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	10-186 Clovis point made from Rainy Buttes silisified wood. This classic western style Clovis is made of an interesting material from North Dakota. It is heavier than normal due to the high iron content of the silica laden water that percolated through the wood of a long buried forest, turning it to stone! The grain of the wood can still be clearly seen. Not only is this a great point but a wonderful mineral specimen as well! Length, 3 inches. Price $60 SOLD
	09-277 Cumberland point made from Dongola chert. The flute on the front face is full length of the point, back side is 1/2. This is a thick, heavy point, good for killing Mastodons and Mammoths! Length, 4 1/2 inches. Price, $75. SOLD
	08-263 Scotts Bluff point made from Knife River chalcedony from North Dakota. A super Late Paleo type made from some unusual material! As the story goes, a swamp was buried, turned into lignite, then "silicified," turning it into chalcedony. This formation was later eroded out and the chalcedony is now found as cobbles in the resulting gravel. When this point is held up to the light, it is a beautiful translucent, honey color with white flicks showing. These specks are pieces of fossilized cattail leaves from the old swamp! Also, check out the nice pressure work on this one! Length, 3 1/2 inches. Price, $65. SOLD
	07-50 Large Dalton point made from Burlington chert. This one is a classic with nice pressure flaking and sharp serrations. Length, 4 7/8 inches. Price, $65. SOLD
	07-66 Dovetail made from beautiful Ohio Flint Ridge chalcedony. This is what has been called a "Button Base Dove," It has a small rounded base on a wide, heavy blade. It was finished with well ordered pressure flakes, produced by using an antler tipped tool, just like that seen on many of the originals which show some of the best workmanship to be found in Ohio. Length, 3 5/16 inches. Price, $45. SOLD
	09-154 Dovetail made from heat treated High Ridge Crescent-Burlington chert. This one is of the "Medium Base" variety. A beautiful high color point made from chert that was collected 20 years ago by the wife and I in a housing development in High Ridge Mo. off Rt. 30, 25 miles SW of St. Louis. The development is now complete and no more of this rare material will ever be available again. More has been found down the road, but this had the most intense color! Also, this was a difficult piece to work, due to the odd shape of the original preform which also had some cracks. In getting past them, the scar pattern on the back side is a bit disrupted. But still, all and all, a nice piece and worthy of being in your collection. Length, 6 1/4 inches. Price, $125. SOLD
	08-220 Hardin point made from a heat treated Crescent-Burlington chert. Has more pink in it than what the scan shows. Also has a nice, sharp beveled edge, a classic piece! Length, 4 inches. Price, $40. SOLD
	08-195 Decatur Fractured Base Point made from colorful Flint Ridge chalcedony. This is an Early Archaic corner notch variety with a unique feature. The edges of the base have been fractured off by the removal of tiny burin flakes from the corners of the stem. Also, the sides of the stem were treated the same way. This is one of the nicest specimens of the type I have made to date! Length, 2 1/2 inches. Price, $30. SOLD For more on these points, see my article in The Best Of CHIPS The Third Five Years, pages 112-117.
	07-151 Lost Lake point made from mottled and streaked blue-grey Coshocton chert. This beautiful material is getting rare and this point is a good example of the concave base verity of the Lost Lake type. A very nice and interesting piece. Length, 3 inches. Price, $40. SOLD
	06-49 Graham Cave Side Notch point made from heat treated Burlington chert. Named after specimens found in Graham Cave in east central Missouri, this long, slender and often beveled side notch point is associated with the Early Archaic to Middle Archaic of the Ozark Highlands and surrounding area, circa 8000 to 5500 BC. Length, 4 5/8 inches. Price, $40. SOLD
	09-110 Thebes point made from heat treated High Ridge Crescent-Burlington chert. With a full width blade, this is a very good example of the type in pristine condition before use and re-sharpening by beveling the edges. The colors are quite vivid in this piece! Length, 5 5/16 inches. Price, $150. SOLD
	07-227 Calf Creek point made from Arkansas Novaculite. This point is extremely thin, with very deep, delicate basal notches. When I made this piece, I was trying out a new thin bladed copper punch. As can be seen by the results, this tool was precise but gentile, making narrow notches that expand slightly. Length, 3 11/16 inches. Price, $45. SOLD
	07-55 Turkeytail point made from Indiana Horn Stone. This is the ultimate Turkeytail with cortex from the outside of the nodule on both ends and the "bull's eye" of the inside almost centered! Believe me, this one was not an easy one to make, it took over six hours, the cortex on the tips was like chalk and the center had some "concrete" that was hard to flake. I had to stretch pieces of electric tape over that spot to hold the flakes together and pull them through! Turkeytails were made and distributed by the Red Ocher Culture of the Central Ohio Valley that bridges the Late Archaic into the Early Woodland circa 1500 to 500 BC. Length, 6 3/8 inches, width, 2 13/16 with a width to thickness ratio of about 8 to 1! An impressive piece and worth the price, $85. SOLD For more on Turkeytails, read my article in The Best Of Chips: The Second Five Years.
	06-103 Late Adena point made from Flint Ridge Flint. 4 5/8 inches. Price, $50. SOLD
	07-52 Waubesa point made from very colorful heat treated Burlington chert. This is a classic Early to Middle Woodland point found in Illinois and Missouri and is pattered after eastern Adena points. 5 1/8 inches long. Price, $45. SOLD
	07-77. Hopewell point made from colorful heat treated Ohio Flint Ridge chalcedony. If you could have only one Hopewell point in your collection, this is it! As a rule, I prefer raw "Ridge" chalcedony as did the old timers but will use any good rock and it's even better when its given to me by Roy Miller. Working this piece was like eating candy, check out the sweet scar pattern! Believe it or not, the majority of these massive points were found to the north of the Hopewell core area in their hunting grounds near the Great Lakes. It stands to reason, they were used as butcher knives for the processing of large game killed here in the fall and winter months. This one as reminiscent of one I saw many years ago that was found near the town of Wakeman Ohio. Size, 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Price, $125. SOLD To learn more about Hopewell Points read my article in The Best of CHIPS, the Third Five Years.
	09-29 Hopewell Point made of Knife River chalcedony from North Dakota. The Hopewell of Illinois and Ohio imported this exotic material and some very large spear points were made from it. As the story goes, a swamp was buried, turned into lignite, then "silicified," turning it into chalcedony. This formation was later eroded out and the chalcedony is now found as cobbles in the resulting gravel. When this point is held up to the light, it is a beautiful translucent, honey color with white flicks showing. These specks are pieces of fossilized cattail leaves from the old swamp! Length, 3 15/16 inches. Price, $60. SOLD
	06-162. Snyders-Hopewell point made from banded Illinois Dongola chert. This is a classic made from a favorite material of the Southern Illinois Hopewell. Length, 3 1/4". Price, $30. SOLD
	07-106. Small "Ross" Hopewell point made from Utah obsidian. This classic type was originally made from Yellow Stone obsidian which is off limits to today's knappers so I found the Utah stuff to be a good substitute. Sometime between the years 200 and 300 AD, an expedition left the Scioto River valley, that went all the way to Wyoming for obsidian. They returned with several dugouts loaded with this stone, from which there master knappers made points ranging in size from a few inches up to 16 to 18 inches! Size, 3 5/8 inches. Price, $20. SOLD For more on Ross points read my article in The Best Of CHIPS: The Third Five Years.
	GREAT SMALL ARROW POINT COLLECTION AT ONE LOW PRICE! This group of small arrow points made from a variety of stones would look great in a case or shadow box. Largest is 1 7/8 in., a mini collection at a mini price! Only $35. SOLD
	08-170 Small Solutrean Laurel Leaf point made from high quality British flint. This type is associated with the Solutrean Culture of France, Spain and Portugal that dates to the Upper Paleolithic, circa 18,000 BC. They were made by the Cro Magnons, the European ancestors of modern man. Length, 5 7/16 inches. Price, $65. SOLD For more info on this type read Marquardt Lund's article in CHIPS, Vol. 19 #2.
	08-311 Bell Beaker tanged and barbed arrow point made from a flake of high quality, translucent Knife River chalcedony. This type is associated with the Bell Beaker culture of Brittany in France, just across the channel from England. Finer ones with extremely deep basal notches have been found in rich Beaker burials. Length, 2 3/16 inches. Price, $25. SOLD
	07-44 Tri-sided arrow point of C/D Type. This unusual point has three faces and three edges with a cross-section like a triangular file. I have seen specimens from Central America and Saudi Arabia, but the best known are from Southern Scandinavia where they are found associated with the Pitted Ware and Single Grave Cultures of the Middle Neolithic, circa 2500 BC. This one was made from a sliver of local Ozark Pierson Chert that is the color of dried blood! How appropriate since these points may have been used for war! Originals were made of Western Baltic flint. It is shown enlarged so you can see the details, the actual size is 2 7/8 inches. Price, $20. SOLD For more info on this type read my article in CHIPS, Vol. 17 #4.
	07-A-84 Thick Butted-Thin Bladed Axe blank of Lindø Type. Thick butted axes are normally a third again thicker than this, however when a thinner piece of good flint was found it was not wasted, so, they just made a thinner axe. Those that are less than 3/4 inch thick fall into this class and can be of any type. This unground axe blank was made from a nice little tab of Pedernales chert and was flaked on all four sides, the same as the originals. Named after the habitation site at Lindø on Langeland, quite a few plane axe blanks of this type were also found in caches with the finished ones coming out of Passage Graves and Jutlandic Stone Packed Graves of the last phases of the Early Middle Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia, circa 2900 to 2800 BC. A good example of the "square section technique" this would make a good conversation piece or a very unique paper weight! Length. 5 13/16 inches and about 1/2 inch thick. Price, $40. SOLD
	07-A-85 Thick Butted Dagger Period Axe with flared bit. This unground axe blank was made from a nice little tab of Pedernales chert and was flaked on all four sides the same as the originals. These were the last of the square section axes to be made and are flint copies of bronze axes that were rapidly replacing them at the beginning of the Late Neolithic or "Dagger Period" circa 2350 to 1950 BC. Length, 4 5/8 inches and about 7/8 inch thick. Price, $30. SOLD