Frank Severin Erickson's Hunting & Fishing Knives from the 1920s through 1970s. Frank used them for skinning animals, taking their hides, I know sounds gruesome, but what the hell, it's part of the deal. Also used some of these knives to clean and fillet fish. Frank lived in Bismarck, North Dakota from the time he came back from the war in 1919. He was a real deal cowboy outdoorsman and loved to hunt and fish throughout Dakota.

Also in the photograph is an unusual bag of marbles. From what I recall my grandfather and father telling me, the marbles began being used during the Revolutionary War. They were carried by soldiers for their amusement during t heir idle times and games they played. Often they were lost in Revolutionary War camps. Similar experiences can be found during the Civil War and most interestingly hundreds were located at Indian village excavations.

The marbles are clay fired and some are glazed and most are not. There is one in the group that I added and is called the "Blood Eyeball Aggy" (Agate) that my father, Ernest Anders Erickson kept from his childhood in the 1920s-1930s in Dakota.

Lastly on the lower right is my grandfather Frank's and my dad Ernest Ander's duck call from the 1930s.