Masamune

When I see it up close I will post more pictures

No we can’t kill it it’s all about study! It’s a study for the rest of your life.

Can we kill this or are newbies learning from it.

Show us the Blade! Maybe it's a really good Chinese fake.

Show us the Blade! Maybe it's a really good Chinese fake.

Wow that tsuba is awsome!

Tamagahane? Modern gendaito?

Oh I didn’t buy anything

The fuchi & kashira are real also signed I thought the tsuba may be real.

The blade I thought was fake but the tsuba is signed looks like Japanese work also a Fuchi & Kashira & kozuka look genuine

What about the tsuba? It’s signed first picture??

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Comments?

I'm real Sanjuro, but dont know about all the speculation here. The sword is not a koto or shinto but a shinsakuto. As for the condition it is in 90% polish. I brought it to a polisher & he showed me the Hagiri. Its like I said before I didnt want my money back as I said Its a nihonto collage fund! Thats about as real as it gets. We all make mistakes & hopefully learn from them. My polisher never polished it. As for Yitzy, I dont make threats just promises, his feedback speaks for itself. It seems I wasen't the only one with a problem sword. All I wanted was some recompence from him. As one catches more flys with honey than vinager.

Hi Adam,

My point is it dosent matter weather he knew or he didnt know the sword has a hagire. If I bought the sword from the original seller I could of returned it as he had a return policy. I hope you dont get burned buying a sword from someone who wont give you the right time of the day. Like I said if you look at his ebay feedback closely you will see CAVEAT EMPTOR! Thats all I'm trying to say here.

Hello Brian, Yes to the first question. Yes to the second question. He knew I was the underbidder because I informed him & emailed him to ask if he wanted to sell at a profit. as to the hagiri I'm shure he knew, otherwise he would not have sold it to me for a two hundred dollar profit. What difference does it make THE SWORD HAS A HAGRI! HE DOES NOT WANT TO DO RIGHT! I didnt want my money back I just wanted recompence. There ARE hard & fast rules Brian, You could work with your customer to make things right... Business is all about working with your customer & keeping him satisfied.

Beware of this ebay seller as he sold me an odachi he bought on ebay with a hagiri. I was the underbidder. He made a profit on me & wouldn't even adjust The price to work it out after I contacted him. His feedback is 100% on ebay but if you look at his feedback you will see what others have posted. $3200.00 dollars. Thats part of my nihonto collage education fund! I didnt notice the crack until my polisher brought it to my attention! He is a member of this forum I hope I never get the chance to meet him personally at a show.

I did say telephone numbers because the mei looked good as did the blade itself.

We will see the telephone numbers on this one! And I dont bid till the last 5 seconds. Sniping is the only way to go.

This looks good to me, Any input form the board?

http://cgi.ebay.com/BEST-Antique-Japane ... 2eb49a3b04

Yes Eric, I get the drift. There is some monkey business going on there.

A very neat study piece, but no returns, an expensive collage tuition. The diasho he has listed looks decent. If I was to play it would be for that.