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Oh I see! I'm honestly happy to finally solve this mistery and get a closure on the subject. I learned a lot of new things in this quest and it actually increased my apreciation for these swords. Feel free to take any photos from the drive that you might find helpfull and use it as you like, I might delete them later to save some space in my drive tho. Thank you all for your kind attention and help!

Would you mind telling me more about it? I'm eager to learn and would apreciate wathever knowledge you could share.

Hello Sam! Thank you for your answer! To be completely honest, those wouldn't be "bad news" at all. As you said, these do have much more of a sentimental value to me and my family than monetary or status. What matter to us IS their memory and their symbolism, not if they came from Japan, China or Italy. So don't worry about any potential frustrations the truth could cause, this won't be a problem! I am just very curious about the subject and getting knowledge on what these actually are. So, if you wouldn't mind, I would really apreciate to hear more about the reasons to your beliefs that these aren't Japanese and what would you guess those swords are!

Thank you for the answers and the link! I tried taking better pics in a more lit enviroment, replaced them in the same google drive link here, if needed I can take some more just tell me what you would like to see. Unfortunetly I couldn't manage to remove the tsuka from the smaller one as it is very much stuck. If you have any tips I could try again.

My father passed and left these two swords, he said it belonged to his chinese grandfather that left his country during the revolution. They where both martial artists so these could have been just practice swords made of steel and not real military ones. My intention was to clean out the rust and maybe use them for practice, but some people said that if these have any historical value I shouldn't. Wich I agree, so I wanted to confirm before making any decisions. The saya is not original, my father ordered custom ones. The tsuka we are not so sure, they might have been ordered as well as the wrapping is amateur and the material is wrong. But the other pieces as the tsuba, huchi and kasira I can't tell. The nakago is very rusty and doesn't seem to have any stamps but the rust could have covered it. My guess is that these aren't real layered blades, but they aren't contemporary e-bay replicas as well. Any insight and opinions would be greatly apreciated! Closer pics on the link Here