WW2 Katana question

[Kristoffer Petersson]

Hi, first time writer here, my name is Kristoffer and I live in Sweden.
20 years ago i bought two older swords from an swedish auction site. Seller said ww2 gunto swords.

Put them in storage until now, put them for display in our livingroom and my kids started to ask questions about the swords that I could’nt answer.

So I’m asking the expertise here, could anyone shed some light over these swords

Thanks in advance.

Follow link to see pictures. If something vital is missing in the photos -just let me know and I’ll take more

Katana?

Two swords, unknown origin.

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[Sigp210]

Very poor Chinese fakes unfortunately. Very little in common with real Japanese swords and not very old.
Common to see this sort of fake, they have been doing them for decades.

 

[Kragnut]

What SigP210 said. Something like 98% of WW2 Japanese swords are at least partially machine made from modern solid bar stock. Even most of the ones with a real hamon and sharpened with a convex edge were still made from solid steel barstock. There were some real folded hand forged blades made from 1933-1945 but they are scarce and each blade must be judged on its own merit. Real Japanese Nihonto with folded blades have a pattern thats much finer and more linear, and while there are many patterns, none of them will have huge whorls like western damascus.