Help on signature

[MarcoUdin]

Sorry these are the only photos i was sent. Can't even begin to recognize characters in their current resolution. Any help is appreciated.

 

 

Edited March 13, 2022 by MarcoUdin
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[Brian]

Bit better

[MarcoUdin]

Thanks Brian, appreciate it

[george trotter]

hard to read...might be wrong but looks like Noshu Ju Hattori Masahiro saku

Slough p.99.

[MarcoUdin]

That looks pretty right to me. Thanks George! So medium gendai Smith and low grade showato

[george trotter]

Yes Marc, can't see a sho or seki stamp, but that writing looks like the hurried work of a na-kiri-shi (name-cutting-person), so no. not a gendaito...a signed in a hurry showato, as so many were.

Regards,

[MarcoUdin]

I believe showato as will, probably hiding a Na stamp somewhere 

[Jussi Ekholm]

I am not too proficient with WWII smiths but I believe the signature is - 濃州関住服部正広作 - Noshū Seki jū Hattori Masahiro saku. Like George identified above.

 

You can see reference mei here: https://www.aoijapan.net/katana-gunto-noshu-seki-hattori-masahiro-saku/

[MarcoUdin]

Thank you Jussi, always loved Finnish people. Have some friends from Hyvinkää and Numijarvi, some of the nicest people I've ever met.

[MarcoUdin]

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/926443437

Link to the sword it ends in 10 minutes though

[Stephen]

Blade with fuller....the whole thing smells to me. Im sure ill be told im wrong if so.

[george trotter]

15 hours ago, MarcoUdin said:

Thank you Jussi, always loved Finnish people. Have some friends from Hyvinkää and Numijarvi, some of the nicest people I've ever met.

In my youth I went to Finland a few times Jussi....I remember with a smile the friendly "Finska Flikka"  (excuse my Swedish - I don't understand Finnish). 

Skol!