Interesting background on 1938 d Buffalo

grip · February 16, 2012 8:27AM

Was a buffalo housed in the Bronx Zoo and according to legend was the
model of US Buffalo nickel in 1913. Sick and disabled at age 22 Black Diamond
was up for auction in 1915,but no bids.He was later bought by a game poultry

dealer who slaughtered him on Nov 17th that year.Black Diamond steaks sold for $2 a pound.

BigDowgie · February 16, 2012 8:31AM

Interesting PCGS label. Have never seen this one before!

kiyote · February 16, 2012 8:31AM

Ugh, why did I read this.. I always imagined he ended up retiring in a nice pasture somewhere.

TomB · February 16, 2012 8:50AM

I thought at one point it was also recorded that Black Diamond's head was stuffed and on display in a steakhouse in NYC.

grip · February 17, 2012 12:27AM

Could be Tom.I just thought the label was cool,and the information
is what the seller had wrote. Now i'm not so sure i believe that

golden · February 17, 2012 12:35AM

The stuffed head of Black Diamond was on display at the 1985 ANA in Baltimore.

GoldClause · February 17, 2012 12:36AM

And there's even more to the story. They got something like 600 lbs of Buffalo meat, but sold something like 2000 lbs of steak.

grip · February 17, 2012 1:07AM

Now that you wet my "chops" more research is needed

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garrynot · February 17, 2012 1:12AM

A sad end to a great icon.

nwcoast · February 17, 2012 1:49AM

<< <i>A sad end to a great icon. >>

Such an amazing, beautiful and magnificant creature, with such a tragic history.

My greatest admiration and appreciation go out to those who have worked to restore Bison populations to wildlands throughout the US and even Mexico... I won't mention any names, but you know who you are....