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  1. J Reid
    Starting bids are wayyyyy too high. What's with all the wakizashi in oversized koshirae? Haha
  2. J Reid
    Yeah that is where I was heading with my opinion. I read somewhere once (can't remember source) that collecting heads by quantity became a big trend and that fallen soldiers of little worth were scalped instead of decapitated. I could see some "dedicated" samurai hunters having a blade like this on their person during battle. But hey?! looks like a garden tool too.. It could have possibly developed from the nata or vice versa.. like the ninja Kama etc.
  3. J Reid
    Short video sums it up! http://www.tameshigiri.ca/2014/03/26/smithsonian-video-samurai-taking-heads/
  4. J Reid
    Scalping was as common as beheading a fallen combatant. It was much easier to carry 30 scalps than heads. Samurai were notorious for collecting heads/scalps to prove their success in battle. This shape would surely be easier to use than another blade type.
  5. J Reid
    Agreed.. O-Suriage by about a foot. The hi in Nakago show that the blade had decent saki-sori. Boshi is koto. I strongly think early Muromachi mino with Gimei fuyuhiro attribution.
  6. J Reid
    The main issue with the sword is that the Nakago has been vigorously cleaned.
  7. J Reid
    If you recently purchased something- Check your packaging. Return address and # should be there. Or you could just ask him via eBay messages? He's a pretty straight forward dealer.
  8. J Reid
    Come to CANADA ????????!! ???? The home of the free!
  9. J Reid
    For $3500 you could dig up a papered and polished piece on eBay.. or from AOI! I see them all the time. Why would you consider buying a questionable blade at that price point? Maybe if it was $1000-$1500.. but even then, personally, I would struggle to go for it. I would rather go for a nice wakizashi. Hold on to your money and keep searching! The market is at an all time low. Take advantage of that.
  10. J Reid

    Gendai Or Showa-To

    J Reid replied to Kojiro1's topic in Nihonto

    I see hada and bright nie. I'd say Gendaito, confidently.
  11. J Reid
    The Japanese have been always been creative with their blades. I honestly feel like sometimes there just isn't an answer.. or a classification. Check out this European influenced "pirate sword" a friend had me research a couple years back. Gimei sadamune.
  12. J Reid
    sold!
  13. J Reid
    $775. Final price drop guys. Thanks!
  14. J Reid
    Bump!
  15. J Reid
    Thanks for all the kind words guys! I have listed my lowest price, however I would really like to sell this wakizashi sooner rather than later so I'm open to any reasonable offers, or trades/partial trades. Any interested parties please don't hesitate to pm me.
  16. J Reid
    pricing this as low as I can. $875!
  17. J Reid
    Thanks Joe!! I'm sure who ever goes for it will be very pleased.
  18. J Reid
    Ah! The pictures were on the other duplicate post that was removed. Well here they are again. Thanks for pointing that out.
  19. J Reid
    Bump and price drop $995 ..Motivated to sell. Offers welcome!
  20. J Reid
    Thanks for pointing that out Ken!
  21. J Reid
    Yes.. apparently I did haha. Oops! How did I even do that? Can I get one of those deleted, dearest mods?
  22. J Reid
    For sale is a muromachi period wakizashi in shirasaya signed "bishu osafune sukesada". 2 mekugi Ana. Mokume hada with areas of itame and Masame. Dark steel tone. Boshi is present however it is thin. Gunome-Midare hamon is clouded. Overall shape is good. Polish is old but ji is still clear. There are a few areas of minor kizu. Guaranteed against hagire. Sori 1.2" Nagasa 17.75" Nakago 4.8" Moto-Kasane 0.7 Saki-kasane 0.3 Moto-haba 30mm Saki-haba 21mm $1150 OBO Payment within 24 hours by PayPal & fees paid by buyer. Also willing to do a partial trade as payment. Thanks!
  23. J Reid
    I think the NBTHK is wrong. They got the blade after benson repatinated the nakago. That's probably why they think it's a shinshinto utsushi. Benson says that he removed new file marks from the nakago and repatinated it. However before doing so he said there was remanents of "blue" rust. He also says that he thought the blade was older based on the health of the blade. I would take the opinion of benson over the NBTHK based on these details.
  24. J Reid
    The mei looks suspect in my opinion. There are many differences in the strokes between the test compared to the rest. It looks rather fresh too. But what does the blade tell you? Is the workmanship in line with the smith?
  25. J Reid
    Looks great!
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