Yes, that's right. I wonder if, in his younger days, he used the Ridley-Colborne crest as it had a little more prestige at that point in his career?...
IIRC, Dale once mentioned that the folding guards on the m/1889 IODs weren't approved until 1903, yet this one is dated 1896. (But with memory being...
I see a repro, largely because of the "edge" that the langets have on the inside (the surface closest to the blade), but the lack of patina certainly...
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