Ninety-nine percent of my N.A Indian artifacts were found by myself. Of the several hundred pieces that I've found only about a dozen were found by family members.
I found most of them between 1972 and 1987. During that time period I sold 4 of my best artifacts; a perfect and very symmetrical ferruginous quartz hourglass bannerstone in perfect condition.. I sold it in 1982 when we had 2 children and no work, and no vehicle, I received a 1979 Chevrolet Monza with 50 or 60 thousand miles on it, plus $400 cash, which we needed to pay the tax, title, license, and insurance for the vehicle. (Bobby Onken , who has made his millions buying and selling artifacts made the deal with me. There was enough cash left over to purchase a carpet cleaning machine and put an advertisement in the local paper to advertise my new work. We made a living for a few years but just barely getting by, cleaning carpets, planting a big garden (and doing a lot of canning), eating venison and "caught" fish, paying for heat bills and buying Christmas presents for our children with coon hides, etc..
Sometime in the mid 80's I sold a nice little heavily resharpened "dovetail" (St. Charles) point made from a solid grayish-black lithic material with bright solid yellow inclusions, along with a 3 and 1/8th inch Barbed Hardin, made of Brown County Chert, (a particular local "Payson chert" quarrie(s) unknown.
I asked a mere $150 way back then and Kenny Edwards said, yes I'll Buy the
gfq,I.needed money to pay the insurance on our house. insurance or real estate taxes, I don't remember which.
In 1987,if memory serves, I found a Barbed "Hardin" that i sold for $500 dollars.
I told Bobby Onkin , that I had found an amazing Hardin piece. I needed money for the local real estate taxes, . $500 seamed like lot to ask back then.. Bobby said, I'll buy it! , he pulled off his belt, unzipped it and handed me $5 /$100 bills..I wondered if I should have asked more ,Onkin proceeded to drop the Hardin on the aluminum fisher strip under the car door right after he handed me 5/$100 dollar bills.. hard to believe but it didn't hurt or damage the point. He sold it a couple of weeks later to "Ollie Schravanie for$. 2,000. It last sold to Dodd DeCamp, a multi-millionaire collector for approximately $35,000 Dollars in .Texas
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I found most of them between 1972 and 1987. During that time period I sold 4 of my best artifacts; a perfect and very symmetrical ferruginous quartz hourglass bannerstone in perfect condition.. I sold it in 1982 when we had 2 children and no work, and no vehicle, I received a 1979 Chevrolet Monza with 50 or 60 thousand miles on it, plus $400 cash, which we needed to pay the tax, title, license, and insurance for the vehicle. (Bobby Onken , who has made his millions buying and selling artifacts made the deal with me. There was enough cash left over to purchase a carpet cleaning machine and put an advertisement in the local paper to advertise my new work. We made a living for a few years but just barely getting by, cleaning carpets, planting a big garden (and doing a lot of canning), eating venison and "caught" fish, paying for heat bills and buying Christmas presents for our children with coon hides, etc..
Sometime in the mid 80's I sold a nice little heavily resharpened "dovetail" (St. Charles) point made from a solid grayish-black lithic material with bright solid yellow inclusions, along with a 3 and 1/8th inch Barbed Hardin, made of Brown County Chert, (a particular local "Payson chert" quarrie(s) unknown.
I asked a mere $150 way back then and Kenny Edwards said, yes I'll Buy the
gfq,I.needed money to pay the insurance on our house. insurance or real estate taxes, I don't remember which.In 1987,if memory serves, I found a Barbed "Hardin" that i sold for $500 dollars.
I told Bobby Onkin , that I had found an amazing Hardin piece. I needed money for the local real estate taxes, . $500 seamed like lot to ask back then.. Bobby said, I'll buy it! , he pulled off his belt, unzipped it and handed me $5 /$100 bills..I wondered if I should have asked more ,Onkin proceeded to drop the Hardin on the aluminum fisher strip under the car door right after he handed me 5/$100 dollar bills.. hard to believe but it didn't hurt or damage the point. He sold it a couple of weeks later to "Ollie Schravanie for$. 2,000. It last sold to Dodd DeCamp, a multi-millionaire collector for approximately $35,000 Dollars in .Texas
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