Rawa Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 Both have toyokawa arsenal stamps, different mountings. One is from finished ebay auction https://ebay.us/m/BrXGbO Second is from my acquisition on forum. https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/52795-affordable-kai-gunto/#comment-550834 Numbers matching on tsuba 251 and 265!!! Photos of ebay piece attached. Worth nothing is different side placement. Quote
Rawa Posted July 8 Author Report Posted July 8 Size of stamps is different, koshirae too, maybe tsuba didn't belong to ebay piece originally? Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 Difference in fittings could be due to customer requests? Note the same late-war coating under the ito, instead of same': 2 Quote
Rawa Posted July 9 Author Report Posted July 9 Nakago on ebay example definietly look shortened. Maybe katana was remounted or it wasn't finished at all? Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted July 9 Report Posted July 9 I saw that, too, but realized that it is the shop we are recognizing. The shop would easily have gotten blades made by different smiths/forges. Quote
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