Odds And Sods

[kissakai]

Hi

I should have done two posts but have comboned them instead

 

This is before and after by Ford

He remarked how well the mesh was made and you can see how fine and regulat this has been done

 

Original:

 

Reworked:

 

I purchased this Daisho a few days ago and I asked the seller to get them papered whilst they were still in Japan

I was very happy with these:

 

 

 

It was a nice to see they were in an old tsuba box and the marks show they had ben there quite some time:

 

 

Grev UK

 

 

 

[ggil]

Wow the net part is really finely chiseled. Amazing that the steel has held up so well over time. Looks much better without the bling!

[Ford Hallam]

Just to explain:

I won't simply alter the appearance of pieces just for the sake of it or because a client has a preference. In this case it was very clear that the gold nunome had been added sometime in the past 50 years or so (the cut ground was unnaturally sharp and crisp compared to the overall surface condition of the iron for it to have been done in the late Edo period) and was merely an attempt to make the tsuba more sell-able.

 

And as I remarked to Grev, pieces like this can easily be underestimated. The steel/iron is actually very well processed and forged with a fine masame evident in the rim. The piercing work is something we simply have to marvel at today.

[kissakai]

In Victorian Britian they enhanced (in their option) so many items such as silver work and furniture but we now realise this was a bad thing to do

So the same thing was happening in Japan!

 

 

Grev UK