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| This page contains Ancient Native American Indian "knapped" flint and chert tools such as Knife Blades, Hide Scrapers and Drills to name a few |


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| MMFT13 |
A somewhat small (for type) uni-faced Quarry |
Napa Co., CA |
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Blank made on a fair-sized flake and utilized as a |
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knife blade in it's interim stage. A nice meaty piece |
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| MMFT14 |
A very slender opaque black obsidian |
Napa Co., CA |
20.00 |
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Pencil Drill which is well flaked to a |
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median ridge on both faces. |
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| DFFT9 |
A very old mottled brown and tan Cascade Knife blade having crude flaking patterns. It was quite improperly cared |
It was found in the 1930's |
30.00 |
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for/stored and shows quite a bit of more recent (1940-ish) nicks around it's periphery and it also appears to have |
and belonged to a science |
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"modern" rechipping to the tip. Okay, I just got the scoop from the owner of this blade. It seems that this one was |
teacher in Washington with |
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owned by a science teacher who let his kids handle it, much to their excitement, I should imagine, and he mentioned |
no further provenance. |
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that, as with all kids, this one was dropped more times than he could remember. So this accounts for the recent dings. |
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| MCFT8 |
An (amateur?) archaeologist's boo-boo. A |
Provenance is undocumented, |
175.00 |
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light mottled blue flint concave-based Paleo |
most likely a mid-western piece |
Reduced! |
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Drill which is encased in what appears to be a |
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dried-up lakebed's hardened sediment. |
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Probably broken by the excavation attempt |
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| ASFT7 |
A most attractive and very thin reddish-orange |
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250.00 |
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Hartville uplift chert Archaic beveled Knife blade |
Cherry Co., NE |
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having a very unique style of manufacture. First |
(Full history to buyer) |
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off, the edges on side B were left untouched and |
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although side B shows thorough flaking patterns |
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(photo 4) it's basically "flat". Side A has mostly |
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percussion and pressure flaking to the surface, |
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with thorough secondary pressure flaking to all |
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edges. It has a lateral fracture leading from the tip |
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down one edge (Left edge in photo 1) for a |
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length of 7/8". A very nice looking item |
Taylor COA |
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| LEFT5 |
A fairly large (for type) and quite crude |
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green and yellow chert uni-faced end |
Oldham Co., TX |
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scraper having thin purple horizontal banding. |
Offered by the finder |
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| DIFT4 |
A most interesting bluish-gray flint double spurred awl, |
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100.00 |
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knife/scraper combination tool. It's a sturdy and unique |
Gillespie Co., TX |
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tool, well flaked on both faces but retaining a small section |
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of the original host stone's rind on one face (photo 4) |
Ex: Arnold |
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| DIFT3 |
A very sweet, highly attractive and well |
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175.00 |
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made off-white mostly uni-faced Alibates |
Hidalgo Co., TX |
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flint Notched Scraper having horizontal |
Ex: Guadalupe Diaz |
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burgundy veins. Just a sweetheart of a tool |
Ex: Randy Best |
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Rogers COA |
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| ASFT4 |
A very attractive mottled reddish-brown and |
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250.00 |
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gray silicified wood Early Archaic Ovoid Knife |
Jefferson Co., NE |
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blade. It's thoroughly percussion flaked on |
(Full details to buyer) |
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both faces but does have a few steps owing to |
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the difficulty of working this type of material. |
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It also has some secondary pressure flaking to |
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the edges from ancient re-sharpenings. |
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It comes with a thorough and detailed history |
Stermer COA |
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| ASFT5 |
A most interesting, for the color alone, yellow |
Recovered in Nebraska |
200.00 |
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Niobrara chert Shoshone Knife blade. |
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Percussion flaked on both faces with slight |
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secondary pressure flaking to the cutting edges. |
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It's slightly asymmetrical and has an ancient |
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nick near the tip, which appears to have been |
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caused by overly aggressive flaking during the |
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re-sharpening phase, still an attractive item |
Taylor COA |
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| ASFT6 |
A fairly nice hurriedly made Moss |
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175.00 |
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Agate Archaic Ovoid Knife blade. |
Cherry Co., NE |
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Although the flaking is a bit crude, This |
(Full history to buyer) |
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host material alone adds attractiveness |
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to this piece. It has one single flat area |
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on one edge near the tip on side A |
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| ASFT8 |
An interesting mottled blue and blue-gray |
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175.00 |
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nodular chert blank which has slight |
Phillips Co., Kansas |
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secondary pressure flaking confined to a |
(Full history to buyer) |
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small, 1-1/2" section near the tip on a single |
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edge indicating that it may have been used |
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as a knife. An attractive piece displaying |
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mostly rough first stage percussion flaking |
Taylor COA |
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| ASFT9 |
A fairly large fine grained basalt jet |
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175.00 |
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black Knife blade having thorough, |
Saguache Co., CO |
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although subdued flaking patterns |
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due to the nature of the host stone. |
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It displays secondary pressure |
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flaking along its edges and has slight |
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alkali deposits. |
Taylor COA |
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| CHFT14 |
A somewhat rustic and slightly crude mottled brown and tan petrified |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
85.00 |
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wood Dallas Saw blade form. It retains most of the outer cortex in the |
(Offered by original finder) |
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center of both faces and is only intricately flaked around the edges to |
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form nice serrations to accomplish it's task. It has no tip, as one wasn't |
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needed for sawing purposes. Somewhat of a scarce piece dating to the |
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Archaic through Woodland periods, between 1,500 and 4,000 years old |
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| CHFT15 |
A very colorful, interesting and slightly crude mottled red, gray and |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
125.00 |
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brown petrified wood Refugio Knife Blade dating to the late |
(Offered by original finder) |
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Archaic period between 2,000 and 4,000 years old. It's bifacially |
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worked along a single cutting edge (left side in photo 3), although |
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not intricately, while the opposing edge was left in a natural, rough |
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form. It shows small sections of the original outer cortex of the |
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petrified wood host stone and is just a very unusual piece. |
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| CHFT10 |
A nice medium-sized tan and red jasper Refugio hafted knife |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
75.00 |
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blade, well flaked on both faces with a slight ancient usage nick |
(Offered by original finder) |
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on one edge near the tip. It dates back to the Archaic period |
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and is between 2,000 and 4,000 years old. |
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| CHFT11 |
A somewhat crudely formed, fast & dirty gray and tan chert Refugio |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
30.00 |
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knife form. Created on a spawl and mostly formed through percussion |
(Offered by original finder) |
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flaking. An interesting piece for it's simplicity which dates back to the |
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Archaic period and is between 2,000 and 4,000 years old. |
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| CHFT12 |
A most interesting and quite colorful, almost uni-faced mottled brown and |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
35.00 |
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tan chert Flake Knife Blade. Side A is well flaked with the exception of a |
(Offered by original finder) |
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rough reddish cortex section remaining on the base. Side B is thoroughly |
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pressure flaked around the cutting edges only, and retains a vertical flat in |
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it's entire center from the surface of the original flake's form. A most |
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interesting blade dating (by artifact association) back to the Archaic |
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through Woodland periods, between 1,000 and 3,200 years old. |
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| CHFT8 |
A red and greenish-brown jasper side-scraper/graver salvaged |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
20.00 |
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and re-worked from the tip of a damaged projectile point. By |
(Offered by original finder) |
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artifact association it dates back to the Archaic through |
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Woodland periods and is between 1,000 and 3,200 years old. |
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| CHFT1 |
A plain-jane, crudely flaked gray quartzite pentagonal knife form |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
20.00 |
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which appears to be all but spent. By artifact association it dates |
(Offered by original finder) |
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back to the Archaic through Woodland periods and is between |
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1,000 and 3,200 years old. |
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| CHFT6 |
A fairly crude tan and reddish jasper/chert knife form. It's fairly thick and |
Found in Polk Co., TX |
18.00 |
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sturdy with a ragged base and as a knife form, it was probably in it's final |
(Offered by original finder) |
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stages of usefulness. By artifact association it dates back to the Archaic |
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through Woodland periods and is between 1,000 and 3,200 years old. |
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A very good-sized semi-translucent, slightly diagonally banded |
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700.00 |
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obsidian Early Archaic Cascade Knife form having a "knobbed" base. |
Lake Co., OR |
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Made by a (near?) master knapper, it shows very intricate oblique |
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transverse flaking patterns coupled with flatter sections left from the |
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percussion flaking stage. Obviously a blade which the creator felt that |
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he would be using for a long time. It has what appears to be a very |
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slight ancient nick on one edge near the tip (photo 8), but is otherwise |
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"all there" as it was anciently made and used. Just an exceptional piece. |
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| DFFT3 |
A mottled light gray and tan |
Undocumented, |
12.00 |
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Archaic Knife blade base which |
but judging from |
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probably doubled as a scraper, |
the material, most |
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even after having been broken |
likely from Indiana |
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| FT92 |
A very old and somewhat crude |
Sadly, for all the labels it |
30.00 |
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mottled brown and gray cobble chert |
has from different owners, |
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fist axe. It's pretty well flaked on both |
the only provenance given |
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faces, mostly by direct percussion |
for this one was that it |
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flaking and is an interesting piece. |
was found in Oklahoma |
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| FT95 |
A pretty nice looking mottled brown |
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Edward's Plateau chert Teardrop |
Edwards Co., TX |
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blank which was used as a knife blade |
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in the interim. Flaking is thorough to |
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both faces, mostly by direct |
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percussion, but the cutting edges have |
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pressure flaking for use as a knife |
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Early Archaic Bi-pointed Knife, made |
Found in Southern Idaho |
550.00 |
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from a gem semi-translucent bluish & |
(Full provenance to Buyer) |
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smoky black banded obsidian. Nice |
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symmetry and balance showing early |
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percussion flaking and nice edge pressure |
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flaking with a minor ancient edge nick on |
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lower edge (opposite ruler side in photo1) |
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4-7/8" x 2-3/8" and dates to 8,500 B.P. |
Jackson COA |
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| TMFT3 |
Early Archaic Bi-pointed Knife, made from a |
Found in Southern Idaho |
475.00 |
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semi-translucent smoky brown / black |
(Full provenance to Buyer) |
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obsidian. Good sized blade at 5-1/4" x 2-5/8". |
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Early percussion flaking and showing fine edge |
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pressure flaking. There are a couple of ancient |
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nicks to the lower edge (opposite ruler side in |
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photo 1). Dates to 8,500 B.P. |
Jackson COA |
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| TMFT4 |
Archaic Knife, personal find of |
Offered by the finder |
475.00 |
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consigner, made from multicolored |
Found near Casper, Wyoming |
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Hartville Uplift chert/agate in caramel |
(Full provenance to buyer) |
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brown, black and spots of cream. 4+" |
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in length and perfect. It has nice |
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workmanship showing fine edge work. |
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A pretty blade that is beveled part |
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way along straight edge on one side |
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| DAFT664 |
A fairly slender bluish-gray |
Fort Rock, OR |
35.00 |
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chert hafted Knife blade |
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| DAFT663 |
A black obsidian Paleo uni-faced |
Fort Rock, OR |
40.00 |
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side scraper, well made and |
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having small sections of the original |
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host stone's cortex at each end |
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| JCFT24 |
A yellow and white agate Plateau Pentagonal Knife |
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40.00 |
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blade, which was anciently resharpened so many times |
Churchill Co., NV |
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that it was near the conversion to a drill stage. It's well |
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flaked on both faces, although not with alot of detail. |
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The base was anciently snapped off and the surfaces |
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show a high degree of desert polish. An attractive piece |
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| MBFT97 |
A very twisted, light gray chert Dalton |
Undocumented, most |
70.00 |
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Drill form which is heavily beveled. It |
likely mid-western states |
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has shallow pressure flaked fluting |
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channels and basal grinding. It also has |
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a noticeable, recent clip to one edge |
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(middle of photo 2 on the left side) |
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| ACFT5 |
A nice sized mahogany obsidian hand |
Siskiyou Co., CA |
40.00 |
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pick. (I'm assuming that these were |
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used to dig out edible roots) |
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| MHFT942 |
A HUGE and meaty black |
Found by L.L. Valdivia in |
75.00 |
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obsidian Cascade blade |
San Rafael, CA in 1947 |
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blank which retains outer |
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sections of the original host |
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stones surface on both ends |
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| MHFT1027 |
A mottled gray-green chert Early Archaic |
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50.00 |
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Chilcotin Plateau side-notched hafted knife |
Washo Co., NV |
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blade which has seen many ancient |
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resharpenings. Flaking patterns are |
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thorough on both faces and the color |
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makes quite an attractive display item |
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| MHFT1029 |
A black chert Archaic Atlatl Valley Triangular |
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30.00 |
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Knife blade having thorough flaking patterns |
Humboldt Co., NV |
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to both faces by a novice knapper |
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