Hermann Historica

[CSM101]

Antique Arms and Armor 15.11.2019. A lot of tsuba. Best way is you start with page 128:

 

https://www.hermann-historica.de/upload/80/A80-AW/

 

Uwe G.

[vajo]

Uwe will you be there?

[CSM101]

I don´t know. It used to be a 30 sec. walk. But since they moved their location...

 

Will you be there?

 

 

Uwe G.

[vajo]

I don't think. There are only 3 Tsuba i would be interested, but i think they will be go high and the starting price is not low.

[Stephen]

Lol way i see them ther is only three or five i dont like. Lucky im not a rich man. Id have so much more stuff.

[Brian]

I was also thinking that there isn't a lot there that I would kick out of bed.
I'd be happy with most of it.
Mind you...looking through that entire auction catalog of all the arms available, I constantly feel like I should just chuck in the towel on arms collecting. Every item is way better than anything I have owned. Sigh.

[CSM101]

In a few days there will be a better online-catalogue. So you can zoom in for details.

 

I made only a few photos for my personel tsuba archive. Enjoy!

 

Uwe G.

[Stephen]

I have a crane and waves tsuba...to have one with that quality would be the bees knees.

[paulb]

Brian

It is a fact for all collecting that there is always something out of reach. I have lusted after so many pieces that I could never hope to include in a collection that I have lost count. At the DTI a few years ago I came away with exactly the same frustration you describe and thought it was time to move on to something else.

Thankfully I didn't. If I had I would have missed out on hours of pleasure looking at what I have in detail.

A gardening friend of mine once said to me

"just because you see some prize blooms at a show that are better than yours you don't go home and dig up what you have grown. You stop and enjoy them for what they are."

Same is true for swords or anything else they may not be an ultimate masterpiece but they can still be damn good!

[vajo]

Old german proverb

"The neighbor's grass is always greener than your own".

[Peter Bleed]

This is a bit beyond what I regularly encounter in my retirement home! There is an item I would like to take a run at. I have not history with this firm but is someone from the NMB going to be there and could someone carry a bid?

 

Peter

[Alex A]

 

It is a fact for all collecting that there is always something out of reach. 

 

Think this is the reason most of us are still interested.

[Brian]

That is true Paul. But sometimes it feels like you have gone to a flower show, and discovered that all you have at home are weeds

[Ganko]

Wow,some fantastic high quality items there. I am drooling.

[paulb]

thats true Brian but in this modern new age re-invented hippy world growing weeds is good!

[Surfson]

I can definitely find several that I would like to bid on, and in general, it is a nice collection.  Please send us the link when the better online catalog comes out.  I would like to see them up close.   Is it easy to bid and ship from Germany if one lives in the US?   

[Ken-Hawaii]

 

Is it easy to bid and ship from Germany if one lives in the US? 

Just the question I was going to ask. Bidding is often easy, but getting a won item shipped safely can be a real hassle.

[terminus]

I’ve been saving up a half a year to fight for that crane tsuba Uwe ????. Hope it will be enough lol.

 

Already bought this book. Can’t wait to see some higher res photos once it arrives.

 

Btw, is this auction online or do I have to be there physically?

[Greg F]

Some very nice tsuba there. On page 176 the habaki on the wakizashi is very ornate.

 

Greg

[Peter Bleed]

A couple of of more ore less specific items have been mentioned. And I really don't think that that I will make a run at either of the "Japanese" items that are attracting my attention, so let me say that folks might be interested in items 3815  and 3790

Peter

[Vermithrax16]

There is not one (Nihonto wise) I would bid one save one, the possible Teruaki everyone loves. Would think Bavarian Industrialists would get better access to better stuff. 

[francois2605]

This catalog contains a lot of really nice tsubas. The quality is much higher than what I've seen so far in french auctions.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Again, are there any notes on shipping an item, once it's won?

[Guido]

Again, are there any notes on shipping an item, once it's won?

 

 

If I understand the “terms & conditions” on their homepage correctly, they do ship worldwide. To be on the safe side, you might want to send them an e-mail.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Thanks, Guido. If I had seen an English translation, I might have thought about doing that, but assumed everything was in German.

[francois2605]

Ken, if you download the PDF of the catalog (253 MB), you'll find the "conditions of sale" (in english) in pages 30 and 31. 

[Ken-Hawaii]

Thanks, Francoise. I had paged right over those pages. Did you happen to notice if they accept PayPal? I didn't see anything specific to payment methods. In fact, I couldn't find any specifics on payment, other than an anonymous reference to credit cards.

[francois2605]

Apparently they do.

 

Login onto their website, then "Your account", "Your data", "Payment methods". You'll find 4 options:

- Credit card

- Paid in advance

- Pay in cash on collection

- Paypal

[Ken-Hawaii]

I may be there, but everything is in German! I'm signed up, but am puzzling my way through what I'm seeing. Amazed that there are no choices for other languages.

[francois2605]

You should be able to switch language at the top of the screen.

 

Can you see this ?

 

 

Edit: This is the link to the page.