Best knife/blade I found

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

Hello, I haven't posted on here for sometime, but I've found enough to fill some cases !
This one I found Tuesday the 25th. Ive posted it on Artifact sites & have had many ideas on what it is Preform/Knife? Type?All I know is its one of the best pieces I think I've ever found!

Your ideas would be helpful!

Thanks,

 

[newnan man]

That is a beauty and it has great flaking. You didn't say what state it was found in but it looks like a 1st stage Cobbs blade to me. Very nice.

 

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

That is a beauty and it has great flaking. You didn't say what state it was found in but it looks like a 1st stage Cobbs blade to me. Very nice.

Sorry, NE KS, & thats what some of the thoughts were. Also Dovetail preform? or Calf creek preform ? But some were a well made knife.
Thanks 😄

 

[newnan man]

Sorry, NE KS, & thats what some of the thoughts were. Also Dovetail preform? or Calf creek preform ? But some were well made knife.

The flaking is so nice I'm not thinking preform. Very nice knife blade at the least.

 

[Goldfinger450]

Very Nice, I see some pressure flaking and I think fire treated? the man was a Master maker, not to say that some women in certain tribes did a lot of flaking and making as good as any mans work.

 

[Tdog]

Great find! Maybe this too...

North Bi-Face

Description of the North Bi-Face

www.projectilepoints.net

 

[newnan man]

Great find! Maybe this too...

North Bi-Face

Description of the North Bi-Face

www.projectilepoints.net

That looks dead on.

 

[Up-North]

Yes on the north blade, and that’s a fine one. Many also call it a preform to the Snyder… yours is a top notch example I.m.o……👍

 

[Tdog]

I don't put a 100% faith in what I read in Overstreet but there's a note in there indicating that the North blades (Woodland period) may be Snyders preforms with which they are contemporaneous as well as with Hopewell. I have read that somewhere else as well. Surely evidence exists of this if it is true. I just can't put my finger on it but it seems like they have been found in caches w/Snyders.

Edit: You got yours in before I finished and saved mine Up-North! That may be the best example of a North biface that I've ever seen. Congrats.

 

[Tnmountains]

Fantastic piece Demon Cat Spacer! Looks like a cobbs knife to me. I have one just like it if you would like to see.
Very nice!

 

[UnderMiner]

Beutiful!

 

[dougachim]

Nice.

 

[sandchip]

That's a smoker, Cat! North was the first thought to hit me, too.

 

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

Fantastic piece Demon Cat Spacer! Looks like a cobbs knife to me. I have one just like it if you would like to see.
Very nice!

Yes that would be great 😊

 

[Tnmountains]

I do not know now as I get mine out. Yours has a more uniform flaking but they both show some secondary edge work.
Yours is a lot nicer and uniform than the one I found.
Here is mine.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Very pretty,both of them.I know very little about this,but I can see they,re something special.

 

[DemonCatSpaceStar]

I do not know now as I get mine out. Yours has a more uniform flaking but they both show some secondary edge work.
Yours is a lot nicer and uniform than the one I found.
Here is mine.

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That’s a very nice one!😊

 

[newnan man]

I do not know now as I get mine out. Yours has a more uniform flaking but they both show some secondary edge work.
Yours is a lot nicer and uniform than the one I found.
Here is mine.

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That one is very nice. The big difference is yours seems to have been used more and resharpened. Cat stars is 1st. stage. Both are excellent.

 

[Up-North]

Demoncatspacestar… here’s a few pics.
The single(with the quarter) I’m typing as a north blade… the other pic.(with the3)I’m typing as cobbs… cobbs are always beveled, except the first stage, my bottom piece is not beveled, I’m typing it as a first stage cobbs.. I could be wrong… your piece also appears to be heat treated.. if so, I believe it to be a north blade… heat treating started in the mid archaic period.
The cobbs is much older than the north..
Just my 2cents.. hope this helps..✌️

 

[crashbandicoot]

Demoncatspacestar… here’s a few pics.
The single(with the quarter) I’m typing as a north blade… the other pic.(with the3)I’m typing as cobbs… cobbs are always beveled, except the first stage, my bottom piece is not beveled, I’m typing it as a first stage cobbs.. I could be wrong… your piece also appears to be heat treated.. if so, I believe it to be a north blade… heat treating started in the mid archaic period.
The cobbs is much older than the north..
Just my 2cents.. hope this helps..✌️View attachment 2006595View attachment 2006596View attachment 2006597

Nice ones,thanks for sharing that.I,m learning and this is most helpful!