Beyond a joke!

[Spartancrest]

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/364996942533   You could just click the link, but this is what passes for a "tsuba" on an ebay listing.  It must really look good on a sword!

 

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/364996942483  this one? 

 

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/364996942476  

 

These are a bit of a stretch - nothing whatsoever to do with tsuba - talk about truth in advertising!!!  The dealer selling these has a lot more "tsuba" - well tsuba in the description title at least!! 

[ROKUJURO]

Dale,

the NAKAGO-ANA of the horseshoe TSUBA is indeed exaggerated! 

[Spartancrest]

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/364996942314

   Dishonest description        https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/364996942580 Fake but they admit it

 

Both are examples from Hachette "buy one each month" that went down hill after the forth example was released. From a set of four selling for 8,000 yen [close to $50 USD] Wow they have gone way up in price - and they don't have the original cardboard box or the booklet. 

[Alex A]

Dont understand Dale, looks like a perfect horse shoe tsuba, possibly Late Edo, maybe earlier.

 

Heres mine, Kanbun era, displays perfectly

 

Good iron.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Yours is full of luck, Alex.

[Alex A]

Yes Piers, its my lucky tsuba 

[The Blacksmith]

I don't know what so many tsuba are doing in Norway, but I gave got about half a ton of them here!

[Curran]

1 hour ago, Alex A said:

Yes Piers, its my lucky tsuba 

I tend to use mine as shurikens, though I believe they are colloquially called noggenklunkins.

 

[Alex A]

Your good at metal work Russ, you could make a a tsuba sculpture

 

Becoming quite popular here, nearly bought a rabbit sculpture a while ago as it was a lot cheaper than one like this.

 

From memory, think they go for around £4k, money in old horse shoes, i mean tsuba.

 

 

[Geraint]

Judging by the size of the nakago ana that first one must be for a nag-inata!

 

Don't worry, I'll show myself out.

 

All the best.

 

(Just to explain the confusion a nag is a slang word for a horse in the UK and tsuba with large holes in them are often described as for naginata.  They are always better when you have to explain them!)

[Curran]

1 hour ago, Geraint said:

Judging by the size of the nakago ana that first one must be for a nag-inata!

 

D'oh! That one is worthy of bagpipes.

Absolute groaner. I love it.

[Spartancrest]

 

One on ebay, described as "Tsuba Samurai Sword Guard Leaf Pattern Rectangle"  I think the last word has become scrambled it should read "Wrecked-Angle" 

[Spartancrest]

This is what passes for a tsuba on Yahoo /Jauce - and probably some escutcheon salesman's catalogue! 

 

Who's a pretty boy then?   https://www.jauce.com/auction/u1152194818  Hey you get a free Kiri box with it  

 

 

Reminds me of these machine dial plates that were sold as "tsuba" [I wonder if they came from some WWII aircraft dial? - would at least have some story value!] 

 

 

[ROKUJURO]

Perhaps AINU ? 

[Curran]

Just a 1950s light-switch cover with aspirations of being a tsuba.