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Help with a Mon, Please!

Article about: Hoping someone recognizes this mon. It's found on a number of late-war gunto. Thanks in advance for the help!

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    Default Help with a Mon, Please!

    Hoping someone recognizes this mon. It's found on a number of late-war gunto. I don't think it's a kamon, as it is identical on 3 separate gunto, all of the identical style fittings.

    Thanks in advance for the help!
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    Just are poor craftsmanship edition of a Sakura IMO

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    This seems to be the same theme
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    That's a different piece compared with the one on your example. It doesn't really look like a Mon to me.

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    I didn’t expect them to be family mon, but I wanted to bounce it off you guys to be sure. My thought is that it’s a company crest, maybe the shop that made the gunto, since it’s identical on all 3 examples we have. But Gunto’s idea may explain it too. If they were made by occupied Chinese or Koreans, the emblem might have cultural meaning to their world.

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    It's not a Mon, nor a company logo. Just how a button is looked like. That's where they got the design idea from.

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    Quote by Sporter90 View Post
    It's not a Mon, nor a company logo. Just how a button is looked like. That's where they got the design idea from.
    Could be. Fuller speculated that they were "Java made." If so, they could have gotten the inspiration from a Japanese gunto chuso.

    We have pictures of 3 (4 counting Fuller's) and this nice shot of a mekugi with kabutogane:
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    A menuki, mekugi is the bamboo pin

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