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Those look like the mass produced swords, not the handmade ones. Me thinks goodODave here may be able to point you in the right direction though.
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These are definitely machine made swords. The one with the traditional looking handle is a type 94 Shin Gunto (1935-1945) while the other with the hand guard is an older Kyu-Gunto (pre-1935) army sword. Officers were expected to purchase their own equipment so someone who was in the service for a long time may very well have had both types of swords. There are millions of these things that were brought back so the only thing that makes them rare is if they're in immaculate condition, which I can't really tell from the quality of the photos.
See what I mean?
That said, officers who came down from Samurai class and had family swords would sometimes change out the machine made blade for their family sword blade, which is why you will see both machine made blades and antique blades in these things. They were optimistic as hell so they had no inkling they would ever lose such an important family heirloom. You can tell (sometimes) if the blade has a temper line along the edge, and definitely if there are etchings on the tang, where the sword maker would put his signature. If you have one of these swords, it adds a couple thousand to the value, but I'm suspecting your Kyu-Gunto won't be a hand made blade though because there should be a hole in the handle for the peg that holds the blade into the grip.
As for value, all I can tell you is that at the last auction I've seen, an unremarkable Kyu-Gunto (machine made blade in good condition) went for around a thousand dollars. It was probably worth more, but realistically, if something is worth five thousand dollars but nobody wants to pay more than $500 for it, then in my mind it's only worth $500 regardless of what the "experts" say. That goes for any collectable being sold, I suppose.
You should try and take better photos and post them over to the fine people at Wehrmacht Awards. Those guys collect ANYTHING, even weird crap like WWII German army garbage bags.