Is This A Tanto?

[Bruce C]

Can anyone help with identifying this?  Any ideas about history or approximate value?  My father-in-law acquired it during WW2.  Including the scabbard, it is about 14.5 inches in length.

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Looks assembled with parts of different weapons to me. Is there a wooden scabbard inside the leather?

Might be a field work of later period of WWII or something made out of  "spare parts" for occuping GI's.

Curious the "Tsuba" that secure the blade to the scabbard with a clip. 

Looks familiar to me, but just now can't check my books on WWII blades...

[estcrh]

  On 6/22/2017 at 6:43 PM, Bruce C said:

Can anyone help with identifying this?  Any ideas about history or approximate value?  My father-in-law acquired it during WW2.  Including the scabbard, it is about 14.5 inches in length.IMG_5158.jpegIMG_5161.jpegIMG_5162.jpegIMG_5164.jpeg

Some larger "clear" images of the blade from both sides and close up images of the tang would be helpful.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Welcome to the forum, Bruce. Your odd blade was likely cut down from something considerably longer. It reminds me of a ken (no relation) that has been heavily modified.

 

Ken

 

[Dave R]

 To me this looks very like an old blade altered for use in WW 2. Ohmura san shows similar on his site, titled as "crew gunto".   http://ohmura-study.net/977.html

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

So this was because it looked familiar to me. Guess you nailed it down, a late war crew gunto in tanto lenght

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http://ohmura-study.net/761.html