This knife,designed by world famous Allen Elishewitz,was produced by Benchmade.It is a Benchmade 9110FS Auto Stryker Rescue,specifically designed as a "rescue knife".
It incorporated the Japanese GIN 1 steel used extensively by Spyderco during the early to mid 1990's.
There were only 500 made in the first production run as seen on the blade stamping.Enjoy.