Kabuto for sale for $1mil

[blades87]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Rare-Vintag ... 414e1a4128

 

I saw this listing and just had to laugh at the asking price. $1million.

 

The ad for this items gets better. The seller is looking for $2,000 for the helmet, which looks like a reproduction, unless they had wing nuts (picture #3) in feudal Japan. :lol:

[IanB]

If you look at his other antiques, over 20 years old, he prices them at $1,000,000 as well. All to pay off a $2,000 loan. As for wingnuts, I bet they are metric threads at 6.75 turns per sun.

Ian Bottomley

[estcrh]

  blades87 said:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Rare-Vintage-Japanese-Samurai-Helmet-Kabuto_W0QQitemZ280483217704QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAsian_Antiques?hash=item414e1a4128

 

I saw this listing and just had to laugh at the asking price. $1million.

 

The ad for this items gets better. The seller is looking for $2,000 for the helmet, which looks like a reproduction, unless they had wing nuts (picture #3) in feudal Japan. :lol:

Well at least it appears that the seller owns the items being sold, unlike this fraud who sell items that do not belong to them ( they are listing an item which I own and will not remove it from their listing) http://myworld.ebay.com/Japan-premium-s ... assistant/

[IanB]

These combination weapons were almost always a waste of time. Imagine trying to manage the Elgin pistol with that great heavy blade dangling beneath. I suppose the pistols and blunderbusses with spring bayonets did have a validity since it gave the user what our modern military would describe as 'a second strike capability' whilst not being in the way when using the gun as a gun. Swords or hangers with flintlock pistols attached owe more to the fascination of wealthy patrons for the exotic than real utility. Even earlier than these are swords / knives with blades having the barrel running down inside the back edge of them, the muzzle being plugged with a false sword point and the mechanism, wheel lock, being fitted into the hilts and cross-guards. There is one of these made for the Medici and another in Vienna if I remember correctly. What a novelty to show your buddies. These absurd concoctions were especially popular in India and we have a whole shed-load in the Royal Armouries. One especially ridiculous item is an axe, the handle of which is a barrel for a matchlock, fitted with a serpentine and a ramrod, that in turn is normally plugged by a screw-in dagger.

Ian Bottomley