Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Scabbard Russian Antique Guns The blade has very fine

The blade has very fine gold inlay work on both blade and hilt

The bayonet is also stamped 4 and '18

These are very rare to find in the original configuration such as this

Unfortunately we do not know the exact year this was manufactured but we do believe it to be produced in the late 1880s

This very nice example features a standard 7 1/2" barrel and mostly matching serial number 111017 on many parts including the barrel

Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Scabbard Russian Antique Guns The blade has very fineOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first standard sword of the Japanese military was known as the kyu gunto (, old military sword). Murata Tsuneyoshi (1838 1921), a Japanese general who previously made guns, started making what was probably the first mass produced substitute for traditionally made samurai swords. These swords are referred to as "Murata to" and they were used in both the Sino Japanese war (1894 1895) and the Russo Japanese war