If I Wasnt Poor

[lonely panet]

there are Akasaka and there are AKASAKA, just wish I wasn't poor.

 

the listing has ended, I posted this to share with the other dreamers

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japanese-SWORD-TSUBA-LISTING-20-TSUBA-FROM-COLLECTION-PAPERED-SIGNED-AKASAKA-/162139279529?hash=item25c04110a9%3Ag%3A5UIAAOSwARZXi5UX&nma=true&si=PFZ8cMcA5O%252FJugi9HvVeTiCMFhQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[Prewar70]

I agree. I am not a tsuba collector, yet, but I love Akasaka and Owari. Open iron work is the bomb.

[Curran]

He is here on NMB.

[lonely panet]

curran,

 

that still dosent help, im still poor

[Geraint]

Dear Hamish.

 

Collecting is the dissonance between taste and income!

 

All the best

[lonely panet]

a very true and important quote Geraint.

 

But im still poor

 

and I wanted it too

[Bazza]

Dear Hamish.

 

Collecting is the dissonance between taste and income!

 

All the best

For some of us it could also be phrased "collecting is the distance between taste and income".  One of my sayings is "If the piece is right the price doesn't matter - within reason".  I exercised this maxim only recently when no one on the Board took up an offer so the piece went to eprey, then was still unsold.  I gritted my teeth and paid the price.  I have no buyer remorse whatsoever, however, my pot is now over-stressed, which brings me back to Hamish's point of view...  I think it was the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes who observed that man's wants are unlimited.  He must have known a Nihonto collector??!!

 

Bestests,

BaZZa.

[Jesper]

If Thomas Hobbes had known a Nihonto collector he might have written less pesimistic about society and the structure of government, appriciating the beauty of art.

 

He may be best know for his depressing statement that life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short (Hobbes, Leviathan, XIII.9). So enjoy life and keep collecting while you can...  

 

About Hobbes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes

 

All the best

 

Jesper

[Jean]

If I were not poor ....the list is too long sigh:

[zburkett]

After many decades of collecting, my only regrets are the things I didn.t buy that I really should have.