Original Japanese WWII Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun & Temple Stamp - 75 x 7” Antique Shotgun Casualties and awardsThese missions

Casualties and awardsThese missions

This firm only manufactured SA daggers and was believed to have produced fewer than 3000 total before and during the early stages of the war

and have Enfield arsenal markings

which is miraculous for being over 100 years old

30-06 pan magazine marked:

Original Japanese WWII Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun & Temple Stamp - 75 x 7” Antique Shotgun Casualties and awardsThese missionsOriginal Item: One of a kind. A Senninbari ( thousand person stitches) or One thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 15 cm (6 in) high and up to 90120 cm (34 ft) or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed