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you mean buffer-michi. got white spots on my eyeballs now

sceptical hamish is sceptical. a koa isshin with fresh hadori polish with full togi markings under the habaki. i cant think of any traditionally trained togishi that would polish a "matetsu" i personally think this is something like a mumei seki-to with alot of nice work put into it to make ahuge profit selling into the west. theres always a 1st in the wide world of military swords, but all these rare wonderfull jems are only comming out of the wood work now. nothing seen back when the books being written? and all from a seller that deals in nic-nacks not nihonto i think someone overpaid. thats in top level yasukuni ranges

Touken Takarado, Ginza Seiyudo and Daisuke Hataya i have been to all 3 dealers, and they all have stunning items. BUT it has been over 15 years but i remember daisuke having some grand stuff to look at, the nice lounge helps you sit back and spend hours dreaming. i snatch a huge shoami tsuba for under 700AUD from them. also being the only thing i could afford too ahhaha. 3 top dealers, but touken matsumoto needs a mention too

i think you need your head checked if you are spending clost to 50kaud on something you admit to being uneducated in, then then going onto a web forum to ask advice from peaple you dont know or understand there level of education. seriously do you have money to burn?? also there are far better more honest dealers then tsurta..... iv meet him, had lunch with him, and done buisness through him. honestly isnt always there. photoshop hmmmmm so either your rich and stipid or your fishing/trolling/ baiting what ever the term is?? there are very educated peaple in germany, in europe that can help you understand whats good, bad or great.

rusty mei but fresh drill mekugi is enough to say big troube in little nagoya

wow that looks bloody good

Japanese swords are no more a investment, then a expensive watch. if you like it-buy it, but if your justify your spending on the speculation of a profit once sold then your going to get a rude shock. The Japanese sword market is indead not keeping up as a hole. less peaple interested, less peaple with spare money, more issues with taxes, trasport, theift and damage, less good stuff to find. yes restoration prices go up. remember pigeon racing use to have big prize money and alot of peaple took part, now find me a person that keeps birds??

bloody shame about the polish and removed yokote. real butcher job. the kosh is very nice, but the price is pure fantasy

really nice forging , tight and clean so to the untrained eye it looks unfolded. the tagane are solid pointers. the style to me appears to be 7-9th gen but sadly i would say over oiled or over cleaned

the mushrooms are a real classy set

if you said underrated, i would think ko kinko or akao school

im going for mumei gendai, but theres some real concerns in regards the life of the boshi and the early finish of the hamon at the hamachi. but the hamon bears simular traits to a oily, or retemps? either way im thinking its good for tatami

i didnt evan get to look

its not Japanese its not ww2 its a horrible pile of junk

stupid peaple do stupid things

plimptons book was just a fancy sales cataloge, not much info inside

both replaced by Dawson, and this is coming from someone that has owned pieces published in all three

so you are close the US, where you will get the highest gunto attention and yet you try and sell into Japan? who have you spoken too or visited in your country, to help you ? NICKR is in your neck of the woods or is this a fishing trip?

By all means post pics and prices here, you will be surprised whos on the nmb

ok, 1st thing? sword level? 2nd Japan is flooded with nihonto and export alot to the uneducated west. 3rd no issues with returns as the wider Japanese society dont care about the ww2 area or the Gen's, and you will need 110% documented proof that it was from said person. " 1000 of peaple all have claims of the same thing" Aoi art is a ok dealer but rough and floppy with with facts at times why not sell here?

its always nice to have something published.

that habaki is home made

it will most likely be licance issues, i had a wakizashi once take 6 months. they might send it back to the dealer and ask him to start the process over again or have the swords re-licanced. or your countries postal service might not accept edged weapons via air mail etc

ask Grey Doffin.

thats a insane price, i could buy this in AUD and still make money