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  1. Thanks everyone for your help and the great info you gave me! I'll definetely follow your advices and check the italian forums you pointed me to and maybe have a chat with Massimo. I wanted to know an approximate value of the tanto only to see if it was worth restoring it. I really like the tanto even in this "beaten up" look, it makes me think of all the people that have used it, passing it along the generations, and i wouldn't mind keeping it like this. But a quotation for a polishing job, maybe with a new shirasaya and habaki wouldn't harm anyone, so I will ask around! Thanks again!
  2. Thanks a lot Jussi Ekholm! For me it would have remained a mistery without your help! Do you think the blade is actually made from folded steel starting from tamahagane? The hada is not very visible... maybe due to the state of oxidation of the blade. The hamon instead is visibile under the right light I' don't know if i can ask you this in this section, but do you have an idea of the value of this blade? Just to have an idea of what i'm holding onto. Do you think it's better to keep the blade in this state or to find a good sword polisher and restorate it? Thanks a lot and sorry for all these questions!
  3. Hello everyone, I write you from Italy because one of my friends gave me a Tanto knife that he bought from a junk dealer. I've got just basic knowledge on Nihonto, I've read Yoshindo Yoshihara book "The craft of the Japanese Sword", but nothing more. So I'd like to ask your help with the translation of the mei and possibly with the identification of the age/period of this knife (If this is not he the right section please point me the right one). I've asked one of my Japanese friends to help me with the translation and told me that the first two characters designated the city of KONOE (SHIGA). He told me that the characters where quiete ancient (EDO PERIOD) and he couldn't understand them fully, he thought that the other two characters meant "WIND" and "VICTORY" I don't know maybe the last ones were the blacksmith "art" name? Thanks again for your help!
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