A COUPLE NICE GUN FLINTS:

valleyglen

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Nice looking Gun Flints. I have a nice tray of them from upper New York. Mine are all made from French Honey Flint and the Black English Flint.
 

Here's the ones I have. All from the same site in upper New York.
 

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I find the French and a couple English..and Spanish...but also some blue material knapped a little different.. I believe it was used by the Creeks from Georgia who sided with the British in their Florida campaigns.
 

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Those are real nice, you must live up by lake Champlain, a lot of French and Indian War pieces, Beautiful collection...
 

Some of my Florida finds

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Have a pistol flint in there too.

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Only one I've personally found was on a sandbar on Narragansett Bay that had Paleo to Contact artifacts. It's the dark one. The light one is not a gunflint. Fooled me for years, because I don't know gunflints. When seen by an experienced eye, it was pointed out it's the wrong material, a type of rhyolite from Ma., plus the tiny oxidation stain makes the piece far older then contact. A scraper, not a gunflint.
 

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Hey Steve. I think you have the one I found here in Ohio. Keith.
 

I like to find gun flints , because then it's time to break out the AT Pro:laughing7: All of those are real nice guys.
 

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