lkoester78

thank you for the great advice upon further inspection i realize that it is actually a packing grease on the blade possibly cosmoline i am gonna list it on ebay and see what happens i think leaving it for the purchaser to clean is a great idea

thanks for the quick response joe im having problems uploading pics it keeps giving me error messages but ill keep working on it

i have a shin gunto type 95 , it appears to be a early model, my great uncle brought it home from the pacific theater ww2 , it has years of dust accumulated on it and some material on the blade im not sure if it is rust or dried blood . im not a collector so im not sure if it is safe to clean it or should i leave it be ? i do not want to hurt the value any info would be helpful. any ideas on value would also be great all numbers match the blade locks firmly into the saya its only true charcter is a bullet hole in the handle no doubt that is directly realted to why the original owner "gave" it to my uncle (my uncle killed the previous owner in battle) i am considering selling it this should be the link for pics :