Lareon

I've got a few In good condition. Also have 4 on their own that I picked up at an arms fair

is the thread about this sword

ok, so used the liberal amounts of choji oil and a small shim of copper to clean the active rust off. Night and day now and i still have the dark black patina but far less rust.

I may rub a little copper shim over the mei, not sure if anyone has used this trick before i've used it on antique rifles before, the copper is softer than the iron and removes some of the rust without affecting the barrel.

Ended up removing the barrel in the end, constant tapping with my palm and some choji oil along the edges of the barrel to loosen any rust helped, slowly it came apart and revealed a very heavy rusted barrel underneath. I've oiled it up and removed some of the active red rust. It's difficult to photo the kanji on the barrel due to the rust while with nihonto i would never try and clean anything up im tempted with this to try and remove a little more rust but will await an opinion before i do that.

It has 6 petals yes, the breech plug unfortunately is missing from this teppo. it did give me the confidence to go back to my osaka variant and remove the barrel, will add photos to that thread in a minute

Home now and have my camera, here's a few shots of details on the barrel.

The one I posted? I bought it off of you this year, remember

The shock of the blunt force is not stopped by armour so bones and organs are destroyed even through the heaviest armour. Like a western maul of war hammer. If this is what you meant?

Took the barrel off to see beneath Has the number 44

@Bruce Pennington received and in hand, only a small anchor stamp and the number is correct. I can see the nakago has been cut off crudely at the end. seems so strange to put so much effort into these then just roughly cut the nakago at the end, it's not even straight. the belt that came with it seems to have a name written in ink inside of it (while not related to the souvenir mounted sword i assume, it's a nice thing to find) says Matsunaga Seiichiro

Less Decorative than my first, This one doesn't have the decoration like my osaka variant. Not removed the barrel at all but once i have it in hand i'll take some more pictures.