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Misconstrued

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  1. Never ever try and restore a sword yourself. Only allow professionals to ever do anything to it, and a professional is not a neighbor who uses sandpaper. Trying to restore swords yourself is a bad idea and it can completely ruin the value of this sword. Keep it as is or send it to a professional. Self-restoring NEVER goes right. Remember, you can never take away what you've done on this blade, and it'll forever be damaged because of it. 

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  2. Don't clean it up or do anything to remove patina from the tanto. This will greatly diminish it's value to collectors. Others will tell you more about it's history and what you can do to help preserve it.

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  3. That's a bold statement. Firstly we would need photos of the blade itself and photos of the tang for identification purposes, but more so identifying the age as Masamune often didn't put his Mei on swords. There are many old swords that have no ties to Masamune himself. Old blades are very frequent in the Nihonto community. Photos are needed for any sort of identification. Even if it's not the Masamune doesn't mean it's worthless either. The Honjo Masamune could very much still be in Japan. The only real identifying factor for the Honjo Masamune is it's hamon, as shortly before it was given up by the family, a hamon record was created.

  4. I'll chip in my thoughts about it. It's most certainly authentic. Please do NOT clean it in any way. That can damage the sword and it's value. Any polishing or cleaning should be done by a professional and not someone down the street who knows how to use a grinder. Does there appear to be any form of a mei (signature) on the tang? The wooden sheath and handle are shirasaya mountings, which are used to store the blade. The other is koshirae, which is the mountings it is in when it isn't being stored. I can't approximate the age sadly, but this is my 10 cents on it. :dunno:

  5. 9 hours ago, Lee997 said:

    I have the book this picture was used in and following pages showed an even more difficult to see picture of an American soldier attempting to shovel this mountain of swords into a furnace.

    That's awful..there were some really nice swords. Even if they weren't 'high quality' each of them has their own history, and I hate knowing that these swords in this photo are all gone, and will never be seen or held again. :(

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