BIG Posted Saturday at 01:51 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 01:51 PM https://www.livescie...unearthed-in-germany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis B Posted Saturday at 02:36 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:36 PM It's amazing how a little 'patina' can get museums so excited, when there are SOOO many examples from the period that are in pristine condition. 'Richly decorated' is stretching it. To spend money on a 'restoration' is a fallacy when the funds could be better spent on some high quality polishes of other blades. I find it hard to imagine what it looked like pre-restoration. Some things are just a lost cause. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG Posted Saturday at 03:13 PM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:13 PM Do not find the missons art gifts for prussia, .. but we have these gifts in France. I will try to find out more about this poor wakizashi. https://www.japanpol...082920221811409.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis B Posted Saturday at 03:48 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:48 PM Having seen the Von Roretz/Petermandl collection from the 19th century, I would not hold my hopes it will something 'important'. As was already mentioned in a previous thread, Japan was not in the habit of giving gifts of blades by the best makers to Gaijin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex A Posted Saturday at 04:09 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 04:09 PM I think maybe someone from the Museum has led a rather sheltered life on the subject, judging from statements like this. "Who could have imagined that at a time when Japan was isolated and hardly any European travelers came to the country, such a long-used and richly decorated weapon would end up here in Berlin?" Matthias Wemhoff, state archaeologist of Berlin and director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, said in the statement. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted Sunday at 01:09 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 01:09 AM Well, what is the fuss about ? Before WWII there have been collections of japaneses swords in Berlin. During the war, many houses have been bombed, many swords have been destroyed. So it is no wonder to find such an thing in an cellar filled up with rubble etc. Nobody cared at this time about antqiues. They did have serious problems. Does this Wakizashi has something to do with the gifts presented to the German Emporer by the Japanes, no. Why not take it as what it is. An wakizashi which has been destroyed during the war. All the other is pure speculation and nonsens. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNSSHOGUN Posted Sunday at 01:50 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 01:50 AM What a load of absolute hogwash. They will be losing their minds over unearthed "important" Looney Tunes glasses next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG Posted Sunday at 03:36 AM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:36 AM Tsuba design reminds me this school.. http://www.ricecrack.../827_tsuba_kiku.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis B Posted Sunday at 09:05 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 09:05 AM You can't make this stuff up. Anyone would think the Curator's had never seen antique Nihonto. If this was a Viking Ulfberht blade I could understand the excitement. Whats especially odd is that the Berlin Samurai Museum were consultants in this debacle. https://archaeology....ii-rubble-in-berlin/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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