Your opinions about eBay seller Komonjo

[Koopyetz]

Want to ask this question to this forum as you are more knowledgeable than I am.

 

What are your opinions about eBay seller Komonjo. Curious what the origin of manufacture is for the blades.

 

There is a caveat that some of the signatures are unproven , bid on the steel.

 

your thoughts please

 

thanks

 

Rick

[Mark]

i tried a quick simple search (search bar toward the top) and got 342 results.......... there is a lot of information here, (it has been discussed many times) try looking through it, a lot of your questions may be answered then you can ask specific questions if you could not find answers

[Mark S.]

What Mark said.  My only advice is you better KNOW A LOT and LOOK REAL CLOSE… and then some.

[Bruce Pennington]

14 NMB pages with his name discussed

 

Short version - He says he sells on consignment, and has suppliers in Japan who sell through him.

[Brian]

Yeah. Search the forum. There's enough reading for the rest of the week
Don't expect a sword signed by the person on the nakago.

[Baba Yaga]

1 hour ago, Koopyetz said:

Want to ask this question to this forum as you are more knowledgeable than I am.

 

What are your opinions about eBay seller Komonjo. Curious what the origin of manufacture is for the blades.

 

There is a caveat that some of the signatures are unproven , bid on the steel.

 

your thoughts please

 

thanks

 

Rick

 

1.Why are you on ebay?

2. Why are you on ebay?

3. Why are you on ebay? 

 

 

[Bruno]

Komonjo has Guntos and older swords that may be decent. I own one that received tokubetsu hozon but honestly buying from this seller is like playing Russian roulette!

 

You have top sellers here on this forum, Mdiddy, Mark Jones, Ed Marshall etc.

[Stephen]

What they said..

[Utopianarian]

You will not find any “Diamonds in the rough” or out of the woodwork finds thru eBay Seller Komonjo. The blades passed thru many hands in Japan and passed off to the Western market. They know exactly what they are selling. Read the descriptions very carefully. It’s what’s not in the description that is very telling

[O koumori]

 

On 8/21/2023 at 3:03 AM, Utopianarian said:

You will not find any “Diamonds in the rough”

Beg to differ. 

Understand what you are looking at.    Ask questions.

In the past, I scored a Sengo Masashige and a Soshu Tsunahiro 2nd gen. (o-tantos) form him.

Both papered.

Dan K.

[Baba Yaga]

40 minutes ago, O koumori said:

 

Beg to differ. 

Understand what you are looking at.    Ask questions.

In the past, I scored a Sengo Masashige and a Soshu Tsunahiro 2nd gen. (o-tantos) form him.

Both papered.

Dan K.

 

So, one can score a Sengo Masashige on the cheap just by asking questions and understand what you're looking at via ebat. Wow 

[sbf]

On 6/7/2023 at 10:07 AM, Baba Yaga said:

 

1.Why are you on ebay?

2. Why are you on ebay?

3. Why are you on ebay? 

 

 

Didn’t someone buy one of the missing National Treasure swords on ebay a few years ago? I also saw a Gassan in gunto mounts with a General’s tassel that really was picked up on Iwo Jima and could very well have been Kuribayashi’s sword. 
 

Obviously there is a lot of junk on ebay and you must exercise extreme caution, but I don’t discount it completely.

 

Steve

[Baba Yaga]

Ya, alot of people play the State lottery too. Some people win in Las Vegas.  If someone has all that "time" and "experiance" please get your kicks. 

 

*Komonjo - I don't play Nihonto Ebay and it only took a few to figure out who this "dealer" is. 

 

 

 

[Stephen]

He's a business man selling what can't be sold in Nippon. 

From time to time he has some very good items, most not.

A haven for bottom feeders. 

What we go through every year.

Nothing has changed. 

 

[Utopianarian]

I recommend not buying from sword dealers on eBay. You generally pay for what you get. I especially don’t buy from eBay dealers out of Japan unless papered blade. Once again you pay for what you get. I do like looking and occasional rare buy on eBay but not so much anymore. I usually buy from small private sellers that are not dealers without a history of selling swords. I hit the jackpot about 4 years ago with Signed Chu Aoe blade in good shape with Gunto fittings falling apart. It was from some lady down south selling random yard sale items whom sister passed away that was married to a ww2 vet and left it to her. The blade was misrepresented in her add on eBay. I asked her the provenance and whom identified the blade for her. She said it was a sword man whom she brought it to for identification. When I looked at the pictures posted on the eBay which were not good pictures I asked her to send more pictures. I took a gamble on the blade since it looked much different than what the sword was listed and identified as in the add. That add was listed on eBay for months and I would keep searching and must have passed over that listing at least 20 times until I figured I’d look at the pics very closely and it seemed a lot older than a blade from the 1600s as the listing stated and the reflective qualities on the blade in one of the pictures looked like heavy reflective frosted nie. The sugata also looked much older than a blade from 1600s and had a nakago as black as coal with the Ana with rounded weathered edges. I lucked out on that one buy but struck out many times as well. Especially if there were problems with the blade or not listed in the add.

[Stephen]

When I used to search ebay  I always looked at other items for their sales. 

 

Like above if nothing but Nik naks

I give the sword a closer look.

 

 

[Utopianarian]

In case you were wondering what a few of the pics looked like in her add I saved a few of them

[Utopianarian]

If you noticed somebody made an amateur tsuka since I guess the original fell apart then did an amateur Re wrap. It was a mix of Gunto and civilian fittings. Wouldn’t you agree it doesn’t look like a blade from 1600s as the listing stated