Conversation piece I've had in a frame for nearly a quarter century--not varnished, hair sprayed, anything like that to give the banded hornstone a 'gloss'--someone (in Paleo era) spent HOURS buffing this point--you have to be careful holding the Clovis or it'll slip out of your hands, it's that slick--now why? The tip of the lance point was anciently broken, and is not polished (or evidently used as a hafted scraper, no work-polish). The lower lateral edge of one blade side shows an ancient impact fracture, and that fracture WAS polished--there is grinding on base and intact lateral edge--as there should be. The flutes, well, the pictures should show excellent fluting on either face. So--was the piece, when intact, polished all the way to the tip? For what reason??? History: Spencer County, Indiana, just off the Ohio River. This piece was a gift from an old neighbor and friend, he said the site (where found) had produced something like twenty-five Clovis points--rooted out by hogs. Even grown up in scrub this many years later, I'd still like the chance to hunt the site. Cool piece, I think. Roy A.