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Andi B.

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  1. Checking the original scaled picture I would say it's suriage only on one side... Joke aside: No first idea but I aligned pictures of both sides for better comparison.
  2. My two general advices for beginners: 1. Look for blades in good conditions. 🤓 Forget the idea of buying yunky and suspicious blades and let them restored (unless you have a really good eye and know a professional polisher). Compare the price of a nice blade vs. the price of a yunk blade + restoration cost + risk of hidden flaws + time to wait... As soon you've seen undamaged and polished blades with some nice activities, you won't become happy, if your blade is only a rusty yunk piece lacking all the Nihonto-typical beautiful features. (If you're interested in Dutch oil paintings, would you buy a scraped-off canvas only because it's old...?) 2. Know your stuff. 🧐 I compare sword collecting with collecting mushrooms in the forrest: There you only take pieces home you can safely identify (at least as eatable). Ok, as beginner your meal might be small, but you surely wouldn't risk your health by taking pieces unknown to you - especially if they are ugly and rotten. Instead of playing with the idea of eating them, you would simply ignore them. With growing expertise your meal will become larger and - more important - tastier! Same with swords and tosogu: If something is strange or suspicious (fakes!), simply don't buy it. And even if a sword might be authentic - there is no benefit in buying a piece which causes bad gut feelings due to its bad conditions...
  3. Hi, I can contribute with this Kiku (?) tsuba. But I found a picture of a similar piece with a rim so I assume it was removed on mine...
  4. That's how sunagashi look on my Shiga-Seki blade:
  5. Hard to say, because 'best' is relative and subjective. Luckily I had the oportunites to hold blades of great smiths (e.g. Kiyomaro, Kotetsu & Kaneuji) my hands but unfortunately I don't have the experience to fully see and understand the high art of these pieces. So these are names I can prag with but nothing more...
  6. (...not sure but I heard, that in old times Japanese thought leopards are female tigers - that's why they appear as pair...) 🤔
  7. Hi, no restauration but presentation: If you have a cabinet/shelf with hollow boards (for lights) and insert a strong magnet, the yanone can stand...
  8. It was a great event! But I had the impression that there were mostly armour and swords, some tsuba, only few kodogu and nearly none other Japanese art items. Due to the name change from Samurai to Japan Art Expo, I expected not only 'our' stuff...
  9. ...not necessarily to make room for drilling new holes....
  10. Hi, on Nihonto.com it is announced that the DTI 2023 will be on 17. - 19.11.2023. Is this confirmed? (I'd hoped it would be one or two weeks earlier...)
  11. I can contribute these two rotten wood tsuba for reference. First I found the Umetada signed one (Japanese auction) and few months later there was the ant piece on ebay. I couldn't resist because they make a nice pair - so they're not for sale. It looks like there is a template for the wood pattern/hole positions and this has been used by different artist.
  12. Hello, here I have an unsigned tanto blade and no idea about school or age. Currently I'm writing kind of index sheets of my items but "Tanto, mumei, ubu" is a bit weak . Can someone please send me in the right direction? What could be guessed from the size, shape and hamon? Nagasa 27.2cm Sori 0.1cm Motohaba 3.1cm Kasane 0.73cm Thanks!
  13. ...this tsuba from horse thread has a '73 green paper mumei Bushu Masakata ....
  14. Hello, here're some further horse related pieces :
  15. Some years ago I've seen a pure gold mekugi on a kantei session but afterwards I've heard it has been lost/stolen(?) there... 😠☹️
  16. By the way, I checked the kanji on the back: "早道" = "Hayamichi"... 🤦🏼‍♂️
  17. Thanks Piers! I started searching and your hint with 'hayamichi' helped to find similar pieces. But your detailed information is great! Mostly you only find data like material, dimensiones etc. in cataloges which are obvious but these background stories like actual usage or legends behind the decorative parts are the interesting stuff!
  18. Hello, I want to find out more about my stuff and here I have a little leather pouch with integrated coin(?) case (diameter 0,8 inch). Does anybody knows, what it actually is and how it is called in Japanese? Thx!
  19. Wait - someone is willing to spend thousands of dollars for a Ferrari Testarossa and thinks this piece is the real deal...???
  20. Hi, is the content of the book the same as of the website?
  21. Hi, I asked a similar question a while ago and Ian Bottomley recommended Paraloid to fix the brittle parts (Thanks, it works fine!): https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/30402-urushi-maintenance/?do=findComment&comment=309800
  22. At least on my piece the horn parts are frames and not clued flat to the tsuka and saya...
  23. no, he's a different one: https://www.nihontophoto.com/
  24. Hello, if you are interested in tsuba here you have the chance to see more than 3.000 photos of items from the Klefisch auction house. Uwe Grabowski digitalized tons of slides and you can find this great archive under klefischauktionen.wordpress.com.
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