Sold for $4,063

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Lot Description

A Coshocton Flint Thebes Point

Archaic Period, 8000-500 B.C.

Drake County, Ohio
length 4 inches

One ear has been broken and glued.

Property from The John Baldwin Trust, Chicago, Illinois

COLLECTION HISTORY

John Baldwin, West Olive, Michigan
Lynn Munger, Angola, Indiana
Frank and Beatrice Dell, Celina, Ohio

G.I.R.S. Certificate of Authenticity Registrar No. J6, signed on 4/20/1980 by Gordon Hart, Earl Townsend, Steven Hart, and Robert Edler.

PUBLISHED

1981-1982 Indiana Archaeological Society Yearbook (1983: 17)

Artifacts, Vol. 8 No. 2 (1978: 58)

Baldwin, John. Early Knives & Beaded Sheaths of the American Frontier (1997: 2)

Ohio Archaeologist, Vol. 34 No. 3 (1984: 14)

Ohio Archaeologist, Vol. Spring No. 3 (2000: back cover)

Prehistoric Art - Archaeology, Vol. XVIII No. 4 (1983: 116)

The Redskin, Vol. XIII No. 1 (1978: 20-21)

The Redskin, Vol. XIII No. 2 (1978: 61)

Thompson, Ben W. Who's Who in Indian Relics, Vol. 5 (1980: 35)

Thompson, Ben W. Who's Who in Indian Relics, Vol. 7 (1987: 39)

Condition Report

One tang has been broken and glued.

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