Use of the Seki stamp and...

[John C]

7 hours ago, vajo said:

If it doesn't look like gendai it is not gendai no matter what the stamps, signature and dates say. 

The opposite is also true as noted with this comment:

 

"In addition, "non-standard swords" that greatly deviated from the tolerance range of the dimensional standards indicated by the specifications and drawings, such as being important, deeply warped, or too heavy, were not delivered to the armory, but were sold directly to sword dealers and officers. Of course, these are not stamped with stars or numbers."  

 

I think this means there could be gendaito out there sold to officers that were not stamped.

John C.

[Bruce Pennington]

17 hours ago, lonely panet said:

RJT uses of sho stamps on nakago munes

Hamish,

Do you have any examples or links of these?  I don't have any star-stamped blades with Showa stamps.  Folks often mistake a tiny, poorly struck Gifu stamp as a Showa stamp.  Maybe this is what you saw?  I only have 1 1942 blade with a Showa stamp on file, and it wasn't an RJT blade, an no Showa stamped blades after that.