R. E. Haynes Auction Catalog Information Request

[Soshin]

I am researching for educational purposes only a new iron tsuba I picked up at the 2023 DTI show in Tokyo last November. Does anyone have any old photos or scans of R. E. Haynes Auction Catalog #7, Sept. 25, 1983, pg. 48-49? It would be a tremendous help to my research. Thank you very much in advance. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.      

[Shugyosha]

Hi David,

I believe I have it. I'll need to look it out but I'll post pictures of the pages on this thread later today or first thing tomorrow UK time if that's OK. PM me if you'd rather have them sent that way.

[Shugyosha]

Hi David, here you are- I hope the pics are good enough for what you need, if not let me know and I’ll try again. 

[Soshin]

Thank you so much John @Shugyosha . This is extremely helpful. I am researching the so called wide mei Nobuie in The Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artist by Robert E. Haynes entry ID# H 07074.0 on page 1389. I am still working on photos I took on Monday.    

[Shugyosha]

My pleasure. Somewhere, I'm sure I have an old book on Nobuie somewhere - when I say old, I mean that the illustrations are oshigata rather than photos and it's in Japanese. I don't know how much use it would be but I'm happy to dig it out and see what's inside if you like.

 

Edit: I'm pretty sure that it's this one from Grey's website, that's where I got mine from anyway.

 

https://www.Japanese...hu-with-translation/

[Geraint]

Dear David.

 

I'm sure you know this already but on the off chance that you have not come across it, https://www.shibuisw...com/nobu----iye.html

 

All the best.

 

[Soshin]

@Shugyosha John J. thanks again for your support and additional information. @Geraint Thanks for the helpful weblink. I remember reading it a while back but at the time I didn't have a wide mei Nobuie tsuba examples in my collection. Therefore, my study was not very tangible. Here is a photo of my new tsuba I picked up at 2023 DTI. It was unpapered and affordability priced as the NBTHK consider all wide mei Nobuie tsuba as having a fake signature (gimei 偽銘). (This might have changed so please correct me if I am wrong.) Notice the wide placement of the Kanji at top and bottom ends of the (seppa-dai 切羽台) area.    

 

 

 

        

[Soshin]

As a quick follow-up to this topic. I contacted Elliot Long, and he shared the photos of this tsuba with Robert Haynes directly. They have both confirmed that my tsuba is a 'wide-spaced' Nobuie ID# H 07074.0.

 

https://www.shibuisw...com/nobu----iye.html