Chinese matchlock?

[roccoracer]

Does anyone here know how to read Chinese writing? I have had this very old matchlock for a long time but could not figure out a date or any of the writing.
Thank you for your help.

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[June4th]

The middle pic says in each character: day, thousand, four, hundreds, sixty, six.

The top and bottom pics are not clear enough to be read. Maybe some white chalk would help.

 

[Mountain]

Are you sure it's Chinese and not Japanese?

 

[UNSUB]

"Made in Taiwan"

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[jtnf]

Tried to bring up the contrast a little.

 

[roccoracer]

The middle pic says in each character: day, thousand, four, hundreds, sixty, six.

The top and bottom pics are not clear enough to be read. Maybe some white chalk would help.

1466, Year maybe?

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[roccoracer]

Are you sure it's Chinese and not Japanese?

I'm not sure at all.

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[xp220]

The writing in the first and the third look like Japanese. Japanese adopted many Chinese characters,but also have their unique writing too.

 

[Mountain]

I'm thinking Japanese (kanji characters, close to Chinese as mentioned above). The signatures are quite similar to what would be found on a samurai sword. Province, possibly city, date, smith.

Those two signatures look very different. The deeper, rougher one perhaps done later for some reason.

 

[roccoracer]

The deeper one was done by hand by the looks of it. The other looks "factory" done. Is this thing worth looking into or junk?

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