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The actual patina is dark green with patches of green dusty oxidation in a few areas. It measures 74.7 mm high by 74.8 mm wide. About 3.8-3.9 rim, 3.3 mm-3.5 mm seppa dai. 

 

I am not knowledgeable enough to explain the two completely different textures on each side:  One side seemingly  cast, and the other possibly cast the same way, and then scraped down,leaving the low spots to look like pits of corrosion (my guess-not fact). 

 

The Inner walls of the hitsu-ana are relatively clean, and old enough to display one or two tiny corrosion bumps,  and it doesn't appear that any substantial corrosion from the surface (in the off chance it is corrosion) leads into them. In other words the hitsu-ana appear to my eyes as having been cut after the mottled surfaces were already there.

 

I'm at a loss to explain the tsuba being different on both sides,  except maybe it was in the process of being completed when it went into service? maybe idle hands between battles decided to abrade it on something?, or maybe it is the result something else....

Someone here will know, as they always  do!  Thanks for taking the time to look,

 

Regards, Johnnyi

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Hi Grey. The oldest ones were very tiny. Here's a nice table that I understand one of the members posted a few years back showing the earliest,   (please, to the maker of this table, forgive me for forgetting your name!)

 

johnnyi

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It sounds like Johnnyi has much of it.

 

Almost certainly an old kinko tsuba modified and probably coated during the 1500s. As he said, one or both of the holes cut later. Sometimes they were just expanded.

Size rules not as codified as they were during the Edo period. Some kogai very flat at the 'earpick' end and kozuka very thin, or resting a bit lower than on Edo koshirae.

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