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Old September 27, 2008, 10:49 PM   #10
B. Lahey
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General info:

http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/military.htm

Looks quite a bit like this Army commissioned officers Shin-Guntō 1938-45:

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~t-ohmura/gunto_021.htm

The first site says the leather on the sheath was probably added later for field toughness, and as much as yours looks like the 2nd website Shin-Gunto, it probably has that WW2 metal scabbard underneath the leather.

I am not an expert, I just have the internets.

Dunno about the serial number, the interwebs say the numbered ones had the number on the blade, this one is on the habaki. The blade looks kind of like the fake acid-etched ones too, but I don't know enough about this stuff to say for sure. It could be one of the "non-traditional handmade" wartime blades or something else entirely...
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