26th June 2024, 05:18 PM | #1 |
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Someone bought this as?
Antique BALL HEADED WAR CLUB Eastern Woodland Indian Effigy Face Pewter Tacks. Sold for a high price in money, do you think it was bought knowing it is African? I don't think so. I will not and the ebay link as we are not supposed to talk about money. However knowledge is power. Are we here to educate ? or what ?
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26th June 2024, 05:23 PM | #2 | |
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26th June 2024, 06:37 PM | #3 |
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Here you go Tim.
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26th June 2024, 10:43 PM | #4 |
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Well, i don't really know much about clubs in general, but i do know that authentic First Nations/Native American artifacts, especially effigy war clubs, go for much more money than the buyer purchased this for. That would not be a lot of money if the buyer really thought this was Native American. You'd have to add a zero, or possibly even two. So my guess is that they did indeed know the club was African. Of course i don't know what a reasonable price is for an African club like this.
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27th June 2024, 06:26 AM | #5 |
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I am not sure that the club in discussion is old or antique, the chips show rather bright wood, could it be rather recent?
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27th June 2024, 11:39 AM | #6 |
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29th June 2024, 05:54 PM | #8 |
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I might be mistaken, but have some doubt whether this is a club.
Reason: the lower or bottom part of the handle looks quite thin for a clubbing waepon. It might break easily when used with force on a non-soft object... Hence my thought it to be a kind / type of statue-like or ceremonial object. But then again as stated, I might be wrong... |
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1st July 2024, 05:22 AM | #10 |
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Usually the effigy war clubs are from the Penobscot, occasionally Plains. Those are also usually recent. This doesn't look Penobscot nor Native American.
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2nd July 2024, 04:14 PM | #11 |
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Took me some time to find it. There are more on the site. Common wit Belgian collectors.
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3rd July 2024, 02:20 AM | #12 |
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Tim I think you found it. Good work and thanks.
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