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Very moving and impressive photos !

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Not yet. Identifying Japanese swords is difficult if you are not familiar with the language and alphabet. Hopefully there will be an expert among the MCN members

Cruising the MCN website, looking at all the eye-candy. Came upon this. About the sixth picture down is the maker's mark on the ricasso of the blade. The guy swinging the hammer looked familiar. I have a M1889 Prussian officers sword with the same hammer guy, but the dagger shown here is marked "E. P. & S." and my sword is marked "P. O. & Co.". So digging a bit deeper, this is what I found. "E. P. & S." is "Ernst Pack & Sohns" and they produced edged weapons in WW2. Prior to that, Ernst worked with another guy named Ohliger, "P. O. & Co." is "Pack, Ohliger & Co." and they produced edged weapons from 1905 to 1925. It seems (if this data is correct) that you would find "P. O. & Co." on pre-WW2 blades, and during WW2 you would see "E.P. & S."

A waste of money IMHO as the other Bill said...

Again, I don't own this dagger. I have a guy trying to sell it to me. Not my area of expertise. I appreciate all of the input, guys. Thanks!

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