reminds me of my youth
"my dad can beat up your dad!"
"no, my dad can beat up yours!"
"but - your dad IS my dad!"
fight nice, kids.
my choora has aluminum spacers in the grip. aluminum became rather cheaper after the 1880's when a frenchman invented an electric method of producing aluminum (or aluminium as they say here). prior to that it was worth more than gold and used in high end jewellery.
so mine was produced after that, probably well after. thus agreeing with both.