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100% agree with Michael It will only have this patina once

Nice gesture I raise to $70

I'd do some research first as you may only have the one chance to see them in hand I see nothing wrong with your selection but check out No14, possibly Kaka . Generally standard tsuba Hopefully some will translate the kanji for No4

If you search for this topic there are numerous ways of removing a tsuka Then get someone to split the tsuka and a refit

It's been around 6 months since I last posted this link to my tsuba sale Please have a look and let me know if any are of interest using this link: https://1drv.ms/b/c/...PRH9ul7uOPA?e=vwfI53 Grev

Having just bought the Hallam tsuba from the NMB I wondered about his other students I now have tsuba from: Ford Hallam Marcus Chambers Kevin Adams Marcus and Kevin where taught my Ford Other modern tsuba in my collection are from: Jibril Donaghey. Mei Lee Graham Hanley (a commission) Manuel Coden (a commission) Does anyone know of the contact details of Fords students who make and sell tsuba? I seemed to have lost contact with Kevin Adams and I'd like to get back in touch with him, so if anyone can help with this it would be appreciated Grev

Some very good points made. This may only help with large collections as a school suggests a style so these can be put in some sort of order Even Namban can be easily misclassified

Thanks Mauro It looks like a match to me especially the right hand mei Good idea about looking for similar tsuba designs

Hi I appear to have made an error with this difficult to read translation Tomotsugu Chohan (Choshu Nakai) 友次 長藩 Something closer may be Tomonobu 友信 Any help would be appreciated

I wondered why some posts when opened go to the last post but others start at the first post I like many others look at the 'joke' post but it always starts at the first post which is annoying (well it is to me)

I don't think I have to say but would like to add that the Arthur tsuba I bought was at a good price and delivery was very quick - thanks

I enjoyed this post and wondered how this classification works with tsuba

Initially put a piece of leather around the crack then tightly wrap the saya and ensure the blade moves in and out the saya without touching the blade If all OK I'd carefully glue it together with rice glue although other may have a better alternative glue. Lewis's reply came in as I was posting my post!

Is this a possibility 哉 sai A bit above my pay grade

Thanks for finding my previous post. I should know how to do this

T506 This was a recent buy and seller also gave me some other info which is shown Umetada 埋忠 Bunsai 11th year 1821 文政 十一 年 Sanshoshi Norihide 三省子 Haynes 就栄 H06917.0 Oku Sendai Katsuyuki jū 奥仙 田 勝 之 庄 Une Shochu 雲遊 田 was queried by a friend as not being the norm for 'dai'

That is making more sense to me now - thanks

Thanks Jean and I agree 100% Still leaves this niggle Again, assuming I have the correct kanji I’d like to know why Jirotaro is on the front of this tsuba and not joined with the maker’s name It way be just on a whim and something I've not seen before

1930M636 Jirotaro 次郎 Naokatsu 直勝 Nobuie 信家 utsushi 寫kore 之. H06661.0 Again, assuming I have the correct kanji I’d like to know why Jirotaro is on the front of this tsuba and not joined with the maker’s name

T398 Choshu 長州 Hagi 萩 ju 住 Naka(i) 中 Tomomitsu 智光 Assuming I have the correct kanji, I’d like to know the context/meaning of 中

Thanks Piers and I'll try to find some mei examples for this maker

I thought I'd try again with this request so I have decided to spit this post up a bit T363 Atsuyoshi 乃吉 carved 彫 this I have a query about this kanji 吉 as it doesn’t seem right for Atsuyoshi

I like what Sam says and I'd like to throw Kanayama into the selection Nice tsuba

Hi JJ It's all a learning curve so have a look at some Japanese examples to help choose your next sword

I wonder if I should have split this into three separate posts As I've five queries in total I'd didn't want to put a a load of posts over a short period I'd appreciate any views on the best way to add this type of post