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5 3/4" Gray Ghost/Contemporary Arrowhead- Modern-made art pieces that have been referred to as "gray ghosts" by collectors and even archaeologists for many years. These famous "flint spears" were made by Bryan Reinhardt beginning sometime in the 1940's an

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5 3/4″ Gray Ghost/Contemporary Arrowhead- Modern-made art pieces that have been referred to as “gray ghosts” by collectors and even archaeologists for many years. These famous “flint spears” were made by Bryan Reinhardt beginning sometime in the 1940’s and continuing well into the 1970’s. No one knows how many of these 8 inch (20.3 cm) to 9 inch (22.8 cm) long “spear points” he made. A minimum order was a gross (144) so he must have made countless thousands of them. They were made by sawing out “blanks” of thin rectangular slabs of stone (Edwards Plateau chert). These were then pressure flaked into shape with some type of mechanical lever devise he invented himself.