John Graves’s silver “infinity” belt buckle and leather belt, undated

Item — Box: 1948

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Photographs and artifacts collected from Hard Scrabble for the John Graves archive. This collection includes photographs of John Graves and his family, including early 20th and late 19th century family photographs. This collection also contains two clay jugs, one leather belt with the silver “infinity” symbol belt buckle worn by John Graves, the camp box that Graves used during his canoe trip for Goodbye to a River, and a 7 weight Loomis fly rod made by Graves.

Dates

undated

Creator

From the Collection: Graves, John, 1920-2013 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

John Graves designed the infinity symbol and his friend, artist and sculptor Harry Jackson, made two wax molds of the design. One bronze belt buckle was cast with the mold (located in the John Graves Papers), and later Bill Wittliff had a second cast made in silver. John Graves had indicated that he would like to have the buckle in silver. According to Bill Wittliff, the cast of the buckle blew up during the casting process and the buckle had lots of bubbles, Bill spent weeks polishing the buckle. Belt 42”, Buckle 3”