A Fine & Exquisitely Crafted Japanese Kozuka C.1675 certificate_of_authenticity London Gazette 28 March 1918:

London Gazette 28 March 1918: "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in volunteering to carry a message though shot through the shoulder

By the start of the war

Type Two with Ghost Dates

seven of the nine leather reinforcing rings intact

in construction crews

A Fine & Exquisitely Crafted Japanese Kozuka C.1675 certificate_of_authenticity London Gazette 28 March 1918:Steel blade, magnetic, with a semi sharp edge and a very sharp tip, Japanese markings on the blade's obverse, the blade measuring 108 mm in length. Handle in blackened bronze, the obverse illustrating two fish, the front one silvered, the other fish in bronze with a gold coloured gilt, both fish on a pebbled background, the knife measuring 201 mm in length. Contact marks on the blade, silvering and gold gilt wear evident on the fish, blackening wear