Help with the meaning of these kanji

[John C]

Hello:

I've been trying to decipher a few seal script (see pic 1). I think I have figured out the first radical is "te", "ta", or "shu" meaning hand (see pic 2) and the second radical as Mura, Kuni, Sato, Sumi, or Tomo (see pic 3). But how would I read those together? It's probably a shortened inspector name.

 

Thank you,

John C.

[Bruce Pennington]

John, is that on a 25?

[John C]

29 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

John, is that on a 25

Yes. I'm trying to build a picture of which inspectors worked at which times during production. This particular inspector, for example, also worked on Meiji 23 swords with a slightly different stamp (see below).

 

John C.

[Bruce Pennington]

Cool, John, good luck!

[Conway S]

@John C Could be 挹, which seems to be a verb - "to ladle out." Haven't found any given names that use this character.