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It reminds me of work by Iwata Norisuke.....Nice. And for this price ! This should go fast.

Hi Steve, I want to send you a PM.........becausei want to buy this Tsuba .......but the System told me : Steve Waszak cannot receive messages.

PM send for Nihonto Koza

Me too, i remember..........holy glory that is a blade !

An ono tsuba. But for design reasons, the inner cross was rotated 90 degrees. Otherwise, it's just the motif of a thread spool.

How do we know that real all parts of the Mosle collection were published in the books ? Of course, I know exactly what you mean by that.........it's a marketing strategy that stops at absolutely nothing. Any means are justified, especially since the origin has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with quality. It's the same with blades. And this behavior will never change. Open your eyes, do your homework. Always be suspicious and cautious of dealers, especially auctioneers. Not to be forgotten is the fact that such solid gold Fuchi Kashira can be relatively easily recast today using modern methods. If these are then professionally reworked after casting.........it would be impossible for an amateur to see that it is only a copy and not the origina.l I remember a thread about solid gold menuki. These things were submitted to the NBTHK for registration...rejected! Because they were newly cast. Be very careful with solid gold Kodogu without new papers.

Leave it like it is. And what Manuel write is absolutely correct. I have several tsuba with fine damage like a crack or some impacts at the rim...........it is part of the history.

With chrome no problem at all.

I thank the author for his personal opinion and experiences. It's nice to read that I'm not the only one with similar experiences. (written by someone who has been interested in Japanese swords for almost 30 years)

Time passes... friends must go... but memories remain. Bruce... a unique guy. Both in his appearance and his demeanor. In both pockets of his jeans, he almost always had tsuba, which he worked on with horn or bone at almost every opportunity... sometimes even in the morning at diner breakfast. I will never forget the expression on the faces of the other guests when they saw Bruce at work in the morning at breakfast. In 2002, I first heard one of his almost legendary lectures on sukashi tsuba at the table of a dealer friend in Tampa. I have never met anyone with such a keen eye for good iron tsuba. It was in San Francisco... in 2003 or 2004, on the last day, just before closing... Bruce and I, a group of four, were strolling through the sword show. At one table, swords lay in five or six layers, completely jumbled together. Bruce stopped, reached into the stack, and pulled out a rather poor-looking wakizashi in a koshirae. On the koshirae was a Kanayama tsuba. I couldn't believe my eyes. I must have walked past it 6 or 7 times before...looked through the stack...and I didn't see it...and Bruce strolls past and däng, he sees it immediately. Crazy in a positive way...that was Bruce for me. Rest in peace my crazy friend

I made this mekugi nuki from a dead blade. It worried some people a lot when they see it the first time. In the past I see a mekugi nuki with a signature from Kotetsu. The owner explain that it was from a cracked blade .

Get in contact with Paul Kremers .https://tsuba.info/ He can answer all your questions seriously and he know from what he is talking about.

I see the pictures and... exactly what I feared... and now it's clear why Rafal were asking about regulations and guidelines in Japan. Unfortunately, it's too late. What a pity. But this is just my personal opinion.

@ Rafal https://www.touken.or.jp/english/ Contact the museum. If there are any guidelines or legal requirements for preserving Japanese weapons, they'll be able to tell you. But I'm afraid you personally, as an amateur, won't get an answer to this question. Perhaps if your contact at the museum in Krakow tried it, the chances would be better. Sincerely, Your Tripod

Both , please. I need the complete package. 😁