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    This is a classic. Probably not very many people have seen a Raccoons penis but this person on eBay is selling a “heat treated “ pendant. They must have found the remains of a coon in a shelter and are passing it off as an artifact . This one is funny 😄. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Fine-...ss!37321!US!-1

  • #2
    Haha! It even has provenance!
    Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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    • #3
      Ha That's a Hillbilly toothpick.
      Michigan Yooper
      If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything

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        Click image for larger version  Name:	raccoon.jpg Views:	0 Size:	49.7 KB ID:	417843This bacculum was found with a bunch of beads...and the big end looks slightly modified.....like a groove.... I have a few dozen modern ones from roadkill and they are smoother in that spot though there is a shallower and shorter little triangular groove in that spot in older-age raccoons... The smaller end piece has a definite groove.
        Professor Shellman
        Tampa Bay

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        • Cecilia
          Cecilia commented
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          Regarding your modern-roadkill penis bones: did you collect them yourself, TomClark?🤦🏽‍♀️

        • tomclark
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          Cecilia: Yep, roadkill and woods corpses LOL.

        • Cecilia
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          😳😲..........🤷🏻‍♀️

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        I don't feel like breakfast anymore...
        "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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        • #6
          Well, I sure am not familiar with such things, but is not Sam Cox one of the good guys? I always thought he was one of the best known collectors/dealers in the country? Here's his webpage. If the piece was found at a level containing artifacts, maybe it was collected prehistorically? I have no idea, but I believe Sam Cox has a good reputation in the artifact community. In which case, maybe it's not a case of "passing off".....

          Rhode Island

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          • SGT.Digger
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            He may be one of the good guys I’ve never heard of him. I don’t mean to disparage him or his reputation. I just thought it was funny that they were selling one and the color looks very peculiar or still green/fresh to mean. I’ve hunted in a couple dry shelters in the pecos River region and these things are absolutely “dry” and never seen a bone like that but doesn’t mean there aren’t any. I have one dryish site here in Tennessee that is producing bone pieces and found a partial jaw bone of a possum and other things but they are not in as good of condition as that. It could just be a location thing.

          • CMD
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            Well, I don't know him personally. I see he's associated with the Overstreet guides:

            With the increasing number of collectors entering the hobby today, the levels of corruption and deceit that have always plagued the hobby, are now of epic...


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          I can’t rule out anything the NA people might of found useful....!
          Lubbock County Tx

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          • #8
            I knew a coon hunter who made turkey calls out of coon penis's no joke!

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            • #9
              They remind me of my local famous moonshiner Popcorn Sutton he had one on his hat. The local moonshiners would use them when pouring to help keep splashing down when pouring into the jugs. Never knew they used them for ornaments I do have an anniversary coming up.?
              N.C. from the mountains to the sea

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              • #10
                In Appalachia you give a necklace or pendant of these with a red ribbon/string to the girl you are sweet on. Well, used to...
                Professor Shellman
                Tampa Bay

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                • Lindenmeier-Man
                  Lindenmeier-Man commented
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                  Lol

                • Cecilia
                  Cecilia commented
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                  For what do you think the People used them?

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                Sugaree beat me to it. Around SC and NC it was or is, used by moonshiners.
                South Carolina

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                • Cecilia
                  Cecilia commented
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                  I thought this thread was a prank! But knowing South Carolinians...... After all, the old country folks do eat chicken feet! (I can poke fun at the state of my birth!)

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                Unbelievable.....about these bones ...several were recovered from the tick isl. shell mds. on the St. John’s river in fl.....they are engraved ....this one was started but never finished...it is also from tick isl.....flabby. Click image for larger version

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                • CMD
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                  Great example, and further evidence, along with Tom's example, that they were utilized prehistorically.

                • tomclark
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                  OH MAN there ya go, Hal!
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