I'm a little disappointed in this one.

[Hart]

I received the Joseph Wostenholm I bought on eBay recently:



To me it looked like a nice 3/4" blade. There where no dimensions given in the auction, and what I got was a 9/16" x 2 3/4" blade. Here it is pictured with two other razors, one with a similar 2 3/4" cutting edge and another with a 3" edge:



The short blade isn't that unusual but the scales are. While they are well fitted to the height of the blade, the length is off:



About 1/4" too long.
Of course my first thought was of it having been shortened some time in it's life but if it has been it was early on as the patina on the tip is identical to the patina on the tail:



I also wondered if the small height was do to a regrind but the finish, buff and grind marks, are identical from toe to tail.

So is this just an oddball razor?