Haha - you made me get out my natural micarta 'Bandit' to see if it was slicker than my others. Mine is duller than yours, and not any slicker than the others, so I'm guessing yours was waxed? I might try some Ren Wax on mine, just out of curiosity.
Here is a group of strange acquisitions. I picked them up on ebay the other day as impulse bidding, immediately regretting that I won all three, but now very happy with the large folding hunter which is worth (to me) the price of all three. All have the same serial #, which I believe makes them part of a set.