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that yukihide is stunning

Think its representing the crescent 🌙 moon.

Im taking the piss Jussi. It should be treated with enormous suspension

Hi guys.... Let me start at the start of the beginning. I was happily have a scotch or 2, and noticed this rather old and rough looking box. Ignoring the newly made sword box i was meant to buy i instead went with what the scotch told me to do and got this instead. I really hope it says what i hope it says. Please give me confirmation

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thats the good thing about this forum, diffenent eyes have different opionions and are all good points

the smith is the tosogu class room books, I was looking in the wrong area, Hes was a very small mention. the iron looks very nice, considering the location near some known sword production area thes the iron should be good its appearance/ symbols are my next study job. but a assume there pottery related?

thanks matt, ill try looking again

good morning fellow members, i have a tsuba mei i cant find in my tosogu class room books, so im assuming its either wrong or not recorded. could you please DOUBLE CHECK the mei. kind regards H

its a different shape due to wear and tear, contact/ dragged along the ground etc. the sword, ill leave the hizen guys to comment. and i would discribe this as a early type 98, the type 94's have a more tachi like sori at the tsuba/habaki area to F/G's book, there good but they sometimes get it wrong. im a personal friend of one of the contributors of all the F/G books and does dissagree with some of the things written. Dawsons has surpassed them as the bible of IJ swords and information just my 10 cents worth

Yagyu. Later gen Pftt face palm. Just seen the above post

Reads, Drexel was here. Added by the skilled hands of a con artist

big thanks, i was thinking it was a gendai. prob why i was way off

Hi guys, not mine but im trying to get a mei that makes sence, but i just cant seem too. i know its a easy one but i cant for the life of me get it. big thanks and a face palm at the same time

thats because it is the same tsuba, and thats my f/b sales page. i prefur to keep buisness seperate from pleasure, i learn here

please delete, its gone off track to a side show

hahhaah, nice try. a mates got his eye on it before you. but what what you you say its worth in market value. i enjoy this type of exercise. in a ginza shop 1000 USD with papers. but were not in ginza are we

about 80mm across and a cute 4mm thick, very clean a crisp with the exucution of the sukashi. a few spots of iron bones in the rim

swords as a hole i think are strong, if there military swords of good conditon then the markets good.

Hahahaha well that will make hard to sell here wont it

Im trying to get a reality check actually. I seem to have had a streak of buying imho good items for good prices. I seem to have developed my eye or my ego

Yes financial value

How can we Accurately determine the value of our tsuba?? I have imho a very nice unpapered kyo sukashi tsuba. Compared qualities to others i see online. But "as a exercise " how can i accurately quantify the market value??

Who cleaned the silver??

Looks like a gendaito to me