12th Dec, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 283
 

283

A Japanese Second World War NCO/WO's Shin Gunto Katana, the 67cm single edge steel blade with a...

A Japanese Second World War NCO/WO's Shin Gunto Katana, the 67cm single edge steel blade with a narrow fuller running along the back edge and numbered 48008, with one piece brass habaki, pierced brass tsuba, the aluminium hilt bearing traces of original brown paint and with clip fastening (spring missing), the white metal fuchi stamped with Kokura Arsenal marks, the steel scabbard bearing traces of paint and stamped at the mouth 8670, 97cm

Sold for £280
Estimated at £250 - £350


 

. Nicks to edge of blade at the tipWear to paint on scabbard and hilt. Tsuba a little wobbly.

 


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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 12th Dec, 2018

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