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  1. Stephen
    if you have not bought your books yet PM ME posting four Sunday n Ebay.
  2. Stephen
    Congrats to all the mates downunder, good show
  3. Stephen
    if it wasnt so damm cold up there id consider moving, free health care, elder discount...humm....naw to cold bad enough in IOWA!!!
  4. Stephen
    peter i think a light oiling is all you need, IHO just a shirasaya is all for now, the poilsh will tell if you need to go forward. Do a good research on the togi youll want a well trained one for a first calss blade.
  5. Stephen
    please consider taking up another hobby, me thinks you have more $ than cents. your making me dizzy with all this, much more and i might go(wheres the smilies for postal)
  6. Stephen
    Welcome back Simon, have a look around the new board as it has alot going for it. Looking forward to your post :D
  7. Stephen
    Frank & Paul did you look at the saku on the Shigefusa very close to the Shigetsugu, and dont think ive seen any others sign with that stroke count
  8. Stephen
    Aizu ju...so des, Hai domoarigatogozaimasuta Paul sama, in Doc Stiens site under RIKUGUN JUMEI TOSHO SWORDSMITHS they list a Wakabayashi Shigetsugu which is the way Shigefusa signed his first name see (Sloughs pg. 157). I wonder if its the same smith and he used dif, name at dif forges.
  9. Stephen
    this is the other side, whats interesting is this Shigetsugu, looks to have been carved by the same smith that did Shigefusa, a story that may call for looking into. his mirror site works http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/gendai2.htm
  10. Stephen
    you have the first two Showa, i would like to know the first name of this Shigetsugu...yes seen it on ebay.
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    Stephen replied to Stephen's topic in Nihonto

    thanks Brian, were getting closer here in ppl stepping forward, Tim's Kane kanji has three legs to the right and the first to the left, think the one Moriyama-sama posted for you is diff Kanemoto..thanks for showing.
  12. Stephen
    (I was born in '71, so everything back then seems ages ago to me..lol) I got shoes older than that LMAO :lol:
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    Stephen replied to Stephen's topic in Nihonto

    The condition of the nakago looks Koto me me
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    Stephen replied to Stephen's topic in Nihonto

    Hi John the research was in wondering about this board members Ebay auction, don't want to hawk it for Tim but feel that it may be older that what the papers says it is. Hope we don't need to move it to Ebay page but here's the link John in case you want to add it to your collection of Kanemoto, the mounts are a bit much but I like the possibility of what the blade has to offer. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=016
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    Stephen replied to Stephen's topic in Nihonto

    Thanks Jacques bit off this one, maybe it is not as old as i thought, but there were many yes? wanted to do a sid by side but limited to the neuances of the new board.
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    Stephen posted a topic in Nihonto

    Now that ive sold most of the good books im in need of help(you all knew that was coming). Anyone have a clear oshigata of late Koto Kanemoto? esp Noshu Seki ju Kanemoto saku? Many thanks in advance if you can.
  17. Stephen
    Thanks Pete, pray they do you well. :|
  18. Stephen
    Is your name Carlito? Yes they can tell you who they think made your Tanto and when apxx. Id PM Peter to see if you cant get a slot. Please sign your name per the rules. Which Shinsa team may i ask?
  19. Stephen
    looks like it would be a good project, too bad one cant see it in hand to look for kizu...btw looks to me more of a wak than tanto.
  20. Stephen
    very very hard to come by, the buy it now is a bit high but i think they go for more at shows now, is that so Gray or Mark? anyway good luck! http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-Sword-Engl ... dZViewItem
  21. Stephen
    not a brit but ill give it as always being a Tanto, do you have The Connoisseurs book of Japanese Swords, it will show you many styles of Tantos Ko-wakazashis, i have one for sale on in the forsale page, check it out. OK plug is over back to over the pond.
  22. Stephen
    rotated the file for you...kanekado check link http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/kanekado.jpg
  23. Stephen
    pete i think its Nagayuki, think the date starts with Kei? looks older than the 1800s IMO,,,
  24. Stephen
    I've seen a lot of tags that was thought to be surrender tags, if fact there transportation tags, they did a lot of traveling on rail ways guess they had to store them for the trip.
  25. Stephen
    good point Bugs
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