Samurai Sword Maker ID

[Logan Samurai]

Hoping someone can ID maker of this sword and aprox value and date of mfg.

Thank you.

[YourBabyBjornBorg]

This is weird, I can't find anything about a smith named 井戸兼弘 Ido Kanehiro as in the picture. 

 

This does look like a WWII sword if it's not a fake one, and there was a WWII smith named 兼弘 Kanehiro, so that might be the answer.

 

Value is best estimated with sophisticated pictures, but a WWII sword like this without its fitting goes around 1000~2000 US dollars in the Japanese market...?

 

Ah! There was a post talking about a similarly signed sword.

 

https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/8498-ww2-sword/

 

The signature of your sword looks a little weaker than the one in that post, and that could be a sign of a counterfeit sword from, um, yeah......

 

But I'm not familiar with WWII swords, so this could still be genuine.

 

May we see its fitting and the blade? 

[Logan Samurai]

[Logan Samurai]

I'm only able to post one pic at a time.

I'll try and post the other pics.

 

Edited August 9 by Logan Samurai

[Logan Samurai]

Does the name Toshimitsu Ido (AKA Shunzu Ido) relate to this signature?

I'm unable to add more pics to this link, can email if interested.

[Bruce Pennington]

In addition to that one owned by @MacDeuce, I have two others on file.  One with no date posted by @IJASWORDS, Showa stamped; and one posted by @Bas, a 1941 with large Seki stamp.  Each uses a different set of kanji

 

Kenny, have you removed the fuchi, tsuba/seppa set to see if there is a stamp near the top?

 

[Logan Samurai]

Bruce,

I didn't see any other stamps. Thanks for the help.