7th Dec, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
142
A Second World War Japanese Tanto Knife, the 19.5cm steel blade with a narrow bohi (fuller) to the back edge, one piece copper habaki, thin copper tsuba, unsigned tang, the braid bound same hilt with white metal menuki, each modelled as a stylised octopus, with black laquer saya, lacks kazuka, 34cm; a Japanese Small Silk Scarf, with a central red circle on a cream field with traces of handwritten text, 36cm by 53cm, possibly cut-down.
Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £150
Tanto with nicks to the blade edge and black patching to the surface. Binding on the hilt is soiled. Saya is cracked and lacks the kozuka.
Scarf has numerous holes and is stained, possibly blood. My have been cut down.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 7th Dec, 2022
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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