This might be a little more of a Show, Tell & ask... But well, first the telling.

It's been kind of all work and no play for me lately. The great majority of the stuff I've gotten I've gotten to resell (I know some of you saw this coming, surely). This one fell into that category too.

Until I had it in my hands.



Yes, the box label says it's 7/8. By measurement, that means something more like 15/16ths, since traditional measurement counted only the distance between the two points that touch the stone.

It wasn't in perfect condition. It'd been put away with a bit of soap or something near the point, and there's some minor pitting there. By and large though, this thing's kinda glorious.



I took these pictures with my phone and it got the color balance a little off. The scales are more orange than red. There's a tiny bit of rust in the pivot and a mark on the tail, just outside the scales. Even the box is in good condition.

Unfortunately, the directions got used to see how sharp it was, as there's a cut in the paper.

For fun, here's a scan of the paper that was in the box:




Now the question!

Does anyone know when these were made?

My gut feeling is 1930's, more or less, but these new-fangled 'hollow ground' things are outside my usual interests!