Help To Identify

[Sarunas]

Hello,

Could You please help me to identify my first purchase. As I know there are a lot of fakes having the signatures of a known sword makers. Hope this is not the case

[Jean]

Makleris,

 

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[Geraint]

Hi.

 

Well, the good news is that the sword is Japanese and in spite of some rusting looks sound.  The signature is another issue.  Try doing a search for Inoue Shinkai.  You will find many papered examples to compare to your sword but it must be said that the likelihood of this being  a genuine signature is very small.  That said, should the signature be false that will not mean that the sword is worthless, false signatures can be removed by experts and the blade may still be a good one.

 

It is very hard to judge a sword from photographs and it may be that having two pairs of seppa indicates that the tsuba has been swapped  but some more images of the koshirae would be nice.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

All the best.

[Sarunas]

Hi,

Thanks Geraint for Your help. I have searched for Inoue Shinkai and decided that I really have a fake signature of him. I am including some new photos. May be it could help me to find some more information from You.