Japanese Training Bayonet Help
Article about: Hello: Found a training bayonet with characters carved into the wood grips. Any help on a translation of the characters would be appreciated. Also, the frog has what appears to be some sort
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That is not Kanji, but some other language from being used postwar by some other country.
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I have never seen such an animal However, the markings on the grip plates do not look Japanese but I cannot be sure.They appear to be "Branded" or burned in? and the frog appears to be modified to mount on a web belt of some sort?
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The markings appear to be Arabic. They're shown on their side here, when they should be viewed horizontally.
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If you orient the picture sideways it looks like it could be Arabic letters. Or a similar alphabet
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There were post-war Korean modifications to scabbards that replaced Japanese frogs with canvas frogs. Shown in Labar's book as LB-300 and LB-301. The frog with this bayonet is different than shown in Labar's book. Of course, with so many bayonet, scabbard, and frog variants I suppose that this could just be one more. I was hoping that someone could let me know that it is not unique and has been seen before.
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Also, I checked on-line to see if I could identify any of the grip markings as Arabic or Thai. I could not find similar letters/characters in either language. I would be interested to understand how non-Japanese letters/characters got burned into the grip of a training bayonet and matched up with a scabbard with a modified frog.
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