They get around

[Kevin]

Just had my attention drawn to this blade:

 

http://www.nihontoantiques.com/fss403.htm

 

The collector who originally owned it was wandering around the web looking at swords and came across it. He bought it at a local fair years ago. He sold it to me. I sold it to an American Ebay member in December 2010. Now it's up for sale again, via Moses Beccera's site. :-)

 

It's doing some travelling. :-)

 

Kevin

[Grey Doffin]

2 sword dealers were stranded on a deserted island, penniless with but one sword between them. A month later when they were rescued they were both millionaires.

Grey

[Kevin]

@Grey :-)

 

So all I need to do to be rich is to be stranded on a desert island with another dealer and one sword for a month? Cool! :D

 

Not sure why the guy didn't hang on to it though. He was quite keen to get it. Perhaps he found something he liked better.

 

I'm not unused to swords getting about BTW. This one amused me though - Moses' photos are also better than mine. As for previous cases - well, several times I've heard that a sword that I've sold to a UK collector has later been sold or P/Xd to another UK collector. Sometimes I've found out that a sword that a UK collector has sold to me was sold to him by another UK collector a few months previously. In one unusual case a sword that I sold to A was sold to B who sold it to C who sold it to me, and I then sold it to D. That however is unusual. D, as I recall, was outside the UK, so the sword in question presumably now joins a merry-go-round in another country. :-)

 

All in all, it is a very small world.

 

Kevin

[sanjuro]

'D' obviously had ultimate second thoughts. One wonders what the re-purchase cost him and why it was thought to be worthwhile.

 

This is a strange world of nihonto that we inhabit..... :D

[ububob]

So you have noted on more than one occasion.

[sanjuro]

True..... But it never ceases to amaze and captivate me.

[Kevin]

@ sanjuro

 

Ah, the most convoluted situation I've found myself in was multiple P/Xs. Party A had a sword on commission. Party B wants it but doesn't have enough ready dosh, so offers cash and another sword. It so happens that Party C wants a sword by that particular smith, but also lacks sufficient funds, so offers another P/X. Party D is after an example of the sort of sword that Party C is P/Xing - as you guessed, he doesn't have enough funds so offers yet another P/X. The figures all add up so that Party A can get his money immediately from the commission sale (a very important point to bear in mind), so shortly afterwards there were swords flying in and out of the house. Somehow it all worked. Everyone departed happy. That's the result that I like to see. :D

 

Kevin

[b.hennick]

There was a Yamato Tegai wakizashi with Hozon papers that made the rounds in the Rochester Sword study group. Each of us owned it for a few months or a year and after study passed it on to another member of the group. Since we are all friends it seemed to change hands for about the same amount of money. All of us became able to pick out a Yamato Tegai blade in kantei! Sooo not always a bad things.

[ububob]

I wonder how many times a dealer has sold the same sword?