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Not a Mumai Uchigatana - As Labeled


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G'day All,

 

Some years ago I purchased a collection from a retired New South Wales Police inspector.  It consisted of a few really nice NSWC marked pieces, including a Martini Henry Rifle and a Pattern 1886 Cavalry Sword. There were also a couple of Japanese swords (a Type 32 'Ko' and this WW2 Showa era tachi) and a quantity of bayonets.  All were correctly labelled and they included this sword which was labelled as an 'Unmarked WW2 Japanese Officers Sword'.  I didn't check that that was an accurate description at the time, I only remember thinking that it was a more robust sword than many of those I had come across at that point and stored it away.  This weekend as I was sorting through a few boxes to see if there was anything in them I wanted to list on eBay in the run up to Christmas I came across it and thought I might just give it the onece over.  I was surprised to discover it wasn't the Mumei example I thought it was as you'll see from the attached pictures.  Any assistance anyone can give me in translating the mei on both sides of the nakago would be very much appreciated. 

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17 hours ago, Fusilier said:

Any assistance anyone can give me in translating the mei on both sides of the nakago would be very much appreciated. 

David:

Any chance of getting a pic of the serial number on the nakago mune? We track these mantetsu. @Bruce Pennington

Thank you,

John C 

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G'day Guy's,

 

As usual, your assistance is hugely appreciated and also as usual I have learnt a great deal about something I knew very little about.  Bruce and Team Mantetsu's article was really fascinating, thank you.

 

Cheers David

 

 

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