On most of the Dick DeLong carvings I have seen he always signed them in long hand and I believe dated them as well!
Maybe someone else can confirm this statement or correct it as may be!
This one is clearly marked as coming from Aancient Slots out of Las Vegas and they have been out of business for many years now I think in the late 90's or shortly thereafter. I believe Mike A. out of Vegas used to work for them as I think it came up in conversation one time when we spoke but again I could be wrong!
I would have to contact him and ask!
Who did the carving I do not know but it could be another Bill Harris from Royal Bell LTD.
Aancient slots had a Great Catalog, cover pictured here below, and when they went out of business Tom Krahl bought all their parts and had told me shortly before he died that he had boxes of all their old catalogs, brand new and asked me if I wanted a few and I didn't follow up quick enough and unfortunately he passed before I could pick up a few to pass out to customers as they were great for parts identification with blow up pictures, Etc!
Steve Squires must have them all now since he bought all of Tom's parts after his death!
I have a few as I used to buy parts from them back in the day!
Ciao!
MONTI