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Spokeshaves   Hillsborough Co. FL  SOLDt
Eleven spokeshaves from the 301 Grove Site  $100 for all.  This is less than $10 each.

 

Drill  age unknown  Hillsborough Co. FL
2 3/4" long  $20 order a4711
COMMENTS:  usually found broken.

 

Drill  age unknown  Hillsborough Co. FL
1 7/8" long  $20 order a4710
COMMENTS:  made from a flake, alternately beveled on the drill bit, this tells us they twisted counter clockwise.

 

Drill  Polk Co. FL
1 1/4"  $15 order a4758
COMMENTS:  found by James Dawson near Ponciana.  Ex Bob Moffitt collection.

 

Chipped Celt  Hillsborough Co. FL
4"  $30 order a4705
COMMENTS:  good symmetry, bit shows heavy use

 

Chipped Celt  Hillsborough Co. FL
4"  $30 order a4709
COMMENTS:  chipped celts are relatively rare in Florida, much more common up north.  Well made with some color.

 

 

Chipped Celt  Alachua Co. FL
4"  $45 order a4706
COMMENTS: beautiful little celt, nice pink color, good symmetry and will made.  One of the finest chipped celts you will see from Florida.

 

 

Chipped Celt  Hillsborough Co. FL
4 3/4"  $30 order a4705
COMMENTS:  good color, good symmetry

 

 

Harpoon  age unknown, prehistoric  Bering Sea, Aleutians, Alaska
4 1/4" $250 a4493
COMMENTS:    typical of Alaskan harpoons, it is made from a small curved rib, and has lines scored the length of the rib at the base of the barbs.  Five perfect barbs, thinned at the rear for insertion or attachment to a shaft.  Well preserved and flawless.
 

 

 

Burnishing/polishing bone tool  Taylor Co. FL
4"  $50 order a4497
COMMENTS:  shows a great deal of use on several surfaces.

 

Antler Handle  Citrus Co. FLSOLDa
3 3/4"   a4315
COMMENTS:  long straight cut one side, inside gouged out to hold stem of stone knife.

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  Green bone is very hard and suitable for many tasks:  spear shaft tips, leather punches, hair pins, fish gigs with barbs attached, separating tendons and joints from large game, etc.  Universal throughout many epochs from Paleo to Contact, with age they become very brittle and it is rare to get complete ones with any length. 

 

Bone Needle   long cultural time spans  Paleo - Contact  Taylor Co. FL
6"  $95 order a5061
COMMENTS: well made, well preserved and priced right.

 

Bone Needle   long cultural time spans  Paleo - Contact  Taylor Co. FL
7 7/8"  $225 order a5060
COMMENTS:  just a tad under 8"!  How rare is this, to be almost 8 inches long and unbroken.  Well worked all over, one of the longest I have seen.
 

 

Bone Needle   long cultural time spans  Paleo - Contact  Taylor Co. FL
6 1/4"  $135 order a5059
COMMENTS:  good length, well made, well preserved, solid.

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Bone Pin  Taylor Co. FL
6"  $85 order a4890
    COMMENTS:  very slight pitting, no flaws, long, carefully worked.  Six inch and over pins are rare.

 

 

Bone Pin  Gilchrist Co. FL
5"  $50 order a4839
    COMMENTS:  fine preservation,  smoothed all over, no pitting.

 

 

Bone Pin  Taylor Co. FL
6 5/8"  $175 order a4894
    COMMENTS:  killer pin, no erosion, solid, smoothed all over, great length, no damage. Rare to get them like this one

 

Leister or Gorge Hook  Taylor Co. FL
2 1/4"  $25 order a4496
COMMENTS:  made from a deer leg,  highly modified.

 

Bone Pin  Co. FL
3 1/2"  $75 order d90
COMMENTS:  worked and smoothed all surfaces, made from quartered deer leg bone, multi-purpose tool, well preserved.
 

Bone Pin  Citrus Co. FL  6 7/16"  $75 order a3014 no repair
 

 

Bone Pin  Citrus Co. FL  7 1/2"  $145 order a4485 no repair
 

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