"Priceless Badge of Honor"

[murphda2]

Another priceless treasure for your considerations

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Samurai-Swo ... dZViewItem

 

Murph

[huntershooter]

Good grief. I don't suppose he'd even consider a low ball offer of $9,950.

[Pete Klein]

Funny -- I don't remember us fighting the Japanese in WWI or that they had military koshirae like this back then?

[murphda2]

I contacted the seller asking about his story, and he confirmed that the blade was taken during WW I, and that his great-great-grandfather took it off of a soldier he had killed. I thought it was rather interesting that he had taken the sword during WW I.

 

According to my high school history books, Japan played a very minor role in WW I as part of the Allied Powers. This would mean that an American soldier, which captured a sword which had not been invented yet, committed fratricide.

 

Murph

[murphda2]

Very good Pete. According to Fuller and Gregory, this particular koshirae was not introduced until 1933-34.

 

Murph

[remzy]

bleh..

[Jean]

"This sword has been the pride and joy of my family for the many years it has been in our family"

 

I am shivering thinking to the rating of his family pride

 

 

"Beati pauperes spiritu ..."

[Henry Wilson]

I think he thinks that he is right....