Kotani Yasunori 1943

[Rawa]

As you going crazy with gendai I came across this auction

https://www.catawiki.com/pl/l/95007162-katana-stal-japonska-japonia

Cheers!

[oli]

it's from a shop: https://kyodaioriginals.nl/shop/

[lonely panet]

so very fantasy pricing tho

[oli]

2 hours ago, lonely panet said:

so very fantasy pricing tho

all European dealers have this pricing. They buy in Japan and USA and sell with double of the price. 

[lonely panet]

i dont remember it being that hard to import in the europe? has something changed?

 

[Rawa]

Nope. For me its 8% with no customs duty fee except brokerage. But guarantee of low vat is only if I buy with some papers. Its great as long as I dnt have anything to do with national post office as they are so slow. 

Its better to pay full 23% vat sometimes for making proces quicker.

[Rawa]

But I got once problem with buying from usa. Was impossible to ship sword via plane. Except using fedex.

[oli]

6 hours ago, lonely panet said:

i dont remember it being that hard to import in the europe? has something changed?

 

Import tax is about 20%. Without this board i wouldn't startet collecting Nihonto, because i can get blades here for a fair price. 

[Rawa]

2 hours ago, oli said:

Import tax is about 20%. Without this board i wouldn't startet collecting Nihonto, because i can get blades here for a fair price. 

20% in germany? In Poland antiques have 8%

[oli]

12 hours ago, Rawa said:

20% in germany? In Poland antiques have 8%

i mean VAT, sorry

[Mikaveli]

14 hours ago, Rawa said:

20% in germany? In Poland antiques have 8%

It also depends on your country's definition of antique.

 

In the UK, "antiques" only have to pay 5% on import, but that only applies if the item is over 100 years old.

 

A 1943 sword would attract 20% on import.

[Karu]

From France here, I had to pay 1200€ of custom fees for a sword from AOI Art which was 20% of the price I paid