Found this several years back in Northern Al. in a field along with several other nice points, question is this a ceremonial piece? Thanks in advance
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lRandylInlOhiol said:What would make people think that what you have is fake? I mean you did say you found in a field were other relics were also found ..Cmon people the question wasent '' Is it real or fake !!!! I hope its one of a kindpete83 said:Would age not have something to do with that theory? I only posted that I found this several years ago,actually it was 36 yrs ago. My father was doing some dozer work for a man, and my brother and I asked to look in a field he had just plowed the following day,this is in a very rural area with few people close by and back then it would have been very hard for someone to have accessed his property,That being said were people "salting" that many years back? Just doesn't seem likely to me being the time period this piece was found. I truly appreciate the input. But know it seems I have a dilemma , if no authenticator will actually authenticate it as suggested, What should I do Just forget about it?
Wait something dont look right about them Arrowheads .. Nice collection you have there,now tell me were i can find someDorkFish said:lRandylInlOhiol said:What would make people think that what you have is fake? I mean you did say you found in a field were other relics were also found ..Cmon people the question wasent '' Is it real or fake !!!! I hope its one of a kindpete83 said:Would age not have something to do with that theory? I only posted that I found this several years ago,actually it was 36 yrs ago. My father was doing some dozer work for a man, and my brother and I asked to look in a field he had just plowed the following day,this is in a very rural area with few people close by and back then it would have been very hard for someone to have accessed his property,That being said were people "salting" that many years back? Just doesn't seem likely to me being the time period this piece was found. I truly appreciate the input. But know it seems I have a dilemma , if no authenticator will actually authenticate it as suggested, What should I do Just forget about it?
What makes people question whether it's a reproduction or not is the fact that like I stated above 99.999999999% of these pieces are fakes and were mass produced to sell as tourist items years ago and then somehow always manage to make it into someones collection whose grandpa swears he found it in a field years ago, and he may have, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't bought at a tourist gift shop and then subsequently lost by some kid playing with it in the field only to be found 20 years later by someone hunting the field.
I have a point that I personally found in a field back in 1979 that is a huge very highly polished blade that just doesn't fit into any typology of my area. It has a semi-lunate base similar to a whales tail and I have never seen one like it anywhere. I found this piece in a field right next to some houses where there were always kids playing around and in the fields and on occasion they would follow me through the field as I hunted. I have been told many times that the piece is a reproduction and more that likely made of clay or a resin, but the only way to find out is to break it and see what is inside and I'm not going to do that. I have had it checked by an authenticator and even though he found deposits all over it, he still said it was probably modern and had just been in the field for a while. I truly believe it was bought at a gift shop, probably out west somewhere and then while some kid was playing with it he lost it and I came along years later and found it.
Here is a picture of it in the center of this tray. If you could hold it you could see what I'm talking about. It just doesn't fit any type I've ever seen anywhere and it just doesn't feel right, but I will continue to display it because I did find it in a field and good or not it will stay in the tray where it has been the past 29 years.