I Found Glowing Rocks in an Antique Store While Thrifting!

[00:00:00]Okay, folks, we're in front of Abbott's Antique Store in Gloversville, and I'll make sure to put the address um in the description. So, let's get going and check it out.

[00:00:21]Now, I was just in there talking to the owner, and it is an awesome awesome store with beautiful antiques.

[00:00:33]And for starters, he just pointed out this carnival glass.

[00:00:46]You see it?

[00:00:48]And that Let me see. Oops.

[00:00:52]is going for $25.

[00:01:01]But, um Now, as you know, I don't know a lot about this stuff, but I can tell by looking at it that it is antique.

[00:01:21]And then, um here's the name of the store.

[00:01:29]Look at these old rotary phones.

[00:01:41]Okay.

[00:01:45]This glassware is um I think going for I'm not sure. Like Like you all know, folks, that I don't have a lot of experience with antiques, so look at this old train here.

[00:02:24]Very interesting pieces here.

[00:02:42]We have some Now, I'm not This is a very big store, so I'm just going to try to show most of it without looking at the prices.

[00:03:03]And like I said, if you see something, just call the owner. His name is Bruce.

[00:03:09]And he'll be more than happy to help you.

[00:03:55]>> Some old books.

[00:04:08]Now, I'm sorry. I don't have much room to back up, folks.

[00:04:12]I know I'm a little close.

[00:04:14]This looks like milk glass.

[00:04:38]Looks like some old tools back here.

[00:04:47]Some old tools on this side.

[00:05:01]Look at all the axes.

[00:05:11]Oh, he has everything here.

[00:05:14]Everything you can imagine.

[00:05:21]Look at this old bird cage. My goodness gracious.

[00:05:25]It's on a stand.

[00:05:30]I mean, I can just see that in some lady's living room >> [sighs and gasps] >> 80 years ago.

[00:05:41]Honestly, I could I could visualize that, folks. Some old hats.

[00:05:50]Okay.

[00:05:52]We have some dolls.

[00:05:57]Some senoritas.

[00:06:02]This looks like milk glass right here.

[00:06:06]Not sure if it's Fenton.

[00:06:14]But, it's not the hobnail we're looking for.

[00:06:19]Fenton hobnail.

[00:06:27]Now, if I miss some, let me know in the comments.

[00:06:39]And let me know the timestamp, and I'll go back and look at it.

[00:06:50]Look at this.

[00:06:52]This is all beautiful pieces here, folks.

[00:07:01]Beautiful pieces.

[00:07:06]My camera's not lining up again today.

[00:07:11]I'm trying.

[00:07:14]>> [sighs] >> Obviously, there's a trick to it.

[00:07:30]Okay. Okay, we're going into the back of the store.

[00:07:35]And loads of things in here.

[00:07:45]>> Wow.

[00:07:51]Now, the owner collects rocks, too. So, if you're into rocks, uh this is the place to come.

[00:08:02]Wow.

[00:08:05]He has everything in here.

[00:08:21]Everything.

[00:08:35]It's got some nice pieces behind the glass here.

[00:09:07]Look at this.

[00:09:14]That might be uranium, but I'm not sure.

[00:09:19]The depression uranium?

[00:09:22]I'm not sure, but it looks like it, doesn't it?

[00:09:26]>> [laughter and gasps] >> I'm going to back up a little bit so you can see more of it.

[00:09:48]It's a little tight.

[00:10:07]If I had a bigger house >> And if it was, you know, the beginning it was really organized and then >> No, you have some beautiful things here.

[00:10:21]>> I try.

[00:10:23]>> And some of it boy, you could just tell how old it is.

[00:10:31]>> You get a lot of people with I remember this in my mom's kitchen or my grandmother's kitchen.

[00:10:37]>> Yeah, my me, too. When I see these things I remember my grandmother and grandfather.

[00:10:43]>> [sighs and gasps] >> Not so much my parents but my grandparents.

[00:10:51]>> Yeah, how many houses had like a bar in the basement back in the day?

[00:10:56]>> Yeah.

[00:10:57]>> Just loaded right up with interesting glassware and >> Yeah.

[00:11:01]>> Oh, it's the canter bottles.

[00:11:03]>> Yep.

[00:11:05]Well, I don't know that man caves back then.

[00:11:08]>> No, but they had uh like the Jim Beam the canters full of whiskey instead of just getting a bottle of whiskey.

[00:11:15]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:11:16]They did. I know what you're talking.

[00:11:18]Yes, they did.

[00:11:22]The good old days, right?

[00:11:24]>> Yeah.

[00:11:31]>> Old >> I used to go through that in the morning, but I don't stop in there anymore.

[00:12:07]>> Yeah, I don't think I'll go over there.

[00:12:11]>> Tomorrow will just be a bag sale day.

[00:12:13]>> Will it?

[00:12:16]It's mostly clothes over there, isn't it?

[00:12:18]>> 90% of it.

[00:12:19]>> Yeah, I don't Now, let me ask you a question. If somebody sees something that they like, >> Yeah.

[00:13:03]>> can they call you?

[00:13:04]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:13:05]>> I'll put your number on there.

[00:13:07]Um, but do you you don't ship though, do you?

[00:13:10]>> Well, depends on the item.

[00:13:13]>> Okay, but it's too >> to ship a an oil lamp.

[00:13:15]>> Right, no.

[00:13:17]Okay.

[00:13:18]>> But, as long as I feel pretty safe packing packing it in the oil >> Oh, okay.

[00:13:23]That's good to know. Here's some more of your rocks over here.

[00:13:27]>> Yeah.

[00:13:28]Oh, yeah. Okay. Here's what's special about this.

[00:13:31]>> What what >> Here's why they're here.

[00:13:33]Cuz they do that.

[00:13:34]>> Wow.

[00:13:36]>> Fluorescent minerals.

[00:13:37]>> That is so >> And you'd never >> awesome.

[00:13:41]>> Yeah.

[00:13:42]>> And now I mostly rocks >> [gasps] >> Look at that one.

[00:13:46]>> Yeah.

[00:13:47]>> Isn't that That is What Am I getting it in the camera? That is That is beautiful.

[00:13:54]>> red calcite.

[00:13:56]This yellow is steelerite. Oh, no.

[00:13:59]Not steelerite. That's steelerite.

[00:14:01]>> Oh, now all your rocks don't glow like that.

[00:14:04]>> no. [laughter] You have the Yeah. Franklin, New Jersey.

[00:14:08]Franklin, New Jersey. Franklin, New Jersey.

[00:14:11]Speculator, New York.

[00:14:13]Where Only Only I only told one person where that comes from, and he went there and got a bunch of it, and then he went to the museum, and the guy wanted to know where he got that rock from.

[00:14:22]>> That was the highlight of the whole video.

[00:14:24]>> Oh, I got a room full of those over there.

[00:14:27]>> Do you?

[00:14:27]>> Oh, yeah, it'll blow your you you It'll blow your mind.

[00:14:31]>> Well, I'm going to make sure that I >> That's why it says on my sign out there, UV rocks for sale.

[00:14:37]>> Oh, how much is something like this, for instance?

[00:14:40]>> Okay, so when I buy this, I buy it I find it, but then they weigh everything on the way out, and you got to buy it by the pound. They don't care what it looks like. They just weigh it.

[00:14:49]>> Yeah.

[00:14:50]>> Yeah. So, if you go at night, they charge you $6 a pound. If you go during the day, it's $2 a pound.

[00:14:55]>> Because >> Because it's harder to find them during the day when it's bright outside. And the sun doesn't let you see them.

[00:15:02]>> That was just beautiful. I like that one especially. So, how much is >> pounds. That's probably about 3 lb.

[00:15:09]So, it'd be uh like $25, I would say something like >> That is so I who I never I was shocked when you put that flashlight on there.

[00:15:18]>> That's what it does.

[00:15:19]>> But >> I wanted was the ones that light up.

[00:15:22]>> Oh, really?

[00:15:23]>> marbles look real.

[00:15:24]>> That is and these are all marbles. These are all marbles.

[00:15:28]>> Yeah, there's marbles down there. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of them.

[00:15:32]>> folks.

[00:15:34]Um This is a Herkimer diamond. Herkimer is not too far from here. And what do they do? They go and they dig that out of >> Break rock. Break really hard rock.

[00:15:44]>> break So, that's not an easy job.

[00:15:47]>> It's not easy.

[00:15:48]>> But that is wow.

[00:15:50]Isn't that unique?

[00:15:52]>> Every one is. Yeah.

[00:15:54]3-lb Herkimer crystal from Mohawk Valley Mining.

[00:16:00]>> Nice. That's huge, isn't it?

[00:16:03]>> It is.

[00:16:05]>> Very nice.

[00:16:05]>> Pretty crystals.

[00:16:06]>> They are pretty, aren't they?

[00:16:08]>> Yeah.

[00:16:09]>> Make them into jewelry or anything?

[00:16:10]>> Exactly.

[00:16:12]>> Very nice.

[00:16:13]>> And they actually cut some for you there at some of the places. They'll cut them into >> Oh, do they?

[00:16:17]>> Oh, yeah, they'll make you a a lower-priced engagement ring as long as both parties know that it's a Herkimer crystal and not a real diamond.

[00:16:28]>> That is That would be fun to do that, but I didn't know it was that expensive to get in there.

[00:16:34]>> over here or $100 over here.

[00:16:36]But you can find the big ones for the hundred. Not saying you're going to, but they're there. They are there.

[00:16:45]>> Yeah.

[00:16:46]That's what's in the other room?

[00:16:48]>> a room full of those.

[00:16:49]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:16:52]They're beautiful.

[00:16:54]Oh, I love them.

[00:16:56]>> I call it galaxy stone.

[00:16:58]>> Yeah, they're beautiful.

[00:17:02]>> [sighs] >> Well, I mean, you could have a store just purely with this kind of thing.

[00:17:10]>> They're gorgeous.

[00:17:12]>> See that rock?

[00:17:13]>> Yeah.

[00:17:14]>> Okay.

[00:17:15]That's under shortwave UV light.

[00:17:20]That's why this is lighting up and that's why this is the red in here is lighting up. Now when we look at the same rock under longwave UV light you get this instead. Nothing else lights up. That has the red but now you got the the little blue dots and the red dots. Yeah, and they'll glow after you shut the light off for a minute.

[00:17:43]>> That is so interesting. I never never knew that.

[00:17:48]That is so that is so much fun.

[00:17:51]>> He was going to make my mom a ring out of that.

[00:17:56]That is a piece of botryoidal prehnite.

[00:17:59]>> Botryoidal?

[00:18:01]>> New Jersey.

[00:18:02]>> From Paterson? I used to go camping in Paterson, New Jersey to the No, not No, I'm wrong.

[00:18:08]Isn't that something? Can I feel that?

[00:18:11]Looks like a grape or something.

[00:18:14]>> [laughter] >> Now, sometimes you can find some of this at Franklin. I have never found prehnite in Franklin.

[00:18:21]>> it? Does that light up too?

[00:18:22]>> No, it's just it shouldn't.

[00:18:27]No.

[00:18:27]>> No.

[00:18:28]>> Not really.

[00:18:28]>> But it's so different, isn't it?

[00:18:30]>> It's a light green. Hey, he always joked about making a ring.

[00:18:33]>> Yeah, no, that's pretty, too.

[00:18:35]Love it.