Tanto or oceanic production ?

[ericlaude]

Hello ,it was an error .

[Rich]

Need larger pictures to tell for sure, but could be a Japanese WW II era pilots sword. The style of mounts are WW II gunto, but can't see enough detail to tell for sure just what it is.

Rich S

The Japanese Sword Index
http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/nihonto.htm

[pbleed]

Rich is right. The pictures are not adequate, but, , , I'm absolutely sure this is recent Chinese, ahhh.... fantasy.
Peter

[Atlantia]

Rich is right. They pictures are not adequate, but, , , I'm absolutely sure this is recent Chinese, ahhh.... fantasy.
Peter


From what is visible in the pictures I would have to agree with Peter that this is a recent Chinese item.
Close-ups would settle the question.

[ericlaude]

Ok, thank you very much , its has an old apparence but its a sh...

[David]

Eric, i see that you have deleted you opening post along with the photos. While i understand your disappointment i would like to suggest that learning to ID copy blades like this for collectors without a lot of experience in this area of weaponry can be as useful and important as seeing the real deal. Leaving the pictures up for future research is always a good idea. :)