1781 Ogasawara Ryu Scroll Of 103 Arrowhead Types

[Randy McCall]

Recently sold at auction, a 1781 makimono (hand scroll) depicting 103 yanone according to Ogasawara Ryu traditions;  scroll 3.6 metres in length.  The seller made images of the complete scroll available, and I thought some of our members might be interested.

Condition:  Fair - aged, stained, wear, tears, insect damage

Winning bid:  $131.50 USD

                         

[Brian]

You should tell us before the auction, give us a chance to purchase
Or are these closed auctions?

Nice scroll, lotsa interest in yanone.

[Randy McCall]

You should tell us before the auction, give us a chance to purchase

Or are these closed auctions?

Nice scroll, lotsa interest in yanone.

 

These are open auctions;  this one was on eBay.  I usually don't post upcoming items for a couple of reasons:

 

First, it's hard for me to gauge what group members might find interesting.  Past posts I've made which I thought people would find fascinating were panned.  Others on what I thought were side items unexpectedly got huge "likes". 

 

Secondly, I've had personal experience with posting upcoming items in other forums, only to be blasted via PM (and some in public) by multiple members of those groups.  These people were  heavily into the online auctions, and had already seen and were going to bid on said item.  By my pointing it out to several hundred other members, they felt I had greatly raised their competition and the likely final cost of the item... and they let me know in no uncertain terms that this is not acceptable (bold was theirs )

 

Come to think of it though, I've had similar requests for notification of upcoming items from members of my Facebook Japanese Manuscript Collector's group ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/japanesemanuscripts/). 

 

Perhaps I should look a doing a Paetron.com project, where for a small sum per month users could be notified of upcoming items on eBay and Yahoo.jp... I would have to spend time every day tracking items.  I'll have to think this one over a bit.   

[Brian]

Secondly, I've had personal experience with posting upcoming items in other forums, only to be blasted via PM (and some in public) by multiple members of those groups.  These people were  heavily into the online auctions, and had already seen and were going to bid on said item.  By my pointing it out to several hundred other members, they felt I had greatly raised their competition and the likely final cost of the item... and they let me know in no uncertain terms that this is not acceptable (bold was theirs )

That's just tough

People who say that, are out of touch with reality anyways. There are now millions of people searching eBay every day. Using every trick such as misspellings, wrong categories, etc etc.

There is just no way that people aren't watching something that someone else has found. This isn't a game of "hide the bargain"

So if something gets some extra exposure, then so be it. You won't get blasted for that here.

[Randy McCall]

I'll see what I can do, in the course of my own shopping / research. I'll post any such items under the Auctions and Online Sales forum

 

It would be helpful if members would post categories or areas of interest for me, and let me know whether they'd rather see items with illustrations, or if  there is also an interest in text-only manuscripts.