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Just looking for thoughts on the legitimacy of this. The leather coverings for the Saya is making me raise some eyebrows and these little markings near the habaki I’ve never seen before on type 98’s

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28 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Mark,

What I see looks like WWII legit gunto.  Can you post a pic of the nakago?

I did in an earlier post Bruce, and you ended up answering that one for me.  It was this pic, also have you ever seen markings like the ones above the habaki before? It’s been driving me crazy trying to figure out what they are.  

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Ah, yes!

 

Marking above habaki?  Do you mean this:

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With all the pitting, I think it's just more corrosion/pitting.  If it was a horimono, the corrosion has destroyed it.  But Horimono is usually quite deep, and I think plenty would survive enough to be visible.  

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