I happen to be lucky enough to have one of these as well! I bought mine from Collectorskinves.net and believe I may have gotten the last one there; this was a couple months or so ago. It's funny my serial number is 07, yours looks to be 08. The coloring on mine looks very similar to yours. I tried to tell everyone how great they were but I don't have the means to take such nice pictures like you do.
This is my only knife that I just can't bring myself to use. I think its that "1 of 50" etch on the blade thats stopping me, plus the fact that Collectorskinves.net listed it as sold out right after I bought mine. Will you be using yours much? Or reserving it for light duty?