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Frank Kruse

Frank Kruse

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Hi Everyone,

I had a customer bring in a small Katana sword that his father passed down to him. He said his father acquired it during WWII. Do any of you know where I can send pictures to, to get some information and maybe a value of it. It does have a couple markings under the tsuka. Very nice piece.
 

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yeah, No. I tried to get by their stupid security check when creating a login. utterly ridiculous
 
Frank Kruse said:
yeah, No. I tried to get by their stupid security check when creating a login. utterly ridiculous
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If i knew what nihonto meant, I wouldn't need to join the forum to see. Then matching all the pictures with a category, plain ridiculous... sorry about my rant.
 
If you don't know what Nihonto means, you are correct - you shouldn't be there. Try Google.
The security check is a standard bot blocker (found all over the 'net).
 
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Best I can do mate, interested to see where it goes!
 
Rich S said:
If you don't know what Nihonto means, you are correct - you shouldn't be there. Try Google.
The security check is a standard bot blocker (found all over the 'net).
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No, the security check is not standard, most security check don't ask you to translate japanese. When I put in the meaning of nihonto, it said I failed. Thats not standard. Most security checks to ask you to match a bunch of pictures with categories, then ask you to translate japanese on top of that, thats not standard. Captcha is somewhat standard when you have to select all pictures of the fire hydrants or stop lights or cars . Their bot checker is a little extreme.
 
In "Craft of the Japanese Sword" there is a section on appraising swords. I don't know if it will help you. It does look like a makers mark.
 
Frank Kruse said:
No, the security check is not standard, most security check don't ask you to translate japanese. When I put in the meaning of nihonto, it said I failed. Thats not standard. Most security checks to ask you to match a bunch of pictures with categories, then ask you to translate japanese on top of that, thats not standard. Captcha is somewhat standard when you have to select all pictures of the fire hydrants or stop lights or cars . Their bot checker is a little extreme.
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As Rich said, if you don't know what Nihonto means and can't spend the 10 seconds Googling it, then you likely don't belong there. It's meant to keep spammers and undesirables out. Apparently it works.
Without it, it is rapidly filled with junk posts and spam. And considering it's called the Nihonto Messageboard, and clearly deals with Japanese swords, most 6 year olds work out it means Japanese sword. Any of 16 different spelling and punctuation variations of that will succeed. You have to try fairly hard to fail.
As for the capcha, it's built into the software...which is one of the most highly regarded software packages out there. No worries...there's always BF if you can't get past the registration unlike the other few guys every day.
Someone here will eventually assist.

PS - That is a number, and wasn't signed traditionally like any real sword. Wasn't carved the correct way either by chisels. Dubious.
Chance the whole thing is fake. Look of the nakago and yasurime look wrong. You may have to look those terms up too.
 
Sigp210 said:
As Rich said, if you don't know what Nihonto means and can't spend the 10 seconds Googling it, then you likely don't belong there. It's meant to keep spammers and undesirables out. Apparently it works.
Without it, it is rapidly filled with junk posts and spam. And considering it's called the Nihonto Messageboard, and clearly deals with Japanese swords, most 6 year olds work out it means Japanese sword. Any of 16 different spelling and punctuation variations of that will succeed. You have to try fairly hard to fail.
As for the capcha, it's built into the software...which is one of the most highly regarded software packages out there. No worries...there's always BF if you can't get past the registration unlike the other few guys every day.
Someone here will eventually assist.

PS - That is a number, and wasn't signed traditionally like any real sword. Wasn't carved the correct way either by chisels. Dubious.
Chance the whole thing is fake. Look of the nakago and yasurime look wrong. You may have to look those terms up too.
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Would that be correct of the mass produced WWII Katanas (which is what I believe it is) which fits the background of it?
 
Mass produced, machine made swords of WW II era are NOT Nihonto. To collectors Nihonto means a traditionally made sword. There is a sub forum for WW II machine made swords on Nihonto Message Board for those folks who collect them. But remember, there were all types of swords produced during the WW II era.
Rich
 
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