hddennis Posted December 20, 2013 Report Posted December 20, 2013 Just purchased a Japanese sword and am awaiting its arrival. Can anyone tell me anything about the surrender tag glued on the scabbard? Howard Dennis Quote
Peter Bleed Posted December 21, 2013 Report Posted December 21, 2013 I do NOT think this is a surrender tag. It looks like some other kind of musuem/collection/sale lab'e. The only think I can read says "Japanese sword". There could have been lots od reasons for a lable ti be put on a sword between 1868 and 1946. Peter Quote
hddennis Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Posted December 21, 2013 I do NOT think this is a surrender tag. It looks like some other kind of musuem/collection/sale lab'e. The only think I can read says "Japanese sword". There could have been lots od reasons for a lable ti be put on a sword between 1868 and 1946.Peter More information here: http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese- ... gs-376950/ Quote
Brian Posted December 21, 2013 Report Posted December 21, 2013 Yep..that about sums it up. Police/occupational forces identity tag. They did a very good job of translation there. Brian Quote
Peter Bleed Posted December 21, 2013 Report Posted December 21, 2013 Thanks for the amplification. I have never had any contact with swords that were surrendered by civilians to police. There must have been lots of them, but they seem far less common that swords turned in by serving officers. Those seem always to have been tied on wooden tags or cloth attachment. Does this tag mean that Japanese police were rounding up swords for the Occupation authorities? Peter Quote
Brian Posted December 22, 2013 Report Posted December 22, 2013 Peter, After the occupation...ALL swords were required to be handed in. This included all civilian owned ones and ones from shrines etc. This is where most of the National Treasure swords went missing I believe. Not sure the tags were always glued to them, which is why we don't see them often, and maybe many of those were eventually returned. The ones with the common surrender tags were taken from military personnel. The ones from civilians were handed in at police stations. See the article about this in our articles section: http://www.militaria.co.za/articles/WW2_Archives.pdf Brian Quote
hddennis Posted December 22, 2013 Author Report Posted December 22, 2013 Thanks Guys. This was very informative for me. I knew of the large military sword surrenders but never thought of the fact that many were in the hands of civilians and they too needed to be rounded up during the occupation. Thanks for answering my question on my latest purchase. Howard Dennis Quote
hddennis Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Posted December 27, 2013 Thanks Guys. This was very informative for me. I knew of the large military sword surrenders but never thought of the fact that many were in the hands of civilians and they too needed to be rounded up during the occupation. Thanks for answering my question on my latest purchase. Howard Dennis Sword arrived today and several surprises for me. Check here: http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese- ... ost1070072 Quote
hddennis Posted December 30, 2013 Author Report Posted December 30, 2013 Thanks Guys. This was very informative for me. I knew of the large military sword surrenders but never thought of the fact that many were in the hands of civilians and they too needed to be rounded up during the occupation. Thanks for answering my question on my latest purchase. Howard Dennis Sword arrived today and several surprises for me. Check here: http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese- ... ost1070072 Just curious if anyone could make out anymore than the last name on this tag now that I am able to show my own photo of it? http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese- ... -376950-2/ Howard Dennis Quote
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