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Post by kamagatsu on Sept 20, 2022 22:20:57 GMT
Found this on a UK site that sells lots of Japanese war memorabilia and wonder if anyone can give a brief assessment?
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Post by treeslicer on Sept 21, 2022 0:15:12 GMT
Found this on a UK site that sells lots of Japanese war memorabilia and wonder if anyone can give a brief assessment? I went to the seller's site and looked around. Considering that most nihointo stores (like Aoi) list prices up into the hundreds of thousands of USD and fill each webpage full of information as well as excellent photos,This outfit's terrible tiny photographs, lack of any useful description at all, and
"Price on Request", very negatively impress me.
The sword blade looks interesting, but I don't do business with people who act like they are doing me a favor to offer to sell me stuff.
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Post by kamagatsu on Sept 21, 2022 13:45:58 GMT
Found this on a UK site that sells lots of Japanese war memorabilia and wonder if anyone can give a brief assessment? I went to the seller's site and looked around. Considering that most nihointo stores (like Aoi) list prices up into the hundreds of thousands of USD and fill each webpage full of information as well as excellent photos,This outfit's terrible tiny photographs, lack of any useful description at all, and
"Price on Request", very negatively impress me.
The sword blade looks interesting, but I don't do business with people who act like they are doing me a favor to offer to sell me stuff.
Totally understand what your saying and I’d generally share the same opinion. Sadly here in the UK I simply haven’t found many places that sell swords at all. It seems a very neeche interest / hobby here. although I have recently joined the To-Ken society and hope to be attending my the first meeting in a few weeks, hopefully this will provide me with new avenues? Lee.
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Post by Drunk Merchant on Sept 21, 2022 22:36:01 GMT
Don’t bite, he’s selling a low grade showato as an ancestral blade and trying to pocket thousands. see those dark peaks at the Gunome? That’s a textbook sign of oil quench. why he refuses to give you more details and photos. Offer him 1000$ for his showato or don’t bother. This is probably my fault for saying converted civilian swords are often gendai or ancestral. A high proportion are but at least half are just showato. Hope this diagram helps your hunting Attachments:
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Post by Yagoro on Sept 21, 2022 22:44:56 GMT
Don’t bite, he’s selling a low grade showato as an ancestral blade and trying to pocket thousands. see those dark peaks at the Gunome? That’s a textbook sign of oil quench. why he refuses to give you more details and photos. Offer him 1000$ for his showato or don’t bother. This is probably my fault for saying converted civilian swords are often gendai or ancestral. A high proportion are but at least half are just showato. Hope this diagram helps your hunting To add to this it appears to be oil quenched
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Post by Drunk Merchant on Sept 21, 2022 22:55:42 GMT
Yeah and no hada either. And a chippy mei and a seki stamp. Some RJT star stamped swords were made in seki and they got mini seki punches on the mune, but this isn’t one. It’s a low grade seki showato. This isn’t a high grade gunto. The fittings are probably worth more than the sword. Attachments:
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