We are all collectors but what was the the Nihonto piece you sold and now regret?

[Kantaro]

We are all collectors but what was the the Nihonto piece you sold and now regret?

 

I am sure almost everybody has something like that?

 

Add a pic if you still have one...and do tell why you regret it now.

 

Kind regards.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Normally I do not think about blades that are gone, but now that you bring up the subject, there are several. Not actually sure now why I sold them.

 

One was a papered Sue So-Shu tanto in red koshirae with matching shinchu fittings. Every yellow-green part, including the kozuka and wari-kogai was original to the piece, and each part bore the same Mon. I sold it at auction more out of curiosity to see what it would fetch, but it went for almost exactly what I bought it for, and I think it must have then gone over to China. All I gained from the liaison was the sweet memory. Would I ever find something similar again?

 

Now you've got me wishing again that I still had it! 

 

[Matsunoki]

I have owned  this sumptuous wakizashi twice and each time got tempted by bigger and bigger offers when I really didn’t need to. Last seen going through Sothebys I think. Truly beautiful and extremely high quality koshirae on a mint Kanefusa  hirazukuri blade. By far the most luxuriously mounted sword I’ve ever owned.   In perfect condition. 

I still kick myself. 
Anyone know where it is?

 

[Brian]

Sold a fairly average civilian mounted Gendaito that I adored because it had some really interesting activity.
10 Years later when my friend retired and sold his collection of knives, I bought it back. It's here with me again.

[Lareon]

16 minutes ago, Brian said:

Sold a fairly average civilian mounted Gendaito that I adored because it had some really interesting activity.
10 Years later when my friend retired and sold his collection of knives, I bought it back. It's here with me again.

nice to have a reunion story.

Unfortunately I'm the opposite, I pick swords up and never let them go even if i should. 

[Rayhan]

Never regretted a sale as it helped pay for something better down the line.

[Bruce Pennington]

A 1939 Mantetsu Koa Isshin, in a thick combat saya with the "airborne", or Kite, sarute.  But it went to a good man, so I miss it, but don't regret it.

 

[DirkO]

For me it's a Kunitsugu unokubi zukuri naginata of 53 cm, where the first 40 cm is double edged, which is quite rare.  A very elegant piece, wonder where it ended up.

 

 

[Shugyosha]

Nope, glad they’re all gone. 

[Baka Gaijin]

The Honjo Masamune....... (but please be discrete,  just between you and I....)

 

The one I let slip away in a moment of Financial weakness and regretted it ever since was a lovely slightly tired Koto Blade in Shirasaya with a sayagaki by Inami Hakusui and one of his "Speculative Origami" attributing in to Kanemitsu, dating it to Oei 1 (1394) and valuing it at 150 Gold Mai.

 

I'd bought it from one of the Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing Sales, and later learned that it had been in BW Robinson's collection.

 

Such is life.......

 

We are merely Prawns in its subtle game. 

[The Blacksmith]

I bought a massive and stunning wakizashi at the Sir Frank Bowden sale at Christies in 1982, also in shirasaya, which I really like. Tsuda Echizen no Kami Sukehiro, and dated Enpo go nen, 1677, also with origami by Inami Hakusui, with a value of 600 gold mai IIRC. The stunning blade was obviously gimei, but it was massive, perfect and I adored it. Unfortunately life changed and it went.

This was one of the blades exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in 1968.