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!
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@cindyloowho52383 жыл бұрын
Haha Stephen cracks me up. How cool that he is interested in the same things. What great father son time y’all can have
@susanlimle53682 жыл бұрын
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.
@stevegrim3 жыл бұрын
Training the next generation to help in the business. Good man.
@nancymontgomery88973 жыл бұрын
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.
@heatherelizabeth32643 жыл бұрын
Seems that a collection like this would be most valuable if you kept it together. Your lot looks worthy for a Christie's auction.
@christiepadgett70023 жыл бұрын
Love seeing you and Stephen go through all these. He seems just like dad.
@pattimontreal99993 жыл бұрын
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.
@christenawalker29443 жыл бұрын
When we were kids my dad made us waalk the fresh plowed fields in Indiana to look for arrowheads. Good times!
@mandynailsit68033 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, do you find some? How cool
@kathybaker69773 жыл бұрын
Stephen has a wonderful sense of humor!
@Keela53 жыл бұрын
He sounded just like his Dad!
@ms.michealhodge12433 жыл бұрын
@@Keela5 I was thinking the same thing!😄
@julier.19023 жыл бұрын
He's learning from the master! Lol
@smurleygirl3 жыл бұрын
He is pretty hilarious.
@dianeguerrero25743 жыл бұрын
Very interesting find. Guerrero, roll the R's, lol.
@lollylolly81863 жыл бұрын
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.
@jonesjohnr90523 жыл бұрын
Nice finds 🌞. So much history on that table !!!
@castlejeta90193 жыл бұрын
Stolen history !!!
@marjielalonde38753 жыл бұрын
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.
@Cate74513 жыл бұрын
marjie lalonde , you bet, neat stuff
@BagladyNH3 жыл бұрын
I think its Awesome your son wants to help and is excited about the boxes :)
@wendytegart91463 жыл бұрын
Ultimate treasure hunt! Way to go Indiana Alex... my favourite video yet! So exciting.... my heart is racing
@dmfoneill3 жыл бұрын
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.
@macxcel12653 жыл бұрын
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.
@FMulholland3 жыл бұрын
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!
@workingmom81623 жыл бұрын
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.
@wandamackenzie1443 жыл бұрын
Haha me too! So pretty.
@wowzieee3 жыл бұрын
I saw it as well, it was a flower petal cup and saucer, floral, with gold rim.
@wowzieee3 жыл бұрын
@@wardfreeman7533 Alex, let s hear a little more about this cup. It's pretty special.
@kimikriggs19663 жыл бұрын
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.
@madwithaloha59663 жыл бұрын
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.
@nancymontgomery88973 жыл бұрын
It's not Hawaiian. It's from the Fiji Islands. It was only purchase in Hawaii.
@rebeccagibbs41283 жыл бұрын
There would 100% be a lineage from Fiji and descendants. So many of our pasifika artifacts were stolen
@hoperules88743 жыл бұрын
They are a good resource on Maori cultural items. Not a bad suggestion.
@charlene23773 жыл бұрын
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.
@OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld Жыл бұрын
good thing nobody asked what you thought right?
@rebeccagibbs41283 жыл бұрын
Stephen is the dead spit of you! Lovely to see passionate father and son working together !
@TerrisQuest3 жыл бұрын
I think the red pipe could be Pipestone, stone from Minnesota carved by Indigenous Americans
@deadendgarage20063 жыл бұрын
The type of stone is from an area called Pipe Stone in MN. Only native American Indians are allowed to mine the stone.
@TerrisQuest3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm from Minnesota, you are right
@earthspirit82863 жыл бұрын
Yes it is pipestone
@mallomere3 жыл бұрын
Catlinite
@PerfectlyIimperfect13 жыл бұрын
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.
@pazzazz13 жыл бұрын
It is good to see these items now have a new and perfect guardian. Enjoyable video, great.
@TripleAwave3 жыл бұрын
Please wrap those arrowheads individually...I learned the hard way 😭
@morayahp-c43433 жыл бұрын
OMG love love love indigenous artifacts , ancient and contemporary, so inspiring spiritually and for crafting 🩸♥️🩸
@fnanette13 жыл бұрын
What a find! I’m agog with the wonderful of it!
@Justthollyy3 жыл бұрын
I think your dad was right about that horseshoe. What a great find and you get to spend some quality time with your son. :)
@robertthorpe24013 жыл бұрын
Definitely! About the horseshoe!
@cecoya3 жыл бұрын
This is a really great find. The history of these items goes along ways back. I really like this one.
@christinecole42533 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!! I'm jealous... Thanks for sharing!!
@mandynailsit68033 жыл бұрын
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.
@jenniferstewart14373 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating items!
@barbarawangerud6183 жыл бұрын
What an amazing collection to get! Toured the Yucatán peninsula couple years ago. Now I want to go back to Belize and Guatemala!
@susandduval81733 жыл бұрын
I gladly follow along loving the banter too...cheers folks!
@shelleynobleart3 жыл бұрын
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.
@vintagemaison35533 жыл бұрын
Fabulous finds! My favourite piece has got to be the little carved seal, with the stone frog a close second. Just beautiful!
@chelsealeonardbaum233 жыл бұрын
Thank you for including all of us in this wonderful adventure. I have enjoyed "meeting" the people who lived in these houses.
@teresaboone8933 жыл бұрын
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.
@otisfuson63792 жыл бұрын
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.
@ntepup773 жыл бұрын
You always find the coolest stuff!!!!!
@vinyl1Earthlink3 жыл бұрын
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.
@pamellasmith25033 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the beautiful Classical music 🎵 Alex ♥️
@pattygomez86563 жыл бұрын
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.
@pkshyree2883 жыл бұрын
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!
@aliencat113 жыл бұрын
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.
@jakekatella3 жыл бұрын
I think the tag is wrong. The Inca knife called "tumi" took this shape but not Aztec knives.
@sharonlipinski2203 жыл бұрын
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.
@WisconsinWanderer3 жыл бұрын
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!!☮️😎❤️
@LilithLLilith3 жыл бұрын
Loved seeing Stephen with you. He has many nice qualities that shine through already.
@unbiasedobserver3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Congrats! Really interesting finds!😁
@ginnyprince15903 жыл бұрын
Awesome collection. Awesome to see Steven so interested in antiques
@jenniferdumont90473 жыл бұрын
I learn so much by watching your videos 😊
@markpashia70673 жыл бұрын
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.
@marciehall21253 жыл бұрын
I confirm! I bought a piece of pipestone there in MN years ago! ....Great haul Alex!!!
@motherwolf84073 жыл бұрын
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!
@carrols.hawkins77703 жыл бұрын
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.
@vickiechandler31123 жыл бұрын
Cool is a perfect word to describe all that. Wonderful collection of items. I learned something new today too.
@goldylynne3 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a find! I love this collection!
@connieblasing68353 жыл бұрын
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!
@juliatownsend46902 жыл бұрын
That was truly amazing and your knowledge is incredible. Tks for the journey through time.
@debt47173 жыл бұрын
Super cool finds, Alex & Stephen! So interesting! Nice video.
@JonBlondell3 жыл бұрын
Exceptional find!
@bethfoster65913 жыл бұрын
Wow, a true treasure! Thanks for sharing.👍👏
@thizizliz3 жыл бұрын
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.
@ellieventrulli2643 жыл бұрын
Wow Steven is really growing he looks just like you!
@clicker70193 жыл бұрын
I think his younger son Jason looks even more like Alex!
@kevinron75593 жыл бұрын
What a stunning collection. A museum would fall head over heal for them. Wow, Wow, Wow.
@sylviajones49073 жыл бұрын
Wow! Impressive.
@birds-and-blooms3 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Thank you!
@jadisonica10833 жыл бұрын
It is so admirable that you love history so much that you want to preserve it.
@beckyf21983 жыл бұрын
Wow! This is amazing!
@MissLady-pq4hc3 жыл бұрын
Great find. So unbelievable.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼💙
@SmallWonda3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating - what a wonderous haul - hope they will find a special home where perhaps people will still be able to view & learn from them... 😮⛏👍🦘🐾
@rompergoddess3 жыл бұрын
HOLY FREAKING WOW!!!! So cool, love it wish you best of luck in selling such wonderful beautiful artifacts!!!
@NoviceSandi3 жыл бұрын
G'day from Melbourne, Australia. This is a remarkable haul, well done.
@lisakindle45863 жыл бұрын
Wow! Just amazing!
@deborahellenberger71533 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I love Steven’s sense of humour. He brightened my morning!!😁
@TXBXRLVR3 жыл бұрын
The currency is so cool! I love learning about artifacts like that.
@ericnygaard53603 жыл бұрын
That red pipe is pipe stone and could be very old . The stone is From Minnesota and pipe is more than likely Sioux .
@moirhann3 жыл бұрын
i am part sioux - would love to own a piece of history .
@annsmith47393 жыл бұрын
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
@harechick3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing us all your amazing finds & it was very interesting to learn a bit about them.
@sundance816773 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating collection you have there! The cup and saucer behind the smudge pot is beautiful.
@lyndamattravers31263 жыл бұрын
Omg what an amazing collection x
@LauraLJohn3 жыл бұрын
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 ❤
@kathym53073 жыл бұрын
Very cool finds.
@shannanjones55143 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely amazing! 👏👏
@michelleleonard24213 жыл бұрын
Amazing find.
@anastasiarose9003 Жыл бұрын
LOVE this one.
@ClarkOVision3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Incredible stuff. Well done on landing that collection Alex. Really fascinating and historical. Just incredible!
@bluejay33333 жыл бұрын
My dad found arrowheads on our farm in Michigan. Also found some stone tools. Nice collection!!
@davelenehan4543 жыл бұрын
this is such an incredible set of finds...wow thanks so much for sharing it
@cjpenning3 жыл бұрын
The tooth necklace says Fiji right on the tag. Purchased in Hawaii.
@mcwatersd3 жыл бұрын
Those are amazing pieces that I hope most will find their way I'm glad Steven seems interested in history as well. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤
@PierreaSweedieCat Жыл бұрын
"First we have some Kleenex in case you need to blow your nose." Deadpan delivery. Aaaalex! Have you been teaching humor? GUffaw! Loved it.
@moirhann3 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@pienpakvis61183 жыл бұрын
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!
@wendyarmitage53773 жыл бұрын
This was such a cool episode - thanks!
@NaomiNunya3 жыл бұрын
Very cool, I enjoyed watching this.
@wendyloughery3 жыл бұрын
Love the stuff you got that's so awesome
@AngieDoesStuff3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Texas and the first thing I thought when I saw the 3-tined spear was "Hey! It's a frog gigger!"
@suemount60423 жыл бұрын
Omg love Stephens dry sense of humour and delivery brilliant
@damolin773 жыл бұрын
Awesome job with the camera Stephen your a natural
@deedeejohnson34523 жыл бұрын
Stephen has his own KZfaq page , Stephen draws . But yes you are right he is good behind the lens and talented in many facets thanks to mom and dad .
@damolin773 жыл бұрын
@@deedeejohnson3452 I know he does I watch it
@CJ21CJ3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful adventure for you and your son!
@lindalong22973 жыл бұрын
Congratulations and I find Stephen to be a riot.
@PerfectlyIimperfect13 жыл бұрын
The tooth necklace is Tahitian.
@PerfectlyIimperfect13 жыл бұрын
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.