Times are changing

Stephen · February 2, 2022

One would never see this with the registration paper, Time Marches on.

https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/q1035263890?

vajo · February 2, 2022

The boshi looks total different from a NCO in my eyes. Interesting sword. I like it. Time changed you are right Steven.

Bruce Pennington · February 3, 2022

Papered Mantetsu! Registered Type 95! CATS AND DOGS SLEEPING TOGETHER!!! What's this world coming to?!?!?

Well, I'm glad they're coming around finally.

I think the kissaki has been re-worked. Maybe even a field repair. The blotchy steel "patch" on this looks very similar to one I own that I've always felt had been a factory or field repair.

Here are some more pics for future reference:

Item of interest @Shamsy @Stegel

Brian · February 3, 2022

That's crazy.

vajo · February 3, 2022

Bruce i don't think the kissaki is reshaped. Look at the etched hamon its allways parallel in the boshi.

The Kissaki is a o-kissaki. I've only see ko-kissaki on type95.

The blade is different to what i know.

PNSSHOGUN · February 3, 2022

Immediate thoughts are reshaped kissaki as well.

vajo · February 3, 2022

Bruce, John.

I think now you are right. I tried to compare it to another and it looks reshaped.

Stephen · February 3, 2022

They probably put an edge put on it, he wanted it to cut!

OR

A older blade it is says Yoda?

As we know never say never.

Shamsy · February 3, 2022

Interesting thought patterns. My first thought was to wonder if it was a Type 32 - Type 95 clone.

But the answer is most likely no. Missing the signs we think a clone would show. Saya suspension ring would be a little lower, bohi (we assume) would look like the 32 (wider, round near the kissaki), the fuchi would (assumption) be stamped for Suya... much more likely the aforementioned reshaped, but I did get a little excited for a moment.

Stephen · February 6, 2022

Check selling price...times are a changing!

Stegel · February 8, 2022

Wow, As Brian said, 'Crazy' price!

Does any one know how i can get mine into Japan, get papered, and Cha-Ching !!.... Retirement here i come!

Stephen, there's been quite a few 'non traditional'/ illegal gunto's papered recently, do you know if they are all coming from the same region, or just 'all-over' Japan as a whole?

Well this one has a black scabbard which is interesting to note, the tip has been obviously reworked/ reshaped.

Vayo, the picture you posted as a comparison to the standard type 95, is the lower sword picture flipped horizontally before being added ? If so, that would explain what i first thought was a left handed tsuka mould (the menuki being on the opposite side).

Without measuring the blade width and thickness, you could not make a call on the type 32->95 clone, they are supposed to be indistinguishable from the true type95 with only mm seperating the two. Also they would have been produced much earlier than this blade.

Thanks for sharing Stephen,

Very interesting.

BANGBANGSAN · February 8, 2022

Tokyo, Japan. 15th Aug, 2020. A man dressed as a Japanese imperial army soldier poses for a photograph outside the Yasukuni Shrine during the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Maybe this is one of the guys who spend big bucks for a real NCO sword.

Kiipu · February 8, 2022

Be careful Trystan, I would not mess around with the kenpeitai! We might not hear from you for a looong time.

Kenpeitai

BANGBANGSAN · February 8, 2022

52 minutes ago, Kiipu said:

Be careful Trystan, I would not mess around with the kenpeitai! We might not hear from you for a looong time.

Kenpeitai

In the movie Letters from Iwo Jima,清水洋一 was a former kenpei (憲兵) he got exiled to Iwo Jima because he is not tough enough to kill a civilian barking dog.