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I acquired this Ever New Gendarme on eBay from GEM / Hirotada Miyashita in 2024.
My Gendarme is 115 mm. long, 67 mm. wide, 48 mm. high, and weighs 251 g.
The Ever New Gendarme has a cast aluminum body; two pivoting cast aluminum side plates; steel bolt, nut and washers for the axle, and two steel Phillips dome head screws as that engage notches in the pivoting plates. The body and plates have two 13 mm. carabiner holes that align when the plates are closed. The body also has a 7.9 mm. keeper hole. My Gendarme is 115 mm. long, 67 mm. wide, 48 mm. high, and weighs 251 g.
The front plate has "Gendarme" in raised letters. The rear has "EverNew" (one word) in Cursive and "PAT. HAPAN", all in raised letters. Each side of the body has a hand icon, an arrow pointing down the rope path, five arrows pointing up the rope path, and a climber icon.
The soft lettering, a few tiny gas bubbles, and slight imperfections in the surface finish that this device is cast and not forged. I generally do not like cast climbing gear, especially aluminum. Forging usually produces a stronger and more consistent product. Having said that, there appears to be adequate metal in all areas of the Gendarme that trusting it is not necessarily unreasonable.
Although it is rigged differently, the Gendarm's function is similar to a belay tube's.
I don't have any documentation on this device, and I don't read Japanese so my ability to research it is limited. I presume that this was made by the Evernew firm established in 1923 that now makes outdoor cookware. According to Marty Karabin, Evernew pitons were first made in the 1970s in Tokyo Japan, so assuming that the Gendarme dates from the 1970s seems to be reasonable.
The seller listed this as an "Evernew Gendarme Descender" but the markings on the inside indicate that it is primarily intended to be a belay device. The front plate reads "EverNew" as one word, in contrast to the two-word "EVER NEW" markings on my Ever New Carabiner, which is also from Japan.
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