shops trying to be couture and proffer fine collectibles, but their contents are mostly crap. The exception is Pickwick’s Choice Antiques at 1698 Queen St West. Harold Barrett is an old friend of the Dumpdiggers, and I have personally traded bottles and stories with Read more:First
The Adventure in The Gut 2008-07-13 21:56:00 Dumpdiggers explore the Kawartha Lakes A trip north of the #7 Hwy in Eastern Ontario is like stepping back in time. That’s the feeling you get when you see the old farms with their tumbled silos and dilapidated barns, and signature red brick Victorian houses. Look closely - there’s still evidence of the insulbrick outbuildings and the ghost of an apple orchard behind the house on almost Read more:Adventure
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