Crow23

Thanks, have ordered the second book to get started. ????

That sounds like Good advice, I will be patient and save up, in the meantime I will read up on the subject. It is a hard discipline to be patient, but am sure it will pay off.

My budget is around the £800 mark but I could easily keep saving for a while, it will be a nice experience to get my collection off to a good start, many years ago when I began collecting German daggers I made a few errors, but luckily became wiser from the experience

Alas the sword is £795. I may look into doing a part trade with the chap which may take the sting out. Am looking forward to reading those books but will have to sneak them into the house, i ran out of shelf space a long time ago and my wife comments regularly. The good news is that she is very tolerant of my collecting, our place looks like a quartermasters

Thanks so much. Am going to try to locate those books today.

Thanks for your advice, I have been trawling through amazon looking for books on the subject. Can I possibly ask your advice on some essential books I should have. I am primarily interested in WW2. On another note my first name is Steve but I always go by Crow.

Thanks so much for the advice, the chap was wanting 795 for it, I reckon the best thing for me to do is keep looking. Over the years I had to learn patience when buying edged weapons. The learning curve for Japanese swords is going to be steep but am looking forward to starting in this area properly. Thanks once again for the help.

Hello, this is my first posting on this forum, my background has been in collecting edged weapons, German, British and US (fighting knives, daggers and swords). I have always wanted to move my collecting into WW2 Japanese but until recently have felt too nervous to purchase, most people I know have advised against it on account of the amount of good fakes out there. I have now stumbled on this forum so would be incredibly grateful if any one could help me authenticate my first purchase. I have located what I believe to be a model 35 Officers sword and I trust the chap who is selling it because I have never had any trouble in the past when purchasing German daggers from him. Please see the photos attached, hope these are of good enough quality, if not I am sure the chap will be happy to send the sword prior to me purchasing so I can do better photography. ありがとうございました