leather cover Gendaito by a Yasukuni to

[Volker62]

G'day fellows

 

the inside of a leather cover of a yasukuni to, with an interesting stamp  (Star)

 

on the back of the pressure lock......

[Bruce Pennington]

Quite interesting Volker.  I wonder if the star is the trade mark, or if the star is the symbol used to represent the words "trade mark" like our "TM" or our circled R

registered trademark symbol, ®

trademark symbol ™

If so, then the "M.B." is the trade marked initials.  Have to run this by Nick Komiya and see if Japan used a symbol, or even the concept, or trademarked names and initials.  This could be a western item being used by the leather shop, I guess.

[Volker62]

fine Bruce, danke!

 

it remains exciting 

[lonely panet]

[lonely panet]

i had sukura on a tsuka weather cover

[Ontario_Archaeology]

  On 7/15/2021 at 10:32 PM, lonely panet said:

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That looks like one short gunto! Mind sharing the whole thing? 

[lonely panet]

No

[Bruce Pennington]

Update from Nick - he says it's likely an imported item, probably pre-1941.

[Volker62]

quite interesting Bruce, the blade itself is dated early 1940

 

imported from where would be interesting....