Hello!
New to the forum and looking for a second/third/etc opinion on what appears to be Kai-Gunto blade.
It has an anchor stamp in a circle with two different sets of numbers on the nakago.
The written numbers appear to match the seppa and tsuka end fitting. My real worry is the apparent lack of a hamon anywhere on the blade as I was fairly certain even the factory ones had an aesthetic hamon somehow applied. Though I have heard hamons can be polished out if the blade was not taken care of correctly? Other evidence in the fittings leads me to believe the tsuka and saya may have been poorly restored in the past, and therefore the blade maybe have been polished.
I guess my real question is if the stamps/dual numbering is characteristic of any forgery attempts for Kai-Gunto blades? Pictures attached.
All information appreciated!
-Don
