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Surley if a member is not English they could begin the post in their own language with a translation to English as the second part of the post Any replies could be also bi-lingual

I'd like to attend Will tickets be allocated as per reply or first come first served when tickets become available?

I've had work done by John and it was always to my satification

Sun rays, Genji wheel?

WOW So nice to see it fitted to a sword - it comes alive If I knew it would look that good I'd have asked more!!!!!!!!

That is one nice set I'd like to own I wonder what the final price will be

T86, T235 and T252 have been sold

T525 sold I forgot to say PM if you want to pay by bank transfer so there will be no PayPal (PP) fees If you use PP please pay as 'friends' About once a week I will delete any sold items as well as adding a note here

Hi I have created my second tsuba for sale catalogue with a price listing The link below will enable you to see all the available tsuba https://www.dropbox.com/s/fakjukzmer8vmla/NMB%20listing.pdf?dl=0 Would you please read the first page before you raise any queries Nothing in the PDF is copyrighted so I’m happy for anyone to keep a copy or ideally pass a copy to any other interested friends or clubs Those that remember my 1st sale will see some changes. There are some of the original tsuba available but the price may be slightly reduced and there are quite a few new tsuba When I asked about a Tanaka or Inaba tsuba I was shocked at the prices but this sale will enable me to buy some of these higher end tsuba to improve my collection As usual there will be a donation to the NMB Grev UK

Hi John When I looked at it earlier I didn't like the nakago ana and wondered why there was no shape to the seppa dai are or even any wear marks I don't think there are enough clues to suggest a school and dating is difficult from images I hope someone else joining in to this post

Hi BaZZa The Wolverhampton museum is onloy a few miles from the Birmingham museum I know they have quite few tsuba When I get chance I want to 'muscle' in on their collection for qa private view because of all the work I've done at the Birmingham museum I wonder who has seem the F/K & menuki collection at the Birmingham museum as I heard they have some stunners

A few weeks ago a sayagaki that was translated by Markus was posted No idea what it cost but it must have been worth every penny Hes helped me no end Highly recommended

A really nice tsuba shown in the previous post that I hadn't seen before This is my 'poem' tsuba and has been shown before I like this one because it took absolutely ages to get translated and was finally done with a NMB member It is faint in the images Edit because I forgot to add the translation Tôku nari chikaku narumi no hama chidori naku koe ni michihi o zo shiru 遠くなりち可久なるみの者ま千鳥 名具音耳満干をぞ志類 The poem goes back to a samurai warrior poet, military tactician, and Buddhist monk Ôta Dôkan (太田道灌), 1432-1486 Prior to a battle Dôkan was sent at night to check the tides, his response are the words on this tsuba: “The distant and the near cries of the plovers on the beach, that is how you know about ebb and flow.”

Thanks Richard G Would have been exactly what I was looking for but as you said the condition is too poor

Hi Stephen Thanks for the offer but I was looking for the more unusual shape rather than size such as below I also have a 'wan' tsuba and one which has cloud like cut outs on the mimi Grev

I'm not sure but I don't think they were added later Rudder would be a good call but why! Apart from some Namban tsuba I've never seen hitsu ana as a design feature

Hi I am thinking about where my tsuba collection goes next In the short term I buying any strange or irregular shaped tsuba I'd prefer to buy from a NMB member rather than being directed to website links

An excellent set of observations that I enjoyed reading I think this approach could be used (on in my case tsuba) to carefully look at every feature to see if the whole is the sum of the parts (features) How many of us have been guilty of wanting to believe so we look at the features to proof our initial conclusion rather than looking at the features to disproof our conclusion Buyer beware

Some really nice sukashi tsuba I would have liked to bid on

Hi I recently bought this from a NMB member and I wondered if anyone knew what the cutouts on the hitsuana are for? I assume the petal shape is just a generic shape rather than a specific flower

I have had some great feedback but this means I'll need to an updated version There are some schoolboy errors and a couple of attributions that may be in error If an attribution is found to be in error it means some major giggling of the pages I expect this to take around a month to update In the meantime I would suggest no one makes a purchase and ?I will notify the NMB when the second version is complete To any NMB members who have bought a copy I will make a free PDF file available I see I have one feedback completed on LuLu - thanks but any more always helps Apologies for errors but it was a big project Grev

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Again - thanks for all your feedback If I may I have one last favour to ask I looked on LuLu and filtered the results just to show tsuba books I was surprised that none of the tsuba books had any reviews and therefore no 'star' rating Would it be possible for those that have purchased the book to add on the LuLu website say a one line review and a star rating I'm sure this would help with sales as when I'm buying anything on-line I look first for the star rating then read the reviews so this I'm sure would help with sales Grev

I forgot to say that in my examples the hitsuana of this type appears to be later than ko Akasaka but as a collector for only a few years I have a s*&! load to learn I hope this makes sense as I been out for a few beers and a game of pool so not firing on all cylinders