Tsuba Ideas please

[Mark Green]

Hi Gang,

Here is a new one I picked up for a project. The rim is a bit more beat up than you could see in the dealers pics, but I still like it. Any ideas would be great.

Looks like silver in the sukashi.

Thanks in advance.

mark G

[Rich T]

Hi Mark, my guess would be early to mid Edo period Myochin. The 4 inome doo look to have silver nunome I agree

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Mark Green]

Thanks Rich,

From all the research I did last week on your Tsuba, that was what I was thinking as well.

Thanks

Mark G

[historian2]

Nice tsuba...erich

[Steve Waszak]

Hi Mark,

 

An interesting tsuba here... Do you have the dimensions on this one, including seppa-dai and mimi thickness?

 

Also, it's a little hard to make out from the photos how the surface reads... Is there a lacquer or other surface treatment at work here? Is there surface rust damage that has been cleaned up...? Is there evidence of folding in the nakago-ana?

 

Not sure what to make of the big notch in the rim, either... What is the nature of this notch? Does it read as damage caused by a blow of some sort? It's frankly a rather curious "blemish," I think...

 

Thanks for posting...

 

Cheers,

 

Steve

[Mark Green]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the look, yes it is an interesting Tsuba.

Here are the sizes: 8.1/3 4/8 long, 7.6/ 3" wide,

na- 3cmx1cm x3.5 mm

s-d 2.2 cm

mimi, 4.5 mm

I got out the mag glass today, and scraped a bit with my thumb nail, and it has has some lacquer or thick wax on it. there seems to be a very small amount of active rust. I have some old piniao keys that I have used on other tsuba. Should I try this on the rust and the old Lacquer?

Not sure about any folding. see pics.

The damage, at close inspection, does look like it could have been a very hard hit, or two.

I have done pics, as good as I could holding the Tsuba in one hand and the cam in the other.

Or it could have just been a forging flaw, but I would think it would have been scraped.

Hard to say. I will clean it up some, and we shall see some more.

Mark G