interesting tsuba

[historian2]

Here is a copper tsuba, can't figure out what the design represents.

Erich

[historian2]

more

[historian2]

close up.

[Curgan]

probably a sheaf of wheat/rice/grain tied together

[Brian]

Doesn't look like a real mei to me (or a real tsuba?)

Hope I am wrong.

 

Brian

[raven2]

I am afraid I am with Brian, it doesn't look like it authentic to me.

[sanjuro]

I'm with Brian and Raven 2 on this I'm afraid. Theres something (actually a few things) that don't seem 'quite right'.

[Ford Hallam]

I'd suggest this is the work of an "enthusiastic amateur" probably Japanese and not originally made to deceive.

 

regards,

 

ford

[Pete Klein]

I believe this along with the hawk/small birds tsuba we often see and others are late Edo pieces of cast brass. They were probably manufactured in numbers and sold either for use or souvenir. This one has too much dirt around the seppadai (which is clean) to make me believe it is of current production. The mei is most likely of no relevance.