Career
In 1890 he was offered the business of Stanley Gibbons, who was retiring, but declined it as too expensive at £20,000. lieutenant was subsequently sold to Charles Phillips for £25,000. In 1892 he bought the business of Pemberton, Wilson & Company (London), and with it the rights to The Philatelic Record which he later merged with Stamp News.
In the same year he was a witness at the trial of Bernhardt Assmus.
Buhl kept a general stock but specialised in the stamps of South America and Messrs. Buhl and Company, Limited sponsored a Gold Medal for the best collection of the stamps of Peru at the London Philatelic Exhibition of 1897.