Original Japanese WWII U.S. Captured Imperial Japanese Merchant Marine Captain’s Visor - Taken From Torpedoed Japanese Vessel Fusee Spring & Cover Navy enlistment dramatically declined so

Navy enlistment dramatically declined so the age old tradition of Press Ganging which was equivalent to kidnapping able bodied men

and is in very condition

Under this looks to be an arsenal or maker marking

The letters are also a different style

82 branded into the bottom of the stock

Original Japanese WWII U.S. Captured Imperial Japanese Merchant Marine Captain’s Visor - Taken From Torpedoed Japanese Vessel Fusee Spring & Cover Navy enlistment dramatically declined soOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1868, after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese shipping industry was released from its national isolationism policy and began to divert from conventional coastal navigation to ocean going shipping. At this stage the Japanese economy was just starting to industrialize, much later than the great world powers. Because of lagging so far behind, machinery and equipment, as well as raw materials necessary for