Ontario_Archaeology

Sounds like you might have some real grails in your collection! Including this mantetsu. Really beautiful.

Congrats on the rare kyu! Glad it's in the forum community.

Colonel field grade tassel is SOLD

SOLD!

the Navy Kyu Gunto Mantetsu sold for 5.5k CAD. it was a 1938 and had the sought after stamp though. I don't think this is a collapse of the market rather there were not two people looking for a Mantetsu right now

1500 CAD

Sold, can remove listing

I am sure you could find one on Ebay, maybe the million dollar "sword" from scamurai monkey

I sent that to Bruce in DMs. He stated that it has popped up several times, and he keeps changing the mounts on it.

Sold Pending Funds

Navy kyu gunto tassel sold.

Sent you one back!

Navy Kyu Gunto Tassel Sold Pending funds Company Grade Tassel is sold.

Company Grade Tassel sold pending funds.

I do not know what exactly is going on with this piece, Discussion as always is welcome. Here is the original auction I purchased it from https://buyee.jp/ite...o/auction/m451389644 Price is 700 CAD plus shipping a donation will be made to the board once it is sold.

Last photo isn't mine, it is from the auction. Can't find my own photo of the tang off hand! Big Dirk, Little Dirk....

My collection goals are changing and I need to free up some funds for some other projects. Please help me by purchasing these boxed tassels! We have a navy Kyu Gunto - 350 CAD - SOLD A Colonel field grade tassel - 700 CAD A company grade - 350 CAD - SOLD And last but not least a a police knot - 300 CAD Any discussion about the items is welcome as always. Upon sale of these tassels a donation will be made to the board. If you want to bundle a few, let me know and I am sure we can work out a deal!

Price drop to 1800 CAD!!

I love fat dirks and I cannot lie

Bumping this with a bad photo to motivate myself to take better photos to add to this thread. Hopefully it will inspire more people to show off their dirks

For Sale is a Navy Kyu Gunto Koshirae with a mon. 2000.00 Canadian, open to offers. If you have any question or anyone has any comments about the item ALL IS WELCOME. More transparency on my sales the better. Here is the link to the auction I purchased it from on buyee.... https://buyee.jp/ite...o/auction/g484750055 Price is 2000.00 CAD. Offers welcome. Might consider including shipping depending on where it is going. Upon Sale a 50 dollar donation will go to the board. Koshirae total length: approx. 98cm [Scabbard] Total length: approx. 76.5cm Curvature: approx. 1.7cm Saya mouth: Height approx. 31.2mm Wide side approx. 9.9mm Width narrow side approx. 4.9mm Depth of sword: Approx. 71cm [Handle] Total length: Approx. 20cm Edge size: Height approx. 3.5cm Width approx. 2cm Height approx. 1.2cm Handle opening: Height approx. 22.3mm Width approx. 5.9mm Width narrow approx. 1.2mm Depth of stem: approx. 15cm

Here is one on ebay, if someone wants to take the images off the listing and out it here that would be appreciated https://www.ebay.com...r=artemis&media=COPY

This sword is found in the Dawson book, a lot of info about it should be here.

bad fake tassel, closest thing it could resemble is the "general/ admiral" rank navy tassel. Although I only think there are one or two kicking around that are known of.

Here is my JNR example