Cold Steel Mini Tanto

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A week ago I bought a Cold Steel Mini Tanto, made in Japan… Even if I already have one I could not resist it because it was cheap…
When I look at it I saw there was a difference from the one I already have… On the one I got it says Japan on the clip but it says Japan on the leather sheath of the one I already have…
Is the one with Japan on the clip the first one or is it the opposite? Maybe impossible to say or? What do you think, guys?

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jlauffer mentions this in his Tanto History but makes no mention of dating them, they were also the brass ones. You might PM him or ask in his Tanto History. I always thought it was an option at the time, but just a guess I guess.
 
If I had to guess prior to writing this post, I would have said that the stainless version with Japan stamped into the leather probably came first, since it was so common for all the Tanto leather sheaths to be stamped with Japan. HOWEVER, I just looked at the raw pic of the Brass Mini Tanto sheath with clip that I used for the history thread, and it has Japan stamped into the clip (can't see this in the lower-res pic in the history). Since the Brass Mini Tanto came before the Stainless version, it would suggest that they carried this over to the Stainless version at first, and that the version with Japan stamped into the leather came later. But it is hardly definitive. If someone were to find a Brass Mini Tanto sheath with clip, that has Japan stamped into the leather instead, it would disprove that theory, and would probably mean that either they got their sheaths from different vendors who did things slightly differently, or if they used a single vendor, things varied from one production run to another.
 
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