Made In Japan - But Made By ??

[Madmarco]

Thanks, G-B, I've heard a lot lately about inserts/inlays falling off, guess they need to improve the glue strength.

[GringoBombero]

The only other possible lead I may have on these, is that they look and feel an awful lot like a few "Sheffields" that I have.

[OLDE CUTLER]

I recently acquired this multi blade knife. It is very SAK like, not Chinese made, but definitely a step up Japanese manufactured. Only marking on it are "Royal" on the red handle material and "Stainless steel Japan" on the tang stamp. It has 11 blades and is 3 and 3/8 inches long overall closed. On one edge of the plastic handle material are the letters KSG cast into the material under the corkscrew.

[chickenman62]

Stelar Japan. Took a lot of soaking to get all those blades loose.

[New_Windsor_NY]

This afternoon, I completed a NON-cutlery related purchase with an acquaintance of mine. He threw in this pocket knife as part of the deal. It now becomes my latest example to be posted under this topic or thread. It also became the latest example to be added to my general, "foreign born", pocket knife accumulation. It is an UNKNOWN (to me), one blade, one tool (a can opener), 3 5/8" closed (not including the bail), one handle stamp, all metal, pocket knife. This pocket knife does not have a spring. The bend in the body of the knife is the "spring." The blade does NOT have a half stop. The blade does NOT have an opening snap. The blade does NOT have a closing snap. The can opener (it resembles a P38 can opener), performs as intended. The main handle side says nothing. The other handle side has what appears to be Japanese writing, symbols or characters. I am by no means an expert, nor do I have ANY level of knowledge regarding Asian writing, symbols, or characters. If the handle stamp is NOT Japanese, then I believe that it is .....? The other examples of this particular pattern or style of pocket knife that I found online, were described as WW2, Japanese soldier, pocket knives.
I did NOT clean this pocket knife at all. I just wiped it off. I took some pictures and here it is.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
Click on a picture to ENLARGE.

[ThatWeirdKnifeGuy]

This afternoon, I completed a NON-cutlery related purchase with an acquaintance of mine. He threw in this pocket knife as part of the deal. It is an UNKNOWN (to me), one blade, one tool (a can opener), 3 5/8" closed (not including the bail), one handle stamp, all metal, pocket knife. The blade does NOT have a half stop. The blade does NOT have an opening snap. The blade does NOT have a closing snap. The can opener (it resembles a P38 can opener), performs as intended. The main handle side says nothing. The other handle side has what appears to be Japanese writing, symbols or characters. I am by no means an expert, nor do I have ANY level of knowledge regarding Asian writing, symbols, or characters. If the handle stamp is NOT Japanese, then I believe that it is .....? The other examples of this particular pattern or style of pocket knife that I found online, were described as WW2, Japanese soldier, pocket knives. I did NOT clean this pocket knife at all. I just wiped it off. I took some pictures and here it is.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
Click on a picture to ENLARGE.

That's a cool little knife Skip. Does it have a backspring or is it the springless style?

[New_Windsor_NY]

That's.....

Thank you, ThatWeirdKnifeGuy.
No, it does not have a spring. The bend in the body of the knife is the "spring."
I will add that to my original description.

[L8Tagain]

I'm just going to post my only 3 Japan pocket knives here. I got them in the last year or so. The melon tester a friend gave me and the other two came from antique stores. I LOVE the middle wood-handle one. I'm carrying it tomorrow.

[Sharpnshinyknives]

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I'm just going to post my only 3 Japan pocket knives here. I got them in the last year or so. The melon tester a friend gave me and the other two came from antique stores. I LOVE the middle wood-handle one. I'm carrying it tomorrow.

That wooden handled one is a beauty, very nicely done.

[GSPTOPDOG]

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[New_Windsor_NY]

Not too recently, this pocket knife arrived in a group or lot of pocket knives that I purchased. This particular pocket knife was NOT the target of my purchase. However, it did turn out to be a keeper. It is now my most recent example to be posted under this topic or thread. It also became the latest example to be added to my general, "foreign born" pocket knife collection. It is a JAPAN, two blades, one tang stamp, 2 5/8" closed, tuxedo, pattern or style of pocket knife. The main blade front tang stamp says, "STAIN (over) LESS (over) JAPAN" This main blade does have a WEAK half stop. This main blade does NOT have an opening snap. This main blade does have an OK closing snap. This secondary blade does have a GOOD half stop. This secondary blade does have an OK opening snap. This secondary blade does have a GOOD closing snap. This pocket knife is in VERY GOOD condition. This pocket knife did NOT need any cleaning at all. I just wiped it off.
I took some pictures and here it is.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
Click on a picture to ENLARGE.