I just got this knife in the mail today, unfortunately nothing to add other than it seems to have been heavily polished or cleaned at some point. The marking on the guard was nearly scrubbed off and looks to me like a collection/museum inventory number ( o22J or 022J maybe...). It has a 1"-2" false edge that does feel like it was sharpened sometimes ago. I took off the grip scales to see if there were any identifying marks on the tang but was met with more plain steel.
The only peculiar aspect I found was how the guard was in place. Conventionally I would expect the blade width to narrow at the tang and form a shoulder for the guard to sit on, with this knife the spine of the blade narrows at the tang and that is what forms the shoulder for the guard to sit on. This is probably common in military style knives but I was just never aware of it until I saw one disassembled.
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