ketchum

back in the 50s when my mother said to my father , cliff ketchum , that he should copie right his patterns , he said all someone has to do is change one little flower or change stamps for a pattern ,,, as it did happen when one other saddle maker whom worked for my father at the san fernando valley saddlery ,, at least some of his work is in a hand full of leather craft books ,, when my father past away in sept of 1984 , alot of his things disapeared , tools etc , verlane studied under my father for at least a year ,,,, a few years back i was thinking of taking time off to visit with verlane , would have been nice to have known her ,, if anyone here knew of my father , cliff ketchum , drop me a note etc , patrick ketchum

theres a site you can go to ,,,,,, with only one sample of my fathers work ,,,,,look up cliff ketchum and add saddle maker ,,,,,,,,, and mervyn ringlreo ,,,,,,, worked at the porters saddlery an arizona ,,,,,, my father opened the san fernando valley saddle shop sometime just after the world war two ,,, ran the shop up until 1967 ,,,, all so head up to calabasas saddlery and ask for dave thornbary ,,,,, he leaned from mervyn ringlero ,,, have a good one patrick ketchum