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  1. Tohagi
    Where are you ?
  2. Tohagi
    ....Takenaga 武永. ???
  3. Tohagi
    5th kanji try: 永 maybe : 則永作 ? Not sure the meï is bad...
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    Very interesting shape, you should show it in hand to someone who knows...
  5. Tohagi
    Hello Salvatore, What do you wish to know? This is a very straight wakisashi, in not so bad condition, genuine nihonto. Maybe end of muromachie or begining Momoyama kanbun shinto. If you want to know if the meï is good, you will have to do a little research... Difficult to say. Best, Eric
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    ... so many mekugi ana... At least 3 of them seems perfectly legit considering the suriage and the gunto remounting. There is a little fukure kizu in the hamon near the habaki. This is a concern for a togishi. It's a nice sword from a middle/good class Smith with no major flaw. A full polish will cost you around 2000USD, If you intend reseelling, it don't worth... Best, Eric
  7. Tohagi
    Very strange, The meï is the only thing that looks Japanese...
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    If I may try a guess... Above the obvious difference of cost of life, there is a difference betwen 1 full hand made sword and each part mass producted by specialised Smith for fake fabs.... This is low, cost kill, process where you sell a lot of junk to get not so mutch bucks... That's why you always see the same mystakes in habaki etc... They don't pretend to fool experts, just a lot of newbies...
  9. Tohagi
    Very,very nice display and swords... Hope to see more from your expo ! Best regards, Eric
  10. Tohagi
    Can you take a picture thru the nakago ana? If edges of the nakago ana are visible, you could have a safe way to extract it without trying exotics solutions ... One time it tooks me 3h and all my faith to remove a tsuka....
  11. Tohagi
    In the last picture the "tsuka" looks like the rest of a polearm pole. Could this be a polearm cut down? In this case geometry ... is not so wrong ?!
  12. Tohagi
    Humm... Most of the bevels are wrong including mune angle, traces of machine vertical strikes on shinogi gi... The cutting edge is thick shaped like a knife, the habaki is wrong... For me it's a déco sword... Obviously this is not a definitive statement. Best, Eric
  13. Tohagi
    Sorry, It is in too bad condition to tell more from these pictures... Best, Eric
  14. Tohagi
    I saw lately a lot of nice silk bags made from Japanese obbi (traditionnel silk belts) not very expensive and handmade in Japan... IMO avoïd chinese synthetic silk because they are not thick enough. Brocard heavy silk is the better for koshirae protection... Best regards, Eric
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    Very curious to see the nakago now...
  16. Tohagi
    Can you provide a full picture of the nakago of the first blade ? Thank you, Eric
  17. Tohagi
    Very interesting works.... Seems have been done to seal/conseal something (bad?), a woman issue on the second case. The left picture of the sword is reversed on the catalogue. What a pity to have split the blade from the Ryujin...
  18. Tohagi
    Hello, Looks perfectly genuine but in bad condition to me. The "box shape" hamon could be very caracteristic, you should try to genrly remove the mekugi as Piers suggested. Best, Eric
  19. Tohagi
    I agree, this is happening more and more often... In my case it was French post, they try very hard to " loose" my tanto, probably to buy it on a cheap auction... A very hard time for me, the Board really supported me on this one, thank you guys (and girl). Best, Eric
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    @Robert&Piers once in a time opportunity... If you let it go, be sure you will have no regrets. Best regards, Eric
  21. Tohagi
    Sorry David but your previous post is a mess to me... Why are the nakago blue ? Which one is yours? Hope it's not the fukure/ware one... Best regards, Eric
  22. Tohagi
    If the katana are nihonto, you will have to ask registration previously. Other swords are forbidden...
  23. Tohagi
    The pictures are not very good and we need some mesures... At first glance, it's a true nihonto maki okuri 1 habaki length with part of an old hantachi koshirae, at least saya and tsuka...
  24. Tohagi
    ...no evidence of suriage for me, maybe little maki okuri ?
  25. Tohagi
    Same impression : no way this is from 13's. By the way I have a problem of scale ( and descence) on pictures: - is this sword à very little blade, or the dealer have giant foot ? - How come somone with a little commun sens will put à koto sword on dirty floor to take a picture? RUN!
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