Spoils Of War

[Nickupero]

Okay maybe the title should be more along the lines of something like.. "recent finds", or "latest acquisitions"... In search for some Nihonto/Katchu inventory I picked up some fittings that are pleasing to look at, so I guess to me the difficulty of finding worthy inventory is the war aspect and stumbling across these items in the process are the spoils. Anyways being a dealer and rather than just listing items for sale I'd like to get some feedback from members as to what your favourite of the bunch is, apologies in advance for the poor iPhone pics as its not the best way to judge. Seeing how the thread goes I may add some more higher end shots if I get the chance. For example the upper right tsuba in the first image has the 12 animals of the zodiac along the mimi which doesn't get picked up in the upper view so I guess I'll ask you based on what you can see. Most of the pieces are papered, even toku for one of them. I'll start in adding my fav which is the Muromachi Heianjo in the upper left of the second image. What's Yours??? Don't be shy to add your 2 cents.

 

 

 

[Jean]

Hi Nick,

 

Glad to see you back

 

My favourites are:

 

Picture one, the Tembo (upper right )

Second one: the Heianjo (first one upper left)

Third one: the one on the right handside of the Yoshiro

[lotus]

My favs are :

 

Picture 1 : Agree with Jean, Tembo (upper right)

Picture 2 : Crescent moon Tosho

Picture 3 : Agree with Jean, the Mokko Gata one with great hammer work and patina!

[Greg F]

Hi Nick, picture 1 bottom left tsuba.

 

Greg

[raaay]

And is there a Nobuie style tsuba there also ,top right ??

[Teimei]

Hi Nick,

 

second picture upper right.

 

 

regards,