TheGermanBastard

Not a bargain

To me the Shintetsu would not have been a show stopper if shoshin.

PS: Not wanting to hijack that topic but I liked this one: Bid Now: Very Good Japanese Samurai WAKIZASHI Sword ~ Signed Koto or early Shinto Blade with Red Enamel Fuler ~ Nice Hamon ~ Fine Gold Inlaid Kozuka Knife & Kogai Hair Pin. - August 6, 0121 10:00 AM CDT (invaluable.com) Probably Shoshin. Could be a nice piece.

If that supposed Rai Kunimune would have been in rusty condition in a garage sale I would have been very interested ... but looking at these blades and the perfect Japanese polish on this one I think one does not have to get out the books ...

This would have been a slightly better bet Bid Now: Rare Koto era Japanese Samurai TANTO Dagger ~ Signed RAI KUNITOSHI ~ Circa 1300s ~ in Full Polish with Fine Grained Patterns & Perfect Hamon Temper Line ~ In Shira-Saya Case. - August 6, 0121 10:00 AM CDT (invaluable.com)

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Can somebody maybe please shed some light on this Sayagaki?`Thank you very much.

Mick: Those could be great blades or mounts. But even if they are, nobody could really tell uppon those images. One can neither really see any of the Tsuba, nor the Jigane nor whetere those are signed or Mumei pieces. So why not upload more images here rather then sending then out by personal message? Just my 2 cent.

I am not certain any more sicne it has been a while but think I may have bought a blade from btreed3 a while ago that turned out to be a definate Gimei. Since I had misread a Kanji and only noticed uppon arrival that has been absolkutely my bad. SInce the seller did not make any statements on the Mei at all he is not to blame at all. I would not consider a return as I buy according to my knowledge. So sold as is. If it had been an original Sa I would have not shared the gain with the seller either Some while ago I had sold a Bizen blade here on the board. I was not confident about the signature so I did comment on it. The blade then papered to that big name smith. I would have happily taken it back So my 2cents are that one should carefgully study (picturers) and I feel taht restoration blades should be considered to be bought is in general as but for papered and polished blades there are always suprised accross the road that nobody can aware off ahead

I can see that on the sellers pictures when looking carefully. I can not comment on this any further. The questiomn is wheter he did the work and wheter he stated all orignal or did not get any mre specific. It is difficukt to make statements on the age of a of a blade in sime cases. As far as btreeds blade goes I would personally think that it is possibly not Koto but can see why a another person (seller) would think it is Koto and would think the seller did not intentd to mispresent it. HEnce I personaly would not have returned it if I had been the buyer. It is very kind that he offers a return and more than to be expected. A very honest seller.

Do you mean you are going to send it back to the seller? If yes, may I ask for what reason?

I heared some will rather look for thickness .. if too thinn, it gets tiered But indded blades 27.5'' plus is more desireable

Hi Bob, why did you consider it to be too short? Things are not always about length

Adam, if it is Nambokuchi then somebody may have made a good purchase. However my feeling is Murmomachi. Mekugi Anas all look to be drilled, not punched. Blade has O Kissaki but looks to be to slenderr for a stronbg Nambokucho Sugata. Also a bit short. At first glanced I thought it to be a pretty old thing but the more I looked the more I would want to think it is mid to late Muromachi periode. Mumei / O Suriage Muromachi does not make for a reasonable restoration project as a general rule.

I did not bid but would like to hear what others think: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124824630086 I would vote for Muromachi Yamato school

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If the conseignor of the recent Wolley & Wallis UK Tsuba auction is a board member or anybody knows him, I'd be interested in buying some of the unsold Tsuba. Thank you

he has been used by many collectors for years ....

I think he used to have them made by Randy Black. Mike Virgadamo in Californa does very good quality and affordabkle Shirasaya

Thank you!

Hello, can someone please help me with a translation of these two signatures on two Fuchi. I would also appreciate oppinions as to the validiity of the signatures since I have no reference material for Kodugu signatures. Thank you

Thank you Bruno. I would like to discuss some of the lots as I think they were interesting. The prices amaze me to some degree. Either the winners just had way to much money but usually having money money will go hand in hand with being a smat person so I assume the wonners knew what they were doing? https://www.tessier-sarrou.com/lot/113434/14911278? On this lot I had thought the Tsuba to be very interesting. Looked like it was early Kino work. Nambokuchi periode? Juyo Quality? Hirasto school mounts otherwise? The blade I did not see any importance. I would tend to something like Muromachi or Shinto Kaga. https://www.tessier-sarrou.com/lot/113434/14911284? Amazing! I would say this is pretty sure Gimei? Personally I liked the Koshaire of this one very much: https://www.tessier-sarrou.com/lot/113434/14911290?

There were some really great Koshirae! Is there a way to see the results?

Bingo bingo!