Customer Reviews

Antique Trader Indian Arrowheads Price Guide (Antique Trader Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide by Jason Hanna)

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Great photos of arrowheads and other stone tools/slate items. The prices are very accurate and NOT over inflated like the Overstreet arrowhead price guide. I like the fact the artifacts shown are all authentic and not a bunch of "stamped out" fake reproductions like some guides out there. As far as some of the complaints listed: I think it should be understood that this is a price guide and not suppose to be a technical analysis of arrowheads. I like the photo album style. This book simply points the collector or antiques dealer to what to look for, what he/she may own, and what time period it is attributed to in prehistory. The best thing about the guide is the price is very affordable for this book, where else nowadays can you get 300 color pages for $13 bucks!!!

This is a great book for any region collectors but has an emphasis on pieces from the Ohio area. Very useful in that it contains grading data as well as value. Unlike other series, namely Best of the Midwest and Overstreet, this book reports actual prices that artifacts fetch, not inflated values. The pictures are one of the best aspects of this book, just awesome, by far the best of any artifact price guide. A nice book to add to your library.

A real waste of money. While the photos are very good, the identification of point types and location references are the worse I have encountered. Instead of identifing point type, the author refers to most as corner notch or side notch. Even a novice collector could have done a better job. With all the really good reference books available this one is a book.

This book is literally page after page of color photos of arrowheads with prices, and almost no explanatory text. Most points are from Ohio. It doesn't explain various shapes and how they are named, materials, or other factors that might help a collector determine a price or better understand their collection. Why is an Archaic point different than a Woodland? They both look the same in the photos in this book. It's nice to look at the photos, but not very useful as a guide. You could do better.

This book is nothing more than color pictures of the author & friends collection. Lacks information. More print should have been used on Material types. Not "Grade" "Grade" is nothing more than the Opinion of the Person doing the grading. Lacks coverage. Spectrums of point values are missing. If you want to see color photos of $30. points "Buy It" Other wise spend your money on the new Overstreet Book.
M. H. Clark

This is by far the best looking arrowhead guide at any bookstore shelf. Every page has great COLOR pictures that are large, crisp and clear. The valuations are excellent and it is very easy to compare your own collection to and get some knowledge of the artifacts at the same time. Highly Recommended!

Although this book looked promising at first glance (nice cover, written by a member of the Archaeological Society of Ohio of which I am also a member), upon further review it was disappointing. Most of the artifacts were only field grade in quality and there were too many inaccuracies in terms of time period assigned to the artifacts and/or the names. Someone needed to edit this book more closely before it was published. It would be a decent reference guide for Midwest artifacts if it was at least corrected for errors.

Scale from 1 to ten. Ten being the best I would rate this book a BIG 1.

This book is fine if all you are interested in is pretty pictures of various lithic artifacts. If you want hard information that is presented in a clear, concise manner..., save you time and money. I own seven price guide/descriptive analysis books of this type and this one is in a class by itself at the bottom of the list.
Don't buy this book!

The book is way off on the price values with very low quality examples of points. Appears to me its nothing but a album of someones collection, with just basic names for types. It was a waist of time and money buying this book.