SOLINGEN STEEL
Cherokee is an old Stewart Taylor trademark, and your knife was made in Germany. By old, I mean oh...late 1970s- 80s- . Other of his marks were: Elk Horn, Taylor-Seto, Taylor Cutlery, Bear Creek. Two of his newest marks are Smith and Wesson, John Deere and Schrade.

From allaboutpocketknives.com by gr8scout:  Taylor was one of the first to jump onto the limited edition knife bandwagon. During around the period mentioned above, and into the 1990s, lots of such knife guys, like Jim Parker and Frank Buster, Jim Frost and certainly others, furnished brand new knives with fancy blade etchings, limited runs (serial numbered) fancy handles, to collectors starved for 'collectibles'. First ones were made in Germany, then many of them shifted production to Japan. Some of these era knives are great, some are junk. Each collector must decide for himself whether these kinda knives are worth collecting. Personally, I have and enjoy a couple of Battle Axe brand and a couple of Frank Buster's Fight'n Roosters, although there are guys who will dedicatedly build entire collections around some of these brands. Lots of choices in the knife collecting world of what to collect.