Type 95 at auction

[authorgang]

Can you please advise me if it is an original or a replica.
Thank you very much.

https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=14695009

[Shamsy]

Looks like a Polish reproduction sword to me. The colours are very distinct. These are hard to pick though, so I'd appreciate a second opinion from @Stegel or @BANGBANGSAN

[BANGBANGSAN]

Steve

I'm with you ,this is a Polish repro.

[robinalexander]

Not sure if its my eyes but the Mune looks flat (Hira mune)? If so, its another reason it is not genuine, should be pointed (Iori mune).

 

In any case I wouldn't buy it.

 

[Bruce Pennington]

5 hours ago, Shamsy said:

The colours

They're bad, Steve.  The ito is a blackish/blue.  Wrap color is normal and worn, while the fuchi color is correct but shiny new.  Saya color is mostly correct, could be lighting.

 

Good points by all on the errors.  I would add the bohi begins incorrectly, and the tsuka same' lumps/bumps aren't correct.

 

Pics added for posterity

[vajo]

I was fooled by such a sword from bad pictures. With a little luck I was giving it back to the seller.

 

In this case it looks like a similar sword with nearly the same No.

 

When you read the description it says that it is a replica. So the offer is honest. What is rare these times.

 

 

• Anmerkung: Es handelt sich bei der vorliegenden Waffe wohl um eine authentische Replika.
• Gesamtlänge: 92cm, Klingenlänge: 69,5cm

 

 

[Stegel]

I agree with Steve and others, a Polish replica.

Also the Habiki is not a good fit to the blade.

[vajo]

These pictures are amazing. The first really good pictures from such a fake NCO. You see all the details. Negative same and Menuki. The false start of the Bo-hi, the thin and to long sarute, the flat sakura above the sarute, the thin habaki, the false edges of the seppa, the thin and to long  clipper,...

[Bruce Pennington]

6 hours ago, vajo said:

looks like a similar sword with nearly the same No.

For some reason the fakers like the numbers in the 30000 range, though I have 1 or 2 in the 40000 and 50000 ranges.  Here's the one you're likely remembering from Wehrmacht-Awards post:

 

[authorgang]

Thank you for your feedback. I thought it was a replica.

[Shamsy]

Should add this sword to the Fake 95 sword thread... I'll do it at some stage today or tomorrow. 

[authorgang]

So that I don't start a new topic. Is it possible to buy the original type 95 somewhere in Europe?

[Smee78]

+1 "Also the Habiki is not a good fit to the blade." This was the first part that looked off to me. I am not to knowledgeable on the Polish repops so the additional like the paint info is much appreciated from other board members.