RR - You did well on that deal. I have a knife very much like your knife. It is stamped SOLINGEN/GERMANY.
Only on the other side of the blade it is stamped MONARCH. Indeed they are real solidly built. Got mine
as a teenager and have used it very hard for many years. The stag handle has held up well.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much" Teddy Roosevelt