Help Identifying This - Hot or Not?

[airborne1092]

Is this a stone tool? Please chime in with your opinion, speculation, or other thoughts - I'm open to all.

I visited a local Rock Shop here in East WA a week or two ago and was digging around in their raw mineral bins of rocks by the pound and this caught my eye. It could be from anywhere west of the Mississippi River, as I'm certain the rocks in the bins were collected from various locations however, I did not ask. IMO, most likely from WA, ID, OR, NorCal, MT, the Dakotas, or maybe UT or NV. I'm thinking whoever collected it thought it might be a double geode or something in that vein (no pun intended) but it looks to me like it was modified by hand.

No great loss if not, I only paid about $3 for it but I thought it might be valuable if it were in fact a CMA.

 

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[Relicgrubber]

Yes. Looks to be a Stone Maul made from Granite.

Nice Rescue for $3 AB!

 

[RGINN]

Yeah I'd go with relicgrubber's ID.

 

[pepperj]

Good eye, good buy.
Lucky you.

 

[unclemac]

i like it too, 3 bucks is pretty ok. it really doesn't show much of the grinding we like to see.... no real contrast. But I like the lip on the first pic.

 

[airborne1092]

Unclemac - You mean the vertical lip on the left side? If so, this caught my eye esp. because for a double geode, I'd half expect it to be gently descending toward the center, and less uniform around the circumference.
The bins contained mostly what appeared to be Biggs picture jaspers and big, dark hunks of AZ pet wood, so this really stood out like a sore thumb being white granite!

 

[newnan man]

It looks pretty legit, it does look old and like its been exposed to a lot of weathering. For 3 bucks, pretty good.

 

[Older The Better]

Nice save

 

[Tony in SC]

A little weathered, but the real deal!!