Random new tsuba, information appreciated

[bobtail44]

Hi collectors,

 

Most of my blades come in shirasaya or WW2 mounts so I have one "proper" koshire. Anyway I acquired this by accident and I don't even think that it is meant to go with the wakizashi in shirasaya that it was sent out of Japan with.

On this koshire was a tsuba, and I know absolutely nothing about tsuba. So I took some pictures with my phone. It is not magnetic/Iron (I don't know how important that is) and 67mm high and 60 mm wide.

 

Any information that you can provide on this tsuba would be of interest. Id especially like to know if it is worth anything. If it is, I MIGHT offer it for sale here for at a discounted rate for the help and donate part of the sale. I don't collect tsuba so id probably rather it went to a good home.

 

ps. I have no idea why the images rotated themselves

 

Cheers,

 

Trent S

[Geraint]

Hi Trent.

 

Have a look at this thread.

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18738

 

All the best.

[bobtail44]

Very interesting, thanks for that. I have had a good look at it and there doesn't seem to be mold evidence on it. Very interesting that the first one papered.

 

Trent S