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That's a nice looking piece of hardware.

The tang of my blade opposite the side with the Red Imp and No. 133 stampings is completely blank. I guess I'll never know.:shrug:

If my experience is representative, then I'd say the history you describe is right. Roughly one quarter of the scales was simply missing (lengthwise along one side). The remaining pieces were still...

I picked up a No. 133 Imp blade with disintegrated scales a few weeks back. I've got the blade nice and shiny . . . now for some scales.