Nlf Gunto Discussion

[Bruce Pennington]

Excellent, Michael, that's a beauty!

I may be wrong, but I believe that is Takeyasu.  Here's an example that is easier to read:

 

Hard to tell from your photo the size of the anchor stamp.  Can you give a measure of it's diameter?

[Michaelr]

Thank you Bruce. I will measure the anchor stamp as soon as I can and repost it. Have you ever seen one with the peg in the Kashira? Do you have other #95 recorded?
 MikeR

[Bruce Pennington]

19 hours ago, Michaelr said:

Have you ever seen one with the peg in the Kashira? Do you have other #95 recorded?
 MikeR

Mike, I didn't go through all 118, but in the 30 or so I found 4.  Here's one, one of the two that came with the PX souvenir letter.  Signed Hiratoshi, with no painted number:

It is an odd thing.  The nakago doesn't have an ana there, so can't imagine the purpose of the peg.

 

I have one other 95:
 

Mei

Date

Anchor

Fittings

Kabu finish

Jiri Finished?

#

Source

88.	Takeyasu	ND	Small	Standard	Texture	Yes, shaped	95	Michaelr, NMB
89.	Mumei	ND	Large	Standard sarute	Unknwn	No	95	Smallsword; ebay

[Nazar]

Bruce, here is another one from the same site:

 

https://richard-militaria.at/Japan-marine-katana-fuer-offiziere-shin-gunto

 

 

[Bruce Pennington]

4 hours ago, Nazar said:

here is another one from the same site:

Good one, Nazar, thank you!  An interesting one, too, with that stamped "119."  Normally we see this on wartime blades, although I do have four others with stamped numbers.  I'm tempted to think this was a war surplus blade, but that unfinished nakago with heat coloration sure looks like something made by the souvenir operation.