tsuba and sword handle ID

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Can you guys help ID either this handle or this tsuba? Handle is 9.25" long. Tsuba is 3" x 2.5"

thanks!

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Hello, the handle "tsuka" appears to be a standard army officers or gunto tsuka. The tsuba is not a standard gunto tsuba. It appears to be a battlefield made tsuba or possibbly a tsuba from a late war sword, such as the 1944 model gunto, commonly and wrongly referred to as the marine model sword.
 
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