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old short sword ?

Submitted by dusty1234 on Wed, 2018-10-03 02:27

this really old short sword, 14 and seven eights, from tip to notch, i took a pic of the mune looks like some slash marks on it , the reason i say this the block on the right they all look alike, i just wanted to see if you all have seen this or do you think its just damage, i no there is damage to, but there seems something about these where a lot of them look the same... thanks

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#1Submitted by dusty1234 on Wed, 2018-10-03 02:31.

zoom in

zoom in the see uniformity
#2Submitted by dusty1234 on Mon, 2018-10-08 19:16.

anybody no anything

anybody no anything
#3Submitted by Looper on Tue, 2018-10-09 09:22.

Parrying

To me they look like marks left from using the back of the blade to parry. I don't know how common this would be with nihonto but I have an asian dagger with very similar marks on the back edge.
#4Submitted by dusty1234 on Tue, 2018-10-09 21:32.

yea it could be, its funny

yea it could be, its funny most of them is just on the left sided of the mune, which coujd mean a right handed person maybe, the sword feels weighted for a right hand swing im by no means a expert, thanks