A POSSIBLE
RICHARD WARREN POINT

MAGNIFIED AREAS OF SURFACE
GRINDING & FLAKE TEARING
PRIVATE COLLECTION
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   This magnified view of the point pictured above

illustrates that it probably was made by "flake-over-

grinding" with the use of some type of lever flaking

"machine". One indication of this is the small areas

where the pressure flakes did not remove all of the
original surface. Those surfaces show parallel grinding

marks that were made from preforms that were ground

smooth before they were pressure flaked. The other

indication that this point was made recently is the

jagged edges on some of the pressure flakes. This

tearing effect is usually caused by excessive pressure

that was possibly applied by some type of pressure

flaking lever machine.

Magnified view of surface grinding and flake tearing.

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