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It's more common to see the Field Grade red & brown tassels with the deluxe overlapping edges.

Genuine.

The sword looks very promising, good quality Fuchi and Samegawa too. Appears this was a family blade carried in WW2 with converted mounts for military use. More detailed photos of the blade under sunlight will let us give you more information.

I wonder are these swords all owned by the creator of the site, or were for sale and since been sold? It's honestly an astounding collection regardless.

Ah Bruce, I nearly spat my coffee out, what a laugh!

I've seen many similar at the local junkyard....

I have to agree, the blade itself is very nice, probably why it is billed as Shodai with Green papers.

The homepage should be the swords for sale. The items for sale need to be formatted so the pictures, prices and description fall into a ordered and evenly spaced layout. The pictures 1000000% need to have a zoom view, nobody is buying a sword for over five thousand dollars with tiny pictures.

Japanese dealers are regularly and reliably letting National Treasures go for pennies on the dollar on ebay, why just a few hours past we had three of the most famous smiths in history at bargain basement prices, a veritable closing down rug sale of Masterpieces. Meanwhile us suckers with our books and reputable dealers are paying out the nose for NBTHK papered swords like idiots, knowing exactly what we have, our excitement and enjoyment levels up there with coma patients or professional paint drying spectators. The real collectors, the mavericks and the rebels are out on the mean streets of ebay, pulling out Meito, Kokuho and Daimyo swords up like change on the sidewalk. All the time us idiots are quietly sitting here with our thumbs up our proverbials selling off our vital organs for humdrum "papered" swords, nervously checking the spot price for scrap iron because that's all we seem have in the eyes of the True Collectors.

The "Masamune" went for over 9k.

Very nice blade and Type 98 mounts.

Make sure to keep the story printed out with it, otherwise it will become real junk without the history.

I can also firmly recommend Grey, always an easy transaction.

Fake Imperial Gift Yasukuni-To, look at the poor engraving on the Habaki as well. It would be a nice Type 98 without the nefarious additions.

There are some interesting Shin Gunto fakes, the first is a Yasukuni-To Imperial gift sword, the other a "Masamune" with an inscription claiming it was carried by General Yamashita, complete with the wrong blue brown grade tassel.

I have one in similar condition but due to water corrosion, it was so bad I ended up putting the whole sword in vinegar for a few days just to get the rusts off. A sanbonsugi hamon appeared, showato for sure. There was no story, it was bought from the Cowra museum auction as is. At this point only the diggers story is valuable, please share.

If you hit ctrl+F on this page there's quite a few Mantetsu blades sold from this seller, a couple remounted for Iai. http://www.Japanese-sword-katana.jp/?tag=sold&cat%5B%5D=&age=gendaitou&certificate=&price=&s=

You would be hard pressed to find another in such fine condition with matching tassel.

Very nice Chris, all in Type 3 mounts too. Makes me want to get one myself.

The owner might've had long sword envy....

Papered to who though

No, it's all a big conjob, you cracked the code! Don't tell anyone though.

Spring is a traditionally Auspicious time for forging.

Nakago looks fairly new, I would say late 1800's onwards. Looks like a well made sword.

I do not see the point of this repair from either a martial arts view or collectors view. All I see are nefarious uses down the road.