Found a better picture where the left hand slide legend shows, and it says "COLT PAT: 1908". I seriously doubt that Colt patented the Ruby design, but maybe the manufacturer copied something from a Colt and tried to cover his butt by stamping it like that. Who knows.
I would lean toward a "Chinese style" knock-off (like all those strangely marked C96 copies), but the US Property stamp throws me off. It seems to be of the same age as the gun, so why would a manufacturer do that? A stamp like that is a real booster nowadays, but back then I would rather say that it would make people suspect that it was stolen from a US depot somewhere.
BTW: I know that the "Rampant Colt" has changed quite a bit through the years, so does anybody know how to date this one?
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