Front Button on Sheath

[JOE NOWICKI]

I was going through all my sheaths looking for a distressed sheath and I came across a sheath that has a plain brass button on the front flap. This makes me think that it is a knock off but the 110 on the back bottom is BOLD. The looped leather for a belt seems shorter and not as wide. It has BUCK knives above the brass button with an R circled for a registered trademark. Is it real or fake?

 

[David Martin]

I have a brass snap on a brown 110 sheath from 1993. The brass snap was first used on the model 401 Kalinga and model 402 Akouna, I think back in the 70's. It is likely real. DM

 

[JOE NOWICKI]

Thanks for your reply, David it is not a flimsy sheath. I must have 100 and this is the only one with a brass button with nothing on it.

 

[kossetx]

I think real too. Too much other real "Buck" on it to be non Buck. Maybe that button just got missed in the stamping line.

 

[TAH]

I always thought the brass button sheaths were associated with fake 110s.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/real-or-fake-buck-110-need-help.1446235/

 

[DeSotoSky]

Like this? What TAH said.
Personally I've never seen a smooth brass button on a (real) 110 sheath but it sounds like David has.

 

[eveled]

It also could be a replacement snap. Any cobbler or harness maker could replace a missing snap.

 

[DeSotoSky]

Without a picture we are all just guessing.

 

[JOE NOWICKI]

The snap and sheath are JUST like the one in DeSotoSky's picture with the same kind of brass button.Went to the link with fake switchblades and the sheath has a brass button just like the one I found.

 

[TAH]

Personally I've never seen a smooth brass button on a (real) 110 sheath but it sounds like David has.

I'm guessing David missed Joe's description that the brass button is plain. Perhaps this is the brown sheath David is referencing.