I recently came acrross a Japanese WWII Katana sword. It is a machine made sword with aluminum tsuka and brass tsuba and fittings. It has all the proper markings and matching serial number on the blade and scabbard throat. It has the original finish.
In my opinion, the sword is 100% authentic...BUT.. notice that the entire finish is gold, both on the sword and the scabbard. It is a finish - not painted on. The handle almost appears to be anodized.
This doesn't fit the description for an NCO sword. The early NCO swords had copper handles and the later one's had copper-colored painted handles with brown scabbards...so I can't figure out where this fits in.
Does anybody know about these?
In my opinion, the sword is 100% authentic...BUT.. notice that the entire finish is gold, both on the sword and the scabbard. It is a finish - not painted on. The handle almost appears to be anodized.
This doesn't fit the description for an NCO sword. The early NCO swords had copper handles and the later one's had copper-colored painted handles with brown scabbards...so I can't figure out where this fits in.
Does anybody know about these?
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