Bob Hudson Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share #26 Posted March 14, 2020 (5) This is the name of a shrine (jinja 神社). If I could see a better shot of the character circled in green I may be able to read it. Thanks - here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Queen Posted March 14, 2020 Share #27 Posted March 14, 2020 Bob, The "translation" is stone cold gibberish. I will try to confirm which Shrine that is when I have some time later today or tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share #28 Posted March 14, 2020 Bob, The "translation" is stone cold gibberish. Thanks. Why would they go through that much work? Did GI's care about provenance, real or faked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Queen Posted March 15, 2020 Share #29 Posted March 15, 2020 Here it is in its correct orientation. I believe this is Kunihashira shrine 國柱神社 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 19, 2020 Author Share #30 Posted March 19, 2020 It's always interesting to hear family stories about spoils of war, and then learn from the experts what the GI's actually bought. Thanks so much to Eric for the fine service he does translating war time documents and relics found for the militaria collecting community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted April 29, 2020 Share #31 Posted April 29, 2020 I posted a picture of the shrine flag on WAF and GHP, Guy from the San Francisco area claims that the stamp of the red soldier is the mark used by a flag faker named Cupman. I find that hard to believe after the scrutiny the flag received by Eric Queen and others. Not to mention that Bob Hudson received the flag directly from the family. There are many who claim that veterans buy fakes after the war but after thousands of direct vet purchases that has never happened to me. I once thought I did when I got a solid one piece EK1 but after research found out it was a genuine piece. But I did know veterans who became collectors after the war and had fakes in their collections. Everyone knew who they were because they traveled in those circles. Does anyone know about Cupman and can they shed light on this conundrum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share #32 Posted April 29, 2020 25 minutes ago, manayunkman said: Does anyone know about Cupman and can they shed light on this conundrum? He gets some discussion on our sister forum at https://www.worldmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/315128-my-other-japanese-flag-with-a-crane/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted April 29, 2020 Share #33 Posted April 29, 2020 I saw that amongst a ton of other information but I didn’t see anything with a red stamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieony Posted April 30, 2020 Share #34 Posted April 30, 2020 A really interesting group of bring backs! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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