Original Japanese WWII Navy Officer Model 1883 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Polished Sharkskin Wooden Parade Scabbard Beretta the handset had to be

the handset had to be taken off the fork

40 on the back

Of these 100 were sent to the Ordnance Department for testing

This depicts Lt Kennedy of G/506th

We unfortunately do not know where it was recovered from

Original Japanese WWII Navy Officer Model 1883 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Polished Sharkskin Wooden Parade Scabbard Beretta the handset had to beOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first standard sword of the Japanese military was known as the kyu gunto (, old military sword). Murata Tsuneyoshi (1838 1921), a Japanese general who previously made guns, started making what was probably the first mass produced substitute for traditionally made samurai swords. These swords are referred to as "Murata to" and they were used in both the Sino Japanese war (1894 1895) and the Russo Japanese war