What type of Nambu? There are few in Canada.Literally few.
Personally, I own a Type 14, Nagoya Arsenal, October 1943 production, first run.
Picked this up out of an estate in Tenn, belonged to a US Army officer, a bring back from occupied japan, so never seen service in the islands. Came with early 1937 vintage leather holster, complete with spare mag, spare FP, and cleaning tool. paid $760US.
From Nambu World... "A basic search of the data as of November, 2006 (the latest available) finds that there are 178 Type 14s, 50 Type 94s, 27 Type 26s, 5 Papas, 4 Babys and one Grandpa. However, there are another 18 Japanese handguns with ambiguous model designations. Examining the individual records on each of these and attributing them to their most likely type leads to these revised figures: 193 Type 14s (30 of them mine), 50 Type 94s (8 of them mine), 30 Type 26s (5 of them mine), 5 Papas (3 of them mine), 4 Babys (2 of them mine), one Grandpa (not mine—yet!) and one post-war New Nambu M57A (not mine), a total of 284 specimens. However, it is possible some Papas or Grandpas may be misregistered as Type 14s or vice versa. These data suggest that my collection, while quite modest by US standards, accounts for about one-sixth of all the Japanese handguns in Canada."
EDIts to add, I do shoot this pistol from time to time (functions perfectly) with current factory ammo at $36US/50rds of 8x22mm ball.
Cheers.
There's a collector in Alberta, who has all bases covered. Do navigate her site
http://members.shaw.ca/tju/jhg.htm
