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    Oleg Grobshteyn

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  1. Hello Oleg,

     

    You probably remember the Tsuba with general Zhang Fei on horse on the Chohan bridge. You said 100% Soten and I did not agree....

    Now I think you were probably right because I discovered a Nomura tsuba with many similarities (mainly the attitude of the horse) Nomura school is issued from the Soten....so please accept my excuses

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  2. I'm amature too, so I can't read the signature, but tsuba itself looks 100% Soten to me
  3. I saw lots of tsubas with peony, but this one the first with peony on windy day. I really like it. You almost can how they moving under the wind. Bth, what do you think - does this tsuba needs to be papered? I see a good reason to paper the sword, but not sure about tosogu
  4. I just wish it was mine... I really like this one. With quick search I found few more pieces made by Morimura Atsutaka in museums.
  5. Found in the ground. Tsuba was unprofessionally cleaned and now needs repatination
  6. Asking for a friend. Tsuba was found with metal detector in WWI Russian positions near Bryansk. Non-magnetic, IMHO shibuich with shakudo peons. Size 82x77x4mm weight 195 grams
  7. I have 3 year old daughter, so displaying anything in the house become bit tricky - no matter how high I will put it she will move the chair and get it... But most of my bronze in displaying cases I get years ago, when I was living in Chicagoland. It was old gentleman making them and selling at the gunshow.
  8. I had this one for few years. eBay is flooded with cheap Chinese "antique bronze swords", but I never saw another "Violin dagger" or "Slim dagger" like this. IMHO, it is great conversation piece and very high quality replica for display. And, of course, it is VERY slim chance this one is original. It was brought from Japan before fake bronze artifacts become mass-produced in China
  9. No, Luristan bronze is completely different. I collect antique bronze and have few Luristan pieces. Back in Bronze Age bronze was VERY expensive, at some periods more expensive then gold. so all early Bronze Age weapons was very light. On Far East real Bronze Age started very late, almost on the same time with Iron Age. Plus supply of tin was just around the corner, in Burma. So all Chines/Korean/Japanese bronze almost always very thick and heavy.
  10. Kind of Nihonto related - Yayoi period bronze sword hosogata-doken with shokkaku-shiki tsukagashira hilt. Most likely older replica. Previous owner purchased this one in early 70-s serving in Okinawa, so it is not modern "made in china" for sure. Blades of hosogata-doken was excavated in many places all over Japan in numbers, but hilts are very rare - as far as I know only 4 intact ones was sound so far. Those swords come to Japan from Korea in Yayoi period and was used well into the Kofun period mostly as ritual objects, not as real weapon. Blades almost never was sharpened. Unlike early bronze age weapons, this antenna-hilts was cast from 4-8 separate pieces joined together. Most of swords of this type was excavated in Korea and south-east Siberia. One found in 2006 in Siberia is almost a twin brother down to the casting flaws. Selling as REPLICA, so priced accordingly $300+ shipping
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