Schneeds

Epic achievement.

Indeed it is That is a rather fetching price given the attribution, size, health and fresh polish. If I lived over there I would take a peek!

Lovely polish. That must have been an absolute beast before the suriage. Good luck with the sale!

Your considerations range from $6k USD to $200k? Are you sure you know what you're looking for?

I'm just a newb, but that polish seems solid as it is.

If you put in the time learning and spend 20% of your budget on a papered Nanbokucho blade that you maximized with your gained knowledge, I can all but guarantee you will feel a greater sense of satisfaction because you will feel like you earned it. Then you also have the possibility of a Juyo submission, which i can only imagine feels amazing.

Often in posts like this, someone will ask the question: "what do you like about it?" Someone asked me that when I was looking to buy my first blade, and I was posting random blades that fit the vague criteria I had come up with. I'm glad they did; when i really thought about it, it completely changed my perspective. Personally, for 40k USD I would want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt what I want, and why I want it.

Luminol is used to local/reveal potential blood stains, typically post clean up. OBTI is used to confirm presence of human blood. Both are field tests.

Yes. It's down to personal tolerance, but that's not a big deal. Was hard to tell the extent in the original pictures.

It has a pleasing sugata and as long as you know what you are getting and what the resell prospects are, you could certainly do a lot worse. Is that a large kitae-ware on the ura side up in the shinogi? It's not the end of the world, but as Klee points out, it is a mumei shinto blade to begin with.

What possible reason would UPS have need of your social security number? I'm not giving that to anyone.

For reference, this one that shows up in Hoshi's database was listed for 1,000,000 originally and sold recently: https://eirakudo.shop/305191 It had been for sale quite a while. I nearly bought it half a dozen times, but the relative shortness kept making me hesitate. Lovely blade though.

I display the book as a part of my collection. Even people who don't care about swords are able to appreciate it for the level of quality.

Tametsugu can get awfully nice in and of itself. If the below one ever shows up in public for 3.5 I will be the owner

I tried to cheat, but it appears Jussi left his blade out of his own database