Thank you! Crazy as it sounds, I had I been out walking and searching for about an hour prior to this find and hadn’t found anything (this field is a honey hole). So I took a moment to reflect, accepted that i’m fortunate to even be outside and walking that day, and scattered tobacco across the field for a few steps as an offering of sorts. Ten steps later it was shining right in front of me. I’ll never forget it.
I was told it’s maybe a Golondrina. It certainly looks similar to ones in the Overstreet book I have. But it seems similar to a Dalton and a Plainview also. I might just send it in to someone to take a look.
Exactly! White bass mixed with a striper. They are short and fat like a football vs longer and thinner like a striper and have broken lines in their pattern.
Post some pics if you have them. With that large of a collection, if you aren’t wanting to eBay them individually or in small groups for maximum $$$, then your next best bet is probably some sort of specialty auction house or estate sale if there are more things that people would be interested in purchasing beyond the glass.
St Charles would be really out of place in Wilco. Not saying what it is or isn’t but I too have a gift shop replica from petrified forest that looks just like this form wise. More info on the location you found it?
Winters here seem to cycle between 30s for a few days, then 60-70 for a few days, so hopefully you catch it on a warm spell. Supposed to be 80 here this week. Plenty of flint to found around most of the local small streams. I usually look for small country bridges on google maps to use as access points.
I appreciate your input. I'd also like to start playing with some saltwater fishing, and TX seems like a good state that has good fishing for both fresh and salt.
I moved to Texas in 2010 after growing up in the north east. I’ve caught 10x the number of 5 lb bass in Texas than I ever did in Pennsylvania. The fish just have a much longer growing season . I’ve caught fish off their beds in February so basically you can also fish year round. In that time my biggest largies are 9.6 lbs, 8.2lbs, and multiple 7 plus. Decker lake in Austin has the most 5lb bass per acre of any lake in Texas.
A teen absolutely doesn't need a 3.6r, and fuel mileage will be lower as will maintenance items (6 spark plugs instead of 4, etc). That said. The 3.6r is a more reliable engine. You'll pay more for it up front, more at the pump, and likely more in insurance. Does the potential reliability make up that difference in your mind?
OP, Looks like your son found this post and is self advocating for a WRX 😂. Don’t listen to this guy, at 16 I would have been acting like a rally driver on any backroad I could and certainly woulda rolled a wrx. I drive an outback 2.5 and it has plenty of pickup when needed driving in a city with aggressive drivers.
Yeah he’s a trip truly interesting, he does it with a stick that guides him to them I’m definitely going to take your advice with displaying and showing my appreciation in general! Thank you!
I have no clue where they came from, a regular at my store digs quite often and offered me these as a token of appreciation. I’m a complete artifact virgin so this is all new to me no sure if I’m supposed to keep or donate to a nearby museum of some sort lol. I’m going to check out projectilepoints now!
Nothing museum worthy here, and all fairly common point types. If I were you I’d buy a small wood case or frame to display/enjoy them. Not many people have 5,000 + year old treasures to enjoy, or a “regular” with access to a good spot, so I’d let your regular know you are interested in joining sometime and appreciate the gift.
While I agree that the grave robbers should be bansawed, the other local citizens just picking stuff up that they found is more nuanced. While the lost history absolutely sucks, cultural relativism is important, and it sounds like in the culture they were brought up in, artifacts were plentiful, and not particularly rare. It's weird though that while they revered and honored and realized some had value enough to collect and display them, others were viewed as trash. I'm sure like any community, for some they understood the significance and appreciate that, and others just saw $$$.
If you keep medical receipts and don’t use your hsa to reimburse the medical procedure right away, you can take the hsa reimbursement tax free at some future point. So some people save all their medical expenses then use them to take tax free withdraws later in life before you could otherwise access tax advantage money at 65+
Yeah, as the peanutB followed up with, the HSA funds can be invested while in the account. So they grow tax-free, then you can take the disbursement later.
Can’t really tell you much without an approximate location. Looks kinda like a fairland type if you were in Texas
Was just about to say I have a few fairlands from Texas that look just like that
You know, I bet our cases look very similar... Looks like you've been dry land hunting lately. That shooting range video was fun.
45 minutes!?!
Who could venture an age estimate?
Early triangles are transitional archaic, aka old af, possibly 8-10k years old
Tucunaré! Were you at a fishing lodge?
What a hog! Awesome!
Thanks dude! Measured her on my rod at 21” was a hell of a morning.
Caught on a shad colored half oz spinner bait on decker lake in Austin. 17 fish between 6:30-11am, get out there if you live here.
Phil looks like Skeletor in that photo though.
Coke Skeletor
Maybe the craziest insitu pic I’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine walking up on that thing glowing in the sun like that. Awesome find/post!
Thank you! Crazy as it sounds, I had I been out walking and searching for about an hour prior to this find and hadn’t found anything (this field is a honey hole). So I took a moment to reflect, accepted that i’m fortunate to even be outside and walking that day, and scattered tobacco across the field for a few steps as an offering of sorts. Ten steps later it was shining right in front of me. I’ll never forget it.
That’s awesome. I always give my finds a smoke bath/offering, typically from the peace pipe.
I was told it’s maybe a Golondrina. It certainly looks similar to ones in the Overstreet book I have. But it seems similar to a Dalton and a Plainview also. I might just send it in to someone to take a look.
Drive it to the temple artifact show in June to be graded, usps isn’t trustworthy for things of that value/rarity.
Thank you for that recommendation. I was really hoping to not have to mail it.
No problem, the temple show is always awesome anyhow so good excuse to make the trip.
Falcon??
Falcon
Hybrid?
Yep, white bass mixed with a striped bass.
I have to ask- what's a wiper? I assume some sort of striped bass hybrid?
Exactly! White bass mixed with a striper. They are short and fat like a football vs longer and thinner like a striper and have broken lines in their pattern.
Post some pics if you have them. With that large of a collection, if you aren’t wanting to eBay them individually or in small groups for maximum $$$, then your next best bet is probably some sort of specialty auction house or estate sale if there are more things that people would be interested in purchasing beyond the glass.
St Charles would be really out of place in Wilco. Not saying what it is or isn’t but I too have a gift shop replica from petrified forest that looks just like this form wise. More info on the location you found it?
Nice! I’m coming to CenTex soon to look for flint for knapping. Is the weather pretty good this time of year?
Winters here seem to cycle between 30s for a few days, then 60-70 for a few days, so hopefully you catch it on a warm spell. Supposed to be 80 here this week. Plenty of flint to found around most of the local small streams. I usually look for small country bridges on google maps to use as access points.
What general part of Texas are you in, it helps narrow it down.
Central Texas
I have a hard time differentiating the two and the fact that it’s made off a flake makes it harder for me.
Nasty Casty! Love the Caliche. Even when I've tried to remove it before with vinegar, it doesn't come off there easily.
Why would you want to remove it?
On the point I tried removing it from, there was so much caked on there, I couldn't tell where the base of the point ended and caliche started.
That stone marble is dope, can’t wait to find one
I appreciate your input. I'd also like to start playing with some saltwater fishing, and TX seems like a good state that has good fishing for both fresh and salt.
I moved to Texas in 2010 after growing up in the north east. I’ve caught 10x the number of 5 lb bass in Texas than I ever did in Pennsylvania. The fish just have a much longer growing season . I’ve caught fish off their beds in February so basically you can also fish year round. In that time my biggest largies are 9.6 lbs, 8.2lbs, and multiple 7 plus. Decker lake in Austin has the most 5lb bass per acre of any lake in Texas.
A teen absolutely doesn't need a 3.6r, and fuel mileage will be lower as will maintenance items (6 spark plugs instead of 4, etc). That said. The 3.6r is a more reliable engine. You'll pay more for it up front, more at the pump, and likely more in insurance. Does the potential reliability make up that difference in your mind?
OP, Looks like your son found this post and is self advocating for a WRX 😂. Don’t listen to this guy, at 16 I would have been acting like a rally driver on any backroad I could and certainly woulda rolled a wrx. I drive an outback 2.5 and it has plenty of pickup when needed driving in a city with aggressive drivers.
Yeah he’s a trip truly interesting, he does it with a stick that guides him to them I’m definitely going to take your advice with displaying and showing my appreciation in general! Thank you!
lol he needs to start selling those magic locating sticks, he’d sell out from just folks on this sub
I have no clue where they came from, a regular at my store digs quite often and offered me these as a token of appreciation. I’m a complete artifact virgin so this is all new to me no sure if I’m supposed to keep or donate to a nearby museum of some sort lol. I’m going to check out projectilepoints now!
Nothing museum worthy here, and all fairly common point types. If I were you I’d buy a small wood case or frame to display/enjoy them. Not many people have 5,000 + year old treasures to enjoy, or a “regular” with access to a good spot, so I’d let your regular know you are interested in joining sometime and appreciate the gift.
lol… they rule the ERP space and most of the top fortune 100 companies use SAPs onprem ERP software and have a market cap of 191B, but go on…
lol amen. Employed at a FAANG that would disintegrate without SAP
While I agree that the grave robbers should be bansawed, the other local citizens just picking stuff up that they found is more nuanced. While the lost history absolutely sucks, cultural relativism is important, and it sounds like in the culture they were brought up in, artifacts were plentiful, and not particularly rare. It's weird though that while they revered and honored and realized some had value enough to collect and display them, others were viewed as trash. I'm sure like any community, for some they understood the significance and appreciate that, and others just saw $$$.
At some point these people knew this was wrong, as made apparent by their secrecy and reactions to being caught.
And for what? It's not even like the reservations or museums are hard to contact.
YTA.
But come on, milk with chips!? They aren’t cookies…
What's with keeping all medical receipts?
If you keep medical receipts and don’t use your hsa to reimburse the medical procedure right away, you can take the hsa reimbursement tax free at some future point. So some people save all their medical expenses then use them to take tax free withdraws later in life before you could otherwise access tax advantage money at 65+
Interesting. So, pay the medical expense with credit cards now, and use the receipt some times later to get reimbursed from your hsa account?
Yeah, as the peanutB followed up with, the HSA funds can be invested while in the account. So they grow tax-free, then you can take the disbursement later.
Very cool art! Link to your shop? My wife would love one of your pieces
I would get rid of the 2 stocks and buy some diversified ETFs (Index funds) and ditch the Financial Advisor since he is gambling with your future.
Thanks for this calculator!