Suke Suke???

[Bruce Pennington]

My best shot at it:

 

[Ray Singer]

Noshu ju Sukenobu saku 

 

助信

[mecox]

As Ray noted Noshu ju Sukenobu saku zore with Sho stamp.  He is not in Seki registration lists.

There is another Sukenobu with family name Toki, but has different "suke".

[Bruce Pennington]

4 hours ago, Ray Singer said:

Noshu ju Sukenobu saku 

 

助信

Thanks Ray.  Makes sense with the 2 strokes down the left side.  I considered it, but was thrown off by the smith's artistic omission of the middle 2 horizontal strokes.

 

3 hours ago, mecox said:

As Ray noted Noshu ju Sukenobu saku zore with Sho stamp.  He is not in Seki registration lists.

There is another Sukenobu with family name Toki, but has different "suke".

Thanks Mal,

I checked, and I have 2 other undated Sukenobu with Showa stamps on file.  One is like this one posted by @VoidedAbyss same kanji as your mentioned Toki Sukenobu

 

The other, I got from one of your documents.  You listed him as Toki, and typed the Toki Sukenobu kanji, but looking at the mei, I think it's the same guy as my OP:

[mecox]

@Bruce Pennington  oh boy I got that wrong in my Toki paper p. 36.  That is the Noshu ju Sukenobu 濃州住助信  you were looking for.  I included it in the Toki family 濃州住亮信 by error.  Thanks for finding (probably working at midnight!).   However, I still could not find 助信 and not in Seki tosho regn.

[Bruce Pennington]

8 hours ago, mecox said:

, I still could not find 助信 and not in Seki tosho regn.

Ok, thanks for checking!  One of the many undocumented smiths of the war.