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WWII Japanese Makers Mark On Canteen

mds308

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11 Nov 2020
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Can anybody identify this manufacturer? Thank you for any help you can provide.
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Any more markings on the very bottom? Was there any type of carrier with it? Hopefully someone on here may recognize the mark. The Google info on Japanese canteen history was interesting reading , but very little about company marking sad to say.
 
Some of the info I read on Google said they got some canteens & equipment from Germany during WWII and also several small Japanese metal companies made canteens and mess kits in small orders for the military. Hopefully when our Japanese members wake up and have time , they might know something. Sometimes it's the weekends in Japan when we get the most help. Some of our non-Japanese members & staff are also good on finding answers.
 
Kettle engraving
マツタカ印(MATSUTAKA seal)
Matsutaka is Showa Matsutaka, a subsidiary of Showa Aluminum.
The forerunner of the pine hawk of the Showa era is the Takagi aluminum factory which Tsuru Takagi pine established in Osaka in 1901.
I reorganize it later in Takada aluminum mill, but, by corporate participation of Showa Denko, change a name of it to Showa Aluminum in 1957.
(this neighborhood, founder are Ichimatsu Takada a note, and the name of the founder and the company is not sure for some reason.)
Showa Aluminum used "a pine hawk" for the trademark of the aluminum products such as a pan, the kettle.
The pine hawk of the Showa era was dissolved in 2000 and Showa Aluminum was merged with Showa Denko for 13 years, the following day, too and became extinct.
 
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