A WAKIZASHI AND TWO KATANA

Estimated Value:

1.800 € - 2.500 €

Schätzpreis:

1.800 €

Description:

Japan, two inscribed, 19th c. and earlier
L. 70/ 90 / 93 cm
a) Wakizashi. Nagamaki-zukuri without bohi. Nagamaki-zukuri without bohi. Nakago: ha agari kujijiri. Yasurime: sujikai. Mei: 越前守藤原助廣 (Echizen Sudobara Sukehiro). Scabbard: anthracite gray grained lacquer. Handle wrapped with leather. Menuki: copper, dragon. Fushi-kashira: Iron, pine. Short habaki: brass. Tsuba missing. b) Katana. Nagamaki-zukuri without bohi. Mumei. Scabbard: anthracite-gray, grained lacquer. Fuchi-kashira and kojiri: iron, waves. Menuki. Habaki: copper. Tsuba missing. c) Katana, without handle. Nakago: kengyo, yasurime: sujikai. Mei: 天保六年仲秋 Tenpō roku-nen chūshū (2nd autumn month, 6th year Tempō era [1835]). Scabbard: Lacquered ray skin with grape vine inlays. Habaki: Copper. Tsuba and kurikata missing.
From an old South German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Signs of wear, scabbards partially damaged, blades stained and partially scratched

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