I was just looking at this one this morning, and thinking, what the heck were they thinking with that red... I've never seen that before. Now twice in one day. This one's in Greece, NY. Must be something in the water out that way...
If I had to put a pin in the one you're asking about, I'm thinking early 40's, perhaps a bit earlier. On the side under the handle, is there any evidence of ground over, smoothed out broken rivets from a serial number tag? It'd be a narrow tag, one rivet at each end.