Original 15th - 16th Century Japanese Wakizashi Short Sword with Handmade Blade & Lacquered Scabbard Hotchkiss .303 Musket is in good overall

Musket is in good overall condition

on the 12th

The wood stocks are completely inlaid with silver wire with each having over 50 almond shaped pink sea corral inlays

Research reveals that serial number 83517 dates to year of manufacture of 1898

Later scabbards had steel clips which could be used on either a belt or a boot

Original 15th - 16th Century Japanese Wakizashi Short Sword with Handmade Blade & Lacquered Scabbard Hotchkiss .303 Musket is in good overallOriginal 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. Here we have a wonderful example in