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Great stuff there, brother. What are your feelings on the white piece at lower right in the first picture? I won't say what it looks like 'cause I know you can tell a lot more about it in hand. Thanks for sharing those with us.
What made it illegal? Is it Corps land? I read some stories about river banks sluffing off and people doing really well in those places. Sounds like funThe good old days was back when a person could hunt those sites legally. There were some huge collections built back in in those days.
I met one gentleman at an auction in North Dakota that had over 20,000 pieces he wanted to sell. 4 bucks a piece for everything. From what I’ve seen of collections in that area it would have been a steal even if half were thumbscrapers.
that piece is a highly patinated blade made of KRF and it has a nice large spoke shave worked into one edge. I think it’s pretty old.
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Very Nice! I would say that several of those were inserted into bison ribs and used as a multi-fashioned knife.