kolhoznik

I am in Georgia and I would probably attend.

I was going to buy a katana about two years ago but I am glad I decided to wait. I did a lot of reading on this forum and other places and saved my pennies. I just now made a first purchase and I'm very glad I waited because I can appreciate what I purchased a lot more and this board introduced me to sellers I could trust (thanks Mark Jones!). A katana is an expensive purchase even at the low end that I could afford and a little patience will be time well invested.

That coin in the center of the dish is worth a few hundred dollars. It is a Chinese silver dollar minted in the early 20th century during the late Imperial or early Republic period. These were minted by province. That alone would almost have paid for the auction.

I can tell you that the Stacked Cannonball stamp blow the tsuba is for the Tokyo Arsenal.

I'm going to have to start working third shift here in the United States so I can be awake for these deals

Does anyone know of any Nihonto sellers who are having any Black Friday / Christmas sales either currently going on or will be happening in the near future?

Merci Francois

I have not used buyee before. Is it comparable to ebay or a complete free for all?

Seconds please if the sale falls through.

Does anyone else see flea bites in the edge of the blade?

Thank you Hawley

Peter, If you do have a site with pictures of the swords please post the URL. It would be very interesting to me also to see these blades. Mike

Also during the warlord era in China several Spanish companies made c96 look alikes that had almost identical external appearances but had some internal mechanical differences

After looking through swords in the catalog many of the descriptions say a sword is attributed to... does this mean that these swords are papered to the particular smith or that the cataloger is just saying what the mei reads?

I for one have found the comments of collectors who are more experienced than myself to be helpful. It helps me to train my eye to see what is good about a sword. Also the comments have helps with understanding pricing in the nihonto market.