##### Kerr County Historical Society — accession card K.C.H.S. 1996.044
Filled by C. Reames, archivist, on the small green form the Society adopted from the State of Texas in 1989. Pinned to a manila tab in the third drawer of the donor-records cabinet, Room 4 of the Doyle Building, Kerrville. The cabinet is the architecture; this card is one of nineteen for the 1996 fiscal year.
— printed face, the blanks filled in blue ballpoint —
Accession no. 1996.044.
Date received: 14 May 1996.
Donor: Mathers, Helen (née Stowe), Center Point, Tex. — daughter of Eilene Pickens Stowe and C. L. Stowe; niece, by her mother's first family, of Robert G. Pickens.
Item description: One (1) sheet of plain writing-paper, ruled, folded once, with a graphite rubbing taken on the recto. The figure measures 1¾ × ¼ inches. The donor states that the rubbing was taken from the engraving at the ricasso of a knife belonging to her uncle Robert. The knife itself is not part of the gift.
Marks on item: At the upper left, in graphite, the rubbing. The archivist's best reading: R.G.P. — H[ue], 1968. The H is partly obscured by the fold. At the foot of the sheet, in a separate hand & pencil, undated: He had his mother's hand. — E.P.S.
Provenance: Found by donor in a manila folder marked Mama's books, in the depositor's house, Rt. 2 Box 18, Center Point, on the occasion of the depositor's death. The rubbing was made, the donor states, by her mother Eilene in or after April 1972, "off the knife that was sold at the shop." The donor recalls being a child at the kitchen table while the rubbing was made; she did not, at the time, understand.
Condition: Good. Paper light yellowed; fold-line clean. Graphite intact; ballpoint trace at the upper right corner where the donor or her mother appears to have steadied the page.
Restrictions: None. Donor requests no restriction.
— marginal, in the archivist's hand, in the column the form does not have a name for —
The knife to which this rubbing refers is described in K.C.H.S. file STO/1971.10/K-2914 (pawn ticket, Stowe's Loan & Pawn, Oct. 1971; sold to walk-in 19 Apr. 1972). The walk-in is not named in the cabinet. The object is dispersed; the trace remains. — C. R.
— C. Reames, archivist, 14.v.1996.