Jean

I must sell a few tsuba to foot the vet bills for Riesling who is slowly passing away. They come without box. Tsuba #1: plum tree w/ bird Hayashi tsuba 3rd or 5th gen . 5th generation Hayashi is worth 900$, 3rd generation is worth 2500 $ - price : SOLD - Diameter 7,2 cm All the others tsuba are between 8 and 8,2 cm Tsuba #2: plum tree late Hayashi - 430 € Tsuba #3: I am not sure on this one. There are similar Higo, but I do not think this one is Higo. Excellent iron and fine execution SOLD Tsuba #4: Owari mid Edo - excellent iron 400 € Tsuba #5: Owari early Edo very good design, but condition rough. SOLD Tsuba #6: rope design This is Hizen tsuba. .SOLD Payment through paypal, buyer pays the fees, otherwise payment by bank transfer accepted There won’t be any reduction on the above prices taking into account it is for my cat in order to help him to pass away in the best way. Should they not sell, they’ll be sold on e-bay under buy it now.

Looks like Chinese copy

This one is in the hada

Subdued hamon is a kantei point in Norishige school (Tametsugu, Uda)

Interesting blade, I like Hatakeda school. You will notice that there are two sori, the one at the blade level and the nakago one. This is a slender blade, notice the width at the hamachi and the kissaki (1,72cm) leading to a ko kissaki. Rather a Kodachi than a Tachi.

On yari no but I had a soshu jû Sukehiro tanto with a so no kurikara with black urushi

Bob, You should not have stopped drinking, there is only one thing to do, hit the bottle again."

Peter, Just a smith among thousand, forging at the beginning of shinto period, did not left any important works but forged enough blades to be listed in a book in the 21th century...

I never questionned a shinsa decision, I let it to Japanese experts and when they strongly disagree between them (I have had examples), I’ll always say: remember Kanteisho is only a written opinion...

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In the same way: https://www.seiyudo.com/tu-250515.htm

I read Hirosuke, I love it, each one can give a free interpretation..... I can see the Kami kanji, Geraint.

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Thanks a lot guys. My photo don’t do justice to this tsuba which has a very good iron.

Rayhan, I shall add that should NBTHK has some consistency with their Juyo criteria, there are blades which should not have passed Juyo and others which are not and should be... all depends on sessions, but it seems that the historical importance of a blade is less and less important in the decisions. You can see that there are a lot of Juyo blades which sell at a lower price than TH ones or even Hozon ones. This shows the limits of Kanteisho. Kanteisho level does not make the market. What would be the price of a Hozon Awataguchi daito compare with some Kozori Juyo? Edit to add: in fact, all depends on your collecting interests. No doubt that Peter’s Naotane should sell at a higher price that some Juyo, that is why I shall say, don’t focuss too much on kanteisho level. A lot of people will have their blades certified at Hozon level, they know what they buy.

Koshirae could get TH, anyway, very difficult to say anything as there is no blade pictures. Can you provide it Peter?

That’s it Bob, Kaneyoshi

Chin Cho is a personnal opinion, Peter, so it does not mean that the sword will go Juyo. In fact have a look at the statistics: how many Naotane’s tanto have passed juyo, and how many Shinshinto tanto have passed Juyo.

Opinion on this one, which school?

Don’t forget that some schools have a bo hi on the shinogiji as a trade mark and kantei point as Miike school.

In fact I am between Cahors and Sarlat and my countryside house is not even elegible to ADSL...

Thanks guys

Jean, I cannot compare, I am on vacation, scarcely from time to time I can connect but cannot print or upload easily pictures, that’s why I ask Board’s members opinion. It took me 5 minutes to upload the picture in my e-mails and more than 10 minutes to make my post on NMB. I am not going to spend my holidays trying to upload pictures but for once rely on the Community.

On behalf of a friend

Welcome Scott