Originally Posted by CINDERS I would say it is a Japanese dress sword as this one from the net 1940 example has similar features especially the chrysanthemums on the handle and hand guard the one you have could be WWI or WWII but I would go with a latter date 30-40's +1 vote for Japanese. Katana style sword tip. BEAR
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