✅ SOLVED Gun flint or heart breaker?

[rock]

I just wanted to get different ideas on this find. I find some weird scrapers/ heart breakers and really woundt know if they are gun flints or not. The Civil War was a big part of our history in my area but I dont know if there was any activity in this actual area or not.
So my question is this one I am showing, gun flint or broken other?

 

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[BosnMate]

British gun flints from the early 1800's.
French amber gun flints.
Mexican Army gun flints from earthworks excavated at the Alamo. There was a hotel renovation in the area of the Mexican earthworks.
More Alamo gun flints. The Mexican soldiers were armed with the British Brown Bess musket, and these huge "Tombstone" flints were for that
muskets huge lock. These are all proven, original gun flints, hope this helps in you ID. Someplace I have two original French amber flints that were recovered
from a sunken ship and never used. They they look like they have been pressure flaked, while English are all broken off the core, and the spall is not pressure
flaked, but broken into the size sections they need for an individual flint.

 

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[kansa54]

It's hard to see but the demi-cone is the small protrusion on the left side of the upper flat portion. This was created by there style of percussion. The French knapped in a different style.
The Indian style is a mini square bi-face.

 

[GatorBoy]

I have a couple of those French flints from a shipwreck down here I will post this evening.
I also have a pistol Flint that is a bit different also.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here are a few of my flints.



French







Pistol



Large weapon..found with Spanish shipwreck artifacts.



The one in the front here is spent.
These were found at a second Seminole war site.

 

[rock]

Dang now I will have to go through my scrap bucket (5 gal). I swear I have found some of these and thought they were broken. Might take a while.

 

[GatorBoy]

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It's hard to see but the demi-cone is the small protrusion on the left side of the upper flat portion. This was created by there style of percussion. The French knapped in a different style.
The Indian style is a mini square bi-face.

You gave some good info there.. just wanted to assure you it didn't fall on deaf ears...thanks

 

[NC field hunter]

I have a frame of pistol flints. Some of the pieces were reworked by natives. The person that in lightened me on my worked flints is one that is well respected in my local history. Secondary flaking is similar to normal wear on flints, but is really distinguishable if it is ever brought to the eye.

 

[Charl]

Good study....

http://www.sha.org/CF_webservice/servePDFHTML.cfm?fileName=24-2-13.pdf

 

[rock]

Good study....

http://www.sha.org/CF_webservice/servePDFHTML.cfm?fileName=24-2-13.pdf

I bookmarked that one. I had a guy with 30+ yrs experience look at the collection I bought with the gun flint in it today. He said the same as everyone else its a gun flint. I didnt get to see his collection but I did look at somebodies else today. No wonder I cant find any good ones, dang what a great collection he had. I sent a pic to a couple of guys from the site on a nice Dalton he had.