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Incredible offering, Ray!

Wonder where they are/went.

Thanks guys. Hopefully I can get more up soon. These are all long, early, by top smiths, and 2 are in full, fresh, pro polish. The other not in fresh polish is in mint as found, war-time condition.

Here’s a few I’ve gotten around to listing. Let me know if you have any questions. I have a few more I’ll post when time permits. 1. Kajiyama Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 2. Kotani Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 3. Tomita Sukehiro - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY

I recently auctioned one with no # on the saya in decent shape, hammer price was a whopping $1800 or so. 🤦‍♂️

Congrats! Properly restore that bad boy and bring it back to life.

1. Maybe. If it fits well then definitely. Hard to mix and match blades and saya. 2. Don’t know, not something that’d interest me anyways. 3. Kanehide was a seki smith and many of the ones I’ve owned and seen throughout the years had small seki stamp in addition the to the star stamp. always liked the Kanehide blades I’ve seen, minus they were usually shorter. I’d still have one if the nagasa were >= 27”.

You could submit it to shinsa at the April Chicago sword show as is. If it got a nice attribution and/or rating in Chicago you could consider restoring and submitting to NBTHK in Japan.

You can buy high end gendaito in that range in full polish with papers. Japanese sites are best bet atm given the advantageous exchange rates. Just be careful as they’re flooded with gimei gendai.

Possibly Rai Kunimitsu.

I had one a year to two ago that was in Kyu-gunto mounts, kogarasu maru, and 27"+ nagasa. It had his imperial artisan signature too. I believe it was one of the swords in Slough's now that I think about it.

Hoping stuff submitted in June is ready for October’s Juyo session (assuming the June items got TH). Seems like it’s not going to quite make it or be cutting it very close.

That seller is a member here. He gets good stuff. Also has good stuff for cutting and martial arts. I’ve got rare naval mounts posted fs that are mint but the showato blade needs to be polished as another option to consider. 😄

Nice one, Gary, well you seem to post a lot of nice ones! What kind of activity is in the hamon?

Please excuse the poor photography.