Last weekend finds Pre 1945 Japanese Tag and pre 1945 Japanese spoon.

[BavariaJeff]

Last weekend I found this Japanese tag with katakana characters and a Japanese spoon. I found these items in front of a 100 year old old Japanese building on base. The tag looks very old and is some kind of lead alloy but does not bend like lead. The spoon has a cherry blossom hallmark on the back. The Imperial Japanese Army also used Western style utensils such as spoons knives and forks in addition to chopsticks

 

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[CRUSADER]

Whats the function of the Lead-alloy Tag?

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[A2coins]

Holy smokes I love stuff like that hope someone knows what they are. Well done

 

[BavariaJeff]

Whats the function of the Lead-alloy Tag?

That is a good question. It could be trench art, a pendant or a equipment or utility tag.

 

[CRUSADER]

That is a good question. It could be trench art, a pendant or a equipment or utility tag.

I wondered if it was the equivalent of a British Soldiers Religious Pendant. (we had many cheap Aluminium versions, this could be a cheap metal version??)

 

[BavariaJeff]

I wondered if it was the equivalent of a British Soldiers Religious Pendant. (we had many cheap Aluminium versions, this could be a cheap metal version??)

As the letters are katakana characters they are hard to translate. The phonetic pronunciation appears to say "kakiya". A google search of this turns up a type of karate or well known Japanese seafood restaurant. Still a mystery as to the meaning. I must show this to a Japanese person.If It it were written in Kanji (Chinese characters used in the Japanese language) my wife would be able to translate the meaning.Kanji characters have the same meaning as Korean hanja or standard Chinese but different pronunciations. They are the same exact characters with the same meanings but different pronunciations.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool relics, congrats!