David Zincavage

Barry! How long has it been? I hope the Oz commies spare your Boer War rifles. You should see the Khyber Pass Martini in .303 I bought from a returning veteran. No salmon fishing, but after California, we moved to Northern California hunt country and got in lots of fox hunting. Here's a photo I took with a pocket camera between fences. My email is: jdz@usa.net. Let's keep in touch. Happy New Year!

Hey, Tom, great to hear from you. I hope you are well. Happy New Year!

I'm getting awfully old and I've been out of California and consequently inactive Nihonto-wise for twenty years. I collected rather actively, and was buying from Japan all the time when i lived in the Bay area. I thought of offering some top quality tsuba here to test today's market, but when I started looking through my two banker's boxes of tsuba, I concluded that selling them one at time would be an ordeal. Has anyone here dealt with the standard auction houses and can make any recommendation? Here's an example of a high-end one.

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?498113-Sword-Capture-Pile-Japan-1945&utm_source=Community&2BBulletin=&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Gunboards-Community-Bulletin-2016-04-20

I'm glad, too, to hear from old friends. Thanks to everyone for providing the needed info. Best, David

I was looking over my tsuba, and realised that, years ago, I purchased several interesting tsuba despite rust on them, saying to myself, "Oh, I'll send it to a tsuba doctor and have it put in order one day." Of course, I never got around to it. Can anyone recommend a specialist in rust removal and repatination? (isn't it remarkable how all the nice large tsuba on display at the annual conventions have a perfectly preserved deep black patina?) Cheers, David Zincavage

It is rather small for practical defensive use, but it is larger than a netsuke. It has a sight and a touch-hole. The bore is larger than .22 and smaller than .25. Since I doubt its stopping power, I lean to the eprovette hypothesis.

Someone just referred me to this thread after I asked if anyone had any information on what I thought was a very small Japanese handgun I picked up years ago. http://zincavage.org/Handgun1.jpg My specimen is clearly one of these. David Zincavage