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Mudlarking: Trade Tokens

Trade tokens reveal information about the people, their shops, and livelihoods in 17th-century London.

Exquisite jewelry from the 17th through 20th centuries found by mudlarks in the River Thames.

London mudlarks have found exquisite jewelry, from the Iron Age to the 16th century.

Color is one of the more easy-to-describe attributes and important for identifying historic bottles.

Colorful blue glass pieces called Leland Blue Sones are found along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Come along as Nicole and Craig from Scottish Mudlarking take us to the beaches of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, to search for sea pottery.

Beachcomber Alan Rammer loves sharing his vast beachcombing knowledge and his huge collection of glass fishing floats.

Lake Michigan’s vast historic past left industrial "railroad" marbles that we still find along its shores.

Underwater bottle digging is a labor of love, but the hard work is rewarded when you find a Codd bottle with the marble inside.

The facts that explain marbles found on beaches around the world.

Join Jane Eastman as she takes us "Wading for Treasures" in the chalk streams of southern England.

Learn more about the history hidden in your own sea glass treasures in this video from bottle and sea glass expert and author, Richard Lamotte.

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