North American Indian Artifacts: A Collector's Identification & Value Guide

I just wrote a review of the 12th Edition of the Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads and mentioned the fact that a serious collector needs a number of different tools in his or her arsenal. Way before a loupé, an expensive (get them used lol) stereo laboratory-grade microscope (with great lighting), or $1,200 in your pocket on your way to an artifact show in your home town, you need two things. The Overstreet book (for ID as much as for pricing) and this book. In many ways -- especially when you expand your collection into beads, hardstone (like bannerheads), pottery, to clothing and to jewelry (including contemporary), this is a more meaningful and useful work. If you consider your collection more than an interesting hobby, and when you consider the pace at which the value of a typical high-grade artifact is growing, you should, the book will pay for itself 12 times a year. I strongly recommend this excellent reference resource.

Lots and lots of items... most are post-Columbian so antiques might be a more accurate title (kidding). There was an arrowhead dated to approximately 7,500 before Christ (how they know that is beyond me), but there are lots of items that are even 20th century just glancing through it, and many items don't have even an approximate date which was something I was most interested in. I would have given it 4 stars, but out of 493 pages, a mere 32 of them are printed in color, so the picture quality was sacrificed to keep printing costs low.

Its a good book if you can get it for 5 or 10 dollars maybe a little more but used its not really worth 15 or 20. But it has a lot of different stuff jewelry, baskets, shoes, pipes, pottery, effigy, points ect so maybe if you wanted a complete book it would be woth 15 used, but if your mainly into points and tools maybe not.

GREAT BOOK WITH LOTS OF INFORMATION

Love it

great reference

good book.focuses more on western tribes

Present for husband who needed artistic info and background with some pictures.

North American Indian Artifacts: A Collector's Identification and Value...Es muy importante la información que se consigue a través de esta obra. Es mas y mejor de lo que me esperaba.

Awesome deal, very happy with seller

le livre est en bonne étattoutefois, je regrette cet achat car l'intérieur qui n'est pas visiblene correspond pas à ce que j'en attendais