Large iron and silver Myochin tsuba 8.49cm and 170grams

[Curran]

Up for sale is this large honking Myochin or Haruta armor maker style tsuba. [that is my best guess]

Sunlight style texturing to the plate.  8.49cm high. 170 grams. About 5.5mm to 6mm depending where you measure it. Armor maker style, so obviously thickest at the mimi.

I saw a very similar one attributed to Myochin in Chicago.

 

This one is up for $250 + shipping to your country.

It is a perfectly find big tsuba that came  +1  as part of a two tsuba package where I wanted the other tsuba.

---The one in Chicago was $600. Nothing at all wrong with this wee beastie. It just isn't in my Higo and Owari interest areas. Otherwise, I believe it a perfectly good tsuba.

 

Donation to NMB if it sells via NMB.

Feel free to ask questions.

Patience if I am slow to reply to PMs. It seems my mailbox fills up sometimes.

 

Curran

[Curran]

And no idea why the pictures are rotating. I will try and fix that tonight.

Last one.

[Curran]

On HOLD

{pretty sure it is sold}

 

This one was a partial gift. :-)

NMB contribution after payment.

 

[Curran]

SOLD.

NMB contribution once I get it mailed.

 

[Winchester]

Boy, I wish I would have seen this earlier--before it sold. Oh well, such is life. Best to the seller and buyer. 

[Curran]

Thanks.  It was a large and Lovely tsuba that came +1 with another tsuba I wanted to buy.

 

It was a nice honking hefty example of manly armor maker tsuba. Armor maker tsuba mostly aren't my cup of tea, but I didn't mind having this one around for a year or two.

I have an ubu late Nambokuchu or early Muromachi Ko-Tosho that I should get around to selling, but it won't be nearly as cheap as this one.

     Still, a bargain price once I get around to photographing and listing it.