Today was the day!, After the shock of my alarm going off at 5:45 am, I hurriedly dressed and jumped on the first train to the river. Low tide was at 7 am, and I wanted to be there early to get a jump start. Armed with my new ultra bright LED flashlight I arrived at the waterline by 6:30 and headed on my usual rounds. The morning started off slow, with only a small pipe bowl and a few pieces of blue china. I was regretting my choice of losing sleep, when I stumbled upon the longest pipe I have collected so far! There it sat, alone on the waters edge. I prayed it would be completely intact, not missing the lower side. I was rewarded with my wish....here it is, measuring about 9 inches from bowl to stem tip.
As if the God's of mudlarking had decided that this morning was going to be my special day, the next hour or so I collected a fantastic collection of pipes, pipe bowls, china fragments, glass shards, marbles, pottery, and some odd round thing.
I like these 4 pieces, the Asian theme of 3 and the deer on the other..
This is the bottom of a smaller bottle. I like the design, am so far unable to ID it
This the top of a small pottery jar or something, dainty, but a surviver!!
This round rock like material ball is about the size of a table tennis ball..
And finally the full collection of pipes that Santa brought me today, " Virginia, don't stop believing!"
All this collecting is fun, and addicting. As my friends keep saying, "you've lost your marbles to get up early or stay out late". Maybe so, but I did find one more marble today, so I must be a little smarter!!
As if the God's of mudlarking had decided that this morning was going to be my special day, the next hour or so I collected a fantastic collection of pipes, pipe bowls, china fragments, glass shards, marbles, pottery, and some odd round thing.
Any ideas as to the vessel these wrapped handles went to?
I like these 4 pieces, the Asian theme of 3 and the deer on the other..
This is the bottom of a smaller bottle. I like the design, am so far unable to ID it
This the top of a small pottery jar or something, dainty, but a surviver!!
This round rock like material ball is about the size of a table tennis ball..
And finally the full collection of pipes that Santa brought me today, " Virginia, don't stop believing!"
All this collecting is fun, and addicting. As my friends keep saying, "you've lost your marbles to get up early or stay out late". Maybe so, but I did find one more marble today, so I must be a little smarter!!
That wraps up this addition of my Mudlarking adventures. Christmas came early for me today. I'm very pleased to finally have a pipe that has some real length to it. It took me about 150 pipes to secure this one. Hopefully I won't have to wait so long till I find another!!
Great collections.
ReplyDeleteHi Tim, nice pipe, I've yet to find one with such a long handle. The white handles are creamware and probably from teapots or jugs, for pictures take a look at my pinterest account http://www.pinterest.com/JuliaNlondon/creamware/
ReplyDeleteWhat you've identified as the bottom of a jar, is in fact a glass seal, link to one I found on my blog is here
http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/mudlarking-another-days-finds.html
Julia
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