Hi I'm new to the forum so I hope I'm posting this in the right place. My uncle recently passed away and while sorting through his belongings I came across this knife in a plastic tote full of water so it was pretty rusty and pitted. I sanded as much as I could without taking anymore of the steel off. I can make out some of the hallmark but after 100 different variations of googling I came up with nothing. There is clearly a japanese character followed by either BOSHI, or DOSHI. Under that it says Japan. To the left of the japanese character it almost looks like there's some other lettering but it was real hard getting the light to reflect properly and see it. I tried to get the best pics I could using my phone, actually I'm pretty impressed with my phone's camera after this lol. It almost looks to me like it might be a MFG or possibly MT. If it is infact MT I'm thinking that's my uncle's initials engraved because it's not nearly as much of an indentation as the other letters. I know for a fact it's at least 30 years old because I remember getting in trouble for playing with the knife when I was a little kid. It's a pretty big knife, I took a photo of it next to your standard swiss army knife for perspective as you can see in the photo. Any help would be much appreciated. For now I'm just gonna keep cleaning it up. Oh and one more thing, there seems to bee one tool missing opposite of the bottle/can opener. There's an obvious gap and the unused tensioneer thing is a dead giveaway Couldn't figure out how to upload photos so here is a link that hopefully works https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuwOO_ALeRS1pFL8sITw60OhPU4y
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