AvrelivsC Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 Wakizashi sword, the blade seems older than the furniture, there may be a signature on the tang but I am hesitant to attempt to remove the crust/patina. Is there anything y’all can glean from these Quote
Ray Singer Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 The handle (tsuka) is from the type of carved bone mounting produced during the Meiji period. The blade is authentic, Edo period or earlier, osuriage mumei (greatly shortened and unsigned). The seppa are also clearly authentic antique elements. Do not do anything to clean the nakago trying to expose a mei. Doing so will destroy any value the blade itself has. It seems fairly clear that the blade has been shortened and any mei that might have been there was lost. Quote
AvrelivsC Posted March 6 Author Report Posted March 6 4 minutes ago, Ray Singer said: The handle (tsuka) is from the type of carved bone mounting produced during the Meiji period. The blade is authentic, Edo period or earlier, osuriage mumei (greatly shortened and unsigned). The seppa are also cleaely authentic antique elements. Do not do anything to clean the nakago trying to expose a mei. Doing so will destroy any value the blade itself has. It seems fairly clear that the blade has been shortened and any mei that might have been there was lost. Thank you, edo period or earlier, I have closer pictures of the tang too https://i.imgur.com/jXiKVrI.jpeg the blade seems to have some deep gashes in it, would that be characteristic of a period damaged sword? Quote
Ray Singer Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 Can you add the photos into this post rather than the external link? Quote
AvrelivsC Posted March 6 Author Report Posted March 6 3 minutes ago, Ray Singer said: Can you add the photos into this post rather than the external link? The website isn’t letting me add any more images to the post, Quote
Ray Singer Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 It appears there may have been some significant flaw there such as a large fukure or kitae-ware. By and large, the majority of these bone mountings contained either poorly made blades that were metal tsunagi (placeholders to hold the mounts together) or lower quality antique blades that had condition issues. From that latest close up photo I suspect this is one of the latter, a tired / flawed blade, but still an older one. 1 Quote
AvrelivsC Posted March 6 Author Report Posted March 6 some more pictures of the blade, the 2.93mb size ain’t liking the tang pics I took Quote
AvrelivsC Posted March 6 Author Report Posted March 6 16 minutes ago, AvrelivsC said: some more pictures of the blade, the 2.93mb size ain’t liking the tang pics I took Quote
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