Richard K

Forgot to include the spec for the gunto and wakizashi previous post. KATANA overall: 99.7cm blade: 65cm tsuka: 26cm saya: 73.6cm Wakizashi overall: 71.1cm blade: 39.5cm tsuka: 16.3cm saya: 54.5cm sori: 11 mm Adding some wakizashi photos. Thanks again, Richard K

Thank you both for the encouragement, will add more photos later this pm. Richard K

Yes I plan to if I still have them on Sunday 4/27. Richard K

This a continuation of my first post with additional photos. I want to add I saw a post on this site recently a Takayama to with the same mei as mine same tosho and togishi posted 10/18/2017 "very long kanji on tang" wasn't sure who posted it. Regards, Richard K

Newbie 1st post, I'm in need of some expert opinions and input regarding a gunto and a wakizashi I received as a payment for some work I did back in 1982 I never had it evaluated back then just happy to have it but now after over 40 years it looks like I need to sell them and some other items to make room for a smaller place. The gunto information that I know now is something I learned from this site in the past 3 month that this being a Takayama to and reading the article about Masakichi (Masayoshi ?) Takayama story and also because of it the gunto is sought after by militaria collectors, the wakizashi is a mumei and I don't have much information other than what I was told by another source a source that I contacted before I discovered you folks at NMB, "Katana is from WW2 with a civilian koshirae estimate; 800-1200, the wakizashi from Koto period and might be quite good but unpolish estimate; 500-700. I realize both items in rather rough shape like the gunto not in the original koshirae condition and the wakizashi with no mei, any thought or opinion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading my poor writing. Richard K