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Awesome! Thank you so much! Below are the other pieces. Anything interesting?

...on exactly what this item may be? I believe it's a sword fitting of some kind. I found it (along with others pieces) mixed in with jewelry in an old jewelry box. I *thick* it's a mix of silver and gold in the form of a clam with a female figure's bust. It appears to be signed on the side. Any thoughts on the signature and what exactly do I have here? I can post images of the other pieces found if you all are interested?

Hello everyone, After so much time and a little help, only 1 of 2 characters have been translated. The characters are in seal-script and the first one translates as: 'Qian'. No luck on the second character. I assume the characters ref to a Chinese name and not Japanese? Kind regards, JoJo

Sorry about that, Jean. Regards, JoJo

Can anyone help with the above inscription? Any thoughts? Kind regards, JoJo

Hello everyone, Can someone please be so kind and help translate this mark? I've been searching for MANY hours and nothing! It appears to be in seal(?)-script, but I could be totally wrong/confused. Kind regards, JoJo

Hi, Thank you again, Mr. Morita, for taking the time out to help me. Much, much appreciated! Kind regards

Below is another interesting piece of lacquer I purchased locally. After a bit of digging, I'm afraid I haven't found much of anything on it as far as style. It appears to be a Odawara-chochin, but I haven't been able to find another "lacquer & copper" example such as this one. I did find a nice read on the history of Odawara-chochin as seen in the link below. I also found within this site (This Week's Edo Period Corner, page 117) a poster (estcrh) posted some images of his pair of chochin with a similar clover symbol that's seen on my lantern. http://ashigaranet.com/english/eng20120322-01.html I was wondering if someone could please help find another example of a lacquered chochin and/or help translate the inscriptions on the paper??? Is this lantern Edo Period as well? Below are some images for your viewing. Thanks again for taking the time out to help. Kind regards

Hi, Thank you so much, Mr Morita, for helping with the translation. I'll research the translation and hopefully I will be able to find something. I doubt it, but worth the try. Again, thank you!

Hello everyone, Sorry to bother you all. I was told by another forum to come here and see if there is a 'Nobody or Mr. Morita' who can possibly help me translate the attached marks. They're on the base of an antique lacquered Japanese box. Can some please help? I've been trying for what seems like forever to ID the marks, but to no avail. Can you help? Kind regards, JoJo