June Pick-ups

[Runscott]

This is literally a 'pick up'. I've been in Colorado for the last five weeks, running in the desert/mountains, and I've picked up a few arrowheads and Indian tools along the way. The other day I picked up a beautiful spear point right on the running trail, so started looking around and found a few other items. Took my brother with me the next day I found this tiny one inch long arrowhead, sitting in the dirt exactly as shown. Through a weird feature of my phone that I accidentally turned on, it took an 'inverse' pic an the same time, showing my brother and myself looking down at the find:

[smokelessjoe]

Originally Posted by Runscott

This is literally a 'pick up'. I've been in Colorado for the last five weeks, running in the desert/mountains, and I've picked up a few arrowheads and Indian tools along the way. The other day I picked up a beautiful spear point right on the running trail, so started looking around and found a few other items. Took my brother with me the next day I found this tiny one inch long arrowhead, sitting in the dirt exactly as shown. Through a weird feature of my phone that I accidentally turned on, it took an 'inverse' pic an the same time, showing my brother and myself looking down at the find:

Scott,

Beautiful find! This is another passion of mine, although I do not get to "hunt" as much as I used too... I used to be a Land Surveyor, but for me it was like getting paid to arrowhead hunt! So you can imagine I have quite a few. I really like the small bird points - the smaller the better - They are just so much harder to find. Its really sweet when the points are laying on top of the ground just screaming "pick me up!"

I've recently started taking my son (he is starting to figure out what exactly were looking for) and its been kinda dry... Well this past Monday I came home from work and my wife said "you better go see what your son has found" - so he comes running up and said "I found an arrowhead, a big one!" - Well lets see it? I followed him to the car and he searched & searched & I searched & searched to no avail... He was so disappointed, wife said it was a really nice one over two inches long and must have dropped it at one of the parking lots they were at during the day. Needless to say, he is now hooked - so perhaps it was not a bad thing he lost it

Would love to see a picture of the Spear Point you found...

[GKreindler]

Beautiful shots, Mike. The Stengel is absolutely classic. The shot of the '25 Pirates is also pretty darn amazing!!

Bravo!

Graig

[71buc]

Thanks Graig, I have been wanting that Stengel image for a long time. I saw it twice in past Henry Yee auctions. Due to the price, I was out of the competition early on both occasions. This one was a lucky find and much more in line with my budget.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by smokelessjoe

Scott,

Beautiful find! This is another passion of mine, although I do not get to "hunt" as much as I used too... I used to be a Land Surveyor, but for me it was like getting paid to arrowhead hunt! So you can imagine I have quite a few. I really like the small bird points - the smaller the better - They are just so much harder to find. Its really sweet when the points are laying on top of the ground just screaming "pick me up!"

I've recently started taking my son (he is starting to figure out what exactly were looking for) and its been kinda dry... Well this past Monday I came home from work and my wife said "you better go see what your son has found" - so he comes running up and said "I found an arrowhead, a big one!" - Well lets see it? I followed him to the car and he searched & searched & I searched & searched to no avail... He was so disappointed, wife said it was a really nice one over two inches long and must have dropped it at one of the parking lots they were at during the day. Needless to say, he is now hooked - so perhaps it was not a bad thing he lost it

Would love to see a picture of the Spear Point you found...

Shawn, that's too bad your son lost his arrowhead, but now you can design a trip to a site where he's very likely to find one - perhaps it will be a more special find if you do it together.

Almost every piece I find is very special - the moment of discovery is always great - but the spearpoint (or knife blade) was cool because it was the first complete blade with really good detail. I was about halfway through a miserable desert run and was a bit dehydrated, so finding this piece made the rest of it almost pleasant. I wish I had my camera so that I could have gotten a shot of it in the dirt. The trip the next day was specifically to look for arrowheads, so we were ready - other than the small black one and a rough scraper, we only found pieces. The blade is in the center of the pic. The one to the left of it is also very cool - worked all the way around and it's been heated on the back (same design as piece at center bottom). The quartz tool is also one of my favorites - there is a lot of quartz in the area, but it must be hard to work - very few tools. I found all of these in wash areas over the last 4 weeks.

[smokelessjoe]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Shawn, that's too bad your son lost his arrowhead, but now you can design a trip to a site where he's very likely to find one - perhaps it will be a more special find if you do it together.

Almost every piece I find is very special - the moment of discovery is always great - but the spearpoint (or knife blade) was cool because it was the first complete blade with really good detail. I was about halfway through a miserable desert run and was a bit dehydrated, so finding this piece made the rest of it almost pleasant. I wish I had my camera so that I could have gotten a shot of it in the dirt. The trip the next day was specifically to look for arrowheads, so we were ready - other than the small black one and a rough scraper, we only found pieces. The blade is in the center of the pic. The one to the left of it is also very cool - worked all the way around and it's been heated on the back (same design as piece at center bottom). The quartz tool is also one of my favorites - there is a lot of quartz in the area, but it must be hard to work - very few tools. I found all of these in wash areas over the last 4 weeks.

Scott,

Nice haul! Its funny, but here in Georgia, quartz points are the most prominent... It's really special when you find a Flint / Chert point.

My wife & I used to live in Zion National park and while I did find a few points (in the park) it was the outlying areas (outside the park) that would really produce. We have a friend who lives in Kanab, Utah (where allot of the original Lone Ranger was filmed - I have even been to the spot where Silver & the Ranger ride up on the cliff "Hi-Ho, Silver! Away!") and he & I would load up. Tons of beautiful stuff on his land including pottery pieces. Plus my first obsidian point!

One of my most insane finds - you have probably been to an old mom & pop restaurant or an old country store and seen the displays of arrowheads glued to a piece of ply-wood, usually in some kind of crazy pattern... Well one day surveying in Tennessee I was walking down the road locating the edge of pavement when I came up on a piece of wood laying in the grass - looked like the backing out of a cheap picture frame probably 1' x 2' - well when I flipped it over, to my surprise it was covered in arrowheads, little tools and even human teeth! Some of the artifacts had fallen off so I spent a fair amount of time searching in the grass and found several more. Then I walked farther down the road and found two more boards!!!! I can only guess that some old man had them in a box in the back of his pick-up and they blew out while driving down the road?

Have you found any pottery pieces?

[Runscott]

That is a very strange find.

I did find a nice quartz arrowhead in Georgia. I was at a triathlon - as we left the parking lot to head down a trail to the start of the race, right where there was a small wash where the parking lot met the trail, it was just lying there. Most of the arrowheads I have found have been along trails I had been running, when I took a short break to rest - makes me wonder how much stuff is out there, but I run in some pretty weird places.

[repsher]

Hey Guys,
I just received 3 original Jackie Robinson 4x5 negatives that I purchased. The images were taken by Barney Stein who was the Dodgers' official photographer for 20 years. The one with him on the bus was from 1954 the other 2 were from 1955.

jackierobinson001.jpg jackierobinson002.jpg jackierobinson003.jpg

[Lordstan]

Very nice photos Ryan.
Great Pickups.

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by Runscott

This is literally a 'pick up'. I've been in Colorado for the last five weeks, running in the desert/mountains, and I've picked up a few arrowheads and Indian tools along the way. The other day I picked up a beautiful spear point right on the running trail, so started looking around and found a few other items. Took my brother with me the next day I found this tiny one inch long arrowhead, sitting in the dirt exactly as shown. Through a weird feature of my phone that I accidentally turned on, it took an 'inverse' pic an the same time, showing my brother and myself looking down at the find:

You actually are RUN-Scott! Nice finds. As a kid I found a partial spearhead while bird hunting in a freshly plowed field in Wisconsin. It was found many miles away from the nearest river. Must have been lost while the original owner was away from his group/tribe on a hunting trip. Only one I ever found. It is something I cherish and will always keep. Very cool Scott.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by horzverti

You actually are RUN-Scott! Nice finds. As a kid I found a partial spearhead while bird hunting in a freshly plowed field in Wisconsin. It was found many miles away from the nearest river. Must have been lost while the original owner was away from his group/tribe on a hunting trip. Only one I ever found. It is something I cherish and will always keep. Very cool Scott.

All the collectors I know go to freshly-plowed fields, or drained lakes. I have always just scoured arid areas where game live, mainly because I like running in such places.

Unfortunately, my antique store baseball collectible hunting has turned up almost nothing. I found a display of three RPPC's from about 1910 of minor league teams from the Southeast, but they were badly creased and the seller wanted $275. I googled the rosters for all three teams for 1908-12 and there was nothing special.