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Thank you again for all of that information, BEAR. You are a quite literally a wealth of knowledge. I had actually stumbled upon the military reproductions website looking for more information on the...

Wow, thank you for that information. Where did you even find that Bear? Everything Other than the direct meaning of 4B I had known. I couldn't find any of that sort of information for the M17A1.

That sounds interesting. Any particular reason you say that? I haven't seen much information on the early WWII M1917 helmets.

I found an M1917 (I believe anyway) helmet at an antique shop today. It was labeled simply "WWI Helmet". First I have ever even seen in person in my life, so my level of knowledge/research on the...

Thank you for the information, fjruple.

I wouldn't say that really settles it, but it is more likely than anything else we've thought of yet. It does, again, bring up more questions than answers...

I think that it being related to the U.S.S. Atherton is implausible as well, I did to begin with after the first translation before posting on this forum. I can't think of a situation in which...

I suppose anything, however unlikely, is possible. If we do say that maybe it was a Japanese engraver, marking an Anglo-Saxon name in Japanese, then the bluing still would have likely been done...

A Japanese engraver signed his work with a non-Japanese name? Why engrave it, in the largest/grandest way, into the barrel when there's no other engraving on the barrel?

That is good to know,...

Rice 123, were there companies that were mass sporterizing M1917s in Japan? I knew of only mostly Winchester and/or Remington doing it, since they had made the rifles to begin with, and had plenty of...

I have done some more digging. These characters are definitely not related to Chinese. I searched them all against every Chinese character that exists, at least those compiled on an "exhaustive" list...

I wish I did know an actual Japanese person. Unfortunately, I do not.

I had been thinking about the same thing, Patrick Chadwick. why the underside of the barrel and inside the magazine floorplate...

Thank you for the responses. It is a bit of a mutt honestly. The Receiver is Remington, The Magazine and bolt look to be Eddystone, the Magazine floorplate looks like it is marked Winchester. I...

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, and if it is not, by all means, remove it. A few days ago I had posted these images in the M1917 Enfield section, and it was immediately suggested that...

Thank you for the replies. I am aware of the capture of some of these in the Philippines and did seriously wonder if the kanji were Japanese in origin. I would definitely post this in the Japanese...

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to comment on my own thread without an initial reply, but when I was re-assembling the rifle after getting clearer pictures of the Kanji, I found that they were also...

Hello. I registered on this forum specifically for this mystery rifle, although I do hope to post on here more often, especially if I manage to collect even more milsurp firearms. I ordered this...