Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Help please. Japanese Gunto (Genuine ? ) with battlefield scabbard.

laEspadaAncha · 25th May 2011, 05:10 PM

Hi David,

Fuller & Gregory cover this variant of late-war production, leather-covered shin-gunto, which according to them, "may be encountered without tsuba or kabuto-gane." These late-war variants were invariably of poor construction. The shrunken leather scabbard cover looks right for the age & pattern. I do find the three mekugi ana to be a little odd and "out of scope" IMO.

Regards,

Chris

25th May 2011, 05:10 PM	#6
laEspadaAncha Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 608	Hi David, Fuller & Gregory cover this variant of late-war production, leather-covered shin-gunto, which according to them, "may be encountered without tsuba or kabuto-gane." These late-war variants were invariably of poor construction. The shrunken leather scabbard cover looks right for the age & pattern. I do find the three mekugi ana to be a little odd and "out of scope" IMO. Regards, Chris