Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Scabbard Russian Antique Guns One box missing tab

One box missing tab

with some light rust pitting

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

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

These were used at war time Fighter Airfield to be pealed when the telephone call was received to for "SQUADRON SCRAMBLE": whereupon the R

Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Sword with Scabbard Russian Antique Guns One box missing tabOriginal 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