JAPANESE WWII MILITARY KATANA SWORD FITTINGS.

A lovely mint unissued set of fittings for a Japanese officers sword being the olive drab painted scabbard with its gilded fittings. Brass pierced tsuba. Cloth wrapped grip with ray skin below with its tassel fitting to the upper hilt. At the end of the war many thousands of officers katana blades were destroyed, mainly in 1946 which left a residue of sword fittings, which were deemed to be works of decorative arts and not weapons, this is probably a set of fittings from one of those destroyed swords, with the addition of a wooden blade this would make a fine decorative example of a Japanese army officers sword.

Code: 97359