River Buffalo Barrel Custom Rifle Lever Action Antique Brass Bullet Custom Pen (#2327)

This Rifle Lever Action Antique Brass pen is very unique, made from Black River Buffalo Horn and would make a great gift for the man or hunter in your life. Pen comes in a rosewood gift box. This pen barrel is made from the last 4 inches from the tip of the Buffalo Horn. it is hard to see from the photos but the color although black the color is more like a translucent eggplant purple, I think this is one of my best buffalo horn pens that I have made to date.

RIVER BUFFALO
LATIN: BUDALUS, BUBALIS ARNEE ORIGIN: SOUTH, SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CHINA
The River Buffalo is a large bovid originating in South, Southeast Asia and China. Today, it is also found in Europe, Australia and in some American countries.
Two extant types of water buffalo are recognized based on morphological and behavioral criteria – the river buffalo of South Asia and further west to the Balkans, Egypt and Italy, and the swamp buffalo, found from Assam in the west through Southeast Asia to the Yangtze valley of China in the east. The origins of the domestic water buffalo types are debated, although results of a phylogenetic study indicate that the swamp type may have originated in China and was domesticated about 4,000 years ago, while the river type may have originated from India and was domesticated about 5,000 years ago. Water buffaloes were traded from the Indus Valley Civilization, in modern Pakistan, to Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, 2500 BC by the Meluhhas. The seal of a scribe employed by an Akkadian king shows the sacrifice of water buffaloes.