registration is free , easy and welcomed !!!
Started by MISSISSIPPI Double beard, February 28, 2019, 10:32:40 PM
Quote from: coyote1 on February 28, 2019, 11:53:38 PMI have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.
Quote from: Gobspur on March 01, 2019, 07:39:42 PMI found this on a sand bar one day in Mississippi.We've got quite a collection of points found on our family farm in Indiana. Granddad said they also use to have a 5 gallon bucket on the front porch that they would throw them in. Was supposedly 3/4 full and they came home one day in the 60s and it was gone.Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
Quote from: paboxcall on March 01, 2019, 07:50:30 PMQuote from: Gobspur on March 01, 2019, 07:39:42 PMI found this on a sand bar one day in Mississippi.We've got quite a collection of points found on our family farm in Indiana. Granddad said they also use to have a 5 gallon bucket on the front porch that they would throw them in. Was supposedly 3/4 full and they came home one day in the 60s and it was gone.Sent from my SM-G955U1 using TapatalkIn this context it is immediately recognizable as a point, however laying on a sand bar along a stream, I'd never see it for what it is. Wish I was more in tune with seeing these.
Quote from: silvestris on March 01, 2019, 10:15:17 AMQuote from: coyote1 on February 28, 2019, 11:53:38 PMI have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.Just finishing up the last of the four volume "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". What a brutal war. I just can't understand why the northern states refused to let the South go in peace. The war was so costly in lives and material and the war bears much responsibility for the big government problems we face stil today.
Quote from: coyote1 on March 02, 2019, 12:06:59 PMQuote from: silvestris on March 01, 2019, 10:15:17 AMQuote from: coyote1 on February 28, 2019, 11:53:38 PMI have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.Just finishing up the last of the four volume "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". What a brutal war. I just can't understand why the northern states refused to let the South go in peace. The war was so costly in lives and material and the war bears much responsibility for the big government problems we face stil today.I wholeheartedly agree. The war should have never been fought, shows how powerful people/government can influence folks.Hank Jr. (If the south would have won we would have it made) he's right. I can guarantee the government wouldn't to so big and out of control.
Quote from: Cut N Run on March 03, 2019, 11:24:56 AMThere didn't used to as much competition out looking for points as there is these days either. Finding arrowheads shifted from hobby collectors to commodity dealers to some degree. The internet contributes to that too. You can find dozens of artifact dealers who buy old collections at auctions and sell them by the piece. Their property, they can do as they please, I just hate to see it happen. Once some folks started collecting by using bank accounts to buy them and not using boot leather to find points on their own, the demand went higher and so did prices. I have displayed some of my points and artifacts at artifact shows many times, and without fail, somebody approaches me offering money for my nice, rare, and older points. I consider them the reward for having spent the time looking for them. I can make money any day, why would I give up points that I cherish which bring great memories for cash that anybody can make? Just how I see it.Of course, once I'm gone, who knows what will become of them? It won't matter to me by then anyway I guess.One guy I used to arrowhead hunt with would sell his finds almost immediately once he got home. I stopped prospecting new fields with him because he'd visit the ones we found on his own without me or permission to go there. When I would return to places I used to look, my old footprints used to be the only ones in the field. That guy would take others with him to look when I wasn't there and the next time I'd go back, there would be more footprints than points, pottery shards, & chips. I quit hunting with him to save my sanity more than anything. All those fields are so picked over these days, they're barely worth looking.Jim