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Lot 29

A Fine Iron-Mounted Katana
Unsigned, Shinto

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Iron-Mounted Katana
Unsigned, Shinto

The o-suriage blade with two mekugi-ana, midare hamon of nie, fully bound tsuka with iron fuchi-kashira decorated with silver nunome clouds within gold nunome borders, gold menuki in the form of horses, and rounded square iron tsuba decorated in gold and silver with a Ho-ho bird, in its unusual Komei decorated iron saya inlaid overall in gold and silver with a Ho-ho bird sitting on a branch against a russet ground
57.3 cm. blade

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