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  • Birthday 08/02/1955

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    I have been collecting nihonto since I was about 15 years old . In the days before the internet I was able to purchase a lot of swords from soldiers who bought them home from the war. Of course most of these were of pretty low quality but the occasional gem did pop out .I like quality blades in quality mounts but these are pretty hard to come by.
    I have probably handled several thousand swords over the years and have owned a couple of hundred . I currently have about fifty in my collection.
    My collecting highlight has been purchasing and identifying the Norishige katana which is one of the missing Japanese National treasures and then having my article on the sword translated into Japanese by the NBTHK and published in their journal

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  1. Ian B3HR2UH
    Back in the 1970's when I was buying swords off returned soldiers I saw about four of these in one night . I had no interest in them and made no offers . I guess I could have purchased half of them for twenty dollars each . I feel pretty foolish in hindsight .
  2. Ian B3HR2UH
    Hi Hamish , not a "Festing " sword I am afraid but one of my tsuba was sold at this auction .
  3. Ian B3HR2UH
    Does anyone have the results sheet for Sothebys sale on the 23rd of June 1982 that they could scan and send to me ? Thanks Ian Brooks
  4. Ian B3HR2UH
    I am somewhat skeptical that these are a real daisho and not two similarly themed pieces put together . The workmanship on one looks better than on the other .
  5. Ian B3HR2UH
    Hi Thomas,I have the attached piece which I believe is a gardeners knife or Nata .The blade has a reverse curve in that the cutting edge is on the concave side . I suspect yours is a Japanese gardening implement as well. Ian brooks
  6. Ian B3HR2UH
    Hi Hamish , it looks like a stylised dragon wrapped around a ken . Ian
  7. Ian B3HR2UH
    A collector out here had a good looking daisho pair in " shakudo " nanako with mon on them . To me, on a cursory inspection , they looked good but he submitted them to shinsa and they failed being rejected as modern cast pieces . The coloring on the clouds of this piece looks odd to me . Ian Brooks
  8. Ian B3HR2UH
    I have the attached Kai gunto and the ito on it is completely original so such pieces do exist . However such light binding is highly unusual and with the other red flags it should add up to a warning to avoid the sword . The kabuto gane on the originals generally are made of one metal to which the copper flower parts are soldered ( ? ) on . You can see this on the photo of my piece . The one you are being offered seems to be just the one metal which is I think a bit odd . I wait for others to howl me down on this and show me their pieces where just the one metal is used for the kabuto gane
  9. Ian B3HR2UH
    I would be very suspicious of this piece . As Brian says the habaki is way off and a few other bits raise red flags for me . These coupled with the fact that the other piece the seller has is a Chinese fake leads me to say don't go near it unless you see photos of the nakago
  10. Ian B3HR2UH
    With pictures being submitted by attorneys it looks like you are wanting to sell this and are picking our brains for information ?
  11. Ian B3HR2UH
    This Soten , which is owned by Mishina Kenji , is pictured in the Kokusai Tosogu Kai 8th Exhibition and is described as one Soten's best . I thought it was fantstic and decided to post a copy . Makes you wonder where the others fit into the scheme of things when you see something like this one
  12. Ian B3HR2UH
    The mei / signature is so recently cut that the blade is probably gendai / showa period but certainly no earlier than shin shinto
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    Ian B3HR2UH replied to Yves55's topic in Tosogu

    An octopus on one of my tanto
  14. Ian B3HR2UH
    Absolutely NO chance that this is genuine. My strong guess is that it is a showa era fake .
  15. Ian B3HR2UH
    Hi Vincent , to be very blunt , the piece is a junker which you will probably soon tire of . It has had the stamp removed and been mounted up in crummy old mounts to deceive people into thinking that it is a genuine old Edo period sword .There are much better pieces available out there some of which will not break the bank .
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