Pete Klein

George - you may be correct as I just realized the one on the right has an arm which shachi would not have.

Hizen is probably the call and I would say three Shachi from different perspectives. This is a Ko Kinko kogai along that line:

https://www.nihonto.com/2020-dti/ Fred has posted the info on his site as well.

Jean, Michael Hagenbusch (RIP) and Hans Eschbaum - both formidable (although Hans would most likely deny he is).

Most likely plum blossoms.

For the well heeled wabbit: https://www.touken-matsumoto.jp/eng/product_details_e.php?prod_no=KOZ-1854

Very sad day. Saw him so many times at the shinsa. RIP.

It's a dental office manager collecting a past due bill...

I just found out Shopping Mall Japan is closing down. I've used them for fifteen years+. I'll miss them a lot.

Scanned from Haynes Index and Wakayama TKMT: I hope this helps.

Yup. ~$55,000.00. That took a lot of lube .

https://www.nihonto.com/11-1-14/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohei

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Brian - I had to look that up. Yeah, I can see into your comment. PS: FWIW - I do not like that tsuba in the least.

https://www.aoijapan.com/tsubajugakusai-katsufumi-sen/ Rabbits for days: TBH paper as well...

Akasaka 1st Tadatoki = 4th gen Akasaka. I could also make an argument for 2nd gen Tadamasa.

Yeah, umm, yah know -- really -- I mean, like --- I jus' don't do the necrophilia gig, bro...

This is the finest source: http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b734-uchigatana-koshirae-translation-tokyo-national-museum and this is for very early: http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/c264-kin-no-tachi-gin-no-tachi

Tatsunobu is correct, Haynes 9497, Wakayama - I - pg. 43 My two cents. For this price it 'MUST' have at least Hozon paper. Any self-respecting dealer, especially in Japan will provide this. If not, gimei is implied. Darcy had an NBTHK papered Teruhide F/K several years ago for ~$6500. I've seen way too many gimei Omori wave pieces to have any trust in an un-papered one. BTW - There is one mei example in Wakayama - bottom left: Just my opinion. PS: If you are looking for 'Masterpiece' works yes, they would be 'Juyo' level and be tens of thousand of dollars, possibly more but that is not what we are looking at here.

Hmmm - good comparison as a Juyo Masatsune tsuba would be around the same price as an AM DB 11 and it will retain it's value far better to boot.

Ray - Thank you so very much for this. I was not aware of it. A bit of Kubler-Ross in there - or vis versa... Pete

Shoshin Ishiguro Masatsune: From: https://kougetsudo.info/tousougu/ishiguromasatsune/

It looks to me like someone was attempting to cover up a mistake. Look at the unevenness of the medial junctions. It also appears that some form of tar was used to bind the separate pieces together with a gap in-between. Quite amateurish to me.

Subterfuge....