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Does anybody have knowledge about arrow heads, points, drills, etc?
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AF,
Those are all "projectile points" but they are a mixed bag, out of context. Includes some plains points, sme stuf I've never seen (first picture, top center) that could be for shooting birds or squirrels. Some of the points could be quite old (first picture top right and second row left) but without context it doesn't mean much. A collector or specialist could probably tell you more about some of the more unusual items in the collection. Again, the mos important information is lost - context. It's the same problem with milsurps: "if only they could talk!"
The collection might be more valuable if you can document the collector. Did he pick these up himself? Or buy/traDE THEM? Who was he/she? There might be a story there.
Good luck!
jn
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Like any other collectible, there is a booming fake problem with arrowheads, and any other artifact in this genre.
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Yup, lotsa fakes everywhere these days. That said, it's pretty hard to induce surface oxidation and chemical change on a rock without leaving some sort of chemical signature. This all can be tested, but you have to own the stuff before you can test it: big problem.
Just wish there was somebody around who really knew this stuff. Looks interesting.
I can just see it a couple of centuries down the road, two guys digging around in the backstop at the range..... making all kinds of discoveries.......
"Look, sir, look! A projectile point, seven-point-nine millimetres, four narrow lands, left-hand! It must be from a ROSS Rifle!!!"
"Yes, Bubba, I'm afraid it is. We must tread carefully here; this is a site of a terrible tragedy."
"What tragedy, Professor?"
"Well Bubba, I found two of those just yesterday, a few metres over to the right. This must be one of the places where people came to commit suicide in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first Centuries."
"Suicide, Professor? You mean like killing themselves?"
"Yes, Bubba. They had an awful ritual way of doing this. They would set up a target and fire a Ross Rifle at it. Of course, the bolt would blow back and rip half of their face off and then they would die in the most terrible agony. Some Experts think they did this as a protest against the high taxation levels, but other Experts are of the opinion that it came about from a pan-societal psychological depression state. Either way, it was an awful way in which to end one's days."
"Where did you learn all this, Professor?"
"Oh, I Read It In A Book, Bubba! The Government really was being most merciful when they collected all the guns and melted them down into sushi forks and lettuce slicers."
I can't write any more of this. Time to take the Ross out to the range, I think!
LOL!
