Indian Arrowheads

-
TrailBeast

TrailBeast

AKA Mopars4us on Youtube
Joined
Mar 11, 2011
Messages
22,373
Reaction score
11,805
Location
Arizona
Any collectors of arrowheads on the board?
I have these 9 arrowheads, and what seems to be a hide scraper (maybe, maybe not)
They have been collected from AZ to the Dakota's mostly, and I was thinking to let them go to someone who will appreciate having them.

They are in AZ, and the long black one is 3 inches (for a size reference)

Any idea what I should ask for them that would be fair and a good deal for a member.

Thanks.
 

Attachments

  • arrowheads.jpg
    60.8 KB · Views: 379
You have some cool points there. It's hard to tell the size but the scraper could be what is called a "thumbnail scraper". Does the bigger point in the lower left have concave grooves running up both sides from the bottom? Just trying to guess age and style. As for price, can't help you. I have a bunch as well, the oldest being 10,000 BP, but no idea of any real value.
 
The wife and I look and have a pretty big collection...And go out looking quite a bit.....We are in the eastern U.S. so I see 3 of those point styles we would not find in this area.....But the rest of the shapes we have in the East....As far as material goes here in PA we have a lot of jasper in this area....Which is like the tan colored point in your upper right pictures.....We have tan, yellow, and red jasper......We also have a lot of crystallite points....Honestly it looks like some good points there....I would say about 100.00-125.00 is a fair price
 
some cool points. I have small collection I started when a kid in s w Ga. I occasionally find a few on the place here in Mo.
I have no clue as to value.
around here, they go at farm sales for practically nothing.
 
I have about a dozen or so. I used to go out and look for them a lot when I was young. I know next to nothing about them but they sit in a case in my closet. I've always liked the smaller ones more just because they seem more delicate.
 
I found this bronze spear point on a beach in Alaska when I was a kid, shown inside a mule shoe so you can gauge size. The early European traders would swap these to the Indians & Eskimos for furs.
 

Attachments

  • spear.JPG
    81.5 KB · Views: 349
gdrill said:
You have some cool points there. It's hard to tell the size but the scraper could be what is called a "thumbnail scraper". Does the bigger point in the lower left have concave grooves running up both sides from the bottom? Just trying to guess age and style. As for price, can't help you. I have a bunch as well, the oldest being 10,000 BP, but no idea of any real value.
Click to expand...

The one you asked about does not have concaves on the sides.
What is "BP"? (Before Pocahontas)?
Sorry, I had to do that. :D




bbrroowwnn said:
The wife and I look and have a pretty big collection...And go out looking quite a bit.....We are in the eastern U.S. so I see 3 of those point styles we would not find in this area.....But the rest of the shapes we have in the East....As far as material goes here in PA we have a lot of jasper in this area....Which is like the tan colored point in your upper right pictures.....We have tan, yellow, and red jasper......We also have a lot of crystallite points....Honestly it looks like some good points there....I would say about 100.00-125.00 is a fair price
Click to expand...

Thanks for the input.
Jasper is a beautiful stone, and was one of my Grandfathers favorites.
He was a rock hound like I have not seen since, and he made spheres from a lot of his samples.
He had approx 150 of them in display cases of just about every stone/glass you could think of.
My absolute favorite was a polished sphere about 4 inches round of golden tiger eye.
 
Alaskan_TA said:
I found this bronze spear point on a beach in Alaska when I was a kid, shown inside a mule shoe so you can gauge size. The early European traders would swap these to the Indians & Eskimos for furs.
Click to expand...

That's really cool.
 
With all the "political correctness" in the world today, B.C. has been changed to B.P. Before present. But Pocahontas sounds good!
 
gdrill said:
With all the "political correctness" in the world today, B.C. has been changed to B.P. Before present. But Pocahontas sounds good!
Click to expand...

I have not heard that until now. Is it the same in the states also or just a thing from our northern neighbors. lol
 
My Grandson is collecting points. His aunt gave him 5 that her inlaws had and him and I found 1 in a field. We always look for them when we
Go places. We have knowledge of Florida points only.
Let me know how much you want for them . Have a book of pictures of Indian points
 
Cool points Greg! I've tried to search and find them, but I have never had any luck. Wish I could give you some info on them, best of luck.
 
I have some that I found in fields up here. I have not looked into buying any but have seen them at sale tables in tractor shows. The price I have seen on them at shows is 5 to 7 dollars each.
 
I was helping the paleontologists from the Royal Tyrrel Museum do some digging at a site here in Southern Alberta. I brought a few of my pieces out to show them. It was at that time I heard the statement. It removes religion from the date and makes it specific to the year 1950. Common Era I have heard as well, but it is still generally based on a "religious" date.

http://archaeology.about.com/od/bterms/g/bp.htm
 
megajoltman said:
I have a few arrow heads and also this.......
Click to expand...

thats cool- an axe head or a net weight?

to the OP I usually see arrowheads go for around $10-40 each. The long black obsidian one may be worth more. Hard to say.

Ive only found 2 in my life....it's a cool feeling to pick one up
 
I have never bought any myself, the ones I have are the ones I or my family picked up the day we all went rock flipping, they are all over the place here and it's fun looking for a good one ( with all points intacked ) Allot of these I see at auctions and many are not old, they are still being hand made today by native Americans.
I have about three rock flippers I use and let friend use, I made them out of old cheep golf clubs, I cut the club head off and put a good size nail in the end of it and walk looking for them, when I think I see one I use it to flip the rock out of the sandy soil so I don't have to bend over all the time. :glasses7:
We wait till a field is turned over by a farmer and wait for a good first rain :) This washes the dirt off the stones to be seen from 10 feet away at times :cheers: It's allot of fun searching.
yes I collect them but I have never bought one, mine I picked up or a family member handed down to me that they picked up :glasses7:
 
crj1968 said:
thats cool- an axe head or a net weight?

to the OP I usually see arrowheads go for around $10-40 each. The long black obsidian one may be worth more. Hard to say.

Ive only found 2 in my life....it's a cool feeling to pick one up
Click to expand...

Looks like a real nice axe to me....Yes that long black obsidian one would be the most valuable of all you have pictured.....
 
I am an archaeologist by trade. You have some real nice artifacts. Sorry I can't help you on price. As a professional I can't sell artifacts so I am not familiar with value. We either give them to the landowner, or the state if the landowner does not want them when working on private lands. If on Federal lands we leave them or they go to the agency.
 
I talked with a guy at work that collects and looks for points every day h
Is off work. He said a good price would be $50.00 they might be worth more but he doesn't collect anything but Florida points.
So I offer 50.00 to add them to my grandsons collection
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
-

Back
Top