Magic ...

[TheGermanBastard]

... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-Katana-signed-Bishu-Osafune-Mitsuhiro/263640333985?hash=item3d62303ea1:g:2JQAAOSwbLZa3ddq

[Jussi Ekholm]

This is the same tachi that is here in the forum. Or was here in the forum, I can't find it anymore...

[PNSSHOGUN]

What's the issue?

[TheGermanBastard]

Yes, Jussi is right. This blade had been offered for sale here in the sales section. There was a black spot in the Hamon. After Ken had inquired about it and asked for further images it turned out that the spot was actually a pretty bad open fukure right in the Hamon. Rather large.

 

Now aside from this blade being Gimei and not matching the workmanship of that smith / school at all - which a potential buyer is welcome to determine - I think it is not right to neither point out nor to show such a bad flaw. The seller is well aware of it. A buyer will not be based on these images and description provided. This is a major Kizu and whoever buys this will not be happy about it uppon arrival.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Ah, of course. Well there you go, hopefully any astute buyer does some research and is aware of our concerns. Personally I generally have had good luck on ebay simply due to doing research and knowing alot of Nihonto are on there for the reasons we see here.