Line in eBay listing photo.

[ScottF808]

What would you call this line shown in the photo of this naginata? The seller just says line, does it look like, ware or hagire? Being new to the hobby, my eye is not as well trained as others.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121131624599?ss ... 1423.l2649

 

Aloha Scott

[Brian]

Ok, so let me say that there is something funny here.

The seller says that he bought this in Kamakura in 2006. And then uses a picture that he obviously didn't take himself...looks like a dealer sales photo.

Why no pics of his own, and would he have dealer photos if he bought it in a shop 7 years ago?

You would need far more pics to be able to bid on something like this. That "line" could be anything. Likely a forging flaw, but you can't tell anything from what look like scans of a book.

 

Brian

[ScottF808]

Brian,

 

Thank you for the opinion. I hadn't thought about the fact the picture shown looked like a dealer photo and not a collectors photo. I also looked at his other auction, a noticed he had a dealer photo. But he also had collectors photos. The dealer photo and his own photos seem to have slight difference. In my opinion not enough to say it was a different nihonto, but not enough to say it was the same. Thanks you for the insight.

 

Aloha Scott

[Kai-Gunto]

It looks like ware.

[rkg]

Scott, you're talking about that big kind of diagonal line on the "left" image, right (you really can't see much else in these images)? The way it glows, it looks like a fiber to me that was on the table when the piece was originally imaged. - If you were interested in buying this piece, I'd consider asking for another image of that area to 1) maybe figure out what it is, and 2) verify the seller actually has the piece or has access to the piece if he's actually just reselling it for somebody else.

 

On how he got the image, copyright infringement issues aside (unless the prior seller says so, buying the piece does not give you usage rights for their images), it could well be the seller gave him a packet with the hardcopy of the image (this kind of looks like a scan of the image) and/or gave the buyer the file when he bought the piece - or the acquisition story is a song and dance - Or he's selling it for somebody else - or something else is going on....

 

Best,

rkg

(Richard George)