Nice little WW2 Bringback group

[FightenIrish35]

Greetings all!
After stoping at a local auction I ended up coming back with a Grouping to a WW2 USMC marine and a small bunch of items the vet brought back that he glued onto a cardboard and framed as well I came home with an early model naval dirk. I carefully took the items off of the cardboard so they are not just rotting away(anyone with any ideas about getting the glue off,should I just used a tad bit of water?). The naval dirk is kind of interested because of the true relic shape its in...i think it has more characther that way. I am curious to why where the gold part of the area are it looks like maybe it was painted white a whileeeeee ago. Did they do this in the field for any reason? I am also curious to what the heck the two metal tabs are that look like the tabs usually found on wooden japanese boxes of WW2. Hope you enjoy looking!!

[FightenIrish35]

more images..

[gunto]

Hi ,
Nice anchor cap badge
Why do You think its an early navy dirk? It looks like showa late war.
It has the imitation same tsuka and the scabbard and fittings are in one piece.
Sad the pommel and scabbard mouth are missing.

[FightenIrish35]

Thanks Gunto! I should have been more precise...the model is the 1883 model. I have not seen a late war one before only the early examples with the gold fittings on the scabard etc. It is sad about the missing pieces,but in my thoughts,there is no doubt that this was probally an item just laying around fow days or weeks and finally picked up by this marine.

[IJANLFHELMETS]

Nice little grouping...an early Christmas present for yourself! Congrat's..Todd

[FightenIrish35]

^^^^Thank You!! ....and Bingo,that was my thinking as well! lol

[hc8mm]

If there is glue on the coins, you can get acetone. It has to be pure acetone and not the industrial stuff or nail polish either. Read the warning labels too. The larger coin looks to be a 50 sen which is made out of silver. The one with the hole I believe is CuNi and the rest are Al

Nice grouping btw!

[FightenIrish35]

Thanks hc8mm I will have to get some acetone for that. Any ideas how to remove glue off of the pocket badge,rank tab, and the dogtag(i posted the dogtag on another post here and it shows the glue spot areas)?.