Coins & Banknotes Auction 355

Japan: WW2 Showa period Imperial Japanese Army NCO's shin gunto sword. Clean steel arsenal made blade now with applied layer of grease. All aluminium hilt with approx 20% of the original paint remaining. Brass army pattern tsuba. Comes with its matching numbered all steel scabbard, this with approx 80% of its olive green painted finish remaining. Matching numbers to sword blade and scabbard. Blade in GC, some surface rust to scabbard due to loss of paint. Overall a good average example of the standard army NCO sword.