Artifacts Museum -
Private Collections
Our private collection page features artifacts from some of the nicer collections in the country. We are featuring all grades and collections from all over the USA and will be adding more as submissions come in. You can click the links below to go directly to the page of your choice. You can also scroll down to the ( Show More ) button on the bottom of the gallery to continue viewing all the items in each gallery.
List of Private Collections:
Foreshaft Spears
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Private Collections -
Cody Complex / Clovis / Hafted Foreshaft Spears
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Private Collections - Dean M. Diaz
Oakville, Missouri
August 9, 1957 - September 11, 2017
This gallery contains the collection of my good friend and mentor, Dean M. Diaz. We will be adding more pictures throughout the coming weeks. Dean passed away September 11, 2017 and will be sadly missed by myself and the rest of the artifact community and all his friends and family.
The Celt Table
When I would visit Dean, I was always impressed by this glass table of Celts. Because of this table, I collect them myself.Old Musky
A huge 3/4 Groove Axe from Muscatine Iowa. It came from the Dean Diaz Collection. He was a personal friend. He called this Axe "Old Musky". He purchased it from the finder.Deer Kill
Dean took this doe most likely on his property in Kahoka Missouri. He was a very accomplished hunter.This buck was killed with his custom Remington 700, chambered in .270. Dean built the composite stock and free floated the barrel in his own shop.
Dean's Bear Kill
A 17 year old Dean Diaz with a 400 lb. Black Bear he killed with his SAKO Rifle chambered in .270 Remington.Show More
Private Collections - Tom Truetken
September 19, 1959 - October 16, 2012
Tom Truetken was a digging buddy of mine. I was introduced to Tom by Rick Przygoda, another good friend of mine that I dig with. Tom was an avid artifact collector, fisherman, and golfer. He passed away on October 16, 2012 at the age of 53. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
St Charles Show 2012
Tom won best personal find for his North Blade Cache from Lincoln Co Mo. Rick Przygoda and I saw him find the cache. (Rick had probed up this cache and let Tom dig it).This is Tom with Roy Rule, another good friend of mine and fellow artifact collector. Tom is on the right.
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Talbot Clovis
Spencer co Indiana
This fine Clovis point was found by Harold Talbot in the early 1930s on the Gage Farm in Spencer Co Indiana. Harold passed this point along to his son, who in turn passed it along to me at the Owensboro Artifact Show August 4. 2019. This was once a much larger point and has been sharpened down to the size you see here in the pictures. It is strongly fluted both sides. It is a fantastic example with wonderful history.





