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Originally Posted by sheepherder View Post
It needn't be the "Japanese Forces"; it could have been an officer/NCO who had to buy his own sidearm and chose a captured Luger and had the Mum engraved to honor the emperor.

Lots of explanations.
The pistol is dated 1940. The Japs and Germans were not fighting one another in 1940 or thereafter. They became allies in 1941.

Years ago Doug Smith was asked to go through the shop of a recently deceased Luger "mechanic" near Cincinnati. Among the fellow's stuff, Doug found a Mum die as well as a Spandau die.

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