Pauln93

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ST048-Japanese-Samurai-Sword-IJA-Army-Kyu-Gunto-w-Old-Blade/163914030706 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Japanese-Meiji-Army-officers-sword-in-kyugunto-mountings-colonel/362786680766?hash=item5477c56fbe:g:QVoAAOSwBqpdrOkQ

I just found this on another sword forum and tried to find out more info on it. http://www.swordforum.com/forums/showth ... ntal-blade)-in-Shirasaya What do you guys think?

So the sword came in today. Everything Looks good but the blade definitely needs a polish. Fist gunto mount I have that the lock is still perfectly tight and working. An interesting thing is that both the nagako and nagasa is not a perfect fit onto the mount with both being shorter (It's a short blade at just a tad over 24'). Is this a common thing since the koshirae are standarized and mass produced? Dated november 1944 I think Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/OnqcP So in the end, is koketsu kanekami and koketsu kanetaka the same person and the pronunciation is just different? On this page(http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/seki.htm) it has the signature as being kanekami but koketsu kanetaka also exists as well so it's a tad confusing.

What do you guys think of this sword? (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Long-Japanese-A ... 1546655423) I've alwasy wanted a kyu gunto and I think this one looks pretty good, though a bit tired.

I'm guessing pictures of the mei would help a lot more. Smiths of the same name could use different kanji and such and a long with the posibility of gimei, pictures would be needed to correctly identify the smith I tihnk.

I'm jealous. I've been looking for a blade in cane mount for a while but haven't had any luck

My main concern was the no return policy on it so I wasn't going to bid on it. I can't trust ebay sellers who doesn't offer some sort of return policy with gimei, various fatal flaws, and conditions being such a problem, especially for any smith that's even remotely well-know.

wow it just sold for a tad over 3k, glad i didn't try to bid on it

At least the koraeshi are in shape good

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281392011909?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT I found this while browsing through ebay today. Came across this and this dealer in general. Do you guys think this is legit? In my opinion it seems too good to be true, but he does have a interesting selection of blades on his websites as well.

I do wish there's more information on the various RJT, especially since they're the main smiths producing nihonto during that time period and some can be quite exceptional.

I assume he's koketsu kanekami since it's the only kanekami i find with the kanji like that.

Yeah he's not on Hawley but on this page http://www.jp-sword.com/files/seki/gendaito.html he's rated jo saku and won first seat so i'm trying to dig more info

I can't find other examples of his sword so it felt weird that he only signed his last name

The hamon looks to be very active so I took a bet on this. I'm crossing my fingers that no flaws will show up....I'm thinking Chris Osborne or Hofhine for polish but I'm not sure yet