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Ok folks, It's time to show off those knives! Lets see it all, everything from microblades and lancets, to base tangs and big ol blades.
I'll start it off.
I'll start it off.
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This is the first unbroken piece I ever found, rock hunting with my 10 year old daughter in 2007. We were so excited.Comment
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I 🤔 this is my favorite blade I ever found. I think?? Macon County Missouri 2017Comment
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That is killer! Love seeing the patches of cortex on the one side. -
BROKEN ARROW.
My daughter my youngest child is now 19, it goes by quick. Cherish the time and take in every minute of it. Mine doesn’t enjoy it as much as she did , it slowly become less and less a priority. She still occasionally makes some time to go a couple times a year with her old Mom. Thank you for comments and welcome.
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Michigan Yooper
If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for AnythingComment
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This is my first artifact. It is supposed to be a knife, but I am not 100% certain. Hopefully you will accept it as one.
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. LeeComment
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I think I posted this one other time. The story that goes along with this is always one I like to tell. I call this point "Excalibur." At about 5.5 inches it is a big point for what I find in my area. Anyhow, on this particular day I got up early and headed to the Ohio River. I hadn't crested the river bank maybe 5 minutes and I saw what would become the base of this sticking out of the sand in the high bank. Where I enter the bank in this area, I've never found anything more than a flake or two, I generally have to walk a good 500 yards till I get to the good stuff. This blade was literally stuck in the sand completely vertical. I tugged at it expecting to toss away yet another flake, but it kept coming and coming. One may question my logic given my luck in 5 minutes, but I immediately turned around, got back in my truck and called it a day. I really didn't see anything getting any better for me.Comment
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Well it's been a while since I posted these. The Yazoo Co. Mississippi knives were tied to a cigar box lid in 1896. I removed the blades and gave them a simple cleaning and then tied them back on the cigar box lid.
Michigan Yooper
If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for AnythingComment
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Here’s a knife I bought a few years ago. The seller said it is from Tennessee.
VonComment
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I purchased this first big one years ago. Might be argillite. All I knew is that it had an old Willard Winslow surgical tape label on one side. Then one night old timer and dean of Ma/RI's collecting families Earl Richardson stopped by. I was walking with Earl when he was close to 90, and it was tough keeping up with him. As soon as he saw this knife, he exclaimed "hey, my dad found that piece!". That would be John Richardson, a founding member of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society. So his father must have found it close to 100 years ago now. Can't stack up with the beauties on this page, but it's big at a hair short of 9".
Here's two the Mrs. found years ago. First up is a Brewerton Eared Triangle of a New York Chert...
Nice material, might be chalcedony, with pockets of drussy quartz crystals...
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Repeat appearance for this one today, as I also posted it in Tam's patina thread, as an example of a piece with a stark patina difference on the two sides. This type of knife is known as a leaf blade. They are usually well made and thin, and this is a bipointed example made of Marblehead rhyolite. One of my favorite personal find knives, found in a corn field.
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One type of knife basically restricted to the Northeast is the semilunar knife, also known as an ulu, after the Eskimo implement of similar appearance. They are best known in the form of ground slate ulus. But flaked forms were also made.
Here is a nice ground slate ulu, of a style known as a comb-back ulu.
A few winters ago, I was fortunate to find a flaked ulu, which was basically a large notched spall, along the banks of a drawn down lake. I'd rather find a ground slate example, but this made my day for sure...
The two edges compared.
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Large Fox creek from Flemington New Jersey and Boats Blade from Connecticut..Comment
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Felsite blade from Massachusetts.Comment
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