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  1. Thanks guys. Hopefully I can get more up soon. These are all long, early, by top smiths, and 2 are in full, fresh, pro polish. The other not in fresh polish is in mint as found, war-time condition.
  2. Here’s a few I’ve gotten around to listing. Let me know if you have any questions. I have a few more I’ll post when time permits. 1. Kajiyama Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 2. Kotani Yasunori - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY 3. Tomita Sukehiro - https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY
  3. I recently auctioned one with no # on the saya in decent shape, hammer price was a whopping $1800 or so. 🤦‍♂️
  4. reeder

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    Congrats! Properly restore that bad boy and bring it back to life.
  5. 1. Maybe. If it fits well then definitely. Hard to mix and match blades and saya. 2. Don’t know, not something that’d interest me anyways. 3. Kanehide was a seki smith and many of the ones I’ve owned and seen throughout the years had small seki stamp in addition the to the star stamp. always liked the Kanehide blades I’ve seen, minus they were usually shorter. I’d still have one if the nagasa were >= 27”.
  6. You could submit it to shinsa at the April Chicago sword show as is. If it got a nice attribution and/or rating in Chicago you could consider restoring and submitting to NBTHK in Japan.
  7. You can buy high end gendaito in that range in full polish with papers. Japanese sites are best bet atm given the advantageous exchange rates. Just be careful as they’re flooded with gimei gendai.
  8. I had one a year to two ago that was in Kyu-gunto mounts, kogarasu maru, and 27"+ nagasa. It had his imperial artisan signature too. I believe it was one of the swords in Slough's now that I think about it.
  9. Hoping stuff submitted in June is ready for October’s Juyo session (assuming the June items got TH). Seems like it’s not going to quite make it or be cutting it very close.
  10. That seller is a member here. He gets good stuff. Also has good stuff for cutting and martial arts. I’ve got rare naval mounts posted fs that are mint but the showato blade needs to be polished as another option to consider. 😄
  11. Nice one, Gary, well you seem to post a lot of nice ones! What kind of activity is in the hamon?
  12. Sukehiro was a good smith. Definitely gendai. Part of the Kato group.
  13. Sanmei’s got one by Hiromasa for $5500! Although it is a little bit longer, but yes I’m flexible. Really trying to upgrade to longer stuff (27”+) in polish by top gendai guys. http://sanmei.com/contents/media/T192282_S6004_PUP_E.htm
  14. I’m in the Houston area, recently was in Dallas. I knew a few sword collectors in Dallas. Seemed a couple of guys on FB tried to get something going in Dallas a couple of years ago that went nowhere. I don’t really know anyone in Houston that collects. I know of 1 or 2 people but never met them.
  15. Nice one! I’ve had Yoshimune, Hiromasa, Hisatsugu, Imai & Kawano Sadashige out of that group, all great smiths. One of my favorite groups of wwii smiths! Well Kawano as technically Gassan, but still did nice work.
  16. Following up, sold the sword to a friend who called and said undoubtedly koto after seeing in hand. I think they had a window opened but I haven’t seen it.
  17. I recently consigned a sword with Ray and it was a very easy, pleasant transaction. Ray communicated everything, and set the price commensurate to the sword, condition, etc. with the intent of selling it for market. I highly recommend Ray for any swords you may want to sell or buy. Everything was honest and straight forward, no surprises. Thanks Ray!
  18. I had a blade where a tiny hagiri popped up after polish. 27 3/4” nagasa, really nice activity all through out. I liked it so I kept it. It was Teruhiro/Teruhide whatever that line of Shinto smiths was, but this was definitely a shin Shinto piece if genuine signature. Luis, I don’t recall ever having a blade signed Sa. I know a friend of mine did that he sold at SOS almost a decade ago. If it was me, for the future I always allow for an inspection period regardless of selling it on eBay or elsewhere. On returns, I don’t mind. I’m fortunate that I don’t need the money, this isn’t how I feed my family. Also, I know on these types of things you just need to see them in hand to be sure, and it’s not like they’re buying some $20 gadget of Amazon. i recently sent 3 blades to be polished and a 4th to get an opinion on whether or not worth the restoration that I just had a feeling something was special about it. I got a call when the swords arrived and was asked why I wasn’t polishing the one I sent for him to check out as it looked Rai, so off it went. Had another friend tell me the hamon looked like Rai kunitoshi to him as well. So fingers crossed, we’ll see how it turns out. One of the others was a mumei blade, almost 28” nagasa. One of my friends studied it in hand and was thinking Sekishu Naotsuna. The person that handles the polishing thought it was Shinto. So that one is a total gamble, but it had nice activity so will probably enjoy It anyways. Added some pics.
  19. I am btreed3 on eBay. I started this at $1 and thought it was koto but I’m more of a gendai collector so I could easily be wrong. I’ve been purging my collecting the past 12 months and focusing on stuff I want to restore. I have 5 blades in Japan at the moment and this was in the queue but had plenty more in front of it as well. I have a no questions asked return policy if you decide you don’t want to take the risk of polishing or whatever other reason you may decide.
  20. Hey George, no worries. I personally prefer to see the better stuff in fresh pro polish than rushed wartime polish and 75 years of neglect. To each his own. I still have plenty of excellent blades in wartime polish that I most likely won't have polished. Just trying to get the special ones done. Here are 2 Yasunori (Top - 1940, Bottom - 1934) I had done, but both badly needed saving. One had been used for martial arts by a previous owner for years and was quite beat up. Seems a lot of the activity is lost in the heavy hadori in the top blade. The activity in the bottom blade is much easier to see and enjoy.
  21. Here's a couple of my Sukehiro. 27". I'll send this one for polish when I get some of the others that are out back in.
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