Online December Auction (Sale #272)
Lot 144:
Description
Pre-Columbian Hopewell Style Assortment
(5) items including a Hopewell style banded slate ‘pop-eyed’ bird stone accompanied by a note identifying it as being from the collection of Mr. Andrew Weertz, co-owner of the former Ports of Call, Ltd. gallery in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan; a Hopewell style gray slate platform pipe having a plastic display stand; a Mississippian style stone elbow pipe having simple engraved decoration; a Cahokia style knapped chert notched hoe; a fragmentary handle from a Mississippian style stone ‘spud’; together with a Cherokee effigy pipe
Condition: Very Good to Good, spud being fragmentary; gray slate pipe having chip on one end; overall light to moderate wear consistent with normal use
Height: 1 1/4 inches, Length: 4 inches, Width: 1 inches (bird stone)
Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic
Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot.
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Approximate Sale Time: 11:26 am CST
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Condition: Very Good to Good, spud being fragmentary; gray slate pipe having chip on one end; overall light to moderate wear consistent with normal use
Dimensions: 1.25 x 1 x 4 in
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