Sorry need some more help

[Boomstick]

Hello to all

First I want to say that this site is awesome people on here just give the info they know and they have helped me a couple times so thank you to them. Ok so here is the next one I wouldn't have put this on this site because I thought it was ww2 but someone told me it was around in ww1 too so I thought I would pull my trump.card and ask if anyone can help me ID  this one and what the symbols mean. Again thank you

Robert Ball

[Mickjam]

Looks like it is a Japanese ww2 bayonet,markings from   Matsushata Kinzoku KK Arsenal    ( National Denki ) Japan.

 

 

Mick

Edited 6 July , 2019 by Mickjam
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[Chasemuseum]

The rivets in the grip, straight cross guard and birdshead flat sided pommel is the "fourth model" of T30 Arisaka bayonet. This is an "intermediate" production bayonet, production believed to have begun about 1939 and continued to about the middle of the Pacific War period of WW2.

 

The maker mark is "Matsushita (National Denki) " a subcontractor to Kokura Arsenal  (Koishikawa Arsenal at Tokyo was the national armaments factory until the 1923 earthquake and then relocated to the Kokura Arsenal which continued to use the same arsenal mark of 4 canon balls in a pile viewed from above). The arrow and M is believed to be the pre-war trademark of the factory "Matsushita Denki Sangyo KK" (Matsushita Electrical Works in Osaka).

Refer "Japanese Bayonets", Larry Johnson

 

For a WW1 bayonet, you need a first model (A). These were still manufactured through to the late 30s.

Cheers

Ross

 

chart of variations of T30 bayonets

 

[Boomstick]

Again this site and the kind people that go on it came thru thank you guys so very much