Bought a big box of heartbreakers, with a dalton in it!

[all_atv]

I bought 2 boxes of brokes and small pieces last fall at the Keosaqua, IA show. Probably 500 pieces or more. These pics are some of them laid out on a blanket. These are all marked with numbers and letters, I was told most are from central Iowa, there are a few with east coast state names written on them. They were bought from someone selling a collection for a widdow. The good points were framed for sale or sold individually. I thought they would be something to look through and study while snow was on the ground. Well theres some real heart breakers in there! A nice dovetail, lots of adena "beaver tails", maybe a sedalia drill. All for $50, well worth the hours Iv'e already spent looking through them.

So is this a dalton?

 

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[SOHIO]

I'd give 50 bucks for those looks like there are several full crude pcs and several that are almost full. Brokes make good study pcs.

 

[GroundS.KeepeR]

Not bad ..

 

[mad.co.walker]

LOOKS LIKE MY DRESSER DRAWER......... NICE BUY THOUGH.......... GETTING ANY SNOW......... NO LUCK UP HOME STILL TOO MUCH SNOW ..........

 

[iowa trout]

Nice lot are you going to the Mt Pleasant Ia. show on the 16th all atv?

 

[joshuaream]

Nice buy, looks like lots of good examples of material, patina, flaking styles, etc.

I'd call the little piece a Bifurcate point, or a Biffy for short. There are lots of styles but the early ones are more or less similar in age to Daltons and are early archaic, the later ones are later than Dalton. (Lecroy, MacCorkle, Lake Erie, Fox Valley, St. Albans, etc.)

 

[all_atv]

Ya I'll be the Mt. Pleasant show, just to look over my lunch time since I have to work. But I'll probably bring something cool with me. We got about 4-5" of snow last night and its still snowing.

 

[iowa trout]

LoL looks like my place too ,I hope to meet with ya attend as well and will bring something .

 

[Tnmountains]

Brokes are a good way to spend the snow days. Looks like somebody missed that bifuracate.
We have almost 12 inches here and it is 18 degrees. I have been pulling sledders with my ATV for two days now. Yeeee- Haaaaa ! Lol.