Japanese officers personel stamp

[Lindus]

Many years ago i aquired a shin gunto along with several personal items of kit from a retired UK officer, this is the remaining item and I think very rare.

Contained in a snakeskin bag, it is carved into bamboo .

 

have no idea what it is worth....interested, mail me with an offer.

 

Roy

 

http://www.collectorsloot.homestead.com

[cabowen]

It is an inkan. All adults in Japan have at least one. They are used in place of signatures on all important documents.

[george trotter]

As Chris says...these are the name stamps carried and/or kept by all Japanese for use when their signature is required. They appear as "approved" or 'signed off" marks on virtually all official docs and receipts in the Japanese system...even some of us gaijin have them (in katakana). If there are 20 different ones on the same page it usually means that a decision has been agreed by a board...it is called ringi-hanko. Your name here is OKUGAWA.

Regards,

George.

[cabowen]

I remember I lost mine once and the bank would not let me withdraw funds when I went there. I asked them how many foreign customers they had named Chris Bowen and reminded them that I had visited the bank weekly for 10 years and that they all knew me. No go. I ended up begging a local hanko maker to make one to duplicate the official stamp on my bank book, which as can be imagined, is a major no-no. He did and the bank was never the wiser....Moral of the story, guard your hanko well.....

[george trotter]

Yes...the Japanese bureaucrat is a real stickler...my daughter just spent 6 hours renewing a driving licence...whew.

 

Terrible to lose one...that's why yours was snug in a little bag Roy...sad to say, many an Australian soldier has shown me handfulls of these hankos that they liberated during and after the war...I think they are unlikely to be valuable...unless you find one in a cave at Iwo Jima that says "Kuribayashi"!

 

Regards,

Geo.

[Lindus]

Ah well.....no point in going further than Burma

 

 

Thanks folks

 

Roy