jason-douglas Posted July 10, 2014 Report Posted July 10, 2014 Hi Guys At an estate sale and hoping you guys can help with the signature/smith info before I start negotiating! thanks for any help ... Quote
Gabriel L Posted July 10, 2014 Report Posted July 10, 2014 Very chippy/sloppy WWII nakarishimei makes the omote difficult to be sure, looks a bit like Yoshimasa 吉正 perhaps (Yoshichika 吉近 ???). The ura is easier, Shōwa jūkyūnen gogatsu 昭和十九年五月 (May 1944). Quote
Peter Bleed Posted July 10, 2014 Report Posted July 10, 2014 Leave the sale - or better yet see if they have some towels or something you can use. This club is signed by a "smith" who used the name Yoshichika. He also used a butter knife to cut the signature and add the date May 1944 Peter Quote
jason-douglas Posted July 10, 2014 Author Report Posted July 10, 2014 heh ... funny ... hard to pass up though - even if just a club - for the price they're asking ... thanks much for the help! Peter Bleed said: Leave the sale - or better yet see if they have some towels or something you can use. This club is signed by a "smith" who used the name Yoshichika. He also used a butter knife to cut the signature and add the date May 1944Peter Quote
Gabriel L Posted July 10, 2014 Report Posted July 10, 2014 Plenty of WWII militaria collectors will pay for guntō depending on the condition and mounts. If the price is good, at the very least you might be able to flip it. But it depends on way too many factors that we can't see (polish? koshirae? workmanship? price? potential buyers?). There's also a Seki 関 stamp near the top if my eyes do not deceive me. Just to throw another variable in there. Quote
jason-douglas Posted July 10, 2014 Author Report Posted July 10, 2014 yeah ... it's that very tiny version of the seki stamp ... I think I'm getting it and throwing it on ebay ... just to see what happens ... thanks again jason Gabriel L said: Plenty of WWII militaria collectors will pay for guntō depending on the condition and mounts. If the price is good, at the very least you might be able to flip it. But it depends on way too many factors that we can't see (polish? koshirae? workmanship? price? potential buyers?). There's also a Seki 関 stamp near the top if my eyes do not deceive me. Just to throw another variable in there. Quote
Surfson Posted July 11, 2014 Report Posted July 11, 2014 Tang is pretty clean at the least. With mounts you should be able to get $600 or so, assuming that the rest of the blade is in similar shape and it has mounts. Keep us posted. Quote
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