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[raiden]

I bought this set by Hashimoto Ishi, they are solid gold with the silver done on top of the golod. A very nice set, great work, good condition, signed, custon boxed and papered. He is a top artist from the Ichijo School. How about everyone guess the price?

[raiden]

figure about 1" or so

[Soshin]

Hi Mike Y.,

 

Who wrote the paper and at what level? I have only one tsuba in my collection with a custom fitted box from Japan and a paper and it wasn't cheap.

[kaigunair]

We're guessing how much you paid? ...hmmm...I'm thinking it was either :

a) 1 arm + 1 leg

b) someone came up to you at a show saying something like "I found these metal things at a garage sale. The vet's widow said it came back from the war. I even have this paper from the emperor (or tojo) stating its an imperial heirloom. I need to buy a new raidator for my car, so I'll take $300 for it."

 

How close am I?

 

If #2, call me when you need funds to buy radiator for your car....

[Bazza]

How about everyone guess the price?

40 man en???

BaZZa.

[Brian]

Lovely set.

Retail Value...I would guess around $6K?

 

Brian

[raiden]

so I can see that we have an enormous range of values for this set! My goal is to show that everyone has a different idea of value for almost everything, that is why "fair market value' is an important factor when accessing value on a piece for any reason. To me they were a good buy at $2750US, I factored in the condition, workmanship, theme, maker, genuine signature with certification, custom box and the fact that I do not see anything else that good for that price!

Sorry to be a bore!

[Brian]

Real world scenarios aren't boring.

I was going by some realized prices on similar menuki fetched at Chisties, so I agree this was a very fair deal. That would make retail around double that if you got them at dealer wholesale? Not excessive for what they are.

 

Brian

[Curran]

Brian- I was impressed by both BaZZa's and your guessed. The Ichijo students seem to command quite the wide spread of amounts, depending on which student and what theme.

I didn't have a value in mine, though had seen 1 set of gold ones before- but on one of the higher mark-up sites.

 

_A long time ago_----- I sold a hozon papered tsuba by this smith to one of the big dealers for about $4000.

It had two family mon on it, and I got the impression (right or wrong) that the dealer wanted it for the mon as much as/ more than the maker.

Otherwise was not a particularly good tsuba example of what this smith can do.

 

Regarding Mike's: I wouldn't have guessed sub $3000 for signed, papered, boxed, solid gold ones that look in decent condition.

[Nihonto Chicken]

Nice pieces, particularly the moon and clouds, it reminds me of my all-time favorites by Natsuo:

 

[raiden]

Just so everyone knows, they will be set at $3200 for sale(NMB members), $3750 other wise.