Times are changing

[Stephen]

One would never see this with the registration paper, Time Marches on.

 

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/q1035263890?

[vajo]

The boshi looks total different from a NCO in my eyes. Interesting sword. I like it. Time changed you are right Steven.

[Bruce Pennington]

Papered Mantetsu! Registered Type 95! CATS AND DOGS SLEEPING TOGETHER!!! What's this world coming to?!?!? 

 

Well, I'm glad they're coming around finally.

 

I think the kissaki has been re-worked.  Maybe even a field repair.  The blotchy steel "patch" on this looks very similar to one I own that I've always felt had been a factory or field repair.

Here are some more pics for future reference:

 

 

 

Item of interest @Shamsy @Stegel

[Brian]

That's crazy.

[vajo]

Bruce i don't think the kissaki is reshaped. Look at the etched hamon its allways parallel in the boshi. 

The Kissaki is a o-kissaki. I've only see ko-kissaki on type95.

The blade is different to what i know. 

[PNSSHOGUN]

Immediate thoughts are reshaped kissaki as well.

[vajo]

Bruce, John.

I think now you are right. I tried to compare it to another and it looks reshaped.

 

[Stephen]

They probably put an edge put on it, he wanted it to cut! 

OR 

A older blade it is says Yoda?

As we know never say never.

 

[Shamsy]

Interesting thought patterns. My first thought was to wonder if it was a Type 32 - Type 95 clone.

 

But the answer is most likely no. Missing the signs we think a clone would show. Saya suspension ring would be a little lower, bohi (we assume) would look like the 32 (wider, round near the kissaki), the fuchi would (assumption) be stamped for Suya... much more likely the aforementioned reshaped, but I did get a little excited for a moment.

[Stephen]

Check selling price...times are a changing!

[Stegel]

Wow, As Brian said, 'Crazy' price!

Does any one know how i can get mine into Japan, get papered, and Cha-Ching !!.... Retirement here i come!

 

Stephen, there's been quite a few 'non traditional'/ illegal gunto's papered recently, do you know if they are  all coming from the same region, or just 'all-over' Japan as a whole?

 

Well this one has a black scabbard which is interesting to note, the tip has been obviously reworked/ reshaped.

 

Vayo, the picture you posted as a comparison to the standard type 95, is the lower sword picture flipped horizontally before being added ? If so, that would explain what i first thought was a left handed tsuka mould (the menuki being on the opposite side).

 

Without measuring the blade width and thickness, you could not make a call on the type 32->95 clone, they are supposed to be indistinguishable from the true type95 with only mm seperating the two. Also they would have been produced much earlier than this blade.

 

Thanks for sharing Stephen,

Very interesting.

 

 

[BANGBANGSAN]

Tokyo, Japan. 15th Aug, 2020. A man dressed as a Japanese imperial army soldier poses for a photograph outside the Yasukuni Shrine during the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

 

Maybe this is one of the guys who spend big bucks for a real NCO sword.

[Kiipu]

Be careful Trystan, I would not mess around with the kenpeitai!  We might not hear from you for a looong time.

Kenpeitai

[BANGBANGSAN]

52 minutes ago, Kiipu said:

Be careful Trystan, I would not mess around with the kenpeitai!  We might not hear from you for a looong time.

Kenpeitai

In the movie Letters from Iwo Jima,清水洋一 was a former kenpei (憲兵) he got exiled to Iwo Jima because he is not tough enough to kill a civilian barking dog.

 

 

[vajo]

Type95 swords get more and more a future investment. 

Who the hell want spent 20k bucks for a nambukucho tachi and when he wants to sell he got only 15k. 

Buy a Type95 for 700 and sell it for 2000 lol

 

 

 

 

I will hold mine like gold oz.

[BANGBANGSAN]

@Kiipu

I don't mind to deal with this 女憲兵

 

[Bugyotsuji]

A friend here told me his father was Kenpeitai during the war. That is one area that I do not enquire about…