maris

I don't know if this is in the right place but here a tiny w stamp wich is on a unsigned sword.

Mr Wilson, thanks for your answer. Yes the cross hatching has brass inlay. I'll put on a picture with a better vieuw of it. I was wondering if the tsuba could be from the same time period as the blade it is on. The mei on the blade is could be Bizen kuni ju Osafune Sukesada. I am not sure if that is correct because it's all very new to me but I'm trying. Then of course I'll have to try and find out wich of the many Sukesada's comes close. I hope someone can tell me if I read this mei correct. Thanks, Maris.

hello to you all, I'm new to this and as I read in all of the messages on this board ( and i've read them all) it is appriciated that someone does a search to see what he can find before asking questions and that you do not look for the sword but the sword finds you when the time is right. So here I am not looking for any swords of all but given three. And searching the net to see what has been given to me I discoverd a new( but very difficult) world. I would like to ask you something now just to see if I'm heading in the right direction. One of the swords has this tsuba. As far as I can find out so far it could be a heianjo-zogan tsuba with a hira zogan diaper design and it has sekigane at the kozuka hitsuana. Am I somewhere near or looking in a wrong direction? I would like to thank you if you would give me a hint how I'm doing so far. thanks very much and if there are some wrong words in my english, please forgive me. I'm dutch. Maris Temminck.