JAPANESE PAPA NAMBU & HOLSTER with STRAP

[Ed Hicks]

JAPANESE PAPA NAMBU & HOLSTER with STRAP...A nice original Papa with correct holster...Link to more images at:
http://members18.clubphoto.com/ed779...r-2c02-1.phtml

[Ed Hicks]

JAPANESE PAPA NAMBU & HOLSTER with STRAP...A nice original Papa with correct holster...Link to more images at:
http://members18.clubphoto.com/ed779...r-2c02-1.phtml

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[Patrick Dempsey]

Hello Ed,

nice set. Always a pleasure for a UK member to see Japanese items.

Have you managed to discern what the Kanji translates as?


Patrick.

[Ed Hicks]

Hello Ed,

nice set. Always a pleasure for a UK member to see Japanese items.

Have you managed to discern what the Kanji translates as?


Patrick.

No...I'm trying to figure it out now.

[donhulme]

My wife just translated it for me. It means "116". Maybe a unit marking.


Don

[Alan Smith]

Kanji characters painted on grips?

Over the years I've seen quite a number of the Papa's here in the US and, from memory, all of them seem to have the Kanji characters painted (in white) on the grips. I have observed these characters only on the Papa's; never on the T.14's or T.94 Japanese service pistols.

Any ideas what the characters mean and why they seem to frequently appear on Papa's?