Yahoooo So Lovely #3

[Stephen]

Not sure if ive seen this, ever, very interesting i wish i had a better translation to whom and what the family mon / christian? inlay is about

 

sad to be a poor man 

 

 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e258400103

 

Lovely sayagaki as well.

[Ooitame]

Celebrating the rebuilding of the restoration, a masterpiece given to the Muko Marquis from the Shimazu Marquis in the Meiji 5 Attachment Dedication Swords Shimazu family crest silver inlaid 

[Stephen]

Thanks Eric i gleamed that from Yahoo translation...anything else you can read on sayagaki? I guess im the only one impressed by the blade...maybe the wrong hada for everyone.

[Surfson]

Very interesting and attractive sword.  Has what appears to be Honami papers as well as a Kanzan Sato sayagaki.   Would love to see modern NBTHK papers, but that's just me.   

[Stephen]

Thanks Buddy thought the same.

[TheGermanBastard]

Celebrating the rebuilding of the restoration, a masterpiece given to the Muko Marquis from the Shimazu Marquis in the Meiji 5 Attachment Dedication Swords Shimazu family crest silver inlaid 

 

Great job Eric! Keep up the good work!

[Stephen]

someone liked it. 

 

end price

 

951,000 yen

[Surfson]

Sounds fair, now it's time to submit to NBTHK and start biting nails.  If it papers, that's a very happy day.

[Stephen]

Good luck Bobby!!! please show us in end, my finders fee....lol

[TheGermanBastard]

Sounds fair, now it's time to submit to NBTHK and start biting nails.  If it papers, that's a very happy day.

 

Did you buy it?

[Surfson]

No, I didn't buy it.  i would not have bought it at that price based only on the purported honami papers (that I can't read well and are sometimes faked) and the Kanzan Sato sayagaki (which apparently became less reliable as he aged....).  Now if it had been much cheaper, I  might have taken a flyer on it.  

[TheGermanBastard]

I see .. because quite franky I do not see why anybody would have paid a high price for this blade without recent papers. Don't get me wrong. A qualiyt blade without any doubt ... BUT if it comes out of Japan from a guy who is not a dummy on swords and it has NO recent papers then it is has a 99.9% chance of being no good for what ever signature it may have

[Surfson]

Agreed.