Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by TOSHIHARU - Dated 1945 Spanish Military Equipment A small brass screw plug

A small brass screw plug on the bottom of the top cover keeps the lighter fluid inside

which looks to have remnants of plant sap on it

but we unfortunately have not been able to decipher the unit marking

" This is a mark used on very early SA daggers by Josef Reuleaux

and stamped many of the guns he sold

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by TOSHIHARU - Dated 1945 Spanish Military Equipment A small brass screw plugOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased recently at a large military auction, this is a very nice late war style mid grade Japanese officer Katana, with an arsenal made blade. It is in the standard 1944 pattern fittings, offically known as the (Rinji Seikishi) or "Special Contingency" version of the Type 98 Shin Gunto ( kyhachi shiki gunt) setting. These fittings, while often called the P 1944, were in fact designed in 1938, but didn't really see