DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
The Castle, located on the National Mall, was the the Smithsonian's first building. Constructed of red sandstone, it was completed in 1855.
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On this Day, August 10th, 1846 The Smithsonian Institution was founded. Operating as a Trust, it is not part of any of the three branches of the Federal government. How James Smithson (1765-1829), a (ultra) wealthy English Chemist and Mineralogist came to be the founding donor of the Smithsonian is a bizzare story in itself. In accordance with his will the estate passed "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men". So.... why would an Englishman leave his considerable wealth to America and not England? Smithson was the illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland. This meant he faced social barriers and discrimination within the English class structure, and he was not allowed to use his father's name. He felt ostracized by English society due to his illegitimate birth. He perceived America as a society more open to merit as a place where he could establish his personal legacy. (don't piss off the guy with the money
)The Smithsonian today
World's largest museum complex
30 million annual visitors
$1.25 billion Annual Budget
157 million historical holdings (less than 1% is on display) *** personal story ***
***all this stuff is sitting away in warehouses all around DC. My brother was researching something of interest to him and wanted to
***view an item in storage. Took 2 years to get an appointment. I traveled from Missouri and my brother from the New York and we
***showed up at the designated warehouse at the time of the appointment. The guy was a no show. After a lot of phone calling he was
***tracked down and basically said he didn't want to be bothered.......
21 Museums
21 Libraries
14 Education & Research Centers
The National Zoo
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Smithsonian Institution - Wikipedia
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The Model 113 was first introduced in the 2010 Buck Catalog under the Boone & Crockett Collection as the Elk Small Skinner. Starting in the 2011 catalog it was called the Ranger Skinner. In my collection I have a 113 BOTM and a Custom 113 and both are labeled as Sm. Skinner. I picked this nice 113 up off eBay recently. It came without the box so the history is unknown. The "Anvil/CUSTOM" tang stamp tells us it did not start life as a 'Plain Jane' 113 but there is no telling what it was. Buck started using the 'Anvil/CUSTOM' tang stamp on customs starting in 2002. The problem with that stamp is if the knife gets separated from the box there is no determining the age because the date code is not used. Back to the knife shown, I find the blue handle attractive, it seems to be more like a plastic or resin, not stone like. I have not seen the Stallion Silhouette logo in connection with anything. If anyone knows the origin of this knife, please share.
(before anyone asks, 725 is my inventory #)
(the sheaths Buck supplies with the 113's are too long and not a great fit)
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