"Mukden?" stamp Help Please
Came across this thread from 2016, on NMB
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with a stamp on the blade resembling the Mukden stamp found on firearms and bayonets, but it's not what I'm used to seeing.
Anyone see this as a Mukden stamp, or is it something else?
The reason I ask, is the Mukden stamp seen on rifles look like this:
I say NO. It looks like something that was replicated at home.
And, the location to put an inspection stamp is totally wrong. In addition, there would be more than one stamp.
Ok, thanks to Kiipu's Enlightened searching skills, we now have another. Posted here on Warrelics by Stegel, and one of them is next to the "Emergency" stamp we know is put on blades made, late-war, in the occupied lands (maybe Nan-Man/Mukden) for Japanese officers. So, this is starting to look like a real arsenal stamp, late in the war, from ...... Mukden? Nan-man?
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Here's a few of the Arsenal Logo/Stamps used at Mukden.
Pre 1931 on a Mauser rifle:
Two variants used between 1931-1945:
Post WW2 1946-1948 by the Chinese, known as the 90th Arsenal:
Post 1948 when renamed to Shenyang Dawn Arsenal: (oldest first)
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