Free Tsuba! (Nearly) And Spring Cleaning Sale...

[rkg]

Hey guys,

 

In case anybody's interested, I just listed a number of items on fleabay - I got a couple more to go, but I'm sure when I'll get those up.  Since fleabay doesn't seem to be playing well with showing all items for sale by somebody at the moment, here are links to the auctions:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ko-kinko-menuki-greaves-suneate-shakudo-gold-Momoyama-Japanese-sword-armor-nr-/251870240687?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ko-kinko-fuchi-shakudo-gold-Momoyama-Muromachi-uchigatana-Japanese-sword-nr-/251870253442?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Daito-katchushi-tsuba-Edo-period-yamagane-fukurin-Japanese-sword-nr-/251870255169?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ko-shoami-Iron-sukashi-tsuba-Momoyama-early-edo-wheel-guruma-Japanese-sword-nr-/251870243993?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa4a2ec99
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ko-Kinko-tsuba-Muromachi-Momoyama-mokko-yamagane-amida-yasuri-gold-kiri-mon-nr-/251870262634?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Myochin-daito-tsuba-edo-period-tiller-theme-katchushi-Japanese-sword-nr-/251870265743?

 

Oh, the free tsuba part...  I've got a couple of er, uh, starter pieces up for grabs - the first person to contact me via PM can have them for whatever it costs to ship the pieces to them. Pictures:

 

EDIT: Free tsuba are gone - thanks for your interest!

 

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/good_things_front_ebay.jpg

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/good_things_back_ebay.jpg

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/good_things_front_scale_ebay.jpg

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/tanto_tosho_front_ebay.jpg

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/tanto_tosho_back_ebay.jpg

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/tanto_tosho_front_scale_ebay.jpg

 

and for real overkill on these - I put 'em on the VR table too.... :-)  Note the magnifier option...

 

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/good_things1/good_things1.html

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/good_things_back/good_things_back.html

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/tanto_tosho_front/tanto_tosho_front.html

http://www.rkgphotos.com/sale_stuff/sale_2_15/free_tsuba/tanto_tosho_back/tanto_tosho_back.html

 

Thanks for looking,

 

rkg

(Richard George)

[Brian]

Those ko-kinko menuki are great, and I really like that Myochin tsuba. Love the positive and negative space aspect. I expect one of Ford's students could do a good job of restoring that lost inlay.

I expect those freebies will disappear soon....grab em folks. Nice ones Richard (don't forget to sign your posts!)

 

Brian

[rkg]

Brian,

 

DOH!  name fixed :-)

 

thx,

 

rkg

(Richard George)

[rkg]

And we have a winner on the free tsuba!  I'll fix the title momentarily

 

rkg

(Richard George)

[rkg]

And here's one more auction - the last one for a while as She Who Must Be Obeyed's list of stuff for me to do is getting too long... And I shouldn't tell you east coast guys about it being 70 here today, right?...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Iron-tsuba-edo-period-kasa-matsu-theme-yakite-shitate-sukashi-Japanese-sword-n-/251871789909?

 

Enjoy,

 

rkg

(Richard George)

[rkg]

Hey guys,

 

Most of these are closing tomorrow:

 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/rkgatteleport/m.html?item=251871789909&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

 

FWIW, if you like ko-kinko menuki, you should take a look at the ones I have up even if you're not in the market at this time.  They're interesting examples of ko-kinko work, and nobody ever seems to bother to show the backs so you can see how they were made - which is unfortunate, as its a kantei point...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ko-kinko-menuki-greaves-suneate-shakudo-gold-Momoyama-Japanese-sword-armor-nr-/251870240687?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa4a2dfaf

 

Best,

 

rkg

(Richard George)