Indian Arrowhead Collectors
John Berner
Authentic Clovis points in private & museum collections.
It has been estimated by professional archaeologists in United States that the average flint knapper can produce about 500 to 2500 flint reproductions per year. With more than 500 active knappers throughout the 48 states, that equates to about 25,000 to 125,000 new reproductions every year.
Jon Dickinson
The Certificate of Authenticity and Prehistoric Artifact Collecting
Pioneers of Artifact COA’s The Genuine Indian Relic Society (GIRS) began a program in the 1970’s where they issued “certificates of authenticity” (COA) at artifact shows. The idea
Brock Smith
The Natchez Prehistoric Canoe
During a spring flood in 1974, a rescue party in search of two missing persons made an unusual discovery. While searching along the sandy banks of the Homochitto River south
David Rowlands
David Rowlands
Over the course of the last year, and especially during the past six months, I’ve been confronted with the most basic of decisions. Was I going to run my company
Gary Fogelman
Gary Fogelman
COA’s (Certificate of Authenticity) Mostly Worthless Certificates of Authenticity perhaps meant something at one time, back when only one or two people were doing it, worthy people too, trying
John McCurdy
John McCurdy
Since finding bannerstones is such a rare occurrence, most collectors turn to buying banners. As with all artifacts, the more desirable the relic type, the more reproductions one must wade
JOHN CARTER
When I visited my grandparents in Veedersburg, Indiana as a boy in the 1950’s, my grandfather Karl would take me on walkabouts in the countryside right at the edge of town. He would pick up rocks and look at them, so I got into the habit myself. I did not know anything about an artifact collection until he died in 1966 and they told me I’d inherited his collection. There are many fossils he found as well that are not included here. He probably found some of these prior to 1900, when he was still a boy, himself.
Robert M. Overstreet
was born in West Virginia and grew up in southeast Tennessee. He collected comic books, fossils, mineral specimens and Indian relics and became a serious comic book collector in 1952 buying the popular E.C. comics off the newsstand. In the 1960s, his first book project was a price guide on Indian arrowheads. He began researching and drawing examples of each point type to be included in the book. But, during this time the comic book market was booming with prices going up every year.