Tsuba for Comment

[junker24]

Hello to anyone,

i am a new member, which is coming from the vikingsword forum of ethnographic arms.

I am from germany so you will forgive my poor english some times.

I got a tsuba which i place in the oter community but no one could help.

I hope i am now with the specialists for those stuff.

I just work out, that the crest may be from the family ABE

best regards from Dirk

[Brian]

Sorry to say, but I think this may be a fake tsuba or one done by an amateur Westerner.

 

Brian

[reinhard]

Sorry to say, but I think this may be a fake tsuba or one done by an amateur Westerner.

 

Agree

 

reinhard

[Mark Green]

It is a tsuba.

As Brian, and Reinhard have noted, very likely a amateur Western artist.

Mark G

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi,I do believe the Tsuba is real,but the signature was made by a Non-Japanese amateur.Ludolf

[Brian]

Ludolf,

If that is true, then the engraving must have been done by the same hand, and the patina too.

Have a look at the last pic, bottom left. Terrible engraving.

 

Brian

[Stephen]

not counting the mei, i kinda like it.

[sanjuro]

The mei and the engraving look almost as if they were done with a modern high speed rotary tool rather than by hand. The tsuba may be the real thing, but the rest seems a bit suspect. Sorry.......

[Ford Hallam]

It's a tsuba shaped object. :D

 

The seppa dai area is a terrible shape and that nakago ana demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of it's actual function. The "non-functional" seki-gane are an amusing touch. It is shakudo though so I incline towards a Japanese amateur. Not made as a fake, merely hobby work. Is it a real tsuba?....well, it is real ( ie; it exists ) but the rest would depend on your definition of tsuba. For some, the only "real" tsuba are in iron and pre 1600

[junker24]

Hi,

thanks all.

The engaving of he pictures are less deep than the signature, so maybe two different persons ?

I feared it could be a fake but of course it is better to know the truth.

Dirk

[Tsugio Kawakami]

Looks like the mei, the engraving and the sekigane were all scratched/dremmeled in and colored with metallic pens. :|