I guess everyone in this part of South Carolina went to the ETO?! I seldom find Japanese war souveniers here. But picked this up today. Can ya'll help with translation of the markings....dates? I was pleased to see that the clip was a matching serial number. How common is that? I get a lot of P38's and they seldom have matching clips. THANKS!
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14.3 date means it was made in March 1939. As far as matching mags, that's a bonus. It seems more common to have a mis-matched magazine, and will bring a higher price on resale. FYI, each pistol had 2 matching magazines, with the spare magazine having a dot above the number, to denote the spare.
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十四年式
14-year Model
[Type 14]
Wiki has a short article covering the Type 14 Nambu; scroll down the page.
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Source link has good info!
Your markings are for Kokubunji at Nagoya. The rounded stylized kanji looks to me like
南
Minami/nan (south)
Aha! It is. The linked article states, "... Kokubunji used a stylized version of the first character of Nambu’s name...."
Nambu [Nanbu] is written
南部
Nanbu
[When writing Nambu in hiragana, it is ALWAYS spelt ナンブ nanbu. However, when actually pronouncing the name, the "n" often morphs into an "m" making it easier to pronounce. Same as newspaper "Shinbun" is often said "Shimbun"]
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