Good day everyone. I wanted to post some pictures of what I believe is an NCO Sword. Type 95 possibly? This is out of my collecting wheelhouse so I am asking the folks on here for some assistance and confirmation/verification from what I was able to find from some of the great topics and posts by some of the great members here, (Mr. Pennington, Stu W, Nick and others)

This was given to me several years ago. From what I was able to determine about the 3 stamps is: the Kokura arsenal stamp, the Tokyo Inspection Stamp and the 3rd stamp (chrysanthemum) is an unknown maker?? I was hoping that I could get a thumbs up that this is an original sword.

The numbers stamped on the sword 68452 match the numbers on the scabbard.

If the pictures are not good, I can attempt to take better ones. I belong to several forums and each one has different uploading requirements so forgive me if these are not up too par..

Looking forward to thoughts and input.

Smitty

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