8 December Heritage Auctions Sale

[Brian]

LOTS of goodies, maybe around 70 swords?
Beware, the descriptions have lots of mistakes. But there may be some decent deals to be had.
Oh I wish I had money!

Couple of highlights:
https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-very-rare-and-important-triple-maker-juyo-shinto-katana-by-masateru-kaneshige-and-kanetsune-with-original-gold-cutting-test/a/6217-40050.s?ic5=CatalogHome-MostPopular-Thumbnail-112917

https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-unique-shin-shinto-o-tanto-by-katsushige/a/6217-40008.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

 

https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-very-fine-shin-shinto-wakizashi-by-enju-kunihide-with-superb-horimono/a/6217-40016.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

 

https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-fine-and-rare-signed-and-dated-wakizashi-by-inoue-shinkai/a/6217-40023.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

 

https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-very-fine-and-rare-shin-shinto-daisho-with-both-blades-by-enomoto-sadayoshi-in-soft-metal-daisho-mounts-total-4-items-/a/6217-40033.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

 

https://historical.ha.com/itm/edged-weapons/a-shin-shinto-o-katana-by-gassan-sadakazu-copying-a-koto-katana-now-spurious-signed-ukifusa-with-superbly-chiseled-gassan-pier/a/6217-40042.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
 

 

 

[mareo1912]

Awesome items!

[Ken-Hawaii]

Whew! 25% buyer's premium is pretty steep. Couple of nice blades, though.

[Death-Ace]

Even though the pictures aren't the best, I've always enjoyed HA for the quality items they have!

 

I missed out last December when they had a nice Koto Bizen daito in Gunto mounts. Forgor to put my max bid as 1000 and it sold as such.

[lonely panet]

Why are there photos so low quality.

 

Would like to think I might bid on 1 or 2 items but at those poor resolution. Going to stay away

[Ruroni_Kenshin]

Why are the pictures so bad? Blown out. You can’t even see the Hamon clearly. Why do most only have 2 pictures?

[Brian]

They are not bad for me. Click the pic, it opens to a larger one that you can zoom in on, or change the brightness. Not Darcy-style pics, but not terrible.

[Surfson]

I noticed Mike Yamazaki (sic) as the owner on the papers for one of the blades.  Is this collection from Mike?  

[Gakusee]

No. He is the submitter. Some owners prefer not to have their names on the papers and you see the dealers or their representatives on the papers. Sometimes the dealers own the blades before they have sold them and their name appears on the papers.

[Surfson]

Thanks Michael.  Do you specifically know about the source of this collection?   

[Mark]

what do NMB's think about the outcome of the auction?  I thought a lot of items went for much less than i would have expected

[Gakusee]

There were two or three great items which went for much less than they were worth. I know the buyers and well done to them - got great items

[Stephen]

Heard the same some very good deals at half the value.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Some absolute steals, Gassan Sadakazu for $4500......

[w.y.chan]

The "Sadakazu" is signed with a different mei so would not pass a kantei paper unless the mei is removed and then hope. Probably partly explain its low value too but the horimono is superb.

[raiden]

If you are talking about the blade with the Ranma Sukashi horimono that was said to have a spurious signature to Yukinaga, well it did have a paper that wasn’t added with the piece as did several of the items. I am not sure who did the actual write ups, but boy were they way off. This collection was from an old client who had me certify several of the items, that being said, items were mis handled, mis represented and terrible pics making it a good shopping day for alot of people. ???? M Yamasaki

[Vermithrax16]

I didn't see much worth chasing, but bad pics and poor descriptions will do that.

[w.y.chan]

So "Yukinaga" was the correct attribution as in the mei not "Sadakazu" as in the write-up?

[Ray Singer]

I am curious what others thought of the 'Inoue Shinkai'. The sword had NTHK papers and it appeared to have previous sold for $35,000. It sat on the Heritage website with a $4,250 Buy It Now price for weeks after the auction. To my eyes it appeared to be gimei, and was dated months before this smith was believed to have changed his mei to Shinkai.

 

 

 

[raiden]

Mr Chan,

There was a thin katana signed Gassan Sadakazu, butit had no certificate. This blade is a daisaku mei by Sadakatsu and is considered acceptable. In the future please post the catalog number to avoid confusion. This signed Sadakazu is item 40039

[raiden]

Mr Chan,

Item # 40042 is a katana actually signed by Yukinobu and HAS a kanteisho. It is not a spurious signature on a blade by Sadakazu. I do not know who did this description, but it is totally inaccurate in my opinion.

M.

[raiden]

I am curious what others thought of the 'Inoue Shinkai'. The sword had NTHK papers and it appeared to have previous sold for $35,000. It sat on the Heritage website with a $4,250 Buy It Now price for weeks after the auction. To my eyes it appeared to be gimei, and was dated months before this smith was believed to have changed his mei to Shinkai.

 

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If this was a genuine Shinkai, it would have been purchased, even with its current npo certificate there was no confidence in the bidding.

[Ray Singer]

That was my thought as well Mike. I was glad to see that people had clearly done their own research, rather than simply buying based on the papers.

[Tigerinbamboo]

I bought a tanto post auction from this sale. The blade was actually more interesting in hand than in the auction photos. Unfortunately it had also acquired 2 fingerprints, one on each side, as if someone held it btwn thumb and forefinger. I tried unsuccessfully to remove the prints with a soft cloth, and wound up returning the tanto.

[raiden]

Which tanto was it?

[Tigerinbamboo]

It was lot 40026, the Fuyuhiro kaiken tanto.

[w.y.chan]

Thanks for clearing that up Mike. I just clicked on the link posted by Brian.

[ilikesword]

FYI: Just saw this posted on Facebook (TETSUGENDO Mr. Mike Yamasaki)

 

Tetsugendo.com

53 mins · 

I just recently heard about a strange rumor. Apparently, because of a person who went bankrupt recently sold their sword collection on the Heritage Auction site, the rumor mill said it was my items.

To be clear, this collection was once the property of a California collector that went bankrupt, I did run several items through shinsa for this person, thus my familiarity of the items, in fact I purchased some myself very happily.

So yes, still in business and still kicking!

Some people have nothing better to do than spread negative feelings and false rumors just because their own lives have no meaning.

[Brian]

Saw that. But those who know Mike or his posts here would have known there is no truth to that anyways. I didn't hear the rumour myself.
 

[Surfson]

His name was listed on at least one set of papers.  Apparently Mike submitted them but was not the owner/seller.   The rest was probably somebody embellishing the facts.