Is this a genuine type 95?

Good afternoon,

I spotted a sword up for auction, purely by accident and it looked wrong. It's described as a Type 95 NCO sword.

The auction house is Ashley Waller, here in the UK the lot number is 333 and the auction starts am on the 30th August 23.

A JAPANESE NCO'S SWORD AND SCABBARD, 64.5CM BLADE, TOTAL LENGTH 97CM

I came across the lot when I was researching markings for an early NCO type 95 that I have seen in an other auction, the serial is around the 1500 mark and has a copper tsuka. I'm going to bid on it. If I'm successful, I'll upload some images.

Ian.

Good luck on that one. I wouldn't mind one either but their price has skyrocketed...

Hi Jim,

not had contact with you for a long time, hope you are well.

I spotted this sword when I was researching one for sale, I've since emailed the auction house and they are looking into it. It has to be a dodgy one, I've never seen one like it.
The one I was hoping to purchase went for £1400, definitely worth it in my opinion, the best I've seen, with copper hilt and with a low serial number in the 1500's. Wish I'd bought it now, but the bidding would have carried on to £2000 I suspect.

What are you up to?

Best wishes,
Ian.

PS I've got seven Japanese swords, some old blades and 2 military.

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Hi Ian,

Not much happening here, shooting once a week and building a collection of heavy ordnance and some foreign hand weapons. I only have one Katana here, a definite copy made in China. Time is past when they were priced reasonably, now they're all locked in collections.

Hi Jim,

wow, heavy ordnance, you must have a decent storage facility! You're certainly keeping the collecting going. I've just packed in target shooting, my T is with a dealer for sale. My certificates have now expired. One of my sons has my shotguns so that I can shoot them when I go out with him, I have a nice old damascus barrelled hammer gun, now around 125 years old and nitro proofed.

I started with the swords about 3 years ago, they were expensive then but not as bad as they are now. I have a 700 year old blade, possibly 2 400 year old blades, 1 definite.
I'm refurbing 4 of the others, 1 is a tanto.

I didn't get an email notification of your replies, has this stopped? I can't find anything on my profile to reinstate it.

Best wishes,
Ian.

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I just looked and there seems to not be a feature for that now, like you say. I just come here twelve times a day and check.

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Not so much, here's an example. I guess you could call it large cartridge collecting. Wish I could get some of the stuff advertised in the UK.

That's a nice looking collection you have, what I've seen for sale over here, don't look as in good condition as yours. I suspect you've done quite a bit of work on the collection to get them looking so good.

I've been downsizing my collecting for years. I started with two Ford Ferguson tractors, both 2NAN's and built 1943. Then a rebuild of a Series II E type open top. Then onto motorcycles. Then onto shooting and now Japanese swords. The items always reducing in size.

I don't know if you have seen the news reported over the past few days here and in Canada, it reports a "search" currently going on for the Loch Ness monster, the biggest in fifty years. I mentioned this because I was born and grew up not far from Loch Ness, also, my grandfather probably caused more false sightings than any other individual.

Best wishes,
Ian.

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I suspect you've done quite a bit of work on the collection to get them looking so good.

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I have done some work, I don't like scrubby looking stuff. I just procured today a .76mm complete that is a CDN and not bad shape. This is one from our Cougar AVGP. Those are hard to find, considering how many I watched fired...

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a "search" currently going on for the Loch Ness monster, the biggest in fifty years

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Nessie...good luck with that.

You have built a very nice collection. I look forward to you uploading a photo of your latest acquisition once you're ready to show it.

There seems to be a lot of replica items for sale and a lot of trench art too, I suspect some of the trench art was made quite recently to satisfy the market. You have to be careful, there's a lot of counterfeit stuff about.

Best wishes,
Ian.

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Most of the "Trench art" is actually WW2 stuff and not even real trench art. People no longer seem to know what that means. Yes, I'll beware.