Lot 102B

Native American Stone Effigy Platform Pipes

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Native American Stone Effigy Platform Pipes

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Starting Bid: $600

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June 5, 2026 9:00 AM MDT
Live Auction
Louisville, CO, US

Description:

Pre-Columbian, North America, Hopewell culture, ca. 200 BCE – 500 CE. Two carved stone effigy platform pipes, one depicting a seated beaver with the bowl opening at the back, the other a more elaborately modeled mother opossum and young, both in the classic Hopewell arched platform form with mouthpiece aperture at one end. The beaver has an old findsite label for Mason County Kentucky, and the opossum is labeled as from Calhoun County. Size: 3.5" W x 2" H x 1.75" D (8.9 cm W x 5.1 cm H x 4.4 cm D).

Provenance: private Colorado, USA Collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection, ex-private Flushing, New York and Ridgeway, Colorado, USA collection

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Item # 202897

  • Condition: Fair. The opossum is repaired with visible breaklines across the head and platform. Chips and abrasions to this area as well. The beaver has pitting and striations but otherwise intact. Old inventory labels on the surfaces of both and numbers written on the base surface.

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