Badges, Watch Fobs and Other Artefacts of South Manchurian Railway

South Manchuria Railway

South Manchuria Railway - Wikipedia

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Railway map.

 

Obverse

賞 - award

reverse

武道大會 - Martial Arts Tournament

明治四十四年 - 1911

 

Reverse

満鉄創業三十周年記念 - 30th Anniversary of Manchuria Railway

新京 - Hsinking

陸上大運動會 - Track and Field Athletic Tournament

 

1940.

蘇家屯機関区 - Sujiatun area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujiatun_District

無事故百五十日 - 150 days without accident

達成記念 - Achievement commemoration

 

Cigarette case.

 

Pocket watch (with interesting overprint of arabic numerals).

Judging by the number they were made around 1924.

Seiko.

奉局
6629

 

Looks like K14 on the ring.

Reverse reads

撫順炭鉱 - Fushun Coal Mine

竪坊着炭 - vertical charcoal [mining]

記念 - commemorative

明治四十三年 - 1910

 

This is how this coal mine looked back in 1910.

1935.

Whem this place was humming along.



Today, China has turned an old coal mine into a tourist attraction.

Fushun transforms century-old coal mine into tourist site

news.cgtn.com

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review №16 (September 2015)

The South Manchurian Railway Company and the Mining Industry: The Case of the Fushun Coal Mine

 

Advertising brochure from 1936.



Advertising brochure from 1939.



満洲旅行の栞 - Tips [booksmarks] for Manchurian trip

Interior of dining car.

 

Another award 賞彰 watch fob for accident-free work.
This time for an accident-free run over 40,000 kilometers on the Boketu section of the Qiqihar Railway from July 8 to December 26, 1936.
In silver.

 

Obverse

教 - learning

局奉 - gift from bureau

Reverse

昭和十六年五月三日 - May 3, 1941

第六期機関士科 - 6th class engineer department


卒業記念 - graduation commemoration

Size.

 

南 from 南満州鉄道 - South Manchurian Railway

 

Hat badge.

 

Flags.

南満州鉄道株式会社 - South Manchuria Railway Company, Ltd.

鞍山制鉄所 - Anshan Iron & Steel Works (a subsidiary of the South Manchurian Railway Company).

 

Sword with South Manchuria Railway emblem.

 

Kettle.

 

South Manchuria Railway Bureau Japan-Manchukuo Tsudurikata Envoy Medal/満鐵鐵道總局日満綴方使節章

Obverse Emblems of japanese newspapapers Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun near the suspension ring. In the center emblem of South Manchuria Railway. reverse 日満綴方使節 - Japan-Manchukuo Tsudurikata Envoy [ 綴方 /つづりかた/ tsudurikata - (way of) literary composition...

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Embroidered hat badge.

 

Steel helmet.

 

10000粁突破 - Over 10000 kilometers