Genuine or not? Thoughts?

[aabderson]

Hey all, I am talking with the seller and he sent me these pics. Before I buy, I just want to get your opinion. Can never be too careful these days. He is going to be sending me pics of the nakago soon. What do you think, genuine or fake? He says that his grandfather was a medic in the war and brought it back. Any opinions? Thanks!

[ChrisW]

Looks like a real wartime setup. Can't say anything about the blade yet. The photos just simply don't show enough of it to make any sort of call on that.

[Stephen]

Be nice learn to crop all the black out.

Waist of space

[Ed]

Confucius Ed says, to assess the sword, one must see the sword.

[robinalexander]

Alex, looks like a genuine Type 98 (probably not Type 94) officers sword with leather combat cover and nice pierced tsuba.  More pics of tsuba/seppa/chuso button would be good.

 

I'm not sure about the missing screw in the 'metal' saya (scabbard) you can see in the first picture.  Many saya with covers are wooden but this may be a metal 'IJA regulation' saya but not sure if this was meant to hold a Koiguchi and its missing ???  Need more pics from different angles (pls).

 

Stephen's point above is a good one.  Just save the pictures to your 'gallery' and then use your draw/crop feature to remove the black top/bottom and then post the edited pics. Most phones have these features.

 

Look for to clear pics of the blade and both sides of the nakago and pls orient pics  so the end of the nakago is facing down as you look at it.

[The Blacksmith]

If it helps any, here are the cropped and enlarged images that Alex posted....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certainly looks Ok. I look forward to seeing images of the blade.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Kyu Gunto saya, early style handle. Promising indeed.

[Bruce Pennington]

2 hours ago, Ed said:

to asses the sword,

I can't resist - who's asses are we talking about? Ha!  Oh the difference 1 letter can make!

 

Sorry, but to your regular programming.

[robinalexander]

Kyu saya....wow!  

[Ed]

7 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

I can't resist - who's asses are we talking about? Ha!  Oh the difference 1 letter can make!

Got my ass in gear and corrected that.

[Stephen]

9 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

Kyu Gunto saya, early style handle. Promising indeed.

Sorry I missed that where was the kyu saya seen?