After further thoughts over the weekend and seeing the posted knives lately, I have decided to "lower" the last years of the model 23 to the late 70's - early 80's for sure.

Reasons being, that the thick red was discontinued around the same time I started at RMK, ('83), except for the bowies, and that red with the "gray" interior was in use with that thick gray one...mostly...

I would say that the knife was made pre-84 for (almost 99.9%) positive...

---DW---