1st ever purchase - would like opinions

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UPDATE - 1st ever purchase - would like opinions

Hello. Today I was out looking for coins and stopped at an out of the way pawn shop I'd never seen before. Coins were over priced but they also had a couple cases full of artifacts. All field grade stuff, a couple of decent axes, nothing really remarkable. However, there was a nice Dalton sitting in a tray with a non-decript woodland point. I asked to see the Dalton and nothing about it looked suspect. I asked the guy what he wanted for and he said he didn't know, the arrowhead guy wasn't in today. He asked another guy working there how much the arrowhead guy wanted for the point in the red tray. Other guy said 'I think $50'. I offered $40 and out I walked with the point. Looks like a Dalton, Sloan Dalton or a Pike Co point. I bought it in St Charles Co MO. It's made out of Burlington chert. It's 4-1/8" overall.

I know it's impossible to photo-authenticate a point but do you guys see anything obviously amiss with the point? All opinions are appreciated. Thanks.

 

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UPDATE - Took the point to the Collinsville show this weekend and the consensus was that it was not a old point. In summary, technically everything about the construction and manufacture of the point was right but the surface treatment caused people to think it was altered thereby throwing it into the 'modern' category. I gave it to a guy I know there I know and trust and am sure he'll find a happy home for it as a repro.

Thanks and happy hunting!

 

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I would of kept it seeing it was bought and nobody in the pawn shop knew anything about it as to what it is or was. I have heard of people soaking the points in liquid that will take all the patina off so it shines better. What I am saying if everybody thought it looked correct other than the patina it might of been modernized a bit just on the patina part. Making it still real.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

The artifact shows have a lot of really knowledgeable people when it comes to artifacts, if they told you it was a repro odds are very high it was....

 

[Tejaas]

Ugh... 'COA'


~Tejaas~

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Very little sign of patina on it, looks like it was either recently flaked or was a larger broken piece that was re-flaked to make whole piece.. Personally I never cared for repros or restored pieces but that is just my opinion.

I will say having lived in Missouri there are a lot of pawn shops and old country stores there with fakes,.knappers make them and pawn them as real...