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12 hours ago, george trotter said:

PS the blue painted  "ku 52" is not on the tang...can't remember

Just an interesting note...I too bought a Kanehide gendaito from Matt with the same green and blue painting scheme. "A" series with both the katakana and western A but different numbers.

 

John C

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From the dates/numbers it looks like he was producing his 10 swords/month as required by the RJT scheme.

 

I have seen these blue kanji/numbers on other RJT smith swords also...eg, Yamagami Munetoshi of Niigata - star 19/3 (all kanji TAI 78). 

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9 hours ago, John C said:

I too bought a Kanehide gendaito from Matt with the same green and blue painting scheme

 

Here's another I dug up that I previously had. I also found a 1940 dated Kanehide in my archive that does not have any arsenal paint.


Here's another from Alf's site with the blue paint: https://japaneseswor...o-by-nakata-kanehide

 

Here's another from Ed's site with the blue paint: https://yakiba.com/kanehide-nakata/

 

There's more out there with same arsenal paint if you google around, like here: https://www.warrelic...2-collection-437275/

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Thanks, Matt. I'm tracking the painted number scheme to see if I can identify any patterns (e.g., which smith/forge used which color paint or number series, etc.). Personally (I know I am in the minority here), I think there is something to be gained by figuring out the exact numbering system. I may be able to use the information as an additional verification tool.

John C.

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Okay...these pics are cheesy. But they were taken off of the TV during a program about the Japanese surrender. It's difficult to tell in the pics, but the tassels on both of these swords looked all brown during the program. I think both are type 98s.

Whatever they are, there is no doubt they are original. 

John C.

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On 7/19/2023 at 1:39 PM, george trotter said:

Hi Matt,

PPS...for my file, do you remember who/where you got it from? Any WWII history?

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Hi again Matt, you said you would check with the person you bought this Kanehide sword from...just wondering if you got any feedback on this?

Regards.

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6 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Any way to know if the show was originally color film, or was this one of those recently colorized shows?

I believe colorized, however there was no difference in shade or tone so my assumption would be solid brown.

6 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

They appear to be Kai Gunto from the contrast of gold fittings and black samegawa.

Actually my first thought as well. On the tv the contrast between the fittings and tsuka looked more like silver and black. But the soldiers were wearing army uniforms, I think. I didn't think to count the ashi. 

John C.

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