wondering about sword at auction

[Hoshi]

My thoughts: 

• Worst case Meiji mumei from a nobody. In which case you lose a bit of money but it's not a catastrophic loss either. Easy one to put back into the lottery pot for the next guy hoping Koto Bizen. 
• Not removing the handle looks a bit like a slimy move to me, I would be suspicious of the 'experts' in this auction house. 
• In all likelihood it will not justify the cost of a new polish which is required to appreciate it. 
• Upsides: in my opinion not many. It's not younger than Shinto. The Boshi doesn't follow the Choji pattern, and while this isn't a 100% foolproof sign of Shinto+ it does bod very ill. But this is enough to rule out the Koto Bizen golden goose in my opinion. 

[TheGermanBastard]

Even at Shinto or Shinshinto it may be a pretty good sword. If Shinto Suriage, O-Suriage Mumei or lesser guy it went for retauil but no bargain ... if signed by a good smith it was a bargain. We will likely never know.

[SAS]

I was hoping to see more of this sword....bummer. Watch any public cutting competition in Japan; they all have someone straightening swords after bad cuts to allow resheathing. Bends without shinae and cracks are easy to fix.

[dwmc]

I agree Nick...$2600 + roll of the dice. Not even a peek at nakago? Blade suddenly found to be bent "after" close of auction. Let it go...

 

Still hope the sword shows up on the board sometime though...

 

Dave M.

[Blazeaglory]

I can't really tell frm pics but does this sword have a kaku-mune?