Box 10: Accessories and Desk Items

Box contains some of Ritchie's personal items:

1 antler handled hunting knife, inscribed with "Dan Rich UD" in leather sheath

1 Old Timer Schrade fishing knife in leather sheath

1 deocrative wooden jewelry box

1 Shanghai technical university pin

1 US Deputy Marshall belt buckle

1 A Great Place to Be WOWO Radio 1190 Group W belt buckle

4 bolo ties, one without a pendant

3 leather belts and belt buckles

1 red paisley handkerchief

4 pairs of cuff links

3 glass and ceramic beaded necklaces

1 pocketwatch inscribed with "Daniel F. Ritchie" and an accompanying note on a piece of paper: High School gift 1921 made in Springfield, Ill.

5 woodberry forest school medals: Excellence in Physics (1950) Excellence in Chemistry (1949) William Haines Memorial (1950); and two general medals from 1949 and 1950.

1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute medal

1 Scholarship medal from 1944

1 CGHS (China Grove High School) 1948 Scholarship 11th grade medal

1 Small scholarship pendant featuring an owl on a branch

3 billfolds, one leather, one leather and inscribed with Daniel L Ritchie

1 small USA olympic clock in gold cylindrical stand

1 photograph of an older man printed on a ceramic plate in a small gilt frame

Around $1 in loose coins in a plastic bag

Several spare clothing buttons

1 Tattered Cover bookmark made of two engraved tags and a green ribbon

1 plastic-encased photograph of Ritchie as Grand River Ranch with his father

1 circular plastic-framed photograph of Ritchie and a friend

A small ceramic thimble

A quote from Bill Daniels encased in a plastic diamond

A plastic-encased quote from Bill Daniels and the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative principles

A plastic encased billion dollar bill with Bill Daniel's face on one side and a thank you note for contributions to his fund on the other side

A gold pin shaped like a shovel attached to a card reading "Katerhine A Ruffatto Hall housing Morgridge College of Education Groundbreaking February 25, 2009"