Battara

Thank you for clarifying

Thank you folks. As said earlier, it is not the typical late shin gunto blade.

So you would say this is gendaito mumei blade, though pre-WW2?

The scabbard once had a leather combat cover that is now gone.

Greetings folks. I am a newbie to nihonto and have a katana in shin gunto mounts. The blade is mumei, has some rust, and seems to me to possibly have an itame hada. On the nakago, there are file marks that seem to be katte-sagari. Where the blade meets the habaki, the blade is sharpened, so I doubt it is gendaito. It needs a polish badly but don't know if this blade is worth the cost. What can you tell me about this katana? Thank you in advance. Jose

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?