Hey Den, Welcome to the forum. I like your artifacts and displays. That carving is awesome.
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Welcome Aboard Den - also from Tennessee. Glad you joined our website cause we'd have missed a beautiful post. You're right about your neighbor being talented - that is an awesome carving and very lifelike. I really like that hoe - any idea what the material is that it's made from. I'd really like to see your collection up close but that would require individual pics of each but I'd especially like to see that triangle in your last pic. That thing looks great. Again, thanks for joining - we're glad to have ya aboard.Pickett/Fentress County, Tn - Any day on this side of the grass is a good day. -Chuck-
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Still not sure were you are located, wich would be meanigfull info if you want to get your points identified later on. The metal piece does look hammered into shape, I once had a chat with a very knowledgable dealer about a hammered piece of steel I found in a rock shelter in Ky along with several historic era points and he explained that NA's would steal, trade for and scavenge steel items to beat into arrow points and knives. Of course proving that's what a found steel item is would take a deep understanding of Context and could be nearly impossible to prove without that context. It could simply be an old tool. Its really hard to say with certainty.Josh (Ky/Tn collector)
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When I was a kid, I grew up near Hollidaysburg, PA which is near Altoona. Now I live in Jersey Shore, PA which is near Williamsport. I wish you could feel that piece of iron in your hand. The fit is no accident. It was suggested to me one time that NA's got iron sometimes from meteors.
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Hi Den. I want to add my belated welcome to our forum. It is a very interesting first post that you are offering us. I won't comment on all those several objects, only as to the Native American artifacts that I think I see displayed on the reddish looking board. I believe them to be all authentic. I also think that a few of them represent some Early Archaic forms ( perhaps over 7.000 years ago or more). Not knowing where these rocks were collected then I don't think I can say more. Having said that, I see lithic that I sometimes found in north Alabama (what appears to be Ft. Payne chert, a Bangor flint that is often as black as obsidian, and a red jasper. That is all I can provide lacking no more info than you provided.
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I took another picture of my collection from Hollidaysburg, PA. The black and white arrowhead is a little unusual, I think. I have seen others with similar shape but that black and white rock? To the left of the quarter is an arrowhead that is pure black and another that is blood red. I don't think those rocks are from PA.1 Photo
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