nice knife?

[jerseyben]

So last night I TRADED with a friend at the local coin club. He got a pile of coins and I got this awesome Indian Artifact. I was told it could be from Southern Delaware and that it is a knife. Looks fairly complete and it is still sharp! As soon as we finalized the trade, another person at the coin club offered $75 for it (I declined)!

I only have a basic knowledge of Indian Artifacts but I love them! What do you think of this one?

 

[DigIron2]

Good decline!I believe he would have got you big time on that one.I would take a shot at it,but I will leave that to the experts!I am still on the basic level myself.I do believe it is a very nice BIG knife!

 

[quito]

Welcome to this side of the forum!

I hope the pile of coin wasn't to big.

I understand the excitement of getting into NA artifacts, but I seriously doubt that that is a piece worth those kind of dollars in today's market.

 

[rock]

Call the person back that offered $75 for it and take it. It was a good offer for you and not the person that offered. Its a nice knife but $75 was more than fair

 

[DigIron2]

Call the person back that offered $75 for it and take it. It was a good offer for you and not the person that offered. Its a nice knife but $75 was more than fair

Really?I would think a piece like that would at least be in the lower hundreds.The market must have really dropped!

 

[Tnmountains]

It looks perfect to me JerseyBen. Hard to put a price on something until they figure out the "type". It could easily command $75.00 to a local collector. Kind of looks like maybe a corner notch like a "Benton" not sure if they have them there? It is sure older than any coins that is for sure.
Hopefully someone that knows typology will chime in
HH

 

[redbeardrelics]

I would agree that it is a very nice large knife. I surface hunt for artifacts a little bit in southern Delaware, and could not confirm or deny that your piece came from there. The style and material do not look familiar to me, but that should be taken with a grain of salt. Southern Delaware artifacts are predominantly made from relatively small cobbles that were deposited by the ancestral Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, long ago, and thus most chipped stone artifacts there are on the small side. The larger knives are usually made of jasper mined in northern Delaware or in PA, Rhyolite which came from across the Chesapeake Bay in northern MD and southern PA, or from "Ironstone" which was mined from a couple small islands in the headwaters of the Chesapeake. If it was found in southern DE it would have good value because chipped artifacts of that size are scarce there.

 

[jerseyben]

To reply to an earlier inquiry, I traded roughly $50 worth of coins for this knife.

 

[Rege-PA]

Nice knife, IMOH it looks like a Hopewell, kind of related to the Snyders, in the last few years there is more mound builder sites and material being discovered in Del.