Excellent news. I recieved great pictures of Kepharts Sheath from the museum.

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First I would like to thank the Curator and Director of the Mountain Heritage Center in North Carolina for their help in this endevour. The Curator is likely going to hire a professional photographer to take pictures of the blade and the sheath for Posterity - but I offered to put the word out to the blade making community that may have professional photography experience to donate their time to the museum. We will see where that goes.

In the mean time - here are the photo's taken by the curator herself simply to show me what she had. The detail is so much better that I don't think any guess work is left to the sheath makers on this forum. I know these files are large - but I wanted to upload them at the highest resultion I could - and then I included a second set with some cropping and cleaning up.

Here you go - let the discussion begin!

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I have asked for similar pictures on the knife itself - with scale - hopefully that will happen as well. How fun!

TF
 
Sorry, I don't know Kephart. Can you provide a litle more info so I can learn, Thanks.......Found Him!! Thanks for the post wouldn't have known to look for him otherwise!
 
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Outstanding! Thanks for posting them! The veritas needs to be dealt with though. Nasty stuff

It is a pouch! Good to know. :)
 
Neat design.

I think he meant verdigris. The oxidation on the copper rivets does take away from the overall presentation.
 
Veritas? HOLY CRAP! The goddess of truth? Who the heck was I channeling?? :eek:

Yes, verdigris, :o It will slowly eat those rivets till they are gone, and the leather around them. I've done countless repairs and remakes of sheaths that were destroyed by the green gunk. Ether from brass/copper fittings on the knife and/or sheath.

Jeeze, veritas, what the heck?! :rolleyes: If I hadn't been alone all day I'd swear someone slipped something interesting in my lunch.
 
It could have been auto spell check that got you

It certainly weren't those mushrooms your harvested earlier in the day for your pizza... ;)

TF
 
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I received an e-mail from the Curator again and she told me this:

"I'm planning a major exhibit featuring the Center's Kephart collection which will open this September 6 in conjunction with the celebration of Horace Kephart's 150th birthday (his actual birthdate is September 8, 1862). Other events during the four-day celebration will include the premiere of an original play, "Horace Kephart, His Life - His Words," an all-day hike to Kephart's Hazel Creek cabin site, tours of other Kephart sites around Bryson City, a group of "Kephart Campers" from the Schiele Museum who dress, camp and cook the way Kephart did, and an afternoon of public presentations by Kephart scholars, writers, and filmmakers. A lot of attention will be focused on all things Kephart, so additional documentation of what is arguably his most iconic possession is very timely."

She has a commitment from their photographer on campus to make good photos of his knife and sheath.

How cool!

Maybe a trip to Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC in September!

TF
 
The truth can be nasty stuff as well :)

Sounds like quite the shindig in September!
 
Talfuchre said:
It could have been auto spell check that got you

It certainly weren't those mushrooms your harvested earlier in the day for your pizza... ;)

TF
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The wife told me those mushrooms weren't supposed to be that color...... but the colors, the colors!

And yes, I am now completely cured from posting on my cell phone, completely. :p
 
Ebbtide said:
The truth can be nasty stuff as well :)

Sounds like quite the shindig in September!
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The truth most often times is much stranger than fiction. Wander over to the Busse forum sometime, you wont be the same again. :D
 
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