Thierry BERNARD

Charlie would have some difficulties to remove / remount the handle :laughabove: :rofl:

HI I recently bought two tsuba from yahoo.jp using buyee services, the price of each one is around 200000 JPY usually I don't have any problems exporting tsuba but with these ones they where returned from Japanese customs with mention "Package returned: Insufficient documentation" I asked to join pictures of theses tsuba with the package but it was returned again ! I supppose the reason for retaining these tsuba is the price and because it's a sword related item, but I am not really sure about the reason!! http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/17784-i-need-help-from-one-of-our-members-residing-in-Japan-for-exporting-two-tsuba/

if you can help me please send me a PM!! Regards

Modern work

I want to share my latest acquisition just for the eyes pleasure! ( hope you will like it )

I bought almost 10 tsuba ( perhaps a little more ) from Grey's shop and i never be disappointed with them,.Most of them will remain in my collection for a long time

This one is a poor quality cast copy!

http://www.nihonto.us/MASAYOSHI%20SERPENT%20TSUBA.htm

Hi two of my Shozui (hamano) tsuba

(応仁) Onin

Hi Thomas (and Stephen beat me too) yes all these tsuba are authentic but for the price of each of them i think you can have better ones

the second one 古刀銘盡大全 / 古刀銘尽大全 Kotō-mei-zukushi-taizen （1792） written by Ogi Hirokuni (仰木弘邦)

bonjour Rodriguez avec la deuxieme photo dans le bon sens c'est plus facile! et dans la bonne section du forum

Hi Jason unfortunately i am not very confident about the authenticity of this tsuba, it look like a chinese cast copy!!!

be careful with a member which do not signs his post!

Hi this option exist at the bottom of the page : "Mark Community Read"

My guess is Aizu Shoami!

komonjo

received my copy today. I want to thanks Markus for his great work

tsuba 39 Size : 82x75.9x4.6 mm Material : iron Price : SOLD tsuba 49 Size : 75x70.6x4.5 mm Material : iron Price : 225$+shipping tsuba 52 Size : 85.8x79.5x4 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 64 Size : 78.4x74.2x4.1 mm Material : iron Price : 400$+shipping tsuba 67 Size : 74.4x67.4x5 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 77 Size : 74.5x67.9x3.6 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 110 Size : 66.7x60.8x3.1 mm Material : iron + tsuba 111 Size : 52x39.8x3.5 mm Material : iron Price : 250$+shipping

Hi Keith I apologize if I offended or ridiculize you , believe me it absolutely wasn't my intention, I just found funny associating modern art with soft lines or rafined detail! I find this tsuba very well done, if you look at the detail of the flowers you see that the tsubashi is skilled, and the way mantis , bug and dragonfly are carved is in perfect concordance with Mino (Goto) style. so my goal is :if a skilled tsubashi carve the dragonfly this way, it's intentionally to match the style of his school PS : by the way, keep in mind that english isn't our native language, and that we are not necessary very fluent with foreign language, sometime our words not necessary follow our mind

tsuba 39 Size : 82x75.9x4.6 mm Material : iron Price : 225$+shipping tsuba 49 Size : 75x70.6x4.5 mm Material : iron Price : 225$+shipping tsuba 52 Size : 85.8x79.5x4 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 64 Size : 78.4x74.2x4.1 mm Material : iron Price : 400$+shipping tsuba 67 Size : 74.4x67.4x5 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 77 Size : 74.5x67.9x3.6 mm Material : iron Price : 200$+shipping tsuba 110 Size : 66.7x60.8x3.1 mm Material : iron + tsuba 111 Size : 52x39.8x3.5 mm Material : iron Price : 250$+shipping

Hi Franco take a look on NMB "Interesting book, article and .pdf downloads" viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2549 you will probably find some interesting info you haven't seen before!! (and this book)

Good Job Grev It will be very useful as we can't search by kanji in the CD ROM version of the index!