Shell, Bone, Pottery
Artifacts
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SHELL
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Rattlesnake Shell Gorget
2"
Gordon Co. Georgia
Comments: Very early fenestrated Brakebill Style
which predates the Gorget above.
Made from the outer spiral
of the Welk, Busycon Perversuim.
Middle Mississippian Era 1,200 to 1,400 AD.
Price: $1,500.00 Item:
Shell Gorget 2
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Scalloped Shell Gorget
3 1/4"
Floyd Co. Georgia
Comments: Nice hard shell Gorget
made from the outer spiral
of the Welk, Busycon Perversuim.
Middle Mississippian Era 1,200 to 1,400 AD.
Price: $600.00 Item:
Shell Gorget 3
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Incised Shell Gorget
3 3/8" x 3 3/8"
Hancock Co. Georgia
Comments: Nice hard shell Gorget
made from the outer spiral
of the Welk, Busycon Perversuim.
This is an earlier design with a
circular line around the periphery
and just outside of this line a series of dots
or punctuates circling the disc.
Middle Mississippian Era 1,200 to 1,400 AD.
This shell is in good condition.
Price: $700.00 Item:
Shell Gorget 4
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Centrally Perforated Shell Gorget
3 1/2"
Gordon Co. Georgia
Comments: Nice hard shell Gorget
made from the outer spiral
of the Welk, Busycon Perversuim.
Middle Mississippian Era 1,200 to 1,400 AD.
Price: $350.00 Item:
Shell Gorget 5
Shell Pendant
2 1/4" in length.
Hillsborough Co. Florida
Comments: Nice shell pendant
or plummet found near St. Petersburg Florida.
Price: $150.00 Item: SH 22
Florida Shell Hammers, Pick Axes, Celts
Found many years ago
on Big Pine Key. Made from the Busycon Perversum
or more commonly know as the Lightning Welk.
These tools were utilized as picks or hammers
and have evidence of wear on the distal end of the columella.
Note the cut out in the aperture and the round hole to accommodate the
wooden handles. These relics are a testimony of the resourcefulness of the Native Americans.
Probably Calusa made, but these can date back to as far as 4,500 years before present.
These items are rarely offered.
Shell Hammer / or Pick Axe
4" in length.
Florida Keys
Monroe Co. Florida
Comments: Solid with nice
grinding along the aperture.
Found many years ago
on Big Pine Key by Bill "Rattlesnake" Forneir.
Picture on the right shows the
unaltered Lightning Welk Shell
Price:
$35.00 Item: SH 3
Shell Hammer / or Pick Axe
4 1/2" in length.
Florida Keys
Monroe Co. Florida
Comments: Very well made.
Very crisp and symmtricaldrill holes
Found many years ago
on Big Pine Key
by Bill "Rattlesnake" Forneir.
Picture on the right shows the
unaltered Lightning Welk Shell.
Price: $100.00 Item: SH 2
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Polished Shell Celt
3 1/4" in length.
Manatee Co. Florida
Comments: This rare item is highly polished
to a mirror finish and is
made from a Strombus Gigis
more commonly known as the Queen Conch.
The bottom pictures shows how they were
hafted and a modern example
with the box indicated the part of the shell the
Indians utilized to make the Celt.
This shell was selected for the strength
and thickness of this part of the shell.
Dates to Mississippian Era / Safety Harbor complex.
Price: $300.00 Item: SH 21
POTTERY
Weeden Island
Compartmental Tray
Length: 5"
Height: 2"
Calhoun Co. Florida
Comments: This extremely rare pottery
vessel was found in the Apalachicola River Basin.
Similar to the ones pictured in C. B. Moore's Book.
Use was possibly ceremonial. Perhaps to hold paints in
each compartment. One half of one of the pedestal feet
was missing and has been professionally restored. These are
considered exotic forms and are highly collectable if you can
ever find one for sale. I have just seen one other one ever
offered for sale. This from my personal collection.
Grades a G-8
Price:
CallItem: Tray
Stamped Pottery Vessel section
18 " around
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: This huge section
of a pottery vessel was found in a trash pit in the
St. John River Basin. The Check stamped design
was executed with a wooded paddle applied
while the clay was still moist before firing.
The design is called Deptford Check Stamp
and is Woodland in age, about 2,000 years old.
The design is especially crisp and uniform.
This huge cooking caldron would have been
about 2 feet in diameter and is a rare example
in this size and condition.
Price: $100.00
Item: Deptford Bowl
Mississippian Era
2 1/8" Clay Monolithic Axe Effigy Pipe
Found near Talladega Creek
Alton Martin C.O.A.
Talladega Co. Alabama
Price: $2,200.00 Item: Ala Axe Pipe #1
Mississippian Era
2 1/4" Clay Monolithic Axe Effigy Pipe
Found on the Little Egypt Site
John Berner C.O.A.
Murray Co. Georgia
Price: $2,000.00 Item: Ga. Axe Pipe #2
Weeden Island Plain Ware
Pottery Bowl
Diameter: 4"
Height: 2 3/4"
Henry Co. Alabama
Comments: Very rare in any condition,
this Weeden Island Plain Ware Bowl was,
believe it or not, plowed out of a field in South
Alabama. This is a Middle Woodland vessel
and despite the slight damage to the rim
it is very solid and stable. Dates
from 400 to 900 AD
Grades a G-7
Price: $450.00
Item: Al. Pot 1
Late Mississippian
Philfot Complicated Stamp Pot
Comments: Age 1400 to 1600 AD.
Comments: Found in Bibb Co. Georgia near Macon.
Found in a few large pieces in a trash pit. Professionally restored.
Rare to vessels of this size!
Height: 13 "
Diameter is 12"
Price:
$1,500.00 Item: GA. Pot 3
Bone
Only a few rivers in the southeast have produced
socketed Bone Projectile Points, Hairpins, Fishhooks and Daggers.
Because they are organic most have decomposed long ago.
These are getting rarer every day with good examples like these becoming especially scarce.
Collectors should have at least one good frame of these while their prices are currently not reflecting their rarity.
These Artifacts has been preserved and are ready for display in your collection.
Bone Awl
3 1/4"
Robertson Co. Tennessee
Comments: Awl made from a Turkey
leg bone. Dug near a cave entrance.
All material from the site is Middle Archaic in age.
Price: $40.00
Item: Bone Awl
Cut Deer Leg Bones
Marion Co. Florida
Comments: These are the cut off ends
of the Whitetail Deer Cannon Bones.
The Indians made bone pins and Hairpins
out of the long straight mid sections of
these bones and discarded these end pieces.
You can clearly see the cut marks of these.
Price: $20.00 for the pair.
Item: Cannon Bones Ends
ON HOLD
Hairpin
Black on top 6 3/4"
Brown bottom 7"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Found cached together.
Price: Black: $.00
Price: Brown: $.00
Item: Hairpin - 1&2
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Hairpin
4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: This small Hairpin has 24 lines
precisely carved around the bone.
Price: .00
Item: Hairpin - 3
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Hairpin
6 3/8"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Nice symmetry and polish.
Price: $.00
Item: Hairpin - 4
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Hairpin
6 3/8"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Beautiful expanded top with
great color and polish.
Price: $.00
Item: Hairpin - 5
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Hairpin
7 1/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Beautiful smoothed
expanded top Hairpin with great
length. Mahogany Brown and Black.
Price:
$.00Item: Hairpin - 6
ON HOLD
Nail Top Hairpin
6"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: A great Nail Top
Type Hairpin. Well made .
Price: $.00
Item: Hairpin - 7
ON HOLD
Hairpin
6 3/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: This spectacular Hairpin
is in excellent condition. The deep mahogany color,
the high polish, the deep primitive incising makes
for a stunting example of prehistoric art. Found on a
single component site this piece can be attributed to
the Hernando Culture. Found in an oxygen starved environment
which has resulted in this perfect state of preservation.
Grades a G-10
Price:
CallItem: Hairpin - 8
ON HOLD
Hairpin
5 1/2"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Here is another wonderful Hairpin
in excellent condition. The light to dark color contrast was created by
grinding away the bone surface to expose the tan color underneath. Found on a
single component site this piece can be attributed to the Hernando Culture.
Found in an oxygen starved environment which has resulted
in this perfect state of preservation.
Grades a G-10
Price:
Item: Hairpin - 9
ON HOLD
Bone Point
7"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: A finely made point with great length
and pretty mahogany brown and black color
and a very smooth finish.
Price: $.00
Item: Bone Point - 12
ON HOLD
Bone Point
6 1/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Long finely made pin.
Price: $0.00
Item: Bone Point - 16
ON HOLD
Bone Point
4 1/2"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Very sharp
and well made. Colors
are blonde with
brown spots.
Price: $0.00
Item: Bone Point - 20
ON HOLD
Socket Antler Tine Spear
3 5/8"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Rare and especially nice
example of an Antler Spear tip.
Note the cleanly prepared
socket hole. Good length too!
The best I have seen.
Grade: G-10
Price: $.00
Item: Bone Point - 23
ON HOLD
Socket Antler Tine Spear
2 3/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Looks like a large
caliber bullet. Finely made with a little ancient
damage to the back side. Still a rare find.
Grade: G-9
Price: $.00
Item: Bone Point - 24
ON HOLD
Socket Antler Tine Spear
3 1/8"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Another very nice Antler
Point with good length
. Shell midden material isstill in the hole. Grades a G-9.5
Price: $0.00
Item: Bone Point - 25
ON HOLD
Bone Point
6 3/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Unusually wide
bone implement. Lacking the
sharp tip, I would suspect
this was used to sew
casting nets.
Price: $0.00
Item: Bone Point - 26a
ON HOLD
Bone Awl
5"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Nice Awl
still showing the tooling marks
on it. Unusual groove has been cut
into the top. I suggest that this was to
be a hairpin but was not finished. If the craftsman
had went ahead and cut this part off it would have
the slender appearance of a Hairpin. Perhaps too
much of the length was gone to pursue that
objective or perhaps an Awl was the the
more urgent need at the time.
Price: $0.00
Item: Bone Point - 27
ON HOLD
Shark Tooth Pendant
2 1/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Always rare
and highly sought after.Nice sized Great White Shark Tooth drilled
into a pendant.
Price:
.00Item: Shark Tooth Pendant
Cut Deer Antler
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Really neat piece
that gives insight into how they
utilized this Deer Antler rack. Note how
they cut this tine off with just a stone tool.
Price: 20.00
Item: Cut Antler 1
ON HOLD
Bone Harpoon
4 1/4"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Rarely found.
Treated and stable.
Price: $.00
Item: Harpoon
ON HOLD
Fish Hook
2 1/8"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments: Hooks in this condition
are rare. This one is especially fine.
Complete and well made made.
A lot of character to this one!
Grades a G-10
Price: $0.00 Item: Hook - 3
Fish Hook
2 1/2"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments: This hook has some
damage but what you see is what you get.
A good bit of the details of its
construction are still visible.
(Cuts and scratch marks, etc.)
Grades a G-7
Price: $50.00 Item: Hook - 4
Fish Hook
2 1/4"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments:
This is a nice "J" hook with a little damage.
String line for attachment is still evident.
Grades a G-7.5
Price: $50.00 Item: Hook - 5
Antler Handle
4 7/8"
Suwannee Co. Florida
Comments: An extremely nice Antler Handle
that is socketed to receive perhaps a small bone or tooth
for use as a pressure flaker or plane. The hole is 1" deep.
Note the polish and shaping of the end.
Heavily mineralized and hard.
No preservatives were needed.
Rare to find one this nice.
Price: $120.00 Item: Antler Handle
Bird Bone Bead
1 1/8"
Manatee Co. Florida
Comments: Much rarer than a shell bead,
Bone beads are usually modified Bird bones
since they are naturally hollow they lend themselves
to this purpose.
Price: $20.00 Item: Bone Bead 1
ON HOLD
Bone Bead
1 1/2"
Putnam Co. Florida
Comments: Well worked and
made like a tapered elongated barrel.
Price: $.00
Item: Bone Bead 2
ON HOLD
Drilled Antler Bead ?
1 1/2"
Marion Co. Florida
Comments: Modifier Drilled Deer Antler.
Ocklawaha River. The pointed end of the tine is broken.
Besides being a bead, it may also have been used as a Knapping
Tool where the hole was used either
to suspended it on a string or it
could have been pegged into
a handle for support.
Price: $.00 Item: Bone Bead 3
Bone Point
2 1/4"
Marion Co. Florida
Comments: Nice small Bone point
from the Ocklawaha River
Price: $25.00 Item: Bone Pin 1
Bone Pin.
6 3/4"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments: Very nice Pin. Made from the leg
bone of a Deer.
Grades a G-9
Price: $100.00 Item: Bone Pin 2
Bone Pin.
5 1/2"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments: Very nice Pin. Made from the leg
bone of a Deer.
Grades a G-9.5
Price: $95.00 Item: Bone Pin 3
Deer Leg Bone Dagger
8 "
Jefferson Co. Florida
Comments: Awesome complete dagger!
From a famous site.
Price: $600.00 Item: F4 No. 13a
ON HOLD
Deer leg bone Dagger
9 3/8"
Dixie Co. Florida
Comments: Absolutely huge Bone Dagger.
Exceptionally large daggers like this are rare.
Solid with very little pitting. Steinhatchee River.
Price: $0.00 Item:
Dagger1
Deer Antler Banner
3 1/2"
Suwannee Co. Florida
Comments: Beautiful water polished bone.
Broken on the end.
Finely worked from a large antler.
Price: $150.00 Item:
BB1
ON HOLD
Deer Antler Banner
2 1/4"
Volusia Co. Florida
Comments: Found by Reece Moore
at the Tick Island Site.
Affordable but still a
Rare artifact.
Price: $0.00 Item: F4 No. 24
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