tachi dating in tokugawa mounts.

[Pippo]

Any thoughts on dating this piece? Chap this came from had cutting from italian auction c1960s and other pape rshowing totally unrelated tang rubbing. As you can see tamg is unsigned.

Any thoughts appreciated.

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[John C]

It reminds me a little bit of the gensui-to shown on page 149 of Dawson.

 

John C.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Reminds one of the Tachi made for export during the Meiji period, this seems to be of fairly good quality.

[Baba Yaga]

Has anyone else noticed the plague of poor quality and outright fakes coming out of the woodwork as of late.

I guess the desperation of the times has really picked up. 

 

[Pippo]

So what are you basing this on? the silver mounts? large node rayskin? the tang being double holed? bronze and brass embosed sheath? please explain how this is a poor quality copy?

[PNSSHOGUN]

There is nothing to suggest this is a fake/copy.

[Matsunoki]

Meiji period made in some quantity also in katana, wak and Tanto. Almost certainly aimed at the foreigners in Japan at that time. When newly made they would look very flashy and valuable. Usually have genuine old blades of unimportant quality. Definitely not a fake but a “product of the times”. 

[Pippo]

Great! Thankyou, yes thought it was Meiji period but good to hear ypur thoughts. Blades well made but balance is off so suggestion blades earlier maybe correct.

All appreciated.

[Matsunoki]

1 hour ago, Pippo said:

suggestion blades earlier maybe correct.

Pippo, the blades found in these particular mounts are always earlier ie pre Meiji. There were so many redundant swords kicking around at that time. It was far easier and cheaper to use one of them than have something made. I suspect they were all made in the same place by the same “team” and were without doubt a clever and successful marketing ploy. I once had a daisho and also a wak and Tanto with exactly these mounts. Yours is the best I’ve seen by a long way. I think a bit more effort went into it.