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Thank you very much Jacque, i am again amazed at how fast this forum responds and the wealth of informations avaliable. Are there any significance to this particular smith and "railroad steel" blade? For $50 i dont think i can lose out anything. With further research this seemed to be a blade made by Manchurian railroad company as indicated by http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~t-ohmura/gunto_114.htm, not a nihonto by any traditional sense but a piece of history nevertheless

I know one of the signature says "showa spring" but what is the author's name ? Thanks for the help of translation and my God is nihonto addictive? I picked up a set of Nihonto just last month and now i stuck knees deep researching about these things at 3 in the morning

Hi Lindus, ive sent all the pictures ive taken of these two blades to your email, let me know if you received it or could make anything of it. Quick question, the sheath of the wakazashi is made of a , for lack of better term, laminated purplish wood? It almost looked as if its got glitters on the inside if that makes sense, what could you gents make of it?

well lindus now those pics are just beautiful. However i have a very limited budget so unfortunately iphone pictures are all that i can afford nowadays. Being a college student and an E-3 dosnt exactly give you alot of money to play around with. With that being said maybe i can borrow a friend's professional camera and have a few more pictures taken. However many times my photo become too large to upload Also it makes me nervous to disassembly the swords apart every time as you'd all understand

was the Kassaki or Boshi picture satistactory ? If so i ill somehow resize the other images i have on file due to them being too large to be uploaded. Hell i'll be grateful if someone of knowledge will let me email them all my images via attachment then post it here. Again i hate to sound like a newbie but computer terms such as resize and pixel and such are as foreign to me as Boshi and Kassaki. I am learning however and thanks again for everyone's time

katana Boshi

i will have to get on that, but i dont think i have the softwares necessary for cropping and refining pictures, will do my best however Meanwhile i'd like to know more informations on these swords based on the pictures ive posted, i know its a difficult task these are as good of pictures as i can get with a crappy iphone and an outdated labtop katana tang katana tang and hilt wakazashi tang wakazashi tip black and white to show Hamon Katana Tip

Katana's tang

i see, a wakizashi it is then......Besides the tang and a picture of the sword in good light what else is needed? Im very much interested in preserving the history of this blade

my apology for the fuzzy pictures, ive got several more pictures just taken with a 20 dollar bill for size comparison http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 ... d%20tanto/ katana and tanto katana tip and straight hamon O-tanto tip and waxy Hamon O-tanto O-tanto hilt (sorry, not the right word i know) katana size comparison katana tsuba

Hello This is my first post here, and i am a true newbie when it comes to antique blade weapons especially Nihontos. Recently i acquired a set of Katana and an O-tanto from a gentleman whose uncle brought them back from Japan during WWII as part of gun trade and ended up with them both for $150 apiece. I as a firearm collector recongnized the fact that the katana is in a WWII officer's gunto sheath but that's about it. The Katana and O-tanto are both unsigned and while the tanto shows very good waxy active hamon the katana showed a straight, non waxy hamon that is abit harder to catch Please check out the pictures ive uploaded on photobucket and gave me an idea on the history and age of the blades, thank you very much in advance http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa463/swableader/ O-tanto pic Katana pic