Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets both Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's

both Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia had used radio as a tool to influence the masses long before AH's rise to power

After the Great War these helmets were sold to the Finnish Army and used by the Finns through WW2 the Winter War

With a bore of slightly more than half an inch this little guy surely packed a severe punch back in the day

6th Army patch on left shoulder

but the rest of the traverse and elevation mechanism works great

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets both Mussolini's Italy and Stalin'sOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased directly from a collector, this is a very nice wartime production high grade Japanese officer Katana in the standard pre 1944 Shin Gunto setting. A Gunt (, military sword) is a Japanese sword produced for use by the Japanese army and navy after the end of the samurai era in 1868, when the Meiji Restoration occurred. This is a very nice example, and either saw very little use, or was never issued. The blade