Real?

[Bored_Zombie]

Hello. Need a bit of help.
Is this a real WW2 Type 95?
The sword is not mine. i have a few selected pictures. Someone pay $550 for the sword.  I'm worried.


Thank you for the help.

[The Blacksmith]

A very bad Chinese copy I am afraid.  It is a pity that someone didn't do some homework before buying a sword. There are numerous articals on this forum about these swords and what to look for.

[Bored_Zombie]

Thank you Blacksmith.

[Bruce Pennington]

Eeeeeeek!  It hurts my eyes!  

 

I hope they can get their money back.

[Bored_Zombie]

I hope.

[Bruce Pennington]

3 hours ago, Bored_Zombie said:

I hope.

Don't know if your friend will need some points to bring to the seller, but just a few:

 

The stamps are wrong.  It has the logo of 2 different sword shops - Suya shoten and "Gifu".  NCO swords were made by a single shop, not 2

 

The stamps would indicate the sword was made for the Tokyo 1st Army Arsenal, but the serial number is upside down if that were true.  Only blades made for the Nagoya Arsenal were stamped to be read with the cutting edge up.

 

The bohi, or fuller groove starts too far down the blade.  None of the shops, nor arsenals, made blades with a bohi like that.  It should be very close to the habaki (brass collar). Edit: "tsuba" (thanks Russ!)

 

Those are some blatantly obvious errors.  There are more subtle errors that are harder to describe, but the 3 above are conclusive that this was a fake.

 

[The Blacksmith]

5 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

 

 

The bohi, or fuller groove starts too far down the blade.  None of the shops, nor arsenals, made blades with a bohi like that.  It should be very close to the habaki (brass collar).

 

 

It should be near the habaki........If there was one!

 

[Bruce Pennington]

2 minutes ago, The Blacksmith said:

It should be near the habaki........If there was one!

OOOPS!  Thanks Russ!!!  Trying to type and watch TV at the same time.  Should know better.

 

Yes, the bohi should be quite close to the TSUBA. Ha.