David Flynn

Matus, may I first comment on the Katana. Although the sword is old and in fairly good condition, the hamon appears to be rather close to the edge. This sword is polished with a hadori, which makes the hamon look wider than it actually is. Both the wakizashi, look pretty good. As already commented on earlier though, wakizashi are harder to sell.

Blades, Tosogu, and koshirae, may all be submitted.

Adrian is now out of hospital and looking forward to getting the ball rolling. An announcement on booking slots will be posted soon. As they say in advertising, Watch This Space!

I have spoken to Adrian, unfortunately he believes we will be too busy to accept consignments. However, now that this has been broached on this forum, maybe someone coming to the shinsa will offer this service. Also, we should start to take bookings in the next couple of weeks.

Jason, Adrian Schlemmer who is orginising the Shinsa is in hospital at the moment with complications brought about by pneumonia. However, he is attempting to get a price in Yen for the submissions. At the last shinsa, the cost was $150 au for submission and a futher $150 for the pass. I have actually been thinking of how we may be able to offer the service of submitting pieces for others. I will broach the topic with Adrian when the chance arises. Also, at the last shinsa, most who didn't attend, sent their sword and fittings with friends.

Aussie humour missed on an Aussie!

DeNiro.

South Australia?

Talk about inaccuracies, the 2nd Ranger battalion, didn't go over the beach, they were commando's. They went up the cliff at Pointe du Hoc. Ssssh and I'm an Aussie.

Amahide swords seem to be popular on ebay. Even his showato sell for over $1500 in good nick.

John Sloughs book. He has various works of Amahide and the various ways they were signed.

What he said.....

Looks like it was signed by his son, Kanemune.

depends on whether it was mass produced at his factory, or special order. does it have an arsenal stamp (see section on military swords this forum)?

I met James at the San Fransisco show in 06. He was on the table with Bob Benson. He also attended the 09 Shinsa and show in Sydney, where he had a table. I have been under the impression, that he, was trained by Bob Benson.

I have seen a Shin Shinto tanto mounted in one of these mounts. I can't remember if it was signed or not, however, this tanto was of lesser quality.

Jason, why not send it to James Jordan in NZ? I'm sure he would give you the right answer. Sorry I don't know his address, but I doubt he would be too hard to find.

What is being politely said is, this looks like a Chinese knockoff.

The cloth is just a surrender tag. Every officer who surrendered a sword attached one. The usually just have the chaps name, unit, rank so forth. Some have where he was from.

He was a wartime smith and this sword is in a ww11 officers mount. probably original to the sword.

Instead of worrying who originally owned this sword, doesn't the whole thing revolve around how it was described and sold?

Mark, by the pics, it looks like a showato to me.

there is more than one Nobumitsu.

May I suggest the Conoisseurs book of Japanese swords.

Why do NCO swords have the serial nos. in Arabic Numerals?