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Frankj
your comment has no basis in fact — Disston never specified any of their backsaws as a “carcass”, “sash”, “tenon” or any other specified-name saw.
There was the No. 4 backsaw, and the number 77 (no-set required) backsaw. They came in various lengths and depths, but no attempt was made to call them anything other than backsaws.
Disston also made half-back saws, gent’s-handled dovetail saws, open-handled dovetail saws, and brass-backed backsaws, but there’s no mistaking the OP’s saw for one of these
I have (9) Disston catalogs from the early 1900s through the late 1940s. The ONLY saws featuring a relieved (cut-away, angled) heel plates are the miter saws.
Attached is an excerpt from the 1926 catalog — read the copy concerning the truncated heel, (referred to in the copy as the “butt”)