AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR NOV 2024

A JAPANESE SAMURAI TANTO SWORD

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Start price: $150

Estimated price: $300 - $500

Buyer's premium:

Edo era, with brass fuchi and kashira elegantly inlaid with silver, the iron tsuba with embellished edge and shakudo menuki, the seppa with substantial remains of silvering. The black lacquered saya with en suite kojiri. Signed kogatana in place with copper kozuka with gilding embossed with demon, with silvered habaki. Old mumei blade with two holes of hira zukuri form with straight temperline and clear turnback with active grain. 18th-19th century. Well worn, blade scratched, lacquer with losses. Overall length 40.2cm / 15.8? nagasa 26.1cm / 10.27?Condition III