{"id":4179,"date":"2023-08-22T23:21:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2023-08-22T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:21:49","slug":"new-gunto-from-blades-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/new-gunto-from-blades-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gunto from Blades of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We already sold 2 of the 4 antique swords on offer from our friends at Blades of Japan earlier this month, and the last 2 (consisting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product1300.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product1300.html\">$1875 Pirate O-Wakizashi<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product1301.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product1301.html\">$6250 Daisho set with original fittings<\/a>) will actually be withdrawn from sale by the end of the month if no one decides to snap them up..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we just added a new quite rare type 3 Gunto &#8211; a true beast of a blade made in 1944 that had given up all pretenses of ornamentation and was designed to be a combat monster of a sword..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/product1309.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/media\/bladesofjapan\/ss_size3\/614-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Signed by the wartime sword smith Tsutsui Kiyokane with a very tight and attractive choji hamon, it would cost a small fortune if it was fully restored and papered, but as it is can be snapped up for just $2734.37 if you are fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Definitely worth a closer look by anyone interested in military history and Japanese antique blades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already sold 2 of the 4 antique swords on offer from our friends at Blades of Japan earlier this month, and the last 2 (consisting of the $1875 Pirate O-Wakizashi and the $6250 Daisho set with original fittings) will actually be withdrawn from sale by the end of the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/new-gunto-from-blades-of-japan\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}