NCO sword help

[Butch]

What are your opinions on these markings on this NCO sword ?

Many thanks Gareth

[Butch]

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[Shamsy]

Impossible to form any kind of opinion with those photos you provided. This comes back to what I've put previously in the fake thread, that you need to see a whole sword to make an informed assessment. I'll check the JC website and let you know what the whole sword looks like.

 

Edit: Doesn't look good to me, a few too many flags on this one. I'd steer away to be on the safe side (though it is hard to tell), but if you want it for the film provenance alone (and believe that is accurate), go for it.

 

[Butch]

Thanks for your help ,,

Most  appreciated 

[Bruce Pennington]

Agree with Steve.  Poor pictures, but a couple of things that don’t look right  (as a minimum the tassel is a repro).

[Shamsy]

This is what I think it looks like to me. Indian made 95 repro, very good and just slightly worse than the Polish versions. The oversized sarute, bohi, colours and tsuka screw are the parts that make it stand out.

[BANGBANGSAN]

The Pacific: Sledge's Bunker

The Japanese NCO used a Brass guards Type 95, no tassel, not sure if it's the one JC sell.They also use rubber replica in the show.

 

 

 

 

[Shamsy]

That prop sword (unsurprisingly) has a very rounded tip too, Trystan. I imagine safety first. It also looks to have been 'roughed up' considerably. It's very cool to see though, thanks for sharing!

[Stegel]

Gareth,

I agree with the general view of the sword not being genuine.

At £975,  it is way overpriced, even as a movie prop in my opinion.

I noticed that the dealer has chosen his words carefully in the description, he states the sword is original in being a movie prop, but doesn't state that about the sword itself.

There are many issues with it, but the photographs are poor, also limited in that they don't show quite enough.

I suspect this may have been done deliberately (compare to the photo's of another type95 he has)

 

The most important thing is the fuchi stamps are of poor quality.

The central inspection stamp is very similar to the replica's which come from Poland, and some Chinese copies. 

The font used in the serial number is wrong. The serial number range was actually used by the Suya contractor, not Iijima as this one is.

 

This dealer also has another Type 95 sword on offer, which IS genuine, he actually goes to the effort of stating this in his description.

The price is also higher though at £1,250 (if you want to see it and compare to the one you have shown, then the item # is ->   Sn 19250)

 

 

 

If you want a real type 95, give this one a BIG MISS, and keep looking around.

Here are a few issues, apart from the wrong contractors stamp, which do not make it genuine.