Mantesu Railway Stamped Sword

[sophisties]

I own this sword and will post more pictures as time will allow.

What I would like to know is what the relative worth of this sword may be. It is in good condition, including the scabbard.

The Habaki is a waterfall silver type and it has a serial number of N377 on the spine and back of the Habaki.

[Stephen]

second pix upside down, you have a hot item very sought after, hard to call value from your pix, seen them go for 5K

[Peter Bleed]

Steve hangs around with high rollers. I have seen one or two of these, but never at the 5K level - well - maybe at yen.

Peter

[Stephen]

Military collectors pay top price for that stamp, think TedT sold one for that, could be wrong, it was in pristine condition tho

 

link or two

http://ohmura-study.net/913.html

http://ohmura-study.net/998.html

[John A Stuart]

Hello sophisties John

[k morita]

Hi,

 

The mei of 冬 "winter" inscription is very rare.

[k morita]

  Stephen said:

Military collectors pay top price for that stamp, think TedT sold one for that, could be wrong, it was in pristine condition tho

 

Ted's blade S/N was N403.

[tesscoothome123]

Hi All, I sold one a couple years ago on Ebay and it brought almost 4000.00 usd then. Hope this helps. Regards, John

[SwordGuyJoe]

  tesscoothome123 said:

Hi All, I sold one a couple years ago on Ebay and it brought almost 4000.00 usd then. Hope this helps. Regards, John

 

Which it should be said, is far higher than "normal" or to be expected consistently.