lets see some color

im new here and would like to see some colorfull points from other areas. i'll start with a killer levy from north florida

This is the best I could come up with.. sad I know.... I know people will kick my butt with really nice colored pieces but this is mine.

 Nice stuff guys! Soon I will be able to post something of color for you. I had my hands on a nice 6" Hardin from southern IL. today, but didn't have my camera. I will see it again tomorrow and I'll get a pic. for all of you and post it when I can.
   badandy

those are nice, i love looking at points from other areas. i only collect from florida and we have a rainbow of colors. the coral can be just about any color when heat treated, same with the cherts. in the archaic periods they started "cooking" the material to make it more workable and the natural oils in the fossilized coral or chert would change the colors

heres a thonosassa pointfrom the early archaic peroid(7000-5500 BC) . you can see the fossilized shell in the one on the left

My all time favorite.... the eye goes all the way through and is the same on the other side.

http://www.converseauction.com/

Jacksreef point found in central Vermont

Not sure what this type is .... found on lake shore in Vermont

This one was found a few yards away from last pic on lake shore in Vermont

Most colors here in VT. are Blacks, Grays , Browns

and another

and another Vt. point

Here is a nice one

A recent find in July

and one of my Fav
Black rock concave

and then this any takers???

Morning,


OK....now I am officially ILL................Those are fabulous.   I am always hesitant to purchase obsidian points due to the amount of fake ones.   I just cant tell the difference and you don't find obsidian in any quantity in Louisiana, but those are nice specimens and look quite genuine to me.  You have indeed been busy.  Yep, I'll take if you are giving.....LOL.

Happy Hunting

Atlantis

wow, that's all I can say. Nice stuff-

Here are a few of my colorful ones. I am slowly figuring out how to work my little sisters digital camera. So bear with me.
Finally some pics for you instead of stories. All are surface finds.

Thanks

xstevenx

Thanks
I've been huntung for more then half of my life, All of the one's posted I found with my family, I too, also have a hard time buying relic's beacuse I like to know the providence of where it came from, I have hunted mostly on the west coast but I have ventured to the mid west a time or too, I will post more I have a couple others

Thonotosassa Beaver Lake Florida stuff. Some of my color stuff.

Here is a nice one, I own it but A friend of mine has had it for about 2 years now I sure would like it back someday

That is a super nice knife, great color.
Here are 2 from Florida.

So so jealous, will try to post some of my meager Mass and MI ones when I get home.

Here is a couple for now, too cold to sneak ot to get the rest. 27 brrrrrrrrrrr

newnan man, thats a screamer beaver lake, i bet im close to you, i'm around gainesville

I lived in Tallahassee, born in Ft. Walton. I used to search wherever I was working on construction sites. I was accused on this site of being an academic, what a laugh I had with that.
   I'm supposed to start on another job soon (construction of a mall ) in Winter Garden. That will be near off Lake Apopka so I hope to find some things there. I live on the East Coast now. I've worked on some buildings at Florida U. and used to search in Hogtown Creek. Mostly sharks teeth!  Good luck!


Hogtown creek stuff

Did someone say Florida? Here are a couple of my better points from down there....

Anybody know what type of material the left point is made from?
 

Photos a little fuzzy but could be some type of chert, maybe Baybottom but not really sure. Ask people on this forum, they post some outrageous stuff.
http://www.sonandersonartifacts.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

i'm gunna say.......rice grain chert.....but newnan man is right though, son will tell ya what it is



a cool corner tang knife from lake lochloosa

  You think that tang blade was made that way or saved and resharpened after it broke? I'll try and post a pic later of a similar one that I think is a reworked marion. I have a Edgefield scraper I think started off as something different too.

I'm guessing it was made that way on purpose. The reason I say that  is: Let's say that it was originally made as a spear or point of some kind and was symmetrical.  I tried to picture a shoulder on the other side equal to that on the right only bigger because the point veers so far to the left that the shoulders would have both had to have been much larger to end up with a symmetrical point. If you do that you can see that the point would have been very large indeed (if we assume that the normal ratio of length to width applies) and if that was indeed the case the base would be disproportionately small.  Of course there's nothing that says they couldn't have also re worked the base but it seems more likely that it was made this way intentionally as a tang knife... perhaps it has still been resharpened but the basic form remains I think. Not that any of that matters because one guess is as good as another of course but... heck... I just had to throw my two cents worth in.

i think it was made that way also

prob best colors i have, both personal finds, top is a Gypsum Cave and the other is made from red alibites possible paleo (never got a id) .

Haven't seen this thread before. Here's some color.

i know, i didnt either, had to look all the way back in 06, just browsing  long forgotten pieces....... 37, one of your nices knives/cache blades i have seen was i think a mailbox find, if i can recall it was a brownish or rootbeer translucent, it may have been ur av pic for awhile, i think that was you, the piece was awesome

The white one with the red streak is awesome !

Lmao!!when i first started looking at this thread i was thinking who the hell are all these dudes and look at all the killer relics.i need to do some diggin in the archives.hey 37,what do you think of those personal finds norcal posted,the mostly obsidian frame?heres a nice ridge piece for some color.the pic does this piece no justice.

i know, i didnt either, had to look all the way back in 06, just browsing  long forgotten pieces....... 37, one of your nices knives/cache blades i have seen was i think a mailbox find, if i can recall it was a brownish or rootbeer translucent, it may have been ur av pic for awhile, i think that was you, the piece was awesome

I think this fr adena blade may be the piece you're talking about chong, it was my av for awhile.

I call it the Angel fish...






Nice post and some killer pieces.

Lmao!!when i first started looking at this thread i was thinking who the hell are all these dudes and look at all the killer relics.i need to do some diggin in the archives.hey 37,what do you think of those personal finds norcal posted,the mostly obsidian frame?heres a nice ridge piece for some color.the pic does this piece no justice.

Nice piece Greg, sweet piece o' the ridge. I think most obsidian is pretty scary to tell you the truth. Mostly because it doesn't patinate ( if that's a word) like most materials, and modern knappers love working with it. I'd have to hold them in hand and put them under a scope to be certain. My gut feeling is too good to be true, mostly because of the pristine condition they're in. If authentic it's the nicest frame of obsidian I've ever seen by far. What's your opinion on that frame.

Few more colorful artifacts.

Great topic you started here smokster,those are some serious colors going on in this post,I like it!Here's some more color from florida

Here's some color from southern Ohio.

Lmao!!when i first started looking at this thread i was thinking who the hell are all these dudes and look at all the killer relics.i need to do some diggin in the archives.hey 37,what do you think of those personal finds norcal posted,the mostly obsidian frame?heres a nice ridge piece for some color.the pic does this piece no justice.

Nice piece Greg, sweet piece o' the ridge. I think most obsidian is pretty scary to tell you the truth. Mostly because it doesn't patinate ( if that's a word) like most materials, and modern knappers love working with it. I'd have to hold them in hand and put them under a scope to be certain. My gut feeling is too good to be true, mostly because of the pristine condition they're in. If authentic it's the nicest frame of obsidian I've ever seen by far. What's your opinion on that frame.

my opinion is much the same as yours,there are alot of the same type pieces in that frame and all of them look to have been made by the same knapper and material.i would have to see the hinge fractures under a scope to be sold on them.some killer ridge dude.i like them blades in your hand.

Hey BW your angel fish is a smokin point.

Here's some color from southern Ohio.

that lost lake is bad ass

From KS

I find myself commiting several of the seven deadly sins at the moment like Envy, Lust and I could break a couple of commandments if I put my mind to it.

Coral, Kirk.

Haven't posted on here for quite awhile, enjoyed seeing these colorful peices so I thought I'd post a few of my favorites.

The woodland point is a personal find, the dove was purchased (my favorite piece of flint). Both are made from Sonora Flint.

Colorado Pelican Lake

yeah thats the one 37, i love that vein that runs through it, spectacular

Here are a couple from my collection..

I like the color of these scrapers  the one on the lower left reminds me of caramel apples
I have posted them before
Larson1951

Here's some Arkansas color for yall.The points on the left of both pics were found in a Hempstead Co.,AR creek.The points on the right were dug up on the same creek in Miller Co.,AR.

all from southeast tenn. and north ga.sorry about the last picture didn't mean to post it.

That gaming stone? is awesome!!!!!!!

Here is the most colorful one I have.

My first post.
Love this site!

Color!

Some colorful relics I haven't posted before.

Here are some pics I had on my computer.  I don't own all of them.  Some I took pictures of b/c they made an impression. 
Regards,
Jon Dickinson.