Carter Cave Blade - #6-1

Size: 4" long x 1 7/16" wide.

Provenance: Purchased by Jeff Smith at a Frankfort, Indiana farm sale held in June 1992.

Condition: Excellent. Killer workmanship on this early form that is more transitional paleo than Cobbs. Material is lightly toned Carter Cave that has done some long travelling to end up North of Indianapolis.

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

Western Agate Knife - #6-2

Size: 2 3/4" long x 2 1/4" wide.

Provenance: Cool Story Alert- This piece was found in the Arizona desert by a soldier stationed at a WWI camp for soldiers returning home from the war. Name to buyer.

Condition: Good. Made thick with a unifaced side. Value is in the material, and story. I am pretty sure material is some type of Western Agate, and a big chunk of it.

Price: $50

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Flint Ridge Uniface Tool - #6-3

Size: 2 3/4" long x 1 7/8" wide.

Provenance: From an old time Clark County, Ohio collection.

Condition: Excellent. Heavily patinated Flint Ridge uniface with several areas of fine edgework. Piece has a great ergonomic feel in your hand. If the science is right on these guys, it might have been used to butcher mammoths.

Price: $25. REDUCED

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Indiana Green Blade - #6-4

Size: 2 3/4" long x 2 3/16" wide.

Provenance: Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

Condition: Good. This is a rock that buy for the material. Great deep green striped with even a hint of purple. In my opinion, this is the best material to outcrop in the state of Indiana.

Price: $40

Northern Kentucky Cobbs Knife - #6-5

Size: 3 5/8" long x 1 3/4" wide.

Provenance: Northern Kentucky. X: Hollan.

Condition: Super. Tip isn't quite perfect, but it is all there. Material is a high grade Fort Payne. Nice little bevel with some great flaking.

Price: $125

Flint Ridge Moss Agate Blade - #6-6

Size: 2 11/16" long x 1 3/8" wide.

Provenance: From an old time Clark County, Ohio collection.

Condition: Good. I am calling the crescent shaped cut out a spokeshave. I see work in the area, and it has the right shape and location to be one. This piece is made from the best of the best Ohio material, and probably the rarest. Moss agate with enough translucency that you can see my skin behind it in the picture.

Price: $75

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Large, Colorful, and Killer Posey County, Indiana Blade - #6-7

Size: 4" long x 2 3/4" wide.

Provenance: Found in Posey County, Indiana. Sticker #368 indicates this piece was collected right about 1900.

Condition: Excellent. This blade is huge in hand. It is made from a high grade material I cannot identify that has large crystal quartz inclusions like Flint Ridge, and colored somewhat like Kaolin. It is very well made, and much thinner than you would expect for a piece of its size.

Price: $200

Other Side: Note- There is a little glue on this side that I didn't remove.

Broken Paleo Blade - #6-8

Size: 5 5/16" long x 1 1/4" wide.

Provenance: Illinois. Marked with a "4". X: Schryver.

Condition: Broken. This one falls into a weird category. Piece is an incredible Paleo Blade with unreal flaking and a classic 45 degree base flake. Only problem is that it is broken(ARGH!!). Only redemption is that no material is missing, and it can easily be put back together. $1000 blade if complete.

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

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Indiana "Hand Drill" - #6-9

Size: 5 3/8" long x 1 1/4" wide.

Provenance: Indiana. Early, possible 1800's collection of CP. If anyone recognizes this mark, please contact me.

Condition: Excellent. I am calling it a "hand drill", b/c that is what it says on the piece. I like it when prehistoric man took the time to label what they used a piece for. Seriously, there is wear across the center ridge consistent with drill or reaming use. Huge drill!!

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

"Surface Area" Blade - #6-10

Size: 4 7/8" long x 2 7/8" wide.

Provenance: Henry County, Indiana.

Condition: Excellent. Killer two sided patina on this giant hand filler. I call it the surface area blade b/c of the large length and width. I guess it is a first stage cobbs knife. Easy call would be Fort Payne on the material, but I am not so sure.

Price: $150

Other Side: Notice the color difference.

Crescent Shaped Blade - #6-11

Size: 2 3/8" long x 1 1/16" wide.

Provenance: Found Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1958.

Condition: Excellent. This piece didn't picture well. In hand, it is extremely well made, thin, and a very interesting shape. I lean towards it being part of the bi-point tradition of the Fort Ancient culture.

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

Sonora Flint Blade - #6-12

Size: 3 3/4" long x 1 5/8" wide.

Provenance: Lost my records. I had this piece for sale a ways back, and a buyer reserved it. They never followed through, but I took down the listing. Somewhere in that process I lost the information.

Condition: Super. Killer colored Sonora Flint with possible ochre staining. Maybe part of a larger cache of blades. Two small bullseyes that almost look like a pair of eyes.

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

Bullseye Blade - #6-13

Size: 1 3/4" long x 1 3/8" wide.

Provenance: Estate collection from the Frankfort, Indiana area.

Condition: Excellent. Small blade, but not lacking in major character. I think material is a very light Indiana Hornstone. The prehistoric maker might have had a cocktail or two when he made the bullseye off center. I always thought they put the bullseye only in the center.

Price: $SOLD> THANK YOU>

More slate eyes watching the fakers.