kissakai

Strange

It's opened to other viewers

Thanks for sharing David

Good job - Now it needs to age gracefully

It is Denison not Denison so not the museum

I live only a few miles from Coventry so more digging required

Close but no banana

Interesting and it is Dennison but no first name

I'm looking at some items and the 'Dennison' collection can up

I tried a search but found nothing

Who was he?

The black and white image in the Church collection is better than I thought but I know you have this book

Excellent and detailed response - thanks

I agree with comments above but I'm not sure about making an offer

I would go in with say $100 which would be rejected and quite rightly so!

My low offer may annoy the seller so not a good start

Then we do the 'dance' until a value is agreed

An observation about selling

The best sale is when both parties arrive at a price that is agreeable to them both so in effect both parties win

Hi Steve

You don't need Dropbox installed to open this link

Let me know what happens when you open this link

https://www.dropbox....j30r0yy5jvi4t0v&dl=0

It may ask you to install the Dropbox App

You should able to ignore this request and download this file

Good Luck

Grev

This should work as it's a dropbox file as it's 27 meg

Maybe there is another way to get it to you

I saw this in hand and it is stunning

The reflection in the water takes your breath away but so difficult to photo. Well done Bob

Been waiting for for Bob to post this one

Thanks Christian

This and the preceding replies will help me a lot. I should be able to learn more from a blade in hand than in books

Shame I don't have someone close to me to discuss this

Grev

Thanks Brian

Always nice to get some positive feedback

Thanks Kirill

It all helps as I have the blade in hand

I can check out your blade details info

Once this has sunk in I may try posting a different blade

Any more help/advice?

Thanks Krill

This is what I was hoping for

I can compare the comment by looking at my blade in hand

Any more pointers?

Where do you see the utsuri?

My knowledge of blades is minimal but I try

I have some decent books but they didn't help much so I must be a slow learner

What do these images tell me?

If anyone wants a guess at the school please have a go. It is a very well known school

Polished in Japan with new shirasaya and habaki and also papered

I've looked it every day for a week but see very little but for one day only the area above the hamon 'popped' and I saw a lot more

I see very little in the hamon area

Any pointers would be appreciated

A bit more

昭和, Shōwa 1926 +37 -1

I'll make a note of the kanji as a reference

Thanks

Anything about a school or date which I assume to be Edo

Image

Any help with these old papers would be helpful

I must learn some of these paper kanji characters