Ancient Artifacts & Antiquities, May
Lot 485:
Outstanding 4 1/4" Butterfly Bannerstone - Modern Made
3 5/8" Finely Made Modern Butterfly Bannerstone. Perhaps the most common of hardstone reproductions over the past 100+ years bannerstones continue to attract and captivate collector’s in the Midwest. This is a very nice bannerstone made of red quartzite from Missouri. A popular material by modern bannerstone makers for its consistency. Large percentage of the banners that are for sale online, sitting in collections, in antique malls or wherever they pop up are modern. The form of quartzite this bannerstone is made of can vary in color from white, orange, yellow, red and on rare occasion other colors. Modern collector’s generally strive to have frames full of the red ones. Banners by this maker are often papered by bad authenticators for incompetent or dishonest sellers. Modern bannerstone makers agree there may be 1 in 10000 that are made like this that are actually ancient and made by native Americans. Although most are modern and not made by Native Americans they are very nice collectibles that can last forever.
Condition: Contemporary
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