Yep, I can tell, it is defiantly ground finish. I can’t say I have ever seen a blade in 440V that wasn’t in a ground finish. Most of the stuff that has a hand rubbed finishes are in ATS-34.

D-2 and 440V must have some characteristic in the finish, like “freckling” that prohibits a nice looking a hand rubbed finish…hence you see a lot of blades that have the ground finish. I have seen some D2 in hand rubbed finish, but I am like you…ground finish is the best.