Sheath photograph
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Title |
Sheath photograph |
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Subject |
Knife; Leather; Cover; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939 |
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Time Period |
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s |
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Place |
Norwich (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio) |
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Description |
This tooled leather sheath was manufactured by Collins Company of Collinsville and Hartford, Connecticut. The sheath has a nonferrous metal tip and a leather strap. The leather is tooled with a decorative leaf pattern, an arm, hammer and crown logo, and text that reads "10 COLLINS & CO., LEGITIMUS." This sheath is part of a collection of Zane Grey related materials that were donated to the Ohio Historical Society in 1968 by Grey's children: Romer Grey, Loren Grey and Betty Zane Grosso. Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a popular and widely read novelist of the American West. Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, to Lewis Gray and Alice Josephine Zane Gray. The family later changed the spelling of their surname and Zane Grey dropped his first name, Pearl. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist. After practicing dentistry for fewer than ten years, Grey decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Betty Zane, Grey's first novel, drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. He wrote Betty Zane in 1904 but was not able to find a publisher at first. Refusing to give up, Grey traveled west and continued writing. In 1910, he had his first success when Harper's Magazine published The Heritage of the Desert. Two years later, Harper's published Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey married Lina Elise Roth in 1905. The couple had three children, Romer, Betty and Loren. After publication of The Heritage of the Desert, the family moved to Altadena, California. Each year, Grey spent time traveling in the west and fishing in the Pacific. Grey died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of George Washington as a young man and several stories for children. |
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Creator |
Collins Company (Collinsville, Connecticut) |
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Date of Original |
ca. 1907-1939 |
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Collection |
National Road Zane Grey |
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Source |
H 34005 |
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Format |
Object; Picture |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
H34005.tif |
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Image Height |
2597 |
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Image Width |
3896 |
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File Size |
30366796 Bytes |
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