ARCHAIC ASIAN SHORT SWORD...

[Bazza]

Saw this very interesting sword on Mandarin Mansion:

https://www.mandarin...aic-asian-shortsword

 

BaZZa.

[mywei]

Incredible

 

Thanks for sharing

[ChrisW]

That is pretty amazing. Not very often do you see something like this!

[John C]

Wow. WW2 bring-back! Makes you wonder what else is out there.

John C.

[Larason2]

That is amazing! Shows you what a professional polish can do.

[rematron]

Photos for future viewing:

 

[jsv]

Why didnt he paper it if it was legit?

Anything can be sold with cut-throat advertising. Come and buy canned porridge!

Chinese, Korean or Japanese what do you think?

[Larason2]

It is papered. It was submitted to shinsa, and their opinion was it's a historic blade, and referred to a better authority for that. All that paperwork comes with the sword, as it says in the write up.

[PNSSHOGUN]

  On 8/5/2023 at 2:32 PM, Larason2 said:

That is amazing! Shows you what a professional polish can do.

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The person who performed the polish is not considered a professional.

[Larason2]

Ah, fair enough. Still, not a bad polish for a non-professional! Would a professional togishi have worked on this?

[Peter D]

It wasn't as fine as the better traditional Japanese polishes indeed. But if the blade wasn't Japanese, as the tang suggested, then this polish is totally fine.

 

@Ynot "cut-throat marketing" ... That's a very unkind judgment, based on very little information, since you didn't even care to read the article.

 

The piece is sold now. But as stated, I had from its previous owner many letters in correspondence directly with Tanobe-san when he was still heading the NBTHK. They didn't paper it because it was outside their field of expertise, but he did classify it as a pre-Koto piece. Also, if it is Chinese, it would fall outside the NBTHK's official scope, as per their own regulations.

 

-Peter