From the back-room cabinet of Stowe's Loan & Pawn, 1042 Sidney Baker Street, Kerrville, Texas
A four-by-six pasteboard ticket, off-white, perforated along the long edge. The lower half torn at the line; only the upper half — the proprietor's stub — is in the cabinet. Filed by year, then by month, in a metal recipe box marked EXPIRED — sold thru. The customer-half was issued but never redeemed. The ticket is one of forty-three for the month of October 1971.
— printed face, in the form's hand, with the proprietor's blue ballpoint filled into the blanks —
STOWE'S LOAN & PAWN — 1042 Sidney Baker, Kerrville, Tex.
Ticket no. K-2914.
Date in: Oct. 7, 1971.
Pledged by: Robert G. Pickens. Address: Rt. 2, Box 18, Center Point.
Article: One (1) Bowie knife, ten-inch carbon-steel blade, stag handle, no maker's mark, leather sheath. Engraved at the ricasso: R.G.P. — Hue, 1968.
Loan: \$22.00. Interest: 2% mo. Expires: Jan. 7, 1972.
Customer signature: Robert G. Pickens.
Proprietor: C. L. Stowe.
— on the back of the stub, in three hands, three inks —
Jan. 8 '72. Letter sent, Rt. 2 Box 18, return service requested. — C.L.S.
Apr. 4 '72. Letter returned, addressee not known at this address. Article moved to sale. — C.L.S.
Apr. 19 '72. Sold to walk-in, \$48. No name took it. — C.L.S.
— at the foot of the stub, in a fourth hand, pencil, undated, ballpoint over —
This was Robert's. — Eilene Pickens Stowe.