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   239.   9” x 1 Ύ” Wonderful Ivory Handle Silver Decorated Dag Knife in original leather sheath, knife has old collectors label reads Collection E. Boban and antiquary A Paris, France #464 accompanying Wiki Pedia Description outlines the Life of early archaeologist antiquarian 1834-1908, he was part of Maxmillion – First Mexican Scientific Court

   240.   6 ½” x 3 ½” Black on Black San Idlefonso Pottery Bowl signed Marie and Santana, Midwest Institution – Nice!

   241.   80” Hand Hewn N. W. Coast Whaling Harpoon intricately Carved Ivory Haft and Harpoon Head, all original, intact, Ex. Earl Duncan Collection – Early Noted North West Collector – Sale Highlight!

   242.   68” Hand Hewn Buffalo lance – 14” Hand Forged Double Notch Iron Blade Hafted with iron bolster ring and stitched rawhide casing – haft has old break off opposite head end – heavily worn after break

   243.   Dealer’s Special Bag of 50 assorted Midwest Points – longest 4”

   244.   Lot of 50 Midwest Points – longest 3 ½”

   245.   Lot of 50 Midwest Points – longest 3 Ό”

   246.   Lot of 50 Midwest Points – longest 3”

   247.   6 Ύ” Ύ Groove Granite Axe – Licking Co. Ohio – Bit Damage

   248.   5” diameter Granite Stone Bowl – with lugs, Hartford, Conn.

   249.   15 Misc. Artifacts – Cone, Tube Pipe, etc… all Midwest

   250.   9 Misc. Hardstone Artifacts – all Midwest

   251.   5 Calif. Charmstones – one complete, 2 drilled/broken and glued – 2 broken at hole

   252.   3 Florida Drilled Shell Hoes

   253.   4 5/8” Trapezoidal Slate Ohio Pendant

   254.   5 Ό” Hornstone Clovis Point – Knox Co. Ohio – Calvin Howard C.O.A.

   255.   3 ½” Striped Neathers Flint Dovetail Point – Ex. Maurice Meeks Coll.

   256.   5 Ύ” Michigan Ashtabula – Coshocton Flint Point

   257.   4 3/8” Granite Boatstone – Ross Co. Ohio – Midwest Institution, Jackson C.O.A.

   258.   2 1/8” Dia. Engraved Sandstone Discoidal – Scioto Co. Ohio – Grade 9, Putty C.O.A.

   259.   4” Glacial Kame Banded Slate Gorget – Miami Indiana

   260.   3 Ό” Adena Oval Blocked End Tube Pipe – Wyandot Co. Ohio – Limestone, minor restoration on end – Midwest Institution – Jackson C.O.A.

   261.   6 ½” Slate Spear Head – Maine, one of a cache of 14 – Midwest Institution

   262.   5 Ό” 4 Sided Punctated Engraved Iroquois  Pottery Pipe – New York State – Midwest Institution

   263.   1 3/8” Florida Coastal Plains Clovis Point – Putty C.O.A.

   264.   2 5/8” Scotts Bluff Point – Jackson Co. Mo., Baker C.O.A.

   265.   4 1/8” Fine Pick Bannerstone – Ex. Parker-Melvin Collection, Pictured Who’sWho #2 – Jackson C.O.A.

   266.   3” Double Notch Slate Wing Bannerstone – found in Hamilton Co. Ohio in 1886, Midwest Institution – Jackson C.O.A.

   267.   18 ½” Granite Roller Pestle – Miami Co. Ohio

   268.   8 Ύ” Michigan Barbed Axe – Ex. Ken Spalding Collection

   269.   5 ½” Fine raised Ridged Fluted Ύ Groove Polished Axe – Pike Co. Ill.

   270.   7” Dia. Double Cupped Discoidal – Maury Co. Tenn. – very fine granite

   271.   7 Ύ” Fine Polished Maine Hardstone Gouge – Midwest Institution, Jackson C.O.A.

   272.   7 Ό” London Ontario Hardstone Gouge – Jackson C.O.A. – Midwest Institution

   273.   35” x 4” North West Coast Carved Cedar Paddle – Killer Whale Motifs

   274.   15 Ό” x 2” Finely High Relief Carved Walrus Cribbage Board featuring Seal, Halibut and Fish

   275.   18 ½” Carved Bone Handle Side Knife – hand forged blade, suspension hole at top of handle

   276.   18 ½” Hand Carved Bone Snow Scraper made from Rib Bone, old museum number, Midwest Institution

   277.   11” x 4” Intricately Carved Wood Halibut Hook, North West Coast Human Effigy Carving, Cordage Wrapped (very nice!)

   278.   5 ½” x 2 Ύ” Ojibwa Quilled Birch Bark Cigar Case – excellent condition

   279.   Inuit Carved North West Coast Horn Spoon – Abalone Shell Inlaid eyes, Spirit Wolf Effigy – very nice!

   280.   5 x 7 Frame of 5 Handmade North West Coast Bone Items featuring Needle Case, 2 Laberets, Harpoon Head and Seal Effigy

   281.   14 ½” x 7” Eskimo Doll – trimmed with beading

   282.   4 Ύ” Human Effigy Stone – St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

   283.   2 ½” x 3” Woven Lidded Basket with Quill Design North West Coast

   284.   10 ½” x 3 ½” Cheyenne Beaded Bladder Bag – Beaded Rosette, quilled drop bladder multiple moth holes

   285.   11” x 4 ½” Very Intricately Carved Wood Halibut Hook – Wolf Effigy, Cordage wrapped, Fine example

   286.   14 ½” Hand Carved and Painted North West Cedar Totem Pole – Tourist Era

   287.   4 Ό” Hand Carved Narwhal Ivory Effigy – broken tip of tusk

   288.   5 Ύ” x 1” Early Bone and Copper Hook, Fish Lure, North West Coast  

   289.   8 ½” x 2 Ό” 2 Pc. Carved Tlingit Horn Spoon – Spoon Ladle connected to handle by 3 iron pins

   290.   2 1/8” x 1 Ό” Miniature North West Coast Lidded Salish Basket

   291.   8 Ύ” x 3 Ό” Tlingit Hand Carved Whale Effigy – Cedar Gambling Tray used with Gaming Pieces similar to dice game, hand painted, Museum Number, Midwest Institution

   292.   6 Ό” x 1 Ύ” Athabascan Argillite Carving – Raven Shaman with Hupa Hat, Ivory Beak and eyes carved animal effigies on back with pearl inlays

   293.   10 Ύ” x 3 ½” Elaborately Carved North West Coast Large Silver Bowl – Salvaged from a Walking Cane handle with engraved Presentation Dated Oct. 1879, Mother of Pearl Inlays, Museum Quality

   294.   5” Ration Pouch Beaded 2 Birds

   295.   36” Long Bamboo Opium Pipe – Brass Bowl

Townsend Artifacts Lots #296 thru Lot # 307

   296.   8 7/8” Engraved Cloud Blower Tubular Pipe – one of the finest known, Earl called this pipe “The Shooting Star Pipe” Meade Co. Kentucky

   297.   5” Red Slate Birdstone – Lorain Co. Ohio

   298.   4 Ό” Townsend’s “Albino” Birdstone found by Mr. Nordicke, Indiana – Ex. Dillinger Collection – made from white quartz – Townsend T-4066

   299.   4 Ό” Kentucky Lost Lake Point – Metcalf Co. Kentucky

   300.   4 Ό” Flint Ridge Dovetail Point – Licking Co. Ohio – Townsend #415

   301.   5” Dovetail Point – Preble Co. Ohio – Townsend #2171

   302.   5 Ύ” Dovetail Point – Madison Co. Indiana – Townsend #184 Putty C.O.A.

   303.   5” Flint Ridge Dovetail – Greene Co. Ohio – Townsend #414

   304.   3 5/8” Fine Dr. Rolin Bunch Owl Effigy Pipe (Ohio Pipestone) Townsend #1658

   305.   2 7/8” Saddle Back Bannerstone – Jefferson Co. Indiana – Ex. Hull Flemming, Museum Townsend #1877 (Quartz)

   306.   6” Tubular Pipe – Wood Co. Ohio – Townsend T- #125 (Blonde Ohio Pipestone)

   307.   3 Ό” Humped Bannerstone – Green River in Ohio Co. Kentucky – Townsend #B145

   308.   24” x 3 ½” Carved Wood War Paint Mirror – Heart Cut Out, Saw Tooth Top, Suspension hole at handle, old museum label, Midwest Institution

   309.   26” x 9” Hand Forged Pipe Tomahawk – Fire Branded Pewter inlaid, one piece Ash Haft, Suspension Hole for drop, pierced blade

   310.   5 Ό” x 3 Ό” Elaborate Cross of Lorraine Trade Silver Cross – H B Beaver, Quebec Cartouche

   311.   38” (11) Conchos and Buckle – all made from silver halves, strung on brain tanned strip, Navajo Made

   312.   14” x 3 Ό” Beaded Quilled Tapered Rawhide Buck Knife Sheath – edge beaded with original Trade Knife

   313.   9 ½” Hand Made Plains Tobacco Cutting Board carved with Horse and star, 100’s of iron tacks, shows heavy usage

   314.   Bear Jaw Bone – Sasafras Ridge Fulton Co. Kentucky – large incisor still intact was at one time a mask

   315.   5 x 7 Frame with 9 Salvaged Silver Trade Trinkets featuring Owl, Cross and nose bob drops, Nice!

   316.   4” Pair Fossilized Cave Bear Teeth

   317.   5” x 3 Ύ” Blackfoot Beaded Mirror Pouch with original 3 Ύ” x 3” Trade Mirror with silk ribbon ties

   318.   32” x 14” Rare Swoop Design Gunstock Wood War Club – carves Saw Tooth, ring handle, iron pin blade made from rasp

   319.   9 Ύ” x 5” Hand Carved Buffalo Effigy Articulated Front Legs – tail made from Buffalo Hair used by Medicine Man to call back Buffalo

   320.   3 x 5 Frame with 14 Pieces Site Found Trade Silver Trinkets

   321.   4 Ό” Dia. Beaded Peyote Pouch

   322.   4 Ό” x 9” Fantastic Catlinite T Pipe carved Concentric Rings at Base – shows usage

   323.   9 Ό” x 1 ½” Carved Buffalo Horn Spoon – Intricate Carvings on handle

   324.   9” x 2 Ύ” Hand Carved Bison Horn – intricately carved handle – Iowa Tribe – Ex. Payne – O’Leary Collections, Superb Artifact

   325.   (2) 26” x 3” Sinew Sewn, Sinew Beaded Shirt Strips – Sioux

   326.   36” x 5 Ύ” Northern Plains Beaded Pipe Bag – Quilled Slats, major quill loss, overall nice bag

   327.   34” x 4” Sioux Beaded Child’s Blanket Strip made into Belt with Victorian Period Clasp, Trade Felt Back Sinew Sewn Beaded – very nice!

   328.   34” x 6” Shoshone Floral Beaded Pipe Bag – Corn Husk Wrapped Slats – very good condition

   329.   48” Strand of 20 Goose Egg Chevron, 6 Layer Red-White Massive Beads

   330.   40 x 80 Zapatec Salvage Bound Multi Colored Woven Blanket – edge damage

   331.   30 x 36 Trade Cloth Shell Button Blanket North West Coast – Whale Designed

   332.   10 ½” x 3 ½” Rawhide Lined Beaded Sheath Flattened Tin Cones, Sinew Beaded with Original Trade Knife

   333.   (2) painted Arrows – one iron, one obsidian, trip no fletching

   334.   24 x 6 Human Effigy Carved Ball Club – stamped Property Buffalo Bill Wild West, used as Show Prop – Jackson C.O.A.

   335.   40” Strand 6 Layer Red, White & Blue Chevron Beads

   336.   13” x 2 ½” Beaded Rawhide Beaded Knife Sheath – Geometric Pattern, Red Horse Hair Drop, original Trade nail

   337.   6 ½” x 4 Ό” Beaded Ration Pouch Sinew Sewn, Trade Cloth lined Buffalo Hide

   338.   12” Wade and Butcher Sheffield Bowie Knife – ivory handle, silver hardware, silver mounted sheath

   339.   Buffalo Vertebrae with imbedded iron point – South Dakota

   340.   11 x 9 Beaded Trinket Bag – Yukon

   341.   17” x 3” Kukhrt Knife with utensils and sewing kit, original leather sheath

   342.   5” Beaded Peyote Pouch – Muslin Lined South West

   343.   9” x 3” Pair of Youth Sioux Moccasins – sinew sewn, beaded geometric design – minor bead loss

   344.   Massive Strand Carnelian Trade Beads – Ivory Coast, Africa

   345.   Early Pair Bear Skin Gloves – some hair loss, good condition

   346.   48” Hand Hewn Wood Bow – rawhide quiver, 2 metal tipped arrows, original string

   347.   8 Ύ”  Ύ Groove Trophy Axe – Bristol Co. Mass. – Partain-Putty C.O.A.’s

   348.   7 Ύ” Raised Ridge Diorite Hohokam Axe - Maricopa Co. Arizona

   349.   6 Ύ” Rare Double Groove Full Groove Axe – Northern Indiana – 2 C.O.A.’s

   350.   7 Ύ” Full Grooved Axe – Miami Co. Indiana – 2 C.O.A.’s

   351.   7 Ό” Trophy Axe Full Groove – Scioto Co. Ohio – Grade 10 – Putty C.O.A.

   352.   8 Ό” Fine Ύ Groove Axe – King Co. Mass. – 2 C.O.A.’s  

   353.   7 ½” Keokuk Axe ½ Groove found Wappelo Co. Iowa – Rare, Grade 10, C.O.A.

   354.   10” Michigan Barb Axe – dinged bit, Branch Co. Michigan

   355.   4 Ύ” Ύ Groove Highly Polished Ohio Axe – Shelby Co. Ohio

   356.   5 Ό” Full Grooved Heavily Polished Axe – Hamilton Co. Ohio

   357.   5 Ό” Sided Mass. Faceted Celt – Bristol Co. Mass.

   358.   4 Ύ” Double Sided Gouge – Granby Co. Conn. (Rare!)

   359.   2 Ό” Dia. Black Diorite Discoidal – Madison Co. Ill.

   360.   7 ½” Dia. Pudding Stone Double Nippled Discoidal – Hamilton Co. Tenn. (nice!)

   361.   6 3/8” Stone Conn. Gouge –Midwest Institution – Jackson C.O.A.

   362.   3 Madison Co. Ill. Discoidals – largest 2 Ύ” dia.

   363.   Rare 6 Ό” Ύ Groove Expanded Bit Granite Axe – Iowa

   364.   3” Dia. Porphory Ill. Discoidal – 2 C.O.A.’s

   365.   3 ½” Quadro Concave Banded Slate Gorget – Seneca Co. Ohio – Ex. Dr. Meuser – 2132 over 5 – Davis C.O.A.

   366.   5” Rare Cannel Coal Hopewell Expanded Gorget – Delaware, Delaware Co. Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

   367.   4 ½” Fine Glacial Kame Fan Tail Birdstone – Logan Co. Ohio – Ex. Townsend Coll. – Grade 9 – Davis C.O.A.

   368.   4” Ridge Banded Slate Gorget – Ontario Canada – Midwest Institution – Jackson C.O.A.

   369.   3 Ό” Sonora Quad Point – Scott Co. Kentucky

   370.   4 Ύ” Hopewell Oval Gorget – Butler Co. Ohio – Jackson C.O.A.

   371.   2 1/8” Ridged Banded Slate Bannerstone – Union Co. Indiana – Jackson C.O.A.

   372.   6 ½” Catlinite Relief Carved T Bowl Pipe – Nebraska – Ex. Ed Payne – B.W. Stevens Collection – Very Fine

   373.   4” Banded Slate Quadro Concave Gorget – Crawford Co. Ohio, 1304 –W Ex. Wherle Collection – Davis Grade 9 – C.O.A.

   374.   4 Ύ” Fine Steatite Engraved Cloud Blower Pipe – pictured Who’s Who #2- Ex. Parker – Melvin Collection

   375.   3 Ό” Mayan Serpentine Locust or Bug Effigy – Grade 9 – Putty C.O.A.

   376.   2 ½” Bird Effigy Steatite Pipe – Bristol Conn. – Midwest Institution – Jackson C.O.A.

   377.   2 15/16” Dalton Smith Co. Tenn., Buffalo River Chert – Grade 10, Putty C.O.A.

   378.   4 Ό” Trapezoidal Exotic Pendant with tally marks, Darke Co. Ohio – Jackson C.O.A.

   379.   5” Illinois Dovetail – Cass Co. Burlington Flint

   380.   3 1/8” Thebes Point – Striped Coshocton Flint, Knox Co. Ohio (2 C.O.A.’s)

   381.   12 x 18 Frame with Fox Field Artifacts found 1960 by Sonny Atkinson on Fox Field Site Mason Co. Kentucky – 21 Artifacts sic 4 ½” shell pendant, 7” long deer trigger awl, 3” Sonora Blade

   382.   8 x 12 Frame with 18 Artifacts pictured on page 149 Ohio Archaeologist Vol. 20 #1 Winter 1970, 11 Pcs. Flint, 2 Fine Hairpins, shell spoon, 2 raccoon penis etc…

   383.   2 Bone Necklaces – Gold Camp Site, Scioto Co. Ohio, one is 20” long, the other 13” long

   384.   8 x 12 Frame Fine 5” Otter Effigy Bone Pendant also a 22” Strand of Turkey Bone Beads

   385.   8 x 12 Frame with 4 Bone Tools and 2 Strands Shell Beads – longest strand 16”

Dealers Special: The Following Frames are from the Terry Allen Collection

   386.   12 x 18 Wood Frame with 51 Midwestern Points – longest 2 7/8”

   387.   12 x 18 Frame 18 Ill and Mo. Points – longest 6 Ό” long

   388.   12 x 18 Frame 10 Points – longest 6 Ό”

   389.   12 x 18 (20) Points – longest 6 Ό” long – this frame has 2 Rechipped Points and 1 contemporary Crescent Point

   390.   12 x 18 Frame (20) Points – longest 5 Ό”

   391.   12 x 18 (21) Points – longest 4 ½” long – one rechipped and 1 contemporary point

   392.   12 x 18 (23) Midwest Points – longest 5 Ό” long

   393.   12 x 18 Frame (17) Midwest Points – longest 5 Ό”

   394.   12 x 18 (24) Midwest Points – longest 5 Ό”

   395.   12 x 18 Frame 26 Midwest Points – longest 5 7/8”

   396.   12 x 18 Frame 15 Midwest Points – longest 5 3/8”

   397.   12 x 18 Frame 22 Midwest Points – longest 5 5/8”

   398.   10” x 24” Oak Frame with 32 Points – some rechipped, some broken & glued (7 are contemporary)

   399.   12 x 18 Frame 23 Artifacts – the longest 4 ½” – frame includes 8 rechipped and 5 contemporary points

   400.   30 Points – longest 3 Ύ” -80% of these points are contemporary

   401.   12 x 18 Frame 22 Points – 5 points are of Burlington, one rechipped, others restored – the longest 5 Ύ”

   402.   12 x 18 Frame Midwest Flint – longest 4 Ό” – mostly rechipped

   403.   6 x 8 Frame 10’ Strand Mayan Shell Beads with 2” Pottery Effigy Bead

   404.   9 x 12 Frame of 6 Illinois/Missouri Points – the longest 5” long, 1 is rechipped

   405.   12 x 15 Frame (Wooden) consisting of 17 Midwestern Points – the longest being 4 Ό”

   406.   8 x 12 Frame consisting of 20 Ohio Points – longest 2 ½”

   407.   8 x 12 Frame of 6 Rechipped Obsidian Points

   408.   3 Stone Tools – 1 Full Groove Axe and 2 Celts – all Ohio

   409.   10 x 14 Oak Frame of 11 Restored Kentucky Points – longest 4”

   410.   8 x 12 Frame with 8 Fine Florida Points – longest 4” – one rechipped point in frame

   411.   8 x 12 Frame with 19 Ohio Points – all various counties – longest 3 Ό”

   412.   9 x 9 Fossilized Walrus Skull

   413.   40” x 7 ½” Crow Shooting Bag trade cloth lined, key hole trade cloth drop

   414.   48” x 1 Ύ” Hand Hewn Painted Bow

   415.   54” x 2” Hand Hewn Long Bow

   416.   24” x 10” Unique Plains War Stone Club – Beaded Drop Massive Stone Head with concentric rings

   417.   38” x 2 Ύ” Crow Beaded Belt Tack Belt, minor bead loss on harness leather – great patination

   418.   19” x 2 ½” Stone Head War Club – rawhide wrapped – Ex. Litchfield Collection

   419.   24” Rawhide Wrapped Stone Bolos – twisted rawhide thongs, very good condition

   420.   11” x 5 ½” Painted Hopi Gourd Rattle

   421.   8 ½” Rare Two Faced Double Bowl Pipe found Dickerson Co. Tenn.- Jackson C.O.A. Midwest Institution

   422.   40” Strand Clear Mandril Wound Trade Beads – graduated strands

   423.   26” x 3 ½” Ute Beaded Strip Sinew Sewn Old Museum Number on back

   424.   30” x 2 ½” Sinew Beaded Sioux Shirt Strip on Buffalo Hide, good condition

   425.   24” x 4” Stone Headed Club – nice beaded drop, bead wrapped rawhide laced – great color