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Thanks Brian! You are right, I should have been clearer in a way by saying "consider offers until X day".

I wrote "1500€ or best offer" down and people started sending me a ton of offers via private messages. I must confess that I didn't realize that it may have been "immoral" to accept the highest offers people would send me. As I said it was not intentional in any way to start some kind of "private auction" Item is now SOLD!

Thanks for so many PMs guys! Sorry I didn't answer many of them until now but I have to look through aaaalot and sort them by highest/lowest bidder. I will contact all of you once I have done so.

True, it's a pretty blade and the koshirae are nice too.

Tsuba:

next round:

Ok! Selling for a person I know, he originally got the sword in Japan. It's a tachi in koshirae signed 備前長船住幸光 Bizen Osafune ju Yukimitsu, and dated August Oei 2. NOT papered. It has horimono carvings on both sides of the blade Nagasa around 72cm Moto-haba: 3 cm Saki-haba: 18.5 mm Moto-gasane: 6.5 mm Saki-gasane: 4 mm Sori: 2,2 cm weight of the blade is around 700g I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Honestly: The polish is in BAD condition, it seems like an amateur tried his best and even then didn't finish the job properly but stopped midway through thinking: "Ah whatever...." The horimono carvings you should judge for yourself. The tachi koshirae are pretty nice, the laquer is intact nothing is loose and wobbely. The signature... I'm not sure about it actually... But nevertheless: Item is SOLD! Edit regarding the sale: I'm sorry if anyone got offended by the way the sale went through I was absolutely overwhelmed by all the messages (and being at work at the same time) and also had to keep in mind customs/shipping and so on which in the end my friend has to pay for, not me. It was absolutely not my intention to start any auction whatsoever.

Can anyone help with the translation? Thanks!

Another picture of the beautiful blade.

I absolutely agree on everything said. If you buy from ebay try doing so from trusted sellers. There are a few. Or better: Try finding a blade from people in the selling area of this forum.

Unfortunately rather hard to make out. Anyone able to read this mei? Shintō Wakizashi.

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Thanks! Yes... there is lots of useful information on the website! What's intriguing is that the koshirae seems to be overly large for the tanto. The tsuka was shimmed, The saya is around 10cm longer than it should be for a tanto that length. Very interesting...

Thanks Alex! Wow! Thank you... definately a lot to research there. I was actually thinking about ordering a nice shirasaya for it. The blade is beautiful.

I actually got a tanto in pretty decent polish from someone I know. Due to personal circumstances he decided to give it to me. It's mumei, the koshirae are in "ok" condition. blade length: 27cm moto-kasane: 7mm I've attached a few pictures from the blade itself and will also add some of the koshirae it came with.