Battara

Well I made a simple brass band and put a simple patina on it. I did this to stabilize the scabbard. The scabbard no longer comes apart. See pics. I also realized that the blade is a nihonto mumei! Too bad it has sections of rust.

My apologies. Thank you.

Good point. I forgot about gendaito and family blades. I assume that this also applies to shin gunto blades as well. Many thanks. Jose

I am looking at a kai gunto without anything on the nagado. Should all kai guntos have a stamp of some kind, or can a blade tang not have anything on it and still be legit? Thanks in advance. Jose

Thank you folks sooooo much. Will keep looking for a kai gunto, signed and with a same or sharkskin scabbard. I'm ok with a machine made blade too.

Here is a picture

I've seen a kai gunto with a brown scabbard and a green tsuka wrap. Is this rare?

Thank you folks. I will think about making a simple brass band to stabilize the wood scabbard. I will patina it if I make one.

Great. Ok a leather covering ad a simple steal band. Would it improve the value if I replaced it with a new simple steal band?

Thank you folks. This was another possibility I forgot about - a combat leather cover. So no fuchi gane at the throat either I gather. What belonged there then?

Greetings folks, Been a while since I last posted. I received a shin gunto with an unsigned blade (I'm sure machine made) and with a black lacquered says. One can see the wear at the bottom of the scabbard and it is missing a fuchi gane at a throat. Is this normal? Could this be some sort of marine piece? Any help on this piece would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Greetings folks, Been a while since I last posted. I have an army officer's sword given to me by a friend. Would it be wrong to add an army tassel to it (below general rank) or leave it as is, tassel-ess?

One other thought/question that I hesitantly ask: Could this possibly be a kamikaze dagger? Yes too many shira saya tantos out there are claimed to be kamikaze, but again in Fuller and Gregory's work, there is an example of such a dagger with a blade nearly identical to mine. Also, if it were a cut down blade, wouldn't the tang be more squared off like other ones reused as daggers?

Bruce you have a good point. It is probably more like a tanto in shira saya mounts, though the scabbard is missing. Thank you both for you help. What got me confused is that I have seen similar examples in Fuller's book with nearly identical blade profiles.

Greetings folks. This is my first post over on this part of the forum. I got this little aikuchi in a lot of several pieces of US and Filipino origin, including this Japanese piece. I think this is a WWII made aikuchi for an officer. The hamon looks oil tempered to me, and it is mumei. What are your thoughts? Thank you in advance.