FS - High-class Owari Sukashi Tsuba with 2023 NBTHK Hozon Papers

[Higo-san]

Dear all

 

letting go of this tsuba was not an easy decision but there are other major investments ahaead... this sale is about an investment-grade Owari tsuba with an almost perfect (!) maru-gata shape and plenty of tekkotsu. The quality of the iron is very high and has much appeal to it. The mimi is kaku-mimi and the design was judged as jumon (which can roughly be translated as a complex pattern). The attribution has been confirmed by the NBTHK. The Hozon papers have been issued this year. The tsuba came to me from an old French collection.

 

Dimensions:

 

Width: 7.57 cm

Height: 7.56 cm

(Average) Thickness at the seppa-dai: 0.57 cm
(Average) Thickness at the mimi: 0.59 cm

 

Nakago-ana:

 

Width: 0.97 cm

Height: 2.65 cm

 

Asking price: EUR 1,900.00 plus actual shipping costs from Germany (will be somewhere between EUR 25 and EUR 65 depending on your location)

 

Best

 

Chris

 

[Higo-san]

Price reduction to EUR 1,800.00 plus shipping

[Higo-san]

Price drop to EUR 1,700.00 plus shipping - just to remember everone: this piece has been confirmed as an authentic Owari piece by the NBTHK last year!

[HannesT]

This is an absolutely lovely piece. I had the chance to see it in person during our local meetings. It is wonderful and as always: images don’t do it justice!

[Higo-san]

Huge price cut to EUR 1500.00!

[Higo-san]

BUMP

[Higo-san]

Price cut to EUR 1300.00 plus shipping!

[Iaido dude]

Classical design. Beautifully executed. 

[Iaido dude]

Is this still available? What are your thoughts on the dating?

[Higo-san]

Yes it is still available - this tsuba dates from the Momoyama / earliest Edo period!

[Iaido dude]

Hi Chris,

 

I’m working on raising some funds to acquire desirable and exemplary Kanayama and Owari during the period 1575–1610 (possibly -1620). I’ll be in touch. 

 

Tschuss,

Steve

[Higo-san]

Got it, Steve!

 

Best

 

Chris

[Higo-san]

Bump! Final price cut to EUR 1,200.00 plus shipping costs!

[Higo-san]

I was requested to provide additional pictures of the kogai-hitsu which is original and was not modified at some point.

[Higo-san]

No further discounts - but maybe some additional pictures might help !

[Higo-san]

Okay - now a last chance for all bargain-lovers: EUR 1,000.00 until the end of the week. 

[Higo-san]

Tsuba is now at auction: https://www.catawiki...ama-period-1573-1603

[Higo-san]

No reserve this time (strange times for tsuba sellers…): https://www.catawiki...ama-period-1573-1603

[Higo-san]

SOLD on Catawiki

[Curran]

In the midst of many other things, I somehow missed this.

It is a shame, as this was a good Owari tsuba.