Kane(suke)?

[Bruce Pennington]

What do you think, guys? 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Maybe Kanemichi?

[Ray Singer]

Do you have access to a clearer image? Perhaps Kaneharu (兼治). There were three Seki smiths signing Kaneharu during the war. 

[The Blacksmith]

If not a clearer picture, then perhaps an oshigata may be clearer?

[ROKUJURO]

Nicely focused photos made on a dark background for better contrast will be helpful.

[Bruce Pennington]

19 hours ago, Ray Singer said:

Perhaps Kaneharu (兼治)

Yes, that is more likely, thank you.

 

These are from an auction house, so best I have. 

 

I just checked some other Kaneharu on file and they match pretty well.

[Kiipu]

I had to dig into this one as I was puzzled by the first character.  The last name Mori is a single character yet this has two characters preceding Kaneharu. I had to use this older NMB thread from 2012 to figure out what the first character was.  Special thanks to @k morita for the character identification.

Nantoka Kanenori

 

Translation

関森兼治 = Seki Mori Kaneharu [with partial 昭 stamp above?]

 

Old to New

Looks more like the new version than the old one; however, ....

關 = 関

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