Katana and wakizashi

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Hello all. I am new to this forum and new to the blade collecting. I focus more on documents and coins. But now I have a chance to get these two blades.
Katana and wakizashi from the same maker (I've been told, hey).
Could You be kind enough to help me identify and, maybe, price them?


The katana
The hilt of katana


The tip of the blade


The wakizashi



 
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They look like an inexpensive daisho.

Hamon is wire brushed, and fake.
Samegawa is fake, which is rather sad to be honest since samegawa is inexpensive in China.
Fittings are not fitted to the nakago what so ever, and look of poor quality (little details).

Make will be impossible to identify since any katana coming from China will not be marked or sincerely signed (honest signatures). But for sure it is NOT any of the known manufacturers.

I will not go into giving any estimates.
 
+1 to everything Luis G. posted. Looks like cheap decorative wallhangers... ballpark guess maybe $35 - $40 for the set. Not bad if the intended purpose is for decoration only.

Katana also doesn't have a tsuka-side seppa and only a forward mekugi; taking into account everything else (fake hamon, fake samegawa, cheap fittings), there's no way it has a custom fit tsuka that can be safe with one mekugi.
 
scottkane said:
+1 to everything Luis G. posted. Looks like cheap decorative wallhangers... ballpark guess maybe $35 - $40 for the set. Not bad if the intended purpose is for decoration only.

Katana also doesn't have a tsuka-side seppa and only a forward mekugi; taking into account everything else (fake hamon, fake samegawa, cheap fittings), there's no way it has a custom fit tsuka that can be safe with one mekugi.
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Katana's can have seppa's on both top and bottom. Seppa's are washers it is NOT uncommon for nihonto's to have multiples specially old, or ones that are actually used in dojo's.
 
Luis G. said:
Katana's can have seppa's on both top and bottom. Seppa's are washers it is NOT uncommon for nihonto's to have multiples specially old, or ones that are actually used in dojo's.
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I think we're in agreement. I noticed the katana in the pic does not have a bottom or tsuka-side seppa.
 
Those remind me of the Samurai swords you could get from AWMA back in the day. Some of which had Aluminum Alloy blades that were strictly for kata and wall display. I'd be willing to bet all those fittings are cast brass if not pot metal.
 
I think I have the same set or something very close that,as a kid, I saved up for and bought back in the early 80's when seeing those in the big city's knife store set my imagination soaring. I still have the set.
The tsuka is plastic. I don't think these were made even for kata as they aren't particularly light or well balanced and without hi, they aren't that useful for iaido.

They are decorative at best.
 
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