Buffalo Brand/Ru-Ko German Made Knife

**digger_006** · 07-10-2011, 12:17 PM

I bought this fixed blade, sheathed knife in about 1966 at a Canadian Outfitter. It's kind of a bird & trout size, 3 1/2 in Blade, 7 1/4 in. overall, carbon blade, nice brass hilt, and possibly a European Stag handle-leather spacers w/red, white & blue tape wrap. Says Buffalo Brand on one tang and RU-KO Solingen on the other. On sheath, tanned leather, is a embossed buffalo the the BB logo. Any info at all would be helpful and value or scarcity if any.

**bernard_levine** · 07-10-2011, 11:18 PM

Need to see PICTURES.

SCARCITY means nothing.

BRL...

**digger_006** · 07-12-2011, 08:49 AM

http://http://s1202.photobucket.com/...ffalo%20Brand/

Here ya go

**digger_006** · 07-12-2011, 08:56 AM

http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/...ffalo%20Brand/

having trouble transferring photos can I email em to ya?

**digger_006** · 07-12-2011, 08:58 AM

looks like the pics might have gone through on the last attempt....hopefully they're passable.

**gbuskirk** · 07-12-2011, 09:41 AM

digger, click on "Reply with Quote" for this post. In the edit frame, you will see how I linked your photos below. Cut the links out, edit your first post, and paste the links in there. I will then delete the photo links from this post. We greatly prefer to have photos inline in the topics here. Thanks.
These links were directly taken from the Photobucket page linked by Digger.

**bernard_levine** · 07-12-2011, 04:36 PM

I love the embossed buffalo on the sheath.

Other than that, it is a typical generic German hunting knife of the 1950s-70s era.
They could be ordered with various style blades. This one is a "Finn," like a puukko.

Variations on this theme were made for dozens if not hundreds of mostly small mostly
short-lived wholesalers and retailers in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere.
Those purveyors paid for custom blade stamping dies... and in this case custom leather dies.

I have seen Ru-Ko Buffalo brand a few times before, but I don' know (or don't recall) who or
where that outfit was.

A half dozen or so contract mfr's in Solingen made all of those knives.
And they all bought their components from the same suppliers.

BRL...

**digger_006** · 07-13-2011, 08:40 AM

[QUOTE=gbuskirk;9792161]digger, click on "Reply with Quote" for this post. In the edit frame, you will see how I linked your photos below. Cut the links out, edit your first post, and paste the links in there. I will then delete the photo links from this post. We greatly prefer to have photos inline in the topics here. Thanks.
These links were directly taken from the Photobucket page linked by Digger.