Gunto with 名 stamp on tang

[Minseito1941]

What would this mean?

[EdWolf]

It's from the Nagoya Army Arsenal. You can find more information about stamps in the download section. A great article by Bruce.

[Minseito1941]

Were late war type 98 gunto produced at Nagoya arsenal?

[Bruce Pennington]

As far as I can find online, the Nagoya arsenal operated to the very end of the war.

@Kiipu or @BANGBANGSAN might know more facts about that.

[BANGBANGSAN]

7 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

As far as I can find online, the Nagoya arsenal operated to the very end of the war.

@Kiipu or @BANGBANGSAN might know more facts about that.

Here are two Type 98 made at 春日制造所 under Kokura Arsenal， both dated 1945.5,made by two different smith，文忠&義則。