The Buffalo Bill Museum receives numerous inquiries about several types of alleged Wild West show buckles. Do they originate from Buffalo Bills Wild West?
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center collections include a number of buckles with alleged Wild West show or other historical origins. These buckles include several “Sitting Bull” buckles, each slightly variant from the other, as well as several versions of the “Annie Oakley” buckle. In addition we have examined dozens more. Many of them are stamped on the back with a logo of Tiffany and Company. Many also contain the words “A gift from” or “A souvenir of” followed by a signature of W.F. Cody. The “Sitting Bull” buckles also contain on the front the signature “F. Remington.” There is no evidence to connect the buckles with Cody, Tiffany and Company, or Frederic Remington. According to some authoritative buckle collectors, there are no authentic “Tiffany” belt buckles at all. In fact, J. Duncan Campbell in his New Belt Buckles of the Old West (1973) makes a persuasive case that false evidence was published in about 1970 to coincide with a flood of allegedly historic brass belt buckles on t
