Old Katana signed in WW2 koshirae

[Sunny]

Signed - Taikei Naotane with Kao 

Dated - 文政十一年仲春 - Bunsei 11th year (1828) mid spring

Blade size - 

Nagasa: 64.2 cm.  Sori: 0.6 cm. 

Moto-haba: 2.9 cm.  Saki-haba: 1.9 cm.

Moto-gasane: 0.6 cm.  Saki-gasane: 0.4 cm.

Hamon -Suguha with O-notare

Asking $5000 CAN but open to a reasonable offer.

Only serious buying inquiries for more photos please.

Either quote or DM please.

 

Info on smith - 

Naotane, born Shoji Minobei in 1778 or 1779 at Yamagata
in Dewa province, considering from his title Taikei used at a later date,
his birthday is possibly 15th July, went to Edo
and become a pupil of Suishinshi Masahide.
The Akimoto family in Yamagata province retained Naotane around 1812.
Naotane got the title Chikuzen-Daijo in 1821and stepped up to

the Mino (No) Kami in 1848.

As building up a solid reputation,
he got many invitations to forge sword in various places.
He added the name of place to inscribe the signature.
Naotane passed away in 1857, aged 79.
Naotane could make a variety of styles : Bizen-den, Soshu-den,
Yamashiro-den and Yamato-den.
He was good at Bizen-den and Soshu-den in particular.
His swords are ranked at the highest rank called Saijo-saku
in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Especially his swords forged in the Tempo era (1830 to 1844)
called Tempo-uchi are highly appreciated as his best examples attained maturity.

 

 

 

[Bruce Pennington]

Nice example of an older blade re-mounted for the war.  Good luck with the sale.

[Sunny]

2 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Nice example of an older blade re-mounted for the war.  Good luck with the sale.

Once again thank you so much for the kind words of encouragement Bruce.

Hopefully it will find a good home soon.

[Sunny]

price bump ...... $3800 Canadian dollars 

[Kolekt-To]

54 minutes ago, Steven Edmund said:

price bump ...... $3800 Canadian dollars 

$3800.00 CAD = $3026.88 USD. For potential buyers in the U.S. Good luck with the sale Steven! Definitely looks like a quality piece.

[Sunny]

4 hours ago, Kolekt-To said:

$3800.00 CAD = $3026.88 USD. For potential buyers in the U.S. Good luck with the sale Steven! Definitely looks like a quality piece.

Thanks for the complements and the exchange info.

I've been having a problem with PayPal taking a larger exchange cut and then buyers having to pay again when asking for the price in US and coming up short so this way they can see they are sending me exactly what I want in Canadian instead for the US dollar being up or down as well as PayPal exchange being different than The Bank Of Canada.

Hopefully someone will grab it soon before I have second thoughts and keep it.

Soon I won't need the money anymore due to payment coming for another sword and I'll probably pull it.

Most of the blades by this smith sell for more than $1 000 000 Yen on AOI sword museum and those sales were many years ago.

Cheers

 

[Sunny]

Going once 

[Sunny]

going twice 

[Stephen]

Whats current price? Hold for few hours please researching.

[Stephen]

Helping buyer i know its tad over his budget...but hes in Canada so maybe you can work something out.

[Stephen]

Steven maybe post the Aoi page...it might help here. For now im out!

[Sunny]

23 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Steven maybe post the Aoi page...it might help here. For now im out!

Thanks so much Stephen and I appreciate all the help.

I hope you get some good rest and may your day be brighter tomorrow.

Cheers brother.

[Sunny]

This may help a few peoples decision or ...not ?

The file marks on both sides are next to identical.

The ending of the date the last 3 kanji is notched the same size and direction kanji size ect.

The name is fairly similar however if you look at all the papered swords from this smith on AOI they do differ a lot from each other due to different schools and timeframes.

If this sword were papered it wouldn't be for sale.

Wether I sell this sword or not It will be coming down soon due to my window of buying a sword I want.

Thanks for viewing everyone.

Last call is $3000 Canadian

[Sunny]

Fire sale 

$2400 CAN

[Sunny]

SOLD