Model 26 with korean proof marks?

ssbo · March 19, 2013, 05:44 PM

I was walking through my local gun shop and saw a japanese Model 26 revolver with korean proof marks in addition to japanese ones

I thought that it'd be cool as hell to gift to a co worker, but they were asking something like 650 bucks for it and I couldn't find anything about it. Anybody got any ideas?

RJay · March 19, 2013, 11:20 PM

Odd, not that a Japanese revolver is from Korea, after all Japan has been jumping back and forth into and out of Korea for the last several hundred years. Odd that it would have a Korean proof mark on a WWII Japanese handgun. I wonder if someone isn't confusing a arsenal/unit markings for proof marking . The Koreans would have no need to proof a Japanese firearm and in fact it would have been an insult to the Japanese for them to do so, after all the Japanese were occupying Korea [ and had been for 50 years ] until the end of WWII

tahunua001 · March 19, 2013, 11:42 PM

agree with Rjay, could you show pictures?

James K · March 20, 2013, 08:54 PM

OK, I am curious. Anyone know what a Korean proof mark looks like? I can find no record of Korea (I presume South Korea) having a proof law, and have never seen mention of such.

Jim

RJay · March 20, 2013, 10:50 PM

I have four years on the ground there and if they have one, well it would be news to me

ohen cepel · April 2, 2013, 08:28 PM

I would love to see pics if possible. I don't recall ever seeing a Korean proof mark and don't know how or why one would be on a Type 26.

March 19, 2013, 05:44 PM	#1
ssbo Member Join Date: June 17, 2009 Posts: 26	Model 26 with korean proof marks? I was walking through my local gun shop and saw a japanese Model 26 revolver with korean proof marks in addition to japanese ones I thought that it'd be cool as hell to gift to a co worker, but they were asking something like 650 bucks for it and I couldn't find anything about it. Anybody got any ideas?

March 19, 2013, 11:20 PM	#2
RJay Senior Member Join Date: November 2, 2005 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,936	Odd, not that a Japanese revolver is from Korea, after all Japan has been jumping back and forth into and out of Korea for the last several hundred years. Odd that it would have a Korean proof mark on a WWII Japanese handgun. I wonder if someone isn't confusing a arsenal/unit markings for proof marking . The Koreans would have no need to proof a Japanese firearm and in fact it would have been an insult to the Japanese for them to do so, after all the Japanese were occupying Korea [ and had been for 50 years ] until the end of WWII __________________ Ron James

March 19, 2013, 11:42 PM	#3
tahunua001 Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 7,839	agree with Rjay, could you show pictures? __________________ ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did-Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet-Benjamin Franklin

March 20, 2013, 10:50 PM	#5
RJay Senior Member Join Date: November 2, 2005 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,936	I have four years on the ground there and if they have one, well it would be news to me __________________ Ron James

April 2, 2013, 08:28 PM	#6
ohen cepel Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 1999 Location: Where they send me Posts: 1,013	I would love to see pics if possible. I don't recall ever seeing a Korean proof mark and don't know how or why one would be on a Type 26. __________________ He who dares wins. NRA Life Benefactor Member

March 20, 2013, 08:54 PM	#4
James K Member In Memoriam Join Date: March 17, 1999 Posts: 24,383	OK, I am curious. Anyone know what a Korean proof mark looks like? I can find no record of Korea (I presume South Korea) having a proof law, and have never seen mention of such. Jim

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