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  • Birthday 08/02/1955

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    I have been collecting nihonto since I was about 15 years old . In the days before the internet I was able to purchase a lot of swords from soldiers who bought them home from the war. Of course most of these were of pretty low quality but the occasional gem did pop out .I like quality blades in quality mounts but these are pretty hard to come by.
    I have probably handled several thousand swords over the years and have owned a couple of hundred . I currently have about fifty in my collection.
    My collecting highlight has been purchasing and identifying the Norishige katana which is one of the missing Japanese National treasures and then having my article on the sword translated into Japanese by the NBTHK and published in their journal

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  1. Ian B3HR2UH
    Your initial photos showed the menuki well . To my mind they looked cast and not very crisp but it is hard to tell from photos . Our member Chishiki has some papered gold menuki and if he reads this I hope he will comment
  2. Ian B3HR2UH
    And what did you learn ? Hopefully not to mess with the koshirae next time
  3. Ian B3HR2UH
    The mounts are exactly what you would expect from something made in the 1860s and not from something made in the 1940s. Let's not drift off into fantasy land though with talk about executioners swords
  4. Ian B3HR2UH
    Alex why don't you try and find a showa piece that is straight and 75 cm long ?
  5. Ian B3HR2UH
    If it was a showa era piece it wouldn't be that shape nor would it be 75cm long . Barry's opinion is correct .
  6. Ian B3HR2UH
    You would need to post a picture showing the full tang and signature to get more information . I am certain that you will be told what others have previously told you namely that the signature is a fake one.
  7. Ian B3HR2UH
    It looks unlike any " samurai " saddle that I have seen . They should look like those in Piers's link or the following
  8. Ian B3HR2UH
    Why do you think this is a box for a sword rather than a box for something else ?
  9. Ian B3HR2UH
    Attached is the catalogue entry for the Sa Hiroyuki / Kunihiro daisho . Also a couple of others being a ko Aoi Kanetsugu which was a National treasure at the time and also the Meibutsu Hocho Masamune which was Juyo bijutsuhin at the time and is now Kokuho.
  10. Ian B3HR2UH
    Here are some Naval officers belts . The top one is a senior officers ( Lt Commander to Captain ) full dress belt for Medical officers . The central one is another full dress belt for senior line officers and the bottom one is the standard service belt .
  11. Ian B3HR2UH
    I have seen one of these onshi swords in the flesh and a few in photos . The one I handled had a gold foil habaki and the characters were placed centrally on the habaki . My recollection is that those I have seen in photos had the same characteristics although I stand to be corrected on this . The cheap looking habaki and odd placement of the characters on this one raise a red flag for me .
  12. Ian B3HR2UH
    I had a quick look through my catalogue and found the Norimitsu. As Lewis said he liked his daisho . Attached is a daisho from the catalogue which has both blades by Hankei .
  13. Ian B3HR2UH
    I don't think your sword is a late war piece . I think it is a real 19th or possibly early 20th century sword of low quality. The pocket for a kozuka would not appear on a late war piece . The quality of the seppa also points to this being real
  14. Ian B3HR2UH
    You are really fortunate to have a sword with that provenance . Does the koshirae that was sold with it in 1937 still exist ? Count Ito's collection must have been huge . I have a catalogue from another of his sales in 1937 . This sale amongst other pieces contained one of the Hocho Masamune that is now a National Treasure as well as a Mitsutada and a Bitchu Tsugunao which are Juyo Bunkazai . There is a write up on a couple of Count Ito's swords in the NBTHK English edition Vol 37
  15. Ian B3HR2UH
    I have two canvas field belts which are in the attached photo . Last weekend I saw another one with what I suspect is a pretty unusual feature . It had a small leather pocket on it which had a small bamboo mekugi nuki still in it . Has anyone else seen this feature? Does anyone have any idea what the strapped leather piece ,in the middle of the lower belt in the top photo, might have been used for?
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