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Taz575

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  1. Kawa, You are entitled to your opinion. However, you posting peoples swords in the Classified and bashing them in this thread is completely uncalled for. I bought this katana from Andy Quirt, a well respected person in the Nihonto community. He saw something in the sword as do I, but at this time, funds will not me allow to proceed with the restoration that I had planned. I wanted a longer, beefier blade to match up with another sword that I own and this fit the bill. I am offering it at a very good price (around 60% of what I paid for it) and you come on here and are telling people not to buy it. Completely unacceptable. Not all of us have huge budgets to spend on swords and not all of us care about papered swords either. You shouldn't be talking down to people in different situations and you should not be trashing other peoples sales.
  2. I understand Chris, but I have had extremely bad experiences with International shipping in the past. Our Postal System is really screwed up now in the US; packages are getting delayed, lost, damaged, etc, even regular mail. Almost 10% of our wedding invitations never made it to the people. Even thru the polish (if I call it that) that is has on it currently, there is a ton of activity in the blade. It will look awesome polished out, I just don't have the funds at this time with getting married and everything going on. I may be putting up another katana (Iehira Kashu 2nd Gen) and a Wak in the next few days as well.
  3. Down to $1500 shipped CONUS, no international shipping!
  4. Kissaki pictures: Some pics of the blade and tsuka. The tsuka looks to be thin leather under the wrap, not rayskin. The blade shows a lot of activity despite the sandpaper polish. I was going to have Woody Hall open a window on this blade and have it restored, but I don't have the funds at this time due to my upcoming wedding. The original post has a pic of the overall sugata. I can try to take another picture in the next few days to see if I can get a better sugata pic. I will not ship international; shipping services have been a nightmare in the CONUS as is and I don't want to take the chance of shipping this one international.
  5. $1600 shipped CONUS or $1550 picked up in CT! Gotta free up some funds for my wedding in Sept!
  6. Bump it back up again! $1700 shipped!
  7. Bump it back up! Down to $1800 shipped CONUS!
  8. Bump, trying to raise funds to put a deposit down on a wedding venue! :glee:
  9. Not sure if these are better pics of the nakago?
  10. I will try to get some photos when I get home from work this afternoon.
  11. There is a faint mei on the tsuba in one of the pics, but I haven't seen a faint one on the nakaga?
  12. Price dropped to $1850 shipped CONUS.
  13. I am looking to sell one of the katanas I purchased a few years ago. It was bought from Andy Quirt from Nihonto.us and I planned to have it restored and polished, but never got around to the project. The following is the description from his website: A stout ubu, mumei katana. Shinogizukure, iroi mune, chu-kissaki, high shinogi, hiraniku. The bohi stops just ahead of the yokote. Hawatare: 2 shaku 2 sun 8 bu 3 rin (69.2 cm or 27.24"). Motohaba: 3.14 cm. Sakihaba: 2.23 cm. Kasane: 6.7 mm. The hamon is notare with gunome, gunome choji, ashi and yo within. There is hataraki and kinsuji. The jigane has been obscured but an amateur American polish, however my guess would be tight itame. There are no problems visible. Although the nakago looks earlier, my feeling is that this is later Edo. WWII army tsuka; leather covered shirasaya; a good iron Awa Shoami tsuba, signed Shoami, iron and shakudo takazogan, and gold nunome. There are good tekotsu visible on the surface. Most of the pictures are from Andy and can be found at this link: http://www.nihonto.us/MUMEI%20KATANA%20RV2.htm Asking $2000 shipped CONUS.
  14. Quick update. When Bowen went to unpack the blade, he looked at the full sheet. It was stamped passed, but they wrote in "Horyu" at the bottom, which he said means they defer judgement and neither pass or fail the blade. I will post the worksheet when it arrives!
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