Ebay Tanto

[Type99]

Opinions please on this ebay offering.

Thanks Dow C

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

[Veli]

Hi!

 

The blade seems to have been "polished" by unorthodox means (fine sandpaper?), so you should be prepared to pay the cost for polishing (1 kUSD). Furthermore, you should accept the usual risk that hidden faults may be found during the polishing process. The hamon is quite narrow already...

 

Papered and polished blades are always the safest - and usually the cheapest.

 

BR, Veli

[John A Stuart]

A late Koto blade, Muromachi period. If you buy this you need to have it polished. I'll have to take the sellers word that its Kaneaki. looked like Kaneichi. John

[Mark]

i remember seeing this in hand at a few shows, as i recall it did not sell due to the price and what restoration would cost and what you would have when done. The temperline was "uninteresting" the shape was nothing special and maker is noone of note. Seems it was priced at around $1100 so with polish, papers, etc you would end up with maybe 3k (US$) in it and for that you can buy something already done, plus you have the worry of problems coming out when polished. I will bet the reserve is even higher than the price at the show so i doubt i would consider it a bargan but if it were $6-700 when i had seen it i think i would have bought it..... anyway just my opinion, i bet it sells for a lot more, the seller seems to get unbelivable prices for his swords

[Stephen]

that its Kaneaki. looked like Kaneichi. John

 

may be wrong but i see Kanetsune

[Veli]

Hard to see. If it is Kaneaki, it must be 兼杲.

 

BR, Veli

[Type99]

Thanks for the replies this seller also sells German bayonets at unbelivable prices too. I won a French bayonet off him awhile back and found him to be very pleasant to deal with and fast in shipping. I too have problems with the blade condition. We shall see how high the bids go on this Tanto.

Dow C

[Marius]

Thanks for the replies this seller also sells German bayonets

 

he seems to confuse tanto with a bayonette. You don't clean the former with sandpaper

[drbvac]

nor the latter if you think anything of them @!!