KungFooey Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 Sold for nearly $6K - with a fake company officer's tassel for good measure. (Tojo must have been miffed at that.) Made Showa 19, so 1944 - even though Yasutoku left the shrine in 1940. Totally wrong yasurime and his mei seems a bit off - maybe he had one too many sake cups the night before with General Tojo? 🤔 Dee Yahoo!オークション - 九八式軍刀 靖徳 長さ62.... 1 1 Quote
Brian Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 Compare: https://www.wehrmach...shingunto-gift-sword Quote
KungFooey Posted January 30 Author Report Posted January 30 4 minutes ago, Brian said: Compare: https://www.wehrmach...shingunto-gift-sword Sorry Brian, I'm not allowed to see that page as I'm not a member of the forum. Quote
Brian Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 Yeah, it's a sign up (free) forum. But that sword has pages of info about the one shown there, so may be worth the quick sign up. Quote
KungFooey Posted January 30 Author Report Posted January 30 18 minutes ago, Brian said: Yeah, it's a sign up (free) forum. But that sword has pages of info about the one shown there, so may be worth the quick sign up. Well I tried and I tried for 20 minutes but I gave up. Long story short: do you think the sword I posted is legit? Quote
PNSSHOGUN Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 Maybe a different Hideki Tojo, in the latrine corps..... 5 Quote
KungFooey Posted January 30 Author Report Posted January 30 Same guy has another gunto up for sale - this time with Uncle Fong fittings and Bubba-san polish. (And still they bid.) Yahoo!オークション - 特殊軍刀外装 登録証付属 長... Quote
KungFooey Posted January 30 Author Report Posted January 30 37 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said: The one from W-A: Hi Bruce! Many thanks for that! I can see Tojo's name in both (pic below) but the one I posted from Yahoo is wrong on so many levels (fittings, tassel, mei, yasurime, length, blade features, nakago shape, historical dates etc). Who made the presumably real one from W-A? Dee Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted January 31 Report Posted January 31 “The sword is a Gendaito made by Koshimizu Moritoshi one of Japan's top 12 war time sword smith's. Existing Moritoshi made blades are in them selves difficult to find as he died relatively young. He was only 39.” 1 Quote
KungFooey Posted February 19 Author Report Posted February 19 Well, I finally made it onto Wehrmacht Awards and saw the other Hideki Tojo dedication sword posted there. It certainly appears there is currently a cottage industry of forgery going on in Japan; taking possibly genuine Gendaito - or more likely unsigned blades - and then inscribing both a famous smith and an even more famous recipient. I've already said I think the 'Yamato captain sword' is a total fake and outlined the reasons why. I also saw someone taken for $6K on Yahoo - hence this original thread. And now the one on W.A. It was posted by someone who was so very sure of it papering (because he knew "the leading expert on gendaito in the US" who had authenticated it, and then, when it got pink-slipped as 'gimei', whined about the validity of the Japanese Shinsa. 🤔 I truly believe that, if a sword appeared on auction "signed by Kiyamaro and dedicated to Freddie Mercury" some moron would still buy it for mega bucks. 1 1 Quote
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