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My name is Michael Pechacek Sr. from Phoenix AZ . Ive been in AZ about 32 years having migrated, from the east coast around the Washington DC area , and the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia . I collect many things .Militaria mostly , which I buy and sale too . About a little over a year ago I started to trade for what turned out to be a rather large collection of Central Texas arrowheads , spearpoints and tools . They seem to be a good portion of a collection of a man named "Avis Riley ". I found this out buy compairing his numbers written on the points to ones published by " "Texas Beyond History " on the net . There was a good group of Clovis ( and some Pre-Clovis ) and other paleo types that struck a good interest in me to begin a rather serious amount of research and reading .But I've reached a point where some types are either rare or untyped and I cannot find out what some types are . So I figured , I would be better off reaching out to the collecting community to find out if any of these could be indentified by collectors within this community .
I must admit that with the Professional community I have had some very good help by Dr. Holiday here in Arizona , and some frustration with people Like Dr. Waters inTexas . Some of the " better "points are world class , but on some artifacts like a auger type drill bit I have , are written off as a broken arrowpoint ( with one small chip out of the distal end ) rather than any real interest in something that may be new . The collection had no find spots but it is known that the original collector only collected in a certain area , " Central Texas " and no more than a certain distance from his home . So I hope to be able to humbly ask for some ID and maybe show off a few very nice points out of the 200 pounds of old ditreous .
Michael 2
My name is Michael Pechacek Sr. from Phoenix AZ . Ive been in AZ about 32 years having migrated, from the east coast around the Washington DC area , and the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia . I collect many things .Militaria mostly , which I buy and sale too . About a little over a year ago I started to trade for what turned out to be a rather large collection of Central Texas arrowheads , spearpoints and tools . They seem to be a good portion of a collection of a man named "Avis Riley ". I found this out buy compairing his numbers written on the points to ones published by " "Texas Beyond History " on the net . There was a good group of Clovis ( and some Pre-Clovis ) and other paleo types that struck a good interest in me to begin a rather serious amount of research and reading .But I've reached a point where some types are either rare or untyped and I cannot find out what some types are . So I figured , I would be better off reaching out to the collecting community to find out if any of these could be indentified by collectors within this community .
I must admit that with the Professional community I have had some very good help by Dr. Holiday here in Arizona , and some frustration with people Like Dr. Waters inTexas . Some of the " better "points are world class , but on some artifacts like a auger type drill bit I have , are written off as a broken arrowpoint ( with one small chip out of the distal end ) rather than any real interest in something that may be new . The collection had no find spots but it is known that the original collector only collected in a certain area , " Central Texas " and no more than a certain distance from his home . So I hope to be able to humbly ask for some ID and maybe show off a few very nice points out of the 200 pounds of old ditreous .
Michael 2
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