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Found this a few years ago while I was hunting in the woods, deer not relics, looked down and it was just laying there. Can anyone tell me what this is or maybe what it's a repop of? Thought it looked cool so I kept it.
Can anyone help with this??
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Sorry guys and gals, was just now able to get on, here are my photos of measurements. Dont know if this helps or not lol
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Yes it helps. There is no way a black bear claw is over 5 inches long and over 2 inches wide at the base. Thanks.
If its a real claw, its nothing alive today.
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I am still assuming it is going to be a replica/toy. I am trying to get bbn in contact with a local historian though that can point me in the right direction
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I wish I knew the composition of toy fossils.
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thats what I said a while back...LOL but then he said it was 2" but the pic with his hand was misleading...so either he had the smallest hands in the world or it was a big claw..LOL glad its cleared up now. 2" wide by 5.25 long...
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Yea I kept visualizing it larger than 2-1/2 inches next to the coin
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Sorry didn't make the measurement clearer in the earlier post
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Yeah because I put the lighter to it just to see if it would melt like plastic does when it first comes in contact with a flame and it didnt
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G&G..presumption is quite often the mother of all foul-ups.
Honestly, I would presume nothing at this point. There have been many
great finds over the years where someone presumed what they had
found wouldn't amount to anything, and when they did have the find
looked at by an expert (someone with a Ph.D. and a briefcase) they
learned they had something most unusual and exceptionally valuable.
It may very well be worth your time to drive over to UT in Knoxville,
and let someone from their Paleontology Dept. have a look at it. If
they can't give you an absolute answer, they will certainly know
someone who can.
https://eps.utk.edu/
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I have a velociraptor claw replica with a similar (not identical) size and profile to that. Also a sabre-tooth cat claw (less similar and smaller) and a huge sabre-tooth cat fang that's very obviously a tooth not a claw. Not toys, but museum replicas cast from the real thing for collectors who could never hope to find them or afford to buy authentic items. Mine came from the shop at the Smithsonian and cost a few dollars. They had other fossil replicas too. I don't want to put a flame to any of them, but they're made from some kind of very hard epoxy-type resin. Not flexible. I do hope you have a real fossil but, as I said, dinosaur material of any kind would be an exceptional find in Tennessee.
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