A WAKIZASHI AND A KATANA

Estimated Value:

900 € - 1.500 €

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Description:

Japan, 19th c. or earlier
L. 58/ 88 cm
a) Wakizashi: Shinogi-zukuri without bohi. Scabbard: black, grooved lacquer. Tsuba: Iron with gold and silver inlays, mokko-gata. Kozuka missing. Fushi-kashira: Iron with overlays in copper, silver and gold: fruits etc. on finely punched background. Menuki: birds. Habaki: copper. b) Katana: Shinogi-zukuri ohne bohi. Hamon: notare.
Scabbard: Black, grained lacquer. Tsuba: Iron, round. Fine cord winding. Menuki. Fushi-kashira: Iron. Habaki: copper.
From an old South German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Signs of wear, iron partly rusty, blade stained

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