ksg

Hello !

Just wanted to show my pistol collection.

Kjell

Well,I have thumbed through every book I have and do not find this bayo. I also could not find any info on the online reference sites I use. I took the liberty of posting pics on the BCN and will let you know if I find out anything.

Jim

Thanks again Jim! I have added two more detail photos.

Kjell

Hello Kjell,

You certianly have a mystery there. I have several volumes on bayonets in my collection (bayonets were all sold). I know that the Japanese Type "I" rifle was maufactured in Italy (I-shiki shoju) so I started to go through my books and notes looking for any evidence that the Arisaka Type 30 bayonet had like-wise also been "farmed out". I can find no evidence of this. The mark on your bayonet does not exactly match up to any arsenal marks on either Japanese bayonets of swords that I can find. The closest I can find is the Nagoya Arsenal diamond-shaped mark but they didn't use Western numbers to my knowledge.

I'll keep searching my records.

Perhaps if this post can be kept "alive" for a while longer one of the other members will see it an be able to help.

Good luck.

Cheers

Brian

Hello Brian

Thanks for taking interest in this. Hope the question will be answered one day:...!

I didn?t know Arisakas was produced in Italy, so at least I learned something new

Thanks again!

Kjell

Hello

Great looking medals! I have not collected Japanese medals myself, but here are two Golden Kite sake cups (sakazuki type).

The metal one is from the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895. The other was given to a soldier named Minagava, and is dated on the back, 20 May 1937.

Kjell

Great collection Naoki !!!

Kjell

Forgot to ask,are there any other markings,like a serial number on the end of the pommel?

Jim

No, nothing at all.

Kjell

Is it possible to get some more pictures of the grips,especially the screws? This maker mark is unknown to me and I don't believe it to be WWII Japanese. Overall there is just something not quite right about this bayo. My 1st impression is reproduction or postwar manufacture,possibly by another country.

Jim

Thanks for your opinion Jim! Hope the new pictures are ok? Just for the record, I can traced the bayonet back 32-33 years. I came to Norway from British company in a lot containing different markings. One of the other was Nagoya marked.

Kjell

Any help to identify this would be much appreciated !

Kjell

Hello

Have anyone seen this factory marking on an Arisaka bayonet before? There are no other markings on it.

Kjell

Hello

For more information about the Norwegian Colt, please see my my previous listing. "http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14108"

Kjell

Hi Dan !

You got some nice norwegian items in yor collection!!!

Kjell

wow, love the Unifoms, also the arm patch on one of them is a very rare one in "black"..

greg

You would love the rest of his collection!! Probably the biggest one in Norway on the subject. Things you wont?t find in any museum, and most of it whit a name and history.

Kjell

What an excellent idea to share your passion with the local community like that.

Did you get any more enthusiasts?

We got a lot of compliments from friends, wife's and girlfriends. People which have been looking at this kind of collecting as a bit weird. They showed up just to be supportive but quit a few changed their opinion. I think was thanks to the diversity in the exhibition.

I?m not sure if we will get new member due to this, but the public opinion was worth it. We also got a nice article in the local newspaper.

Kjell

Hi,

Great collections and displays.

Regards

Nesredep

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Kjell

I would loved to had been there, I bet everyone had a Blast! Butch

It was fun! I also think the people viewing the exhibition fun. We had a lot of visitors, from small children ( who were allowed to play whit a 50. cal??Browning and a Russian Maxim, not shown in the pictures) to old Resistance?Movement veterans.

Kjell