[Ronin48]

Talked to a fellow at OVMS that had owned one. Either sold it to LaBar or Ray made an offer? Something new every day, never seen/heard of one before the show. I once owned a like new, rubberized canvass front ammo pouch that was CC marked inside the top flap.
("CC" = "Concentric Circle" or "Double Circle")

 

[albacore]

There are pictures in LaBar's book of bayonets with concentric circles. I don't have the book with me now, but I think one was listed as being from Jareth's collection.

 

[Jareth]

Doss just forgot to read his nephews book. Ray, Chip & I own CC marked bayonets. I'm sure others do too.

 

[Vicasoto]

Dear Members :

I too own a Nagoya CC T-30 bayonet thanks to the generosity of Jareth, it was one I found in a pile of demilled bayonets Ralph Allen had acquired in '92 and restored as his first example of one. Later on after his death his son found a second one at the Great Western Show, this one should be the one in the Holub collection.
To be given a choice between the two CCs was a clasic example of kindness, I chose the restored one as that was a unique example of Ralph's machine work and a memento of my bayonet apprenticeship with Mr. Allen during my formative years of collecting Japanese Militaria.
Vicasoto

 

[Ronin48]

Ray's book, like the Johnson book, sit on the shelf gathering dust. Ruth knows a lot more bout Japanese b'nets than I, she got the book down and went though it and classified all of the 70 or so we have/had for sale. Bayonets interest me about as much as chicken "manure." Course you can use the manure on your garden, not much use for a bayonet unless you are robbing a liquor store and a knee mortar does better.

 

[CW]

Ray's book, like the Johnson book, sit on the shelf gathering dust. Ruth knows a lot more bout Japanese b'nets than I, she got the book down and went though it and classified all of the 70 or so we have/had for sale. Bayonets interest me about as much as chicken "manure." Course you can use the manure on your garden, not much use for a bayonet unless you are robbing a liquor store and a knee mortar does better.

WHAT? Bayonets make excellent tomato stakes and and the pointy part makes a great tool for planting seeds in the ground.
Not to mention, they are great for butchering fowl. Try that with a knee mortar!

 

[Ronin48]

I can't argue with that. I had an old T-30 stuck in the shrubs in front of the house in Tuscaaloosa. Rusty, one grip missing and the other cracked, guess I'd been using it to dig with and just left it there. Every time George Taylor, who collects b'nets among other Japanese militaria would walk buy I'd see him look at it and I do believe there was a tear in his eye.

 

[albacore]

Rusty, one grip missing and the other cracked, guess I'd been using it to dig with and just left it there.

I think you really need one of these...

 

[arisakadogs]

Now, that's a serious gardening tool.

 

[Vicasoto]

Hey Adogs :

Imagine that beauty on the end of your basic T-38 rifle during a bayonet charge into the US Marine lines on Bloody Ridge, awsome !. Good also to dig a foxhole in a pinch, a potty hole in the woods, and as you said plant tomatoes in the garden.
Vicasoto

 

[rlabar]

Albacore, you must sell me that gardening tool, my wife would love it, but not as much as me! Anything your looking for? Lets talk and see what I have I can live without.
Raymond
www.bayonetsofjapan.com

 

[albacore]

Albacore, you must sell me that gardening tool, my wife would love it, but not as much as me! Anything your looking for? Lets talk and see what I have I can live without.
Raymond
www.bayonetsofjapan.com

Raymond, e-mail sent.

 

[Jareth]

alba, send it to me first & I'll chisel on some kanji numbers so it will make it into next book.