Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns powered by a liquid-propellant rocket

powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine

while his master stands in the background with a shotgun wearing a top hat

Others are held in Museums such as the permanent collection of the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne

Overall this is a fantastic example of the very popular and collectible World War I era US trench knife

Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns powered by a liquid-propellant rocketOriginal Item: One of a kind. A Senninbari ( thousand person stitches) or One thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 15 cm (6 in) high and up to 90120 cm (34 ft) or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed