Original Early 17th Century Japanese Wakizashi Short Sword with Handmade Blade, Gold Inlaid Fittings and Scabbard Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly Really a great temper line

Really a great temper line here

The bayonet has a has a very nice custom etched nickel plated blade

The blade has very substantial stamped Maker's marking in cyrillic on the left side and has three fullers of various sizes running much of it's almost 32" length

The field-modified J1N1-C KAI shot down two B-17s of 43rd Bomb Group attacking air bases around Rabaul on 21 May 1943

The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces

Original Early 17th Century Japanese Wakizashi Short Sword with Handmade Blade, Gold Inlaid Fittings and Scabbard Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly Really a great temper lineOriginal Item: Only One Available. Wakizashi ( "side inserted companion sword") is a general term for a sword with an edge between one and two shaku long (30 cm and 60 cm), predominantly made after 1600. Generally it is the short blade that accompanies a katana in the traditional samurai daisho pairing of swords, but may be worn by classes other than the samurai as a single blade, also worn edge up as the katana. This example dates from the very early