First For Me: Part Duex

[Stephen]

some after work ?  filled in later? it begs to wonder

 

https://www.aoijapan.com/daisho-tsuba-mumei-unsigned-dragon

 

[Curran]

Africa?

 

 

Jokes aside, that sort of kills the vitality of the dragons in this design.

My opinion is that this detracts greatly from appreciation of this set.

[Kevin Adams]

Looks almost like bizarre o-seppa. I wonder what they're hiding...

[nagamaki - Franco]

A set like this suggests, at least to me, they were made to order. In which case the customer is always .... .

[Geraint]

I think Kevin is knocking on the right door.  The lack of care in the work exhibited by the way the copper meets the iron would never pass muster in any school.  I don't think this is shakudo.

I suspect at least one of the tsuba was badly damaged around the seppa dai and an attempt made to, "make it work".

 

Unless one of us buys these we will never know for sure.

 

All the best

[nagamaki - Franco]

OOOoooohhhh!, double clicked,    ouch, sure looks reworked. 

[Guido]

  On 2/9/2017 at 2:30 PM, Curran said:

Africa?

 

And South America. I wonder how long it took for the tsuba to drift apart ...

[Geraint]

Ah so coastal erosion accounts for the bad fit!    .

[Stephen]

 

[nagamaki - Franco]

  On 2/10/2017 at 10:57 AM, Guido Schiller said:

And South America. I wonder how long it took for the tsuba to drift apart ...

 

Hmm, for a dragon to become fossilized into iron, surely it must have taken millions and millions of years.