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Lot 24

A Tanto
Signed Gassan Sadakatsu kin saku, dated a lucky day in October 1929 and with an inscription stating that the blade was made to commemorate the birth of the Princess

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

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A Tanto
Signed Gassan Sadakatsu kin saku, dated a lucky day in October 1929 and with an inscription stating that the blade was made to commemorate the birth of the Princess

The hira-zukuri blade with one mekugi-ana, gunome-midare hamon, mokume hada, in shira-saya
22.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

The inscription refers to Princess Kazuko Taka-no-miya born on 30 September 1929. She was the elder sister of Akihito and died in 1989

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