Ancient artifacts found at an estate sale?!? once in a lifetime finds! HD 1080p
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- You just never know what's in someone's basement!
on todays episode We head out of town and make a big buy on some amazing artifacts!
once in a lifetime find!
Haha Stephen cracks me up. How cool that he is interested in the same things. What great father son time y’all can have
I like the respect that Stephen has for his father..no back talk,smart talk and at the same time Alec never treats Stephen as a child.
Training the next generation to help in the business. Good man.
These are remarkable artifacts. I hope that a museum will buy them all so they they can be seen, studied and appreciated by the public for generations to come. Private ownership of individual pieces turns historic treasures into home decor. Their educational value is lost to the world.
Seems that a collection like this would be most valuable if you kept it together. Your lot looks worthy for a Christie's auction.
Lovely. I have followed you silently as I am shy but I am extremely knowledgeable about antiques. Thank you and the family for your many kindnesses.
Love seeing you and Stephen go through all these. He seems just like dad.
Wow Alex what an amazing pick! so exciting, and pretty rare in this day and age to be able to acquire a collection like that! I always enjoy finding out about the people behind the collections too.
marjie lalonde , you bet, neat stuff
Those personal totems are the gems in this pick. I’d have to keep one for myself! It’s special to know they were handmade specifically for and by the people who carried them. I love Canadian’s Indigenous people’s carvings.
The items purchased at Arne’s in Honolulu were from Arne Coward’s Museum of the Macabre & shop. He was a Norwegian survivor of the Holocaust.
Just so fascinating! I love artifacts like these and read everything on all the displays when I go to museums. Keep the great finds coming!
Stephen has a wonderful sense of humor!
He sounded just like his Dad!
@@Keela5 I was thinking the same thing!😄
He's learning from the master! Lol
He is pretty hilarious.
Very interesting find. Guerrero, roll the R's, lol.
The device you pulled out of the box at 17:36ish, is a Sugar Nipper. Back when sugar was expensive, it was distributed as a cone and the nippers were used to break off portions for customers. The scale weights you pulled out next might have been part of that lot.
Ultimate treasure hunt! Way to go Indiana Alex... my favourite video yet! So exciting.... my heart is racing
When we were kids my dad made us waalk the fresh plowed fields in Indiana to look for arrowheads. Good times!
Oh my goodness, do you find some? How cool
I think its Awesome your son wants to help and is excited about the boxes :)
Nice finds 🌞. So much history on that table !!!
Stolen history !!!
Within all that heavy stone artifacts, I can't help but notice the delicate colorful tea cup & saucer. So off I go to Instagram to see if information is up on that. What a cool & interesting find.
Haha me too! So pretty.
I saw it as well, it was a flower petal cup and saucer, floral, with gold rim.
@@wardfreeman7533 Alex, let s hear a little more about this cup. It's pretty special.
The pipe is made from Catlinite, a stone quarried from the Pipestone Quarry in SW Minnesota (U.S. National Monument). Stone was quarried there for thousands of years, and still is even today.
I have been on archaeology trips or digs, and have seen many artifacts. Very interesting. Most of this needs to be in a museum. We weren't allowed to remove burial sites (and I agree with this rule). Arrowheads is not a term we use, but projectile points. I found a beautiful ceremonial, very large, red projectile point made of chert. That piece made it into a museum.
good thing nobody asked what you thought right?
Absolutely fascinating. Fantastic to see this history up close and in your and in your hands as they would be, rather than under glass cases that I likely wouldn't venture out to see in the first place.
I grew up less than an hour from Clay county Arkansas. To imagine they made it that far. I used to find arrowheads on our farm as a kid in the 70s. A complete set of amazing finds.
It is good to see these items now have a new and perfect guardian. Enjoyable video, great.
The Mexican government would likely be very interested in buying back the artifacts from Teotihuacan. We went there a few years ago and the guides were talking about how much of the artifacts from the site were plundered and that there’s hardly any left at the actual site. It’s a beautiful and sacred place. We felt honored to be there. My two year-old daughter made it to the top of the Temple of the Sun without anyone carrying her.
This is a really great find. The history of these items goes along ways back. I really like this one.
Stephen is the dead spit of you! Lovely to see passionate father and son working together !
My wife and I love to see you you are a wonderful friend we feel. Hope you keep up with all. We live in Cincinnati ohio. Hope you get this. God bless.
What an amazing collection to get! Toured the Yucatán peninsula couple years ago. Now I want to go back to Belize and Guatemala!
OMG love love love indigenous artifacts , ancient and contemporary, so inspiring spiritually and for crafting 🩸♥️🩸
What in the world? Wow, I thought I got excited when you found that silver bar. My heart was beating so hard looking at these objects! Wow! Lol, mind-blown, outstanding!! Thank you, Alex.
Fabulous finds! My favourite piece has got to be the little carved seal, with the stone frog a close second. Just beautiful!
Please contact the Bishop Museum in Honolulu regarding the tooth necklace. Often Hawaiian artifacts have been misappropriated and they would be able to authenticate or advise its provenance.
It's not Hawaiian. It's from the Fiji Islands. It was only purchase in Hawaii.
There would 100% be a lineage from Fiji and descendants. So many of our pasifika artifacts were stolen
They are a good resource on Maori cultural items. Not a bad suggestion.
Thank you for including all of us in this wonderful adventure. I have enjoyed "meeting" the people who lived in these houses.
I Thank You for sharing your purchases with us, your viewers. You're allowing us to see a big glimpse from the past. I hope you found a good home for these relics. Did a private collector purchase them or did you donate them to a museum?
Absolutely fascinating items!
What a find! I’m agog with the wonderful of it!
I think the red pipe could be Pipestone, stone from Minnesota carved by Indigenous Americans
The type of stone is from an area called Pipe Stone in MN. Only native American Indians are allowed to mine the stone.
Yes, I'm from Minnesota, you are right
Yes it is pipestone
Catlinite
Yes pipestone, I’d say a prayer over the the things you bought. Lots of them are very important to the indigenous people they came from.
I gladly follow along loving the banter too...cheers folks!
I think your dad was right about that horseshoe. What a great find and you get to spend some quality time with your son. :)
Definitely! About the horseshoe!
It is so admirable that you love history so much that you want to preserve it.
Please wrap those arrowheads individually...I learned the hard way 😭
I learn so much by watching your videos 😊
The pipe is made from red pipestone or catlinite, and is found at the pipestone quarry in Minnesota, in Ontario and a few other places. It is considered to be a sacred stone by the plains Indians and other tribes. There is also black pipestone, still used for the canupa (peacepipe) and also war clubs and other weapons.
Thanks Alex!! I always learn cool things from watching your vdeos!
You always find the coolest stuff!!!!!
That was truly amazing and your knowledge is incredible. Tks for the journey through time.
That clay co. Ark. Is Clay county in Arkansas. I live about 25 miles from there. I have a box of arrow heads from here also.
Fascinating!! I'm jealous... Thanks for sharing!!
One of my buddies, who is well over 90, collects tribal art. As he tells the story, when he started collecting in the 50s, most of the classic African tribal art was well beyond what he could afford, with genuine pre-colonial era masks selling for thousands of dollars. He did manage to get some of the secondary stuff from the second half of the 19th century, but he turned his main collecting interest to New Guinea, which was then not widely collected. Before 1965, you could get top pieces for a couple of hundred dollars or so. Now, he has New Guinea tribal pieces worth millions on display in his living room - it's really a fabulous collection.
Cool is a perfect word to describe all that. Wonderful collection of items. I learned something new today too.
The Curiosity Museum in Edmonton. You can keep making Edmonton a great place to visit. 😊 Well maybe someone else can do that since you're pretty busy. Incredible find. Absolutely Fabulous!
Thank you for the beautiful Classical music 🎵 Alex ♥️
LOVE this one.
Alex, thank you for sharing these artifacts with us. I really enjoy your knowledge of things. My fingers wrre itching to touch the first 2 masks you showed us. To touch ancient history. Thank you also to Steven for being a part of the video.
Been watching the photos on IG and tuned into see the video. Congratulations! That's a fantastic collection - I hope it moves onto the hands of those who will respect and care for all these marvelous items. Remarkable stuff.
The clay pipe around twenty minutes in is a pipe of Native American style from the real stuff. Pipestone from the "neutral zone" of Pipestone, MN where all the different tribes went for their ceremonial pipe material. You can still get new stone today and make your own so it is really hard to tell age, but I have seen some that are carved with such detail that they are likely hundreds of years old by the symbolism on them. Possibly thousands of years old. It would have had a wooden stem symbolizing the male spirits while the stone head is the female portion.
I confirm! I bought a piece of pipestone there in MN years ago! ....Great haul Alex!!!
Wow! Congrats! Really interesting finds!😁
Cool you never cease to amazing me I really never know what you will come up with next. Keeping it real and awesome 👌😎 love your content ❤
Wow that is an astounding display of ancient artifacts. I absolutely love this type of ancient art work because that’s what it is to me. Plus it gives us a small window of the culture and how they lived and what was important to that culture. So very,very cool. And Steven is definitely his fathers son. Thank guys awesome video!!☮️😎❤️
Loved seeing Stephen with you. He has many nice qualities that shine through already.
Absolutely stunning collection! While watching, I kept thinking these are museum quality pieces. Then at the end of the video, you say that these were in a museum and had been purchased from museums among other places. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching and seeing those pieces. Thank you!
Oh my goodness...this is a knife used for human sacrifice and its on my family's dining table! I reallyvlike how you treated these artifacts with respect.
I think the tag is wrong. The Inca knife called "tumi" took this shape but not Aztec knives.
Omg love Stephens dry sense of humour and delivery brilliant
What a stunning collection. A museum would fall head over heal for them. Wow, Wow, Wow.
Very interesting. I love Steven’s sense of humour. He brightened my morning!!😁
What a wonderful adventure for you and your son!
Exceptional find!
These things should be in a museum, where they would be properly handled and cared for, when you sell to private collectors things get lost or broken and not preserved for future generations to see and learn from!
This stuff really belongs in a museum(s) so that more people can enjoy/study them.
Wow Steven is really growing he looks just like you!
I think his younger son Jason looks even more like Alex!
"First we have some Kleenex in case you need to blow your nose." Deadpan delivery. Aaaalex! Have you been teaching humor?
GUffaw! Loved it.
Wow! Impressive.
Woo what a brilliant find well done to you .Your son is interested in what you find ,that’s so cool ,bless you all you deserve everything you wish for lv Ann uk
G'day from Melbourne, Australia. This is a remarkable haul, well done.
The Tea Cup and Saucer is beautiful!
incredible. i am scandinavian and part Native A and inuitt- would love to own a piece of history like this... So impressed with you incredible knowledge and so nice to se that you share it with your son. Nice young lad... Very happy i clicked on this link. You deff. got your self a new subb :)
The tooth necklace was from FIJI, but purchased in Hawaii.
Awesome job with the camera Stephen your a natural
Stephen has his own UA-cam page , Stephen draws . But yes you are right he is good behind the lens and talented in many facets thanks to mom and dad .
@@deedeejohnson3452 I know he does I watch it
I live about 20 miles from Clay county Arkansas where the arrowheads were marked as being from. My father and his father were born in that area in 1911 and 1940 respectively. Arrowheads we’re plentiful and so common that my dad can remember throwing perfectly shaped ones of all sizes and types in the farms ditches as they were “ just arrowheads “. Of course, in his elder years he realized what a mistake that was. We still find them but not nearly as easily as when I was a child even in the 60’s. People used to come from as far as out of state to look for artifacts.
It's still common practice to write on the pieces directly - you paint a kind of nail varnish on it and then paint the identification number on it and the writing can be removed later with acetone. Maybe not with the super high value pieces but with common pieces like in this video I think they would still be written on (I've worked on Roman/Iron Age sites in the UK and minored in archaeology at university)
This was such a cool episode - thanks!
Wow! What a find! I love this collection!
Wow, a true treasure! Thanks for sharing.👍👏
That red pipe is pipe stone and could be very old . The stone is From Minnesota and pipe is more than likely Sioux .
i am part sioux - would love to own a piece of history .
Looks like you've got some sugar tongs for breaking pieces off a cone of sugar. I think the throwing star would actually been on a wooden handle like a war club. What a mix of things!
Amazing find.
Fascinating - what a wonderous haul - hope they will find a special home where perhaps people will still be able to view & learn from them... 😮⛏👍🦘🐾
Most of the masks and beaded necklaces in the collection are from central america. There were tons of fakes made from the 1920s onward, with a lot of paperwork issued also, that's incorrect. You would need a qualified authenticator to look at the collection and use modern dating techniques rather than old paperwork. You can buy these "old" masks online at auction for $300-500 if they aren't the genuine artifact, which most aren't. The bone Alaskan and Canadian pieces are likely the best pieces.
Amazing! This takes antiques to a new level. I would like to know what metals some of that currency is made of.
What a great find! I hope they go to great homes to preserve the heritage of the Mayans and native culture.
Thanks for showing us all your amazing finds & it was very interesting to learn a bit about them.
The tooth necklace says Fiji right on the tag. Purchased in Hawaii.
I love the way you imagine the mask carver imagining the mask being looked at in 2021! This is an amazing museum quality haul.
BTW , my necklace and 10 K gold bracelet, matching ratings nugget ring, from the first auction was delivered today,, I bought the items to replace similar items that I had from the same era but lost over the years. Mdmwe Rath has the same taste as mine! I love the items, Thank you Mdme Rath, Alex, and Kastner auctions!
I'm from Texas and the first thing I thought when I saw the 3-tined spear was "Hey! It's a frog gigger!"
"That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones
Congratulations and I find Stephen to be a riot.
The tooth necklace is Tahitian.
Please forgive but forged documents are very common. Please understand that the person that you bought these from might have thought that he bought the authentic “things“. Please check with museums and specialists.
Check to see if any of these artifacts need to be repatriated. In the U.S., museum and private collections are ordered to give back to the closest ancestors/tribe. My mother worked through UCSF to repatriate items to California tribes. This mainly includes items that were taken from graves or village sites. Check NAGPRA, or Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Othe countries have similar programs.
I was just about to,post about this myself. Especially since there are funerary objects. Repatriation is really important
I'm fine with giving stuff back taken from burial sides (although not in the case of ancient Egyptian artifacts because if not for those being preserved in collections and museums most would have been destroyed by the Egyptians themselves starting from the 300 A.D. or so on) but not the stuff that natives used for trade back then. It no longer belongs to them.
@@phangirlable right, so its a good thing to check and see what is considered for repatriation or not. Otherwise, if an item is, its technically illegal to sell
@@yahmich Pretty much impossible to do with nearly 2000 years old masks from countries too dangerous nowadays to set a foot in though. lol The native stuff from North America doesn't really seem to be burial related. Besides, maybe I have to correct myself. If the natives plundered their ancient cultures and sold the stuff they lost it fair and square and it should all go to museums. XD
@@phangirlable what makes you assume that the "natives" of North America plundered their own burial sites? Burial sites are sacred to First Nation people's I highly doubt they would do such a thing. Not all people are money driven like most others!
It gives me chills to wonder how much of our history is in the hands of private collectors like the private museum guy. So while it is amazing to see these things up close (on video, ha), I do hope we move on to an era of repatriation for many of these artifacts. I feel that their true homes are with the peoples whose ancestors created these pieces. Many tribes have their own cultural centers where people can share their histories with proper context, respect and reverence. It's wild to see how people (yep even museums as you can see from the labels) treated artifacts in the past! I hope this collection finds a good home, and I understand this is a business channel, so I won't go yelling about how you should donate these back to where they belong. If folks watching come across stuff like this, though, look into how attitudes about how people collect cultural artifacts have shifted in academia and beyond, and of course listen the most to what indigenous peoples have to say about the subject!
Wow. Just....wow.
Awesome collection. Awesome to see Steven so interested in antiques
You pronounced the areas in Meso America right, what a find! Thank u for sharing with us. Good that your son is so interested in these items. I lived in LA and have been able to see a lot of these masks, what great civilizations the Olmec’s, and Mayan’s were.
Not surprised these things were deaccessioned from museums around the country! I spent many hours in museums trying to figure out what gentleman collectors had collected and “kindly and generously” donated in their lifetimes of collecting! Like the Elgin marbles but on a much smaller scale! I had curators who just wished the trash man would go through it. One man had used old magic marker, remember the ones with high alcohol smell, on the back of arrowheads.