Wakisashi help. First buy???

[gardehusar]

Hello guy, i have been looking around the forum for some time, but now it's time to write.

 

I'm thinking about buying a Wakisazhi, but, i'm not really sure about it, so was hoping you guys could help me finding out more about this sword :-)

 

First the pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, the guy is selling this on an auctionhouse on the internet.

The details(as he claims)

Steel should be Tamahagane, the sword is produced in the 1800.

Nagasa: 52 cm.

Sori: ca. 1.8 cm.

Tsuka: 18 cm.

Total længede 73 cm.

 

He wants 2472$ for the piece.

 

Now, can you tell me anything about this? and is this a good buy???

 

Hope someone can help, cause this may be my first buy :-)

 

Johnny Danner Danielsen

Denmark

[cabowen]

Maybe just the photo but the mei looks like it was cut yesterday....

[gardehusar]

Hmm pretty sure it's just the picture

[Grey Doffin]

Hard to tell much from these photos, but the price seems high to me: tsuka-ito is frayed and the tsuba is unexciting. I could be wrong because I can't tell much about the blade. Is that the sword's papers at the back? If so, do you know what it says and who issued them? If I'm not wrong, at that price I'd be surprised if you couldn't do better.

Grey

[sanjuro]

For all the reasons already given, you could do better. This is an unremarkable piece for a quite high price.

Chris has a good point with the mei, too clean, too fresh, compared to the rest of the nakago.

[gardehusar]

Ok. Thank you guys, i wont buy it :-)

 

Just wanned an second opinion: :-)

 

About the papers in the back ground, it's the guys Bujikan papers.