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Thank you Ray :)
There are no stamps next to the signature; is that a sign the blade is better quality please?
Is the date also August 1943?

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Bless you, thanks again Ray.

One last by the by question. The blade was secured in the grip by two steel bolts (that had seized), not pegs. Is that normal? Likely Japanese done or the British soldier that brought it home? We had to ask a friend to drill the bolts out and am glad now that we did.

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Please show photos. Type 3 gunto koshirae had two screws. Both the normal mekugi-ana and a second shinobi-ana at the bottom. Those screws are rare and desirable. If you have photos of the mounting and the screws or bolts that were previously there, please share here in the post

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Hello Ray. Oh, or rather "Oh no"; the bolts got binned, the nuts are still there behind the ito (can not photo the smaller one as secure behind the ito). Rare? Should I go through the garbage to see if I can find the smaller bolt? They were basically non-descript flat head screw bolts. The nuts were / are different to what you normally see.

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I’d start digging through the garbage if I were you… If they are the correct screws for the koshirae then you will be hard pressed to find another one. In fact, members on this forum usually inquire where to find reproduction screws, because both original and nice quality reproductions are hard to find and expensive. 
 

Conway

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We've replaced them with pegs; not the "nuts" / flanges, they are still there. The main bolt is toast as it had seized, so we drilled it out. The smaller one we got out and binned. What is the value of that bolt do you think? As going through garbage is not my idea of making money, unless gold! As I said, the nuts / flanges are still there.

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6 hours ago, Conway S said:

Did the screw look like this? Can you post a picture of your sword?

 

Yes, slightly rounded top. I did not see the whole bolts as a friend actually drilled out the big one and threw away the smaller one.

 

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See below. Volker was selling some reproductions. Maybe they are still available. It’s still worth it to look for the small one if you can find it. 
 

 

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That bottom one definitely looks like the head was messed up.  Might have had to drill it to remove it.  But original.  If you can't find replacements, many of these are found with bamboo mekugi, and some with a mix of both, so it won't hurt the originality if you decide to replace them with bamboo.

 

Also, I only have 1 other Kunitada on file with stamps.  Can you check the nakago mune for Na stamps, please?  The other was posted by @Itomagoi, also an August 1943.

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