July 29 - August 19, 2024 Timed internet Only Firearms
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/20/2024
67.2cm (approximately 26 - 1/2") of shinogi zukuri form. No visible temper or grain, and the form indicates that this is a tourist sword; consignor states that he purchased it as a GI bringback. Signed "Katsushige", with a roughly finished iriyamagata jiri. Plain wooden saya with whitemetal mounts with floral designs, square tsuba with cast designs of a man and a woman on one side, incised butterfly and floral design on reverse, and heart shaped intrusions at corners. Purple tsuka-ito, with floral menuki en suite with mounts. CONDITION: Sword has oxidation throughout the length. Mounts with heavy handling marks and rubs to tsuka and mounts, saya with some handling marks and a few scrapes. towards kojiri.