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~ Sold Items ~
10-349 Clovis point made from Flint Ridge chert.  This is one of the finest I ever made out of this material. It has flutes running about 1/2 the length on the show face and 2/3 on the other. A real gem! Length, 3 3/4 inches. Price, $150. SOLD
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
10-339 Dovetail point made from Flint Ridge chert.  Length, 5 3/16 inches. Price, $175. 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

10-416 Turkeytail point made from Indiana Horn Stone. This is a nice piece with cortex from the outside of the nodule on both ends as found on many of the old ones. It also has a slight bow that could not be completely straightened due to being made from a banana shaped section of the nodule, again, typical of the type. 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 11/16 inches, width, 2 3/16 with a width to thickness ratio of about 8 to 1! An impressive piece and worth the price, $100. 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

NEW ITEM! STONE AGE "STRIPPER CLIPS" These were patterned after a set of points possibly found in a dry cave somewhere out West. They were tied together with either sinew, or yucca fibers. Here I have used "simulated sinew" that looks just like the original binding which held the points in such a way that the edges don't touch one another. I neat way to keep all your points together in the old kit bag! 

10-98-101 Stripper clip featuring a matched set of Side Notch points made from heat treated Burlington chert.  Average length, 2 1/4  inches. Price, $50. SOLD

 10-102-105 Stripper Clip featuring a matched set of Corner Notch points made from heat treated Burlington chert.  Average length, 1 3/8  inches. Price, $30. 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

D.C. Waldorf © 2009

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