Mei Help, Please Thanks!

[atomiceye]

Can any one help me with this. Thanks in advance. Henry

[Nobody]

Hi Henry,

 

The Mei reads

Koki ni sen roppyaku nen aki (Autumn in 2600 Imperial year (= 1940)),

Inoue Sadakane saku kore (Inoue Sadakane made this).

[atomiceye]

Thanks Koichi!

[Brian]

Henry,

 

Seems like a good maker of Gendaito according to these pages:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/tosho.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/rank.htm

 

Can't tell you if this is Showato or Gendaito, but he seems to have been quite respected.

 

Regards,

Brian

[atomiceye]

Brian,

Wow! Thank you for the information! Unfortunately the sword is in poor condition. Apparently someone tried to polish the blade with a grinder. I do not know if this sword is repairable. It's a shame

Regards,

Henry

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Hi Henry. Seems to me better than others abused I've seen.

If it hasn't been heated too much it might deserve to take

a better look by a professional.

In this forum there are sharpest and more trained eyes for such a

thing, so be optimist till to contrary evidence :D .

[Henry Wilson]

To me it looks in a bit of a bad state. I think the basic structure looks damaged, not just the surface. The blade in the left hand side of the bottom picture looks swollen were the other side looks normal. It looks like it has been bent or something resulting in the cutting edge and the ridge line (shinogi) looking distorted.

 

Just my two pennies :|

[nagamaki - Franco]

Its amazing what a talented polisher can do to save a sword. What becomes critical and the 'big' question is how low is the lowest point that was ground off. It seems worth the effort to find out if it can be saved. Takeo Seki in BC Canada does excellent foundation work.