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Yaayyy 🤩🥳 thanks for posting this this makes life so much more easier

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Should have started with a higher price on a lot of those man. just saying congratz on your sales though and awesome profile pic

Once again Mr. Singer you reputation proceeds you. Thanks so much. Now I know why it's so pricey lol Clean blade though.

I was wondering who’s name this is ? does it look legit with the file marks on this old blade ? it’s on a Tachi blade in a Tachi koshirae thanks so much for any assistance cheers

Are you kidding ...this is one of my FAV episodes That was GOLD Brian lol

It (the guy) was cast as one piece. I believe he is a demon possessed man. Some good work was put into it. Definitely like Brain said ....not your cheap typical tourist piece and I'm almost willing to bet it's one of a kind. There may be another figure with similarities but the mount and wood/stone or bone( looks to be petrified wood or a tusk) he is resting on is all custom. Pretty cool piece.

No correction man ..I could be a total idiot and wrong....I'm so green in this hobby I need to be thrown back in the Fraser River....who ever made it in the past I favour ...It's a sweet sword. I like it very much also. None the less what ever the signature is ...it's cool. Long blades with the red bohi like that aren't up for sale too often anymore. either way it's a keeper. A couple hundred bucks over will change to your favour in 5 to 10. This hobby's value is only going up.

Seen the auction on Ebay and left it because of the very fact that they wouldn't show the signature in the listing and the name on the Shirasaya is painted incorrectly and looked as though it was painted afterwards in modern times. The person who sold it bought it for around 1500US after fees to the house in a live auction a few years ago. They damaged part of the beginning of the blade though on the right side of the cutting edge after they bought it. It's been cleaned up a bit though so it's hard to tell. That's why he started the bidding at $2000...he needed to get what he paid plus taxes and shipping back. Still a cool sword though. Looks very nice.

A very nice blade good score

wow ...very nice ...I love the fuchi design as well as the tsuba. looks complete. I just sold something that looks very close to this so I was tripping out because it's in the mail right now ...so I was like ...how ??? Thanks for sharing

very cool blade thanks for sharing

Unfortunately this is usually the case they will do some fingerprinting , check the cameras in the building or around outside on the block look into a few places, and that’s it unless someone comes forward That’s why so many people hire privately now a days.

It's very unfortunate and my heart goes out to him. One may turn up sooner or later but i doubt it..like you say..someone wanted those swords....greedy people who do this will usually make one small mistake .....or the people they hired......if he can find that one small weak link in the chain and break it ......find out what he needs ..... and then let the whole circle know he broke that link .....well ...usually that chain will loosen up a little more....sometimes it will cause a kink when another link tries to move in another direction quickly. This is when the chain is more vulnerable. Which leads back to the cameras...intersections ect.....find the weakest link in the crew .....break it .....make it public.....the chain will freeze for a moment ....then.....

I think his best place to start is to get all the camera footage of all the places he goes most. also all the parking lots he uses. they probably put gps under his car tailed him for a week got his average time table and habits then robbed him when they knew he was headed to the furthest place he goes to when then seen the route he started to take. He should pay hackers to take all the camera footage everywhere and then run it against people he knows and then a criminal database

Looks very nice ....great score. From what I know the star stamp indicates it is a traditionally made blade. Hizen Kuni Masa ....... not sure about the last character ....Yuki ? When Bruce see's this he will have a way better idea.

Maybe some very old Buddhist script like they add to some Sue Bizen swords horimono? Not sure the purple/blue fabric and red with gold usually match the wardrobe and armour of high ranking samurai.

I love the colours of it. Very cool.

ooohhhh silly me ...I thought it was way bigger....like the head height was 11 inches or something