NCO Fuchi Stamp

[phil reid]

Does anyone know the left hand company logo on the NCO Fuchi ? The shape which appears to be internally circular but externally is hexagonal with small beads on the points. Guess is that it is a trade or company stamp. The nearest kanji Found is SUI (water) but it can also be read as TAIRA and MOTORI which are both names but cant find the company anywhere.

Bit of a Mystery

Cheers

Phil

[george trotter]

Hi Phil,

I have not seen it before. It has the standard "to" (Tokyo) inspection mark and (I think) Kokura Arsenal mark of the pile of cannon balls, so it is government inspected and assembled. The "Sui" (Mizu?) stamp in a circle must be one of the arsenal contractors.

I looked in my WW2 period book "Dai Nihon Token Shoko Mwikan" and can see no trace of this mark with any of the sword shops. ....hopefully a member will know...maybe Morita san can help?

Regards,

[k morita]

Hi,

I also have not seen it before.

I will try to find it

[Stegel]

Just bumping this along to see if there's any news on this logo yet.

 

Ernst

[Kiipu]

On 7/15/2013 at 4:33 PM, phil reid said:

Does anyone know the left hand company logo on the NCO Fuchi?

 

That is the company logo of Mizuno 水野; alas, nothing more is known about it from the archives.  The closest company that I could find that would match would be Mizuno Tanji Shōten 水野丹冶商店.  However, it could be some other company altogether.

Has anyone come across this Stamp before??

[John C]

37 minutes ago, Kiipu said:

The closest company

Thomas:

Is there a list of known companies that supplied the military? We generally talk about 3 or 4 but there must have been more.

John C.

[Kiipu]

For swords, I am not aware of a master list of suppliers.  The Mizuno advertisement was found in a civilian book and not the archives.