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Japanese Samurai Sword Receipts from Edo period

Title: Lot of 4 Japanese Samurai Sword Receipts from Edo period
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Description: 4 calligraphed receipts in Japanese. Various sizes, each with outer wrapper.Four very rare Edo period (1600 - 1868) Japanese Samurai Sword documents produced by the Honami family who appraised Japanese samurai swords for the Shogun. Various members of this family for some five hundred years would judge swords and signatures on swords and produce documents of authenticity, much the same as the modern day NTBHK or NTHK sword clubs, only the Honami family of the Edo period were known to judge swords without signatures, and to identify makers names from the Hamon and Hada and other
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