Original Japanese WWII 35mm Type 10 Flare Signal Pistol - Serial 6854 MG 15 The gun was manufactured for

The gun was manufactured for just 2 years

In 1917 this was adopted by the US Army as a training weapon and approximately 2

It has a checkered wrist on the wood butt stock

The blade on this example was hand forged at Seki arsenal

the unit relocated to Paris

Original Japanese WWII 35mm Type 10 Flare Signal Pistol - Serial 6854 MG 15 The gun was manufactured forOriginal Item: Only one Available. This is a very nice example of the Japanese 35mm Type 10 Flare Signal pistol, the mainstay of the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII. The designation comes from the year it was introduced, 1921, which the Japanese called Taisho 10 (the tenth year of the Taisho Emperor's reign, Hirohito's father). It is a single shot, single barrel, double action only unit that fires a 35mm flare. This was the second most common of