My buddy's Clovis point find brings $69,000 at auction!
Everybody likes a good story especially if it's true. I'm fortunate to live in an area that was heavily occupied by archaic, Mississippian, and Woodland cultures,and you can add to that a fair amount of paleo and even some Hopewell. This post is about a recent "sold",not a recent find. In 1979 after having pounded the fields for many years I found what is often called these days an "elite museum quality artifact". In 1982(?) a classmate of mine found an elite piece also however he hadn't even walked an hour in a plowed field all his life, that's right it was his first experience at arrowhead hunting! Needless to say he stuck with it. I sold my piece in 1982 and have recently misplaced all my pictures of it as we've been remodeling the house. So this morning I decided to do an internet search with my name and a description the artifact. I clicked on an auction news site that looked promising and started scrolling down until I found the artifact listings. Unfortunately the pink banner listed wasn't mine but got to looking at this sugar Quartz Clovis and thought "HOLY SHITE!" That's Ron's piece gotta be, it's even listed as found in my Township. After running the snowblower for a few hours I hit the road to see if I could locate my old friend. I did and he had no clue about the auction. He had sold the piece years ago and the last he had heard was that it had been resold several years ago for $35grand. He dug out some of his better finds while we visited and talked about the good old days before no-till farming. I took some pics.while talking so not the best. All but three are his own personal finds. The sugar Quartz dovetail was his only bought piece (I've never seen a sugar qrtz. Dove before, how about you all?),his dad found the neat looking scalloped scraper and a couple of the medium sized knives. The axe is just shy of 8lbs., and the Clovis with the provenance paper is of course a synthetic reproduction of the original. HAPPY HUNTING!
Everybody likes a good story especially if it's true. I'm fortunate to live in an area that was heavily occupied by archaic, Mississippian, and Woodland cultures,and you can add to that a fair amount of paleo and even some Hopewell. This post is about a recent "sold",not a recent find. In 1979 after having pounded the fields for many years I found what is often called these days an "elite museum quality artifact". In 1982(?) a classmate of mine found an elite piece also however he hadn't even walked an hour in a plowed field all his life, that's right it was his first experience at arrowhead hunting! Needless to say he stuck with it. I sold my piece in 1982 and have recently misplaced all my pictures of it as we've been remodeling the house. So this morning I decided to do an internet search with my name and a description the artifact. I clicked on an auction news site that looked promising and started scrolling down until I found the artifact listings. Unfortunately the pink banner listed wasn't mine but got to looking at this sugar Quartz Clovis and thought "HOLY SHITE!" That's Ron's piece gotta be, it's even listed as found in my Township. After running the snowblower for a few hours I hit the road to see if I could locate my old friend. I did and he had no clue about the auction. He had sold the piece years ago and the last he had heard was that it had been resold several years ago for $35grand. He dug out some of his better finds while we visited and talked about the good old days before no-till farming. I took some pics.while talking so not the best. All but three are his own personal finds. The sugar Quartz dovetail was his only bought piece (I've never seen a sugar qrtz. Dove before, how about you all?),his dad found the neat looking scalloped scraper and a couple of the medium sized knives. The axe is just shy of 8lbs., and the Clovis with the provenance paper is of course a synthetic reproduction of the original. HAPPY HUNTING!
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Yakker
thanks for taking the time to type out this very good story nice read I enjoyed it !!!
