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  1. There is a sword club in NYC that meets on a regular basis. You can take it to one of their meetings and gets opinions. HOME (ny-tokenkai.org)
  2. Where are you located? I assume you would prefer to meet in person, so tell us your general location and we may be able to help ou.
  3. Sorry I have already sold that single

  4. I live near the auction site and had an opportunity to examine the sword in hand. The blade details were obscured by gunk, but no visible flaws. What appears as possible ware in the photos is gunk on the blade. Very nice shape and good length. But the selling price was a reflection of the fact that astute observers identified this as a probable kamakura nagamaki/naginata blade. See Brian's post above. There are hints of great age in the auction photos. The smaller grove evident on the tang is almost gone, polished down, on the blade(shown clearly on one of the photos on the auction site but not reproduced in this post) and one hole on the tang is clearly not drilled but probably chiseled. The tang also showed great age and was much thicker than the blade indicating a significant number of polishes. The condition of the blade obscured most of the hamon but portions were evident showing what appeared to be a gunome pattern. Impossible to say if the hamon is intact on the entire blade. Still the selling price was more than I was willing to pay due to the cost and uncertainty of restoration/shinsa outcome. I have no knowledge of the identity of the successful bidder and whether that bidder inspected the blade in person,. There was only one day of viewing prior to the auction \and when I was there only one other person looked at the blades. One lesson to be learned is that NOTHING can replace a personal inspection of a blade. Auction pictures/descriptions can be very deceptive making a blade appear much better or worse than it actually is.
  5. The real issue is that any "paper" on an unsigned blade is just an opinion, no matter how esteemed the individual or group. Most experienced collectors have seen multiple instances where blades have received different opinions from the same "expert" organization. It is a fairly regular occurrence for a mumei blade attribution to change as it proceeds from one paper to the next at the NBTHK. "Expert" opinion in every field is often wrong and is always subject to change
  6. In the early 1990's I purchased a collection from the widow of an army officer. As I recall he was Colonel Henry. The collection was primarily fittings with several swords. The colonel was deceased but his widow told me that the colonel and other officers were allowed to go into a storage room and remove the fittings from swords. There collection contained about 50 sets of fuchi kashira , a similar number of menuki sets, a few kozuka and kogai but no tsuba. Many of the fuchi kashira still had remnants of the ito. The quality was very mixed, a few quality items but mostly run of the mill. The swords were mounted but of mediocre quality and condition.
  7. Need help with info on this smith tsugusada
  8. Attached are photos of two tangs that I cannot completely translate. Please asist me with the gunto tang and the left column of kanji on the Kanetane. Thanks Dale
  9. As with the mantetsu I posted several days ago, here is another sword that I am helping the owner to translate. Both the signature and the horimno on the sword have stumped me. Thanks in advance for your help
  10. These are all the photos I have. I was asked by the son of the marine who brought some swords home to help him with identification and translation. The mounts are standard army, better grade.
  11. Thanks Steve, no way I ever could have gotten that
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