Poor looks sukashi tsuba

[yogoro]

Hi all !

Can anybody help me to find out about school, design and approximate age of this Tsuba?

The surface and patina actually looks poor , dark raid and rust.

I'm going to clear this dark raid but only if it is worth the effort ?

Measures: ROUND SHAPE TSUBA 74 mm X 74 X mm 5mm

Thanks in advance

Mikolaj

[christianmalterre]

Dear Mikolaj,

 

it´s,as you know,always depending on "worth the effort" for yoursself here...

It looks like to be authentic,yet but not that old as it seems.

browse the latter Bishu and the Echizen...

at least it´s size and this motife would fitt and the rather massive square shape mimi(part on the your´s which yet got not eroded completely)may eventually

equally indicate..?

in such condition it´s hard to tell...had to see it live...iron homogenous(?)(least this looks like on your´s pictures)

worth?...maybe 50.-Euro (?)

it´s antique,so why not keeping it just for pleasure?

Christian

[Pete Klein]

With the wide, squared mimi and thickness I am thinking Owari, early Edo.

[yogoro]

Thank you for your comments.

I purchased this for a nice ornament and

I don't want to after I cleaned , this tsuba looked worse than it is now .

Mikołaj

[Marius]

With the wide, squared mimi and thickness I am thinking Owari, early Edo.

 

Pete, I would agree, but the execution of the design is so rigid, that I would go for "Owari style", late Edo. It might be only the quality of the pics, but I simply miss the good iron that is so typical for earlier Owari.

 

Just my 2 yen.

[ROKUJURO]

Mikolaj,

 

as there was no comment on this part of your post I would like to recommend to be very careful with cleaning. The photos perhaps don't tell the whole story, but to my eyes the condition of your TSUBA does not look too bad.

 

It is very easy to damage a patina, so before you plug in your angle-grinder with the wire brush, please read the chapters about cleaning and restoring TSUBA surfaces.

 

I think it is a nice TSUBA, and it would be a shame to damage it.