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Originally Posted by Silver John
I don't know if it'll be any help in identifying the origins, but the six characters on the top picture look like: Ri Ya S Ta Ha Taa.
Not sure about the 5th character as it's a bit blurred.
On the other example. The numbers are 1 and 4. The two characters look like Ga and Ja though there are additional marks on them (vowel diacritics? that I don't recognise)
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Hi Silver John,
Many thanks for posting these up, most interesting.I shall give some thought to what your translation might signify.
One of the hilts shows some letters under the crest. I will tidy this up a little and take some better quality images, as this might reveal the state of origin with any luck.
I envy your ability with deciphering the characters, I have tried many times to get my head around it, but to no avail. Your efforts are much appreciated!
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Originally Posted by sirupate
Some lovely swords you have there Chris, thank you for the info about Mole being bought out by Wilkinson
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Thank you Simon,
Some of them took a long time to track down.
RWL wrote a history of Wilkinson a few years back, I can try and find the details if it might be of interest?
Kind regards,
Chris