North America. An Indigenous Agate Spearhead Auction and the Heer

and the Heer

500 in prize money

A RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst/Reich Labour Service) long service award

87 mm (w) x 23

Artillerie Regiment 49 Nr

North America. An Indigenous Agate Spearhead Auction and the HeerIn a natural dark agate, of recent manufacture, very sharp point, the body long in design with flares on either side at its base, finished with a flattened fishtail like end for placement upon a spear, the overall shape produced by chipping small, parallel flakes off both sides of the blade, along with creating a sharp chattering on both edges, museum marked in white ink "AB95" on the reverse, measuring 37 mm in width x 170 in length x 7. 5 mm in