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Thanks to everybody that participated!

One new addition in sake of new years eve... and a new camera lens buy for holidays: a very lovely goto crab and lotus kozuka! More details here: https://www.tosogu.de/goto-crab-kozuka By the way, I decided that NMB members will get 10% discount off the website price on all things I list for sale Best, Marco

Hey guys, Thank you for the feedback and kind words, also those reaching out via Mail. @Brian Thanks for that idea, I will add an adequate page, however, this shall not be a selling page in the first place as I am and want to remain just a collector that likes to photograph, share pieces and from time to time sell one or another item from his collection for new buys

Thanks for the great response and everyone who bid! Less than 36 hours remaining now, so your chance now to participate

Hi Everyone, as some of you already saw, I set up a new website to share some pieces from my collection, mostly Tosogu, but sometimes also Nihonto. I will continuously update the site, add more details and more items to all sections. I will try to update this thread when something new is added and hope that it gives us all some good references and/or nice discussions. Thanks also to Brian for adding it to the NMB Link section www.tosogu.de Feedback always appreciated and best regards, Marco

Interesting story and finding, though I have to admit I am almost equally impressed by the colour palette of that rust

Hey guys, after some time I am back to the hobby and once again I want to part with a small fitting for the sake of NMB, let's not forget how much joy and information we all got from NMB! It's a lot of time, work and money invested by Brian and all moderators. Therefore here some minor tosogu for sale which was laying around in my drawer. Iron ground kozuka with brass inlay, surely not a high quality piece but a nice small gift, for example to encourage young fellows to this hobby Price is 30 Dollars or whoever bids more here or via pm until 31st december 23:59 Berlin time. All proceeds go to NMB and worldwide shipping is on me! Also, feel free to have a look at my new project which will be continuously updated, happy about any feedback! www.tosogu.de Best regards and have a joyful time! Marco

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Iron Tsuba, Art treasures of Japan and Tsukamaki are sold

Hi everyone, I offer many more books here for sale, all of them worth reading in my humble opinion. Prices etc. on the pictures, Please Inquire with any questions. Best, Marco

Dear Jean, that's true, but my taste in sweet "Spätlese" wine rarely finds me compatible drinking partners... But of course there are always a few dozen bottles in the basement ready for guests

Thank you so much guys for your participation! Fuchi goes to the highest bid and invitation for a beer/whisky to all others who bid when you visit the Rheingau

One more day until auction stops so up again for final consideration

Hi Everyone, I am reducing my tosogu closet to the bare minimum in the next weeks and I found this beautiful Fuchi - which I would suppose to be Ko Mino - with extremely deep and rich carving of blackest shakudo with delicate gold and silver inlays. This piece was bought to use it on a black tanto or aikuchi koshirae, where it will excellently decorate any blade on a simple 16-17th century "field" koshirae, however I sold the blade I bought it for. With Brians permission I want to try something funny and "auction" this piece, with 80% proceeds going to a medical charity project in Botswana and 20% to the NMB. "EDIT: The program pays eye operations and parasite medications for children. Every 7 Euro is a full parasite cure, every 20 a child gaining eyesight again. A pharmacist friend of mine worked there for one year and said its helping the future and development of these children a lot." The starting price is 50 Euro, tracked shipping in envelope will be covered by me worldwide. Please bid until april 30, 8PM GMT here in the thread or contact me via PM. It really is a beauty, feeling very elegant, aged, and "rich but simple" in your hands. Please have a look at the video below, showing especially the deep carving (Sorry for the bad video quality, my good objective was borrowed to a friend). Please contact me with any questions regarding this little auction try. Other items will follow, if you're seriously interested in Ishiguro / Ichinomiya/High quality Ko-Kinko,just write me a PM as I will not list everything. Best, Marco

Awesome pieces! Is it possible to get a closeup of the fugu?

Hi Curran, something fresh on the market, a very nice package. However, it comes with the corresponding price... https://iidakoendo.com/8858/

Hello guys, reviving my own topic it seems... However, I would love to get some additional informations on the metallurgical structures visible in the attached detail shot. While I have some decent chemistry background, I am not sure if this is about different crystal structures of the alloy or also some patina? Especially the "golden" spots would interest me, for the red ones I think of copper clusters in special structure? Of course it would be best if Ford could jump in on these questions! See whole detailed picture here (be patient, it is 80 MP in size) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mkLi055M-0xSTtMHBoDNekyeC56NyM6j?usp=sharing Best, Marco

I found this little guy laying around while cleaning, if somebody needs him, send me a PM

Hello guys, I recently worked on my Tosogu photography and want to share pictures of some pieces in my collection and several I was asked to photograph (and thankfully allowed to partially share here). Please see this link for many more higher resolution images (though not max. resolution due to limited space in Google Drive): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K0EGb5EDLKof2FLVGmTNOzS7zbWWDkfM?usp=sharing Glad about any feedback to improve the pictures and I hope you like the pieces! Best, Marco

Thank you very much guys and of course thank you Ford for the enlighting information. My guess would've been gilded copper... Towards Ford, would you recommend any restaurational work for the piece? Some of the gilding has also worn off on the backside of the kozuka.

Hello everybody, I have a nice Kozuka with massive and high (6 mm) inlay work. However, I am not quite sure with the material of the inlay. Some underlying material is visible on the peony, maybe you can give me some suggestions. Photos were made by the way, so please excuse some blurriness and dust on the piece. Also had to shrink size for the upload... Higher quality https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alLqxIOsb5YTa4Bz6RoykbPZ24cv35_P/view?usp=sharing Best, Marco

I have dealt with Alex before. It was uncomplicated and the items just as described. Nice stuff here with good prices, can only reccommend!

Awesome items!