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Shark skin tsuba?


PacificRim

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Greetings,

 

I just purchased a type 19 from an online auction. The blade appeared to be a machine made blade but it’s razor sharp. The seller did not know the history of the sword so he cleaned the hilt, which made the patina disappeared. The tsuba is wrapped with a dark smooth material, not sure if it’s shark skin, and the scabbard has two hangers, the lower one is removable. I paid $750 including S&H, is it a good price? Thanks.

 

Best regards,

 

Alex

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Hi Alex,

 

It may be a typom but Tsuba usually refers to the guard, the hilt is usually referred  to as the Tsuka, but there may be a variant name for the type.

 

The material looks like a fine rayskin, which is often referred to as sharkskin.

 

It reminds me of the saya (scabbard) covering of the Naval Type Tachi Gunto of 1937 - 1945 (which is smoothed and then lacquered).

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