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  1. Thank you guys for all the useful advice!
  2. I have an opportunity to buy this offsite but am unsure what is a fair price for a Koa Isshin gunto. I have a Type 95 and 98 so was thinking this would be a nice addition to my WW2 theme.
  3. Thanks guys for the information. BangBangSan - here is a crop of the spine. Ill try get better shots.
  4. Good morning. I am looking for some translation help on the following tang - can anybody assist me? Appreciate the expertise! Thanks, David
  5. This is exactly what I have been looking for as a step up from my WW2 gunto. I’m likely too late but will venture you a message anyway.
  6. Like Brian, I was so tempted on this one. Amazing craftsmanship. Truly a stunning piece and good luck to the new owner.
  7. “The seagulls always follow the trawler” - Eric Cantona
  8. I also expressed similar interest via dm but did not get a response on the shipping details. But it was not to the profile that has stated it is sold.
  9. I have been a reader rather than poster, but I do enjoy the earthiness of an honest seller :-) I actually have learned a great deal from the linked posts from many years ago on various different types of antiquity, many of which I was not aware, so am quite grateful for that!
  10. I can imagine a huge amount were hidden by Japanese families, particularly if ancestral, or they spent a large amount on a gunto for their son. Equally, after reading of the souvenir collection in “With the Old Breed”, certainly a lot of items found their way home to the other side of the Pacific. For sure, the official figures have to be a guesstimate.
  11. Cheers Bruce, I was not aware of those stats. Astounding in scale really!
  12. Thanks for the inputs. I believe it was sold in good faith, it was sold as a Type 98 showa and not as a nihonto or ancestral blade in Type 98 mounts. Who can say what happened. It is a showato in 98 mounts regardless. Ill live with that. It is frustrating to the extreme, that historical collecting is abound with an inordinate amount of fakes, frankensteins and replicas. I do not just mean nihonto but everything in general. As renowned poet, philosopher and kung fu practitioner Eric Cantona wisely stated, the seagulls always follow the trawler.
  13. Hi George, cheers for that extra information. All the surviving swords that were not dumped, I presume Japanese were not allowed keep them after the war? Could the stamp have been removed for that reason?
  14. Thanks Bruce. I get that possibility, but it does indeed look like very local pitting, whereas the rest of the tang does not have it, and the rest of the sword is pristine. It is certainly curious. As Brian indicated, it does have a slightly different patina in this specific area. I am just wondering how it came to be removed. If its a bring back, I would assume the stamp remains as a vet would have no motive to deface it. Nor a dealer to make it appear as an older blade, as the signature is a Showa smith. It is unusual to say the least.
  15. Perhaps some final thoughts. If this sword was captured on the battlefield, it would have made it back with the veteran, stamp intact? The images you find online of piles of surrendered swords, would they have been typically destroyed? I am curious, how this sword potentially might have came to be in a position different than the situations above? What generally would happen with swords post war in Japan?
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