David.
I'm not going to play with semantics, but as you wish to make fun of my English understanding, let's clarify. I just think your first comment about the tsuba was quite rude and out of place. Your second comment gave me the chance to reply.
You also introduced without reason on this topic a link to your website to promote a tsuba for sale. The tsuba presented by Curran is on another level than the "modern hirata" you are willing to sell, and yet you said:
Regarding Yahoo Auction.
I bought on Yahoo auction two nihonto papered hozon seven years ago, when it still was allowed. I bought several nice (and authentic) fittings, including Hirado F/K and a wonderful kogatana with the rokkasen poets in kebori.
You can find good things there, but you need to know how to distinguish cast pieces, garbage, fakes and so on... are you able to do that? Forgive me but your last experience with a so said higo tsuba demonstrate quite the opposite.
It's up to you to reply again, I won't; I'm not trying to have the topic closed, and, differently to you, I actually added some (hopefully) valuable info to the topic.