Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets On the back of the

On the back of the photo in pencil is the name Griffiths

but the rest of the traverse and elevation mechanism works great

With a bore of slightly more than half an inch this little guy surely packed a severe punch back in the day

This is straight out of the attic

both Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia had used radio as a tool to influence the masses long before AH's rise to power

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets On the back of theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased directly from a collector, this is a very nice wartime production high grade Japanese officer Katana in the standard pre 1944 Shin Gunto setting. A Gunt (, military sword) is a Japanese sword produced for use by the Japanese army and navy after the end of the samurai era in 1868, when the Meiji Restoration occurred. This is a very nice example, and either saw very little use, or was never issued. The blade