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Hello all, I hope you are all well, and still collecting in these expensive times. heres my new piece, its a very interesting dress sword, much higher quality then the normal stuff, with many interesting points it has plum blossom instead of cherry silver mon done with plum blossom push button done with matching blossoms has a silver foiled copper habaki and the blade is a real cracker, that appears to be steal with etched hamon instead of nickel plate not shown is a leather sword bag, that I will post soon. any and all thoughts are welcome,

iv never heard of a "hanten iaito" can you inform me please regards H

Im throthing over this one, cant wait for the next pics. how do get such good pics? im running at canon D-SLR EOS 1200D with a basic 18-55mm lense and I struggle to get such nice pics. please tell me your secrets regards H

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I miss attached the last pics, and now cant remove. sorry here are the ones I should have shown

hi guys, heres a update on the background of the sword. I bought this sword in adalaide, south Australia, at auction. all the info of the aussie digger is unproven at this stage BUUUUTTTT im getting there. the 2/43 Bn was started at woodside barracks on the 17 july 1940, (30 mins from adalalide.) the 2/43 was in borneo in 1945 and there was a Sgt bruce davis that was awarded a MID in 1942, that was in tobruk, if the lucky digger lived long enough he could have been promoted to Leftenant come 1945 so following the dots, the history could be true to the letter, also Im still waiting for a trans on the surrender tag from a friend, to see if its correct, I will keep you posted. its very hard to find a piece out of the wood work that still has all its history with it. regards Hamish. Ps im starting some studie on the tsuba, to see how old it is as it appears to be koto tachi style.

I agree, great start for newbies, a big thanks to mark for being gentleman and helping people start collecting with a nice affordable piece. regards Hamish

dont be to hard on this nice little tsuba! one mans trash is always treasure. firstly the look is simple and naïve, but well carved rim and dragon. if this was a soft metal tsuba from the sengoku every one would be tripping over to buy it, but its not I think its a step up from the stuff of fleabay, and if fleabay if used properly you can find some nice stuff. I know for a fact, but you just have to look through all the junk. THE CLASS DEVIDES OF WHAT'S GOOD AND BAD BASED ON HOW MUCH WAS PAID AND WHERE IT WAS BOUGHT, IS NOT HELPFULL, in Australia we have something called "wine snobbery, if you didn't pay over $100 per bottle its rubbish, this is simply not true. its just something people with lots of money like to say toward those who enjoy a cheaper item. Take the Yagyu tsuba, I think there very over priced and don't like them, but im not buying them so my thoughts arent relevant , Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. keep up collecting what you can afford, its a neat little tsuba regards Hamish

Im feeling abit let down, we were talked up about this missing treasure and the photos dont show a great deal of detail, to make any call. what happen to the "published" article?? I don't see any similarity im left with the feeling this was more of a free advertising as a dealler, rather then true interest of nihonto. im off to brush my teeth to get the taste of snake-oil out regards Hamish

how about you just post some damb pics and put us out of our misery PLEASE!!!!!!

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Hi guys, Here's a new piece I got just last week, its a nicely mounted katana, modified for military use with the surrender tag as well, and some info about the Australian officer who had taken it aswell, at first glance I thought it was koto by the shape, but I was very surprised when I looked at the nakago, as it appears to be taisho or early showa. the hada appears to be poor and uneven, so im at the assumption that is a early showa, as its not signed or stamped and appears to have no activity in the hamon.. please comment and tell me your thoughts.

Hi Guys, I once owned a yoshii kiyonori uchigatana, from the simular period. when doing some study on the groups, I read that the yoshii group moved to osafune in the early 1400s and was absorbed by the osafune school in the following years, so may this fine piece is from the transitional period? regards h

here here Denis some one put in some hours on this, somebody should be making knives with skills like that regards H ps still easy to spot, the acid etched hamon the big hint

go the kotetsu regards H

Im with Jeffrey A. stupid prices, considering type 32s were made in some of the same factorys and they only fetch 300-500 and they were made in simular numbers too. maybe price fixing :lol: :lol: :lol:

a fool and there money is soon parted out of polish, no features to see. WHY REGARDS H

well were do we start, theres no tassel to display the rank of the original owner so you can dismiss that salesman rubbish, the blade isn't shown well, but I think the hamon near the habaki looks alittle like a showato ( out on a limb there) so if this a showato, why is there a cut on the mune??? sound abit hight for me! just my thoughts Regards Hamish

Thanks for the comments, out of interest, does this tsuba exhibit features of any school?, i didn't think it was so young. also does anyone have a pic of a nodachi tsuba??? regards Hamish

iv tried to get some photos of the activity I was talking about, but I don't have a macro lense for my new camera I hope you can see what I mean, the grain of the steal near the rim. regards Hamish

thanks for the help, as normal I was way off. and thanks for the website, it looks good. is this smith a well known one? I like the item because the metal has good feautres. I will get some nice pics for you regards Hamish

Hi guys, I hope you are all well? Im having troubles with reading Mei still, ( no surprise there ) my I please have some help this, its a tsuba I picked up when in Japan, the box has the mei written on the outside but im still unable to complete it. I have tired and im pretty sure I wrong too. 1- KANE 2- taka (not sure) 3- mori or kami (not sure) 4- MASA 5- KAO thanks for the help regards Hamish

Hi Guys, I hope you are all well? I have a question. heres a very large tsuba of mine, and I was thinking is this called a nodachi tsuba or a large katana tsuba??? regards Hamish

I too wish to give my wishes to Paul, I know how much Paul has done for the Nihonto community wourldwide, All the ways back when he first started at the V&A to date in Japan. Best wishes Paul and recover quickly regards Hamish