Help With Identifying A Sword A Possible Naval Gunto

[sdnzero]

need help with the id on this sword please.

It was purchased with the story of someone finding it in their grandfathers garage after he passed.  It was supposely brought back from Japan but cannot be confirmed.  The place it was purchased from believed it was real and was sold as a "meiji era sword".

It is ray skin on it and the sheath with blue dye inside and on some of the fittings.

The handle is wrapped in a leather also instead of the cloth or silk or whatever.

Also the sword is slightly shorter then the sheath like it was at one time cut down.

[Jean]

Unfortunately, Chinese fake

[TETSUGENDO]

+1.

 

-S-

[b.hennick]

+1

[sdnzero]

is there any value to these?

[Jean]

Almost none, I’ll say 20 $ at most..., btw, I love your cat

[Bruce Pennington]

It’s possible a vet did bring this back. The tourist fakes were being made even back then.

[raaay]

 sorry the grandad story sounds like BS ,

 

I have had this happen a few times in the past phone calls re I have an old sword my grandad brought back from the war  for sale,  you go and see the item turns out to be a  Chinese or Spanish  repro sword,