Please, need help I.D and some code in this sword.

Mark · 18th April 2008, 05:59 PM

PS: I resized all of the photos in this thread to fit on the screen without scrolling sideways. I apologize that the order of some of them got shuffled, but it is hard to re-create the exact order in the attachment manager, for some reason. Hard for me, at any rate.

Mark · 18th April 2008, 06:09 PM

More info I just discovered on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo). The rising sun doesn't seem to be the Manchu-kuo flag, though I thought I had determined that when I was investigating these swords several years ago. Based on the Wikipedia entry, what I described as a flower pattern on the scabbard was, I think, the Imperial crest.

I have to back track and see where I got the idea that the second flag was Manchuria.

18th April 2008, 05:59 PM	#1
Mark Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 987	PS: I resized all of the photos in this thread to fit on the screen without scrolling sideways. I apologize that the order of some of them got shuffled, but it is hard to re-create the exact order in the attachment manager, for some reason. Hard for me, at any rate.

18th April 2008, 06:09 PM	#2
Mark Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 987	More info I just discovered on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo). The rising sun doesn't seem to be the Manchu-kuo flag, though I thought I had determined that when I was investigating these swords several years ago. Based on the Wikipedia entry, what I described as a flower pattern on the scabbard was, I think, the Imperial crest. I have to back track and see where I got the idea that the second flag was Manchuria.