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I sent that to Bruce in DMs. He stated that it has popped up several times, and he keeps changing the mounts on it.

Sold Pending Funds

Navy kyu gunto tassel sold.

Sent you one back!

Navy Kyu Gunto Tassel Sold Pending funds Company Grade Tassel is sold.

Company Grade Tassel sold pending funds.

I do not know what exactly is going on with this piece, Discussion as always is welcome. Here is the original auction I purchased it from https://buyee.jp/ite...o/auction/m451389644 Price is 700 CAD plus shipping a donation will be made to the board once it is sold.

Last photo isn't mine, it is from the auction. Can't find my own photo of the tang off hand! Big Dirk, Little Dirk....

My collection goals are changing and I need to free up some funds for some other projects. Please help me by purchasing these boxed tassels! We have a navy Kyu Gunto - 350 CAD - SOLD A Colonel field grade tassel - 700 CAD A company grade - 350 CAD - SOLD And last but not least a a police knot - 300 CAD Any discussion about the items is welcome as always. Upon sale of these tassels a donation will be made to the board. If you want to bundle a few, let me know and I am sure we can work out a deal!

Price drop to 1800 CAD!!

I love fat dirks and I cannot lie

Bumping this with a bad photo to motivate myself to take better photos to add to this thread. Hopefully it will inspire more people to show off their dirks

For Sale is a Navy Kyu Gunto Koshirae with a mon. 2000.00 Canadian, open to offers. If you have any question or anyone has any comments about the item ALL IS WELCOME. More transparency on my sales the better. Here is the link to the auction I purchased it from on buyee.... https://buyee.jp/ite...o/auction/g484750055 Price is 2000.00 CAD. Offers welcome. Might consider including shipping depending on where it is going. Upon Sale a 50 dollar donation will go to the board. Koshirae total length: approx. 98cm [Scabbard] Total length: approx. 76.5cm Curvature: approx. 1.7cm Saya mouth: Height approx. 31.2mm Wide side approx. 9.9mm Width narrow side approx. 4.9mm Depth of sword: Approx. 71cm [Handle] Total length: Approx. 20cm Edge size: Height approx. 3.5cm Width approx. 2cm Height approx. 1.2cm Handle opening: Height approx. 22.3mm Width approx. 5.9mm Width narrow approx. 1.2mm Depth of stem: approx. 15cm

Here is one on ebay, if someone wants to take the images off the listing and out it here that would be appreciated https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY

This sword is found in the Dawson book, a lot of info about it should be here.

bad fake tassel, closest thing it could resemble is the "general/ admiral" rank navy tassel. Although I only think there are one or two kicking around that are known of.

Here is my JNR example

Here is one on ebay https://www.ebay.ca/...b:g:qnEAAOSw~EllRMCx

I was praying no one else bid on them. God must exist😂. I plan on making a nice post with nice photos with my proper lighting set up when it arrives. I also own a child's toy saber which is discussed a bit in Dawsons? Maybe Plimptons, book. I plan to get nice side by sides with those. The quality difference is amazing. I hope to find more child's day swords of the quality of thhis one.

Is there a way to contact him and try and arrange a pvt buy?

There were a few bidders that took the lionshare of Imperial Japan era items. possibly some few dirks were deals, but other than that, not a lot. Personally I picked up the childrens swords lot and the red cross dirk. I am super excited about the childrens day / boys day swords, especially the about the Type 19 which looks almost as detailed as its full sized counterpart, even has a mon!

the lot passed without selling

All navy tassels were brown and plain, with the exception of a rare brown with brown zig zag stitching like a gunto general tassel. There are different browns based on the period / version of tassel, so there is a wide range of variation of brown throughout. Not to mention that different uniform companies would have used slightly different shades of brown. This is displayed not on on brown navy tassels but company grade and field grade ones as well. There are some really good threads on here diving into more detail regarding not only navy tassels but other ones as well. Hope that helps a little bit.

it is a bit hard to tell on that photo, but it looks like that tassel might have came from the bugle that the other gentleman is holding. Many swords I see with off tassels or unofficial ones look like bugle tassels. Another possibility is that since it is a kai gunto (based on the saya laying against him) it might just be a brown cord that is used to keep the saya on the sword if this model didn't have the locking mechanism. The bugle he has is missing the mouth piece as well. I guess it dooted its last doot.

The description is pretty accurate. Nothing saying it is ww2 vintage. It's 100% a modern mass produced blade .