junker24 Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 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 Quote
Brian Posted June 14, 2010 Report Posted June 14, 2010 Sorry to say, but I think this may be a fake tsuba or one done by an amateur Westerner. Brian Quote
reinhard Posted June 15, 2010 Report Posted June 15, 2010 Sorry to say, but I think this may be a fake tsuba or one done by an amateur Westerner. Agree reinhard Quote
Mark Green Posted June 15, 2010 Report Posted June 15, 2010 It is a tsuba. As Brian, and Reinhard have noted, very likely a amateur Western artist. Mark G Quote
Ludolf Richter Posted June 15, 2010 Report Posted June 15, 2010 Hi,I do believe the Tsuba is real,but the signature was made by a Non-Japanese amateur.Ludolf Quote
Brian Posted June 15, 2010 Report Posted June 15, 2010 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 Quote
Stephen Posted June 16, 2010 Report Posted June 16, 2010 not counting the mei, i kinda like it. Quote
sanjuro Posted June 16, 2010 Report Posted June 16, 2010 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....... Quote
Ford Hallam Posted June 16, 2010 Report Posted June 16, 2010 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 Quote
junker24 Posted June 16, 2010 Author Report Posted June 16, 2010 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 Quote
Tsugio Kawakami Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 Looks like the mei, the engraving and the sekigane were all scratched/dremmeled in and colored with metallic pens. :| Quote
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