Dave,
Are you sure the left grip is checkered coarser than the right? It looks to me to be the same lines per inch but the right grip diamonds are a bit more flattened. Perhaps the left grip checkering was freshened up when the presentation plate was added?
"Closing the door on a Rolls Royce"...good analogy...the 1900 is a classic of workmanship in its own right.
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If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction
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