WW2 KATANA, Dont think so / buyer beware

[Treeslicer]

Originally Posted by asomotif

Í saw an auction ending last week for a "ww2 katana"

Let you be the Judge, but the markings on this blade might as well read : made in China

https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/...on_related_lot

That is not only an older Chinese fake war relic (from when they etched horimono rather than carved them), but it was advertised as an "officer's" model, when the tsuka is plainly copied from the NCO style. The mounts are non-regulation in other ways as well. Disgusting.