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    Yes this one is razor sharp as well which is surprising for how bad the condition it is in
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    This sword is so light and so much smaller scale than the rest of my swords. It appears to look like a thin Calvary sabre than a sword
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    The Hamon from what I can see appears unaffected but Nakago does
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    Yes lol I guess I was typing at the same time as your post
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    I don’t know if it was fire damaged which may explain the unnatural shape and the Nakago is kind of rough to the touch and not smooth and waxy
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    26.5 inch nagasa. Motohaba 2.6cm sakihaba 1.6cm sori 2.86. Kasane 0.535cm Very small Kissaki and the Hamon is present throughout the sword but very hard to capture in pics.
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    More pics
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    More pics
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    I recently acquired an old sword. The shape is intriguing. Strong sori. I don’t know what possible time period it may be from. Lots of nicks in the Ha and somebody made poor attempt to polish one side of the blade. Confused if possible muramachi, Kamakura or Shinto copy. Will post more pics later. Working a ton of shifts and need to get some sleep.
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    Thank you Robert for the clear distinction between suriage and Osuriage. This sword doesn’t seem to have any type of markings on the Nakago besides the double bo hi that runs into the Nakago. I apologize for the poor pics of the Nakago. The is no signature. The only other marking I could find was an (-) or a straight line running horizontally which doesn’t appear to be file marks at the bottom part of the Nakago. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and knowledge on this mystery.
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    In contrast to pic posted earlier
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    Here pics without all the heavy exposure lighting on it
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    Here are the WW2 gunto fittings the questionable Sōshu sword came in
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    Thanks Grey, I think I will check into that. I wonder how long the wait would be for polish from Bob Benson. I’ve read a lot about him and know he is highly regarded. Btw I bought a book from you Grey a few months ago. It was very informative and interesting especially the signed rare Hiromitsu Tachi found here in Ca in 2003!! Thank again
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    The Nakago has a pretty dark thick well established patina that seems to predate most Shinto blades that I have handled. I know that isn’t saying much but is an observation I’ve noted. The double bo hi runs deep into the Nakago as well. The sword has a deep curvature and was possibly koshi zori but now more tori zori I would guess. Quite a bit was cut off the Nakago.
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    Thank you Kirill, I know the zoomed in pics don’t give a true sense of scale that is hard to capture in a pic. I am going to try when I get a chance send to Shinsa.
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    Here is the mei of a WW2 sword I sold recently. I am more into the old stuff now. Not so much the mass produced swords of WW2
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    Here are other pics of a few other guntos that I have
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    I will post them when I get home tomorrow. I don’t have any of the gunto mount photos saved to my phone of this sword. I remember there is a family mon on the fittings that look or resemble a diamond. They are in decent shape. I will post pics when I get home
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    More pics
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    More pics
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    Kissaki
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    If anybody out there has a good guess as to the school it may be from or the era Nanbokucho, Muramachi etc.. please chime in..
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    Thank you, I am on waiting list to get polish and was hoping it was worthy of full polish. Was looking at using David Hofhine
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    Nakago O-suriage
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