I think that I will post the "story" which was now told to me by the seller who told me that the bolo was a WWII bringback from his great uncle.
This is the story my father was told by my Great Uncle Harry Buck. Harry was a Marine stationed on the Phillipines in WWII. My father recalls there were ten marines out on patrol and were ambushed by some Japanese. They had a fire fight for some time and the marines ended up killing most of the Japanese. The bolo was taken of a Japanese officer who had been killed in the firefight. It became a war trophy for my great uncle who gave it to my dad. I have no idea of the year but it was in the thick of things in WWII.
If the story is true like this I don't know but it seems believable that the bolo is from time of WWII. But want to post this story as well.
Regards,
Detlef
Last edited by Sajen; 9th February 2012 at 05:20 PM.
Reason: bad english writing from the seller!
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