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Thank you very much!!

Thank you guys!! Thank you for the pictures @Grevedk

Can anyone help me out with this scroll please? The circled area plus the kao Thank you very much!

Hey guys can you please help me with this one? Thank you

Hey guys, How do you feel about this?

Ha! Bookmarks!

Thank you @Bugyotsuji and @ROKUJURO.. Jean I wasn't be able to write you an email but will do tonight Entschuldigung!

Hey guys, This one has pretty simple design. I believe these are blossoms? Silver maybe? Can you also identify the school? Thank you!

Got mine from the museum couple days ago ha!

Hello again I'm not sure but this one seems a bit new..maybe sometime around Meiji to Showa? or later perhaps? It's signed Gassan Saku..there is one Gassan but the signature style doesn't match..Opinions? Thank you! ps: should I clean it with silver polish?

What do you think was depicted on this tsuba..Plants or..? Thank you Challenge for @Spartancrest Don't say 3 bananas please.

Hi all, I've bought some tsuba(actually 7 of them and going to share some of them soon) and 2 of them are looking a bit "shiny" as in not might be Edo but later. Kyoto Antique fair was very dark and I was rushing so it's possible that I might have made a wrong decision. Can you please take a look and try to help me find its period. Thank you!

Thank you so much @Geraint @uwe @SteveM

Can you kindly help translate these please thank you!!

Oh so sorry for rotated photos, not sure how it happened..i’m on my phone so i can’t fix it

Thank you guys!!

Thank you Florian. But I've already been researching them for many years now. I usually don't ask if i'm not stuck. Nothing beats spending the weekend researching a 15 euro tsuba.

Maybe? I liked your person at prayer theory more But this makes more sense.

Hmm this is interesting Mark. Thank you!

Hmm thats very interesting Dale. I'm not sure but it can be Definitely looks like one of those early sukashi motifs but can't figure it out.

Hey guys, My latest flea market find. Can you help me identify sukashi?

Steve, these pictures were already shared in your first post..sharing same pictures over and over won't help you to sell this blade..Also they are called fittings not "hard ware".

I took this picture the other day..It's from an old Japanese war magazine that I noticed in a book market. I wasn't going to share it as it's a sensitive picture but I think it's important. (I'm adding a spoiler tag) But it was a good reminder for me that these were actually weapons and their lives depended on it.. Sometimes i forget that... A soldier or a civilian, killed in a night raid, holding his sword. I'm sure this sword was very dear to him. A family heirloom maybe? Maybe one of us owned this exact sword before..Perhaps it was a mumei wakizashi and we decided to sell it for a papered one. Imagine owning this sword now...it's priceless right..Just like every other sword you have.

@Brian Please add a feature to ignore or hide topics..Or maybe "Also hide the topics created by people the you've ignored" option.