I Wish I Could Afford This:

[Pete Klein]

https://japaneseart.eu/portfolio_page/tsuba-kanshiro-shodai/?fbclid=IwAR0p3h6n1jXSjYuELqWFNV_0OWzWiefTsgsuEh18yJ49NwDyIypki353hMo

 

WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! 

[TETSUGENDO]

POR?.......If you have to ask..........!

 

                          OR

 

One 'O' short of how you will be feeling after buying it!

 

                          BUT

 

Just imagine what an enriching experience it would be.

[Brian]

NMB crowdfunding campaign? We each get to keep it for one week in a year :laughing:

[Shirogitsune]

Inconceivable!

[Vermithrax16]

I heard Euro 19,000 ......

[Kurikata]

By the way, what is the most expensive tsuba sold by the past, at auction or "over the counter" to a dealer?

[peterd]

I have found two by Kano Natsuo. 2004 Sothebys est  £60_65,000.  2003 Christies est £100_ 120,000

 both  different tsuba

[Pete Klein]

They are all private sales so you'll never know. I know of one person in that league and he doesn't go into details.  These guys know each other so you're either in or out, as they say.

[Kurikata]

Estimations do not mean that the transaction has been done at that price. I read this article: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/01/arts/record-prices-at-christie-s-for-Japanese-swords.html

 

$88000 apparently was the most expensive at that time (1992)

[CSM101]

I wish I could have afforded this: https://yuhindo.com/goto-ichijo-futakoromono/

 

That was a quick sale.

 

 

Uwe G.