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Shachi reminds my allways on the big read dragonhead fish.

The next one stumble about this and think every Seki Showa-to is a Gendaito. First off all try to judge the blade. If it doesn't look like gendai it is not gendai no matter what the stamps, signature and dates say.

Hot or warm water is posion for the same. Like all natural dryed fishskin (it's not leather) it will become weak and shrink and you could loose the pearls.

Thanks a lot. That was new to me.

So the little seki stamp is only the date side of the nakago? Could that mean that the swords are forged on the Seki Forge Facilities and before they get the Star mark from the army. It would not make sense to stamp it Star and afterwards inspect it newly on the seki factories. Process (in my thoughts) 1. The Seki forge get tamahagene for the licensed smiths. 2. The smith forged the blades in the seki forges, signed and dated it. 3. The seki authorities check the blade and registered and stamp it (with the small seki stamp on the dates side). 4. The Army inspector collects the blades, inspect it and stamped it with the star stamp. 5. The blades goes to the outfitter shops (Polishing & Koshirae)

I have not one RJT blade with a Seki Stamp? Bruce did you have reference pictures of that issue that shows clear that it is a gendaito and not a showa-to and that it is a real star stamp? I saw 2 NBTHK Hozon papered blades with a seki stamp, one was on AOI Arts. But i didn't give anything on papers In Japan all is possible if you have enough money.

The tsuba looks so exactly the same. Every scratch, every punch, and the color. I cant belive that this is a copy. Its nearly impossible to cast in that way that the patination looks the same. I think it is the same tsuba. Maybe bought in Japan - goes to the States und you bought it? We need another model.

Edit: You are right Bruno. Sorry i compared the wrong side. Maybe your tsuba is that from the yahoo auction in Japan?

Found this one? 優品 帝国陸軍刀鍔 撫角形 桜花の図 黄銅地(鍔、刀装具)｜売買されたオークション情報、yahooの商品情報をアーカイブ公開 - オークファン（aucfan.com）

I look for mine and it has two punch marks.

No Bruno. These marks are hammered to fit the nakago ana to the blade.

wow Klaus. I love it.

Did everyone heard about that someone find the matching saya or blade for his sword? Did someone collect the numbers of copper nco swords? Is there a possibility to pair it back? It would be a task. Mine: Blade: 4177 Saya: 1530 From antique-swords.com Blade: 1879 Saya: 1879 (matching) From stcroixblades.com Blade: 5737 Saya: 5737 (matching) From pre98.com Blade: 631 Saya: 631 (matching) From liveauctioneers.com Blade: 3068 Saya: 3068 (matching) From invaluable.com Blade: 3374 Saya: 3260 From mavin.io Blade: 166x Saya: 1669 (maybe matching) NMB RDH Blade: 71 Saya: 71 (matching) From stcroixblades Blade: Saya: 4856 (saya only without throat) From artswords.com Blade: 5847 Saya: 5847 (matching) From: stcroixblades.com (plimpton collection) Blade: 871 Saya: 871 (matching) From: NMB Type95 Blade: 812 Saya: 812 (matching) Blade: 1353 Saya: 1353 (matching)

Looks like Type 3 Koshirae. Nice!

Looks perfect to me.

$1000 for that sword? And i sold mine signed Masahiro for 550... nobody wants it here.

Thats a Tsuba horror picture show.

Oh sorry that i saw a pteranodon and vulcano on this. My fantasy is sometimes strange. Maybe you can change the shape a little bit. Overall not bad. I couldn't do that.

Very good Teddy. I like the motif too. Different to the normal stuff. Did you make a flying one on the backside? Btw a Godzilla Tsuba or a Godzilla complete fitting would be really cool.

I store it this way.

My son stores his nerf guns the same way.

I was looking on the leaf and the little fruits and it looks more like wine then paulownia for me. So we had civillian tsuba from - Bamboo - Cherry - Plum - ... I think that old Japanese wine plant looks different to the european modern ones (smaller and less berries) that are planted after the war for the wine industrie? Viticulture in Japan has a long tradition. However, during the period when phylloxera was decimating European vineyards, Japan even exported wine made from this grape. In Japan, viticulture has been a tradition since at least the 12th century. Viticulture in the western sense only developed after Japan opened up in the 19th century. A pioneer and often called the father of Japanese viticulture was Zenbē Kawakami, who was able to establish the first national quality wine variety through decades of systematic crossbreeding (wikipedia)

Real or not? It looks nice but i have the feeling that the Tsuka was replaced from a legit one. I think its fake. If it is fake its the first one i see with a positive samegawa. https://www.ebay.com/itm/354934769791

Japanese wine leafs

Welcome Marinus this is a very nice Kai Gunto koshirae. could you show us a better and sharp picture of the tip of the blade?