Stephen

thought we were helping ppl to translate more on there own, fujiwara is easy one to learn as well as saku kore, try a bit harder next time and youll get a warm fuzzy feeling when you learn it on your own.

You might try posting pix here. http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... y.php?f=59 they have ppl who don't mind translating items that are not germane to the forum in which posted.

Yes, the first two is a name of a clan, the last two is on alot of swords you should be able to sort them out, give it another go.

none needed my friend, just being a bit cheeky. as always wating for the pix. thanks for sharing

really cant see from your pix, heres a scan out of the book

I'll PAY shipping. lol please show detail photos when ready, thanks

I think we need a poll, who wants a moratorium on ppl just out and out calling someone's sword gimei? Its getting old.

you need to send me that straight away, ill pay postage after cleaning give us a close up Mr Mills Question does the removal of the patina reduce the value of such a box?

somewhere back in the recesses of the gray matter one Asia comes to mind, may be wrong.

Loading my cannon at Grays back, its just because gendaito are not that old,...in one hundred years I'm certain they will be highly regarded by collectors and shinsa teams, not all, just the quality forged blades. I can just hear back in history folks talking Shinto blades.....dang young fools never be blades like they made them in old days I have collected both. Top dollar for the Emura sold 3200, Nagamitsu sold for 4K to down under. If you had both side by side you would have said they were both by the same hand, I hope before I'm gone some hidden documents come to light to whom was working with who at the time. btw the workman ship on the Nagamitsu was rival to some blades by the Sukesada clan of old.

might have missed something here but let me get my head around this, you can carry a live gun but you have to carry a dummy sword?

just hand one from Joe...no notice

I've had a good look at the blade, hada, hamon with nioi, no doubt in my mind that this was forged ...as in folded and hammered out...not a stamped out machine blade...to me this is one of those blades that's on the fence post, I really don't know why it has a Army stamp on it. The dark hardness at the peak of the hamon puts ones mind into oil quenched I don't think it so in this case. Over my few years on nihonto I can tell you as in life there is no absolutes, each must be measured on its own merits

Nickn don't think it ever had a stamp, lots of gunto without stamps, don't think well ever know the full truth on what was accepted for the war with stamps or if true gendai were some times commissioned then stamped. We have to have the blade in hand to tell, then sometimes its hard, also no cut on dry on this blade being oil quenched.

USPS is my shipper, with out one problem so far, i never use the word weapon or sword, just what it is Japanese Nihonto, wakizashi ect. I even mail to UK with out a hitch as of yet...knock knock on wood.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... tsupported lots of broken links of late, see if the above works. sometimes very hard to judge a blade from photos...we'll most of the time....hamon does have that high point hardness of gendai.

well that one worked. Thanks Carlo

Back to not getting notice for PMs

perhaps it would be best to have the Mods move this to Tosogu?

dont know why in my mind it looks to be a copy of the likes on Omura sans page. maybe im seeing everything as a fake of late.

Swords, tsubas, fakes needs its own section?

Fred I know you mean well but we have had a rash of threads about ebay fakes, eats up alot of space members.

and another one we can close

Thank you Koichi san Dale had not see the Takayama to thread, we showed him it but lacked giving him full trans of his sword...hai domo!