some swords ive collected pleas feel ferr to leave feedback

[joe424]

hear are some of my goodies some I had to sell to pay rent and so on...life is rough like that ...but I truly belive that no man can own a koto sword...I believe that you pay a lot of money to have the honor and privilege of being steward to that sword until the torch gets passed down yet again, these are some swords wich I had such an honor to care for, tell me what you think....thx joe

[joe424]

this one I miss a lot...another ebay score

[steve0]

I am very disappointed....

 

 

that you did not sell the second one to me.

 

[Alex A]

Be careful Joe, sharp sword and bare feet is a bad combo, could really ruin those nearly matching socks of yours .

 

Alex.

[joe424]

that's funny it was early in the morning

[John A Stuart]

Most of my pictures had the same thing, my feet, of course I cropped that bit out. Joe, the one you miss a lot, tell us about it. What school? smith? It looks interesting. John

[joe424]

it was an old ko bizen den tachi that was cut down to 22 inches, my sword guy said mid kamakura period.verry hi quality,this was only a two hour evaluation so he couldn't tell me what smith made it but he new the school and said that if I could give him a couple days to go threw his books he could tell me, but I sold it before he got the chance..this was wen the market crashed so I got it cheap ,I like the shape, and its hada very tight ko itame hada and a very well done hamon with no flaws and the fittings wer awesome, I got off ebay in 2007 for 1100.00. it was listed as edo sword.the worst listing ive ever found..I had it evaluated and was told that cause of the market it was only worth 5 grand, and that was on the low side......but I find this kind of stuff alot but never get to keep any of them for to long.to bad cause if I got papers on this one who knows what it was realey worth. but I hate money, and do not sell swords for a profit im just trying to trade up to the right katana,if im not selling them for food or rent

[nihonto1001]

Hi Joe:

 

Wow, the second sword looks really familiar. How about Mino from the Muromachi Period? I would like to find that tsuba.

[joe424]

the waki on the table is a mino blade but it edo period, this blade however I cant tell you much about, perhaps you could give you opinion