NC/Online Auction

[mattr]

If anyone is interested in doing a little prospecting it looks like there are a few katana and a wakizashi up on a North Carolinian auctioneer's site:

 

http://bit.ly/cEEQjc (URL Shortened for convenience)

 

Interestingly to me it looks like the two blades w/o koshirae had some sort of window polished in them. There is a fuzzy picture of the mei on #2 down a little ways in the pictures.

 

Minimum bid only $100 :D

[Stephen]

Matt

 

maybe Kanetaka...

 

id like to know the other side of the mei on the Gunto Masafusa, if anyone or Nobody cares too.

 

http://www.auctionflex.com/showlot.ap?c ... on&lang=En

[george trotter]

Stephen,

it says presented to Mr Mabuchi Ta ? ichi by the Yue? homefront association

 

Regards,

George.

I don't see any sho/seki stamp, but it does have the large stamp under the mei...probably Showato.

[george trotter]

PS...mei on loose blade may be Moritaka...there was a modern smith named Miyake Moritaka and Hawley lists one in Kumamoto...whether they are the same man...or this man, I don't know.

Geo.

[ottou812]

Stephen,

it says presented to Mr Mabuchi Ta ? ichi by the Yue? homefront association

 

Regards,

George.

I don't see any sho/seki stamp, but it does have the large stamp under the mei...probably Showato.

 

Isn't that where the kokuin normally goes if a blade has one at all?

[george trotter]

James,

you are correct...at first, because these stamps overlap each other, I wasn't sure of what they were...it appears that one is a stamp used by Masafusa to indicate "Shinganeiri" and the other is a patent registration stamp (see page 65 and 98 in Slough). Slough calles this a kokuin, but it seems more like an industrial patent thingie. This Shoda Masafusa was a Rikugun Jumei Tosho who made gendaito, but he also made Showato it seems, as this one states on the tang, in kobuse style forging. This may be showato as it is nakirishimei...but possibly better than average in quality.

Regards,

George,

[george trotter]

just had a look through the gendaito books...the loose blade is Moritaka...Ono 1971 Gendai Toko Taikan p.104/5 has him in Kumamoto and Slough p.117/8 has him...2 million yen...very good gendaitosho...this blade is pretty poor, but for a few dollars may be worth a risk for a local member to buy and polish.

regards,

George.