Origami Needed?

[Surfson]

You guys are scaring me!  It reaffirms my approach of finding blades in old gunto mounts or out of polish and unloved, and then restoring them.  It also illustrates why it is important that the origami states with some precision what the length of the blade is.

[Rivkin]

As Guido says, not much use for fraud for green papers, and especially so when applied to iron tsuba. 

 

 

 

The seller seems to offer 3 hozons and 1 th, which is just somewhat uncommon. In Japan about 20% of blades sold have green papers - one can just monitor auctions for a year and do statistics. No, stores that specialize on Juyo do not sell those, neither do they sell NTHK etc.

 

In practical life I personally encountered substituted papers just three times. One was supposedly mainline Goto menuki with photos of very similar piece, but microscopic differences which where not visible online. I don't think its really a common problem, but it certainly does exist.

 

Kirill R.

[Vermithrax16]

I still don't see any point to this whole thing.

[Ooitame]

I still don't see any point to this whole thing.

Seems anything with papers will sell higher than those without. When it comes to selling something that is similar to these papers there is more money to be made. Of course this assumes malicious intent vs educational or personal reasons for purchase.