AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR NOV 2024

A JAPANESE SAMURAI TESSEN TANTO FAN DAGGER

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Start price: $100

Estimated price: $200 - $300

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Edo era, the well-forged moroha zukuri tanto blade with faint temperline and grain, and copper habaki. In its wooden saya carved and lacquered to appear as a closed fan, with delicately incised lines delineating each rib in ocher lacquered, the covers lacquered black and inlaid with silver leaves. 18th-19th century. Overall length 30.8cm / 12 1/8?. Minor wear. Condition III