Stephen

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!

would someone give Dale the full translation? mainly we know its Masahiro but which togi does it say and the rest, thanks for your help.

thanks John, not mine i just turned it right side up

i still cant understand why this thread is getting so much time, not nihonto, we all know the crap is out there, why are we talking about it here?

so we dont have to turn upside down first kanji hiro?

Grandma said if you dont have anything good to say dont say anything at all.

famous last words dont drink and post hic

bubbles in the bath tube

bet with out looking this thread has alot to do with your sword. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4523&hilit=takayama+to ps sneeked a peak yep i was right. Takayama to' have fun going thu this thread