Among the services we provide is what a friend in the business has termed “retail therapy”. As we populate this new website with goods and services, we are proud to offer well-researched objects and artifacts, as well as appraisal services. The ANTIQUES page will make its debut with Asian Export Sword Guards, a rare and fascinating field of collecting.
Asian Export Sword-Guards and Nanban Tsuba
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Reflecting the profound influence the medieval Japanese weapons industry exerted across Asia, metalworkers from Sri Lanka and Tibet, and from Monsoon Asia to China produced decorative hand guards in Japanese form, embellished according to local taste. These played a significant role in maritime trade during the early and mid-modern eras, being used as greeting-gifts in commerce and diplomacy. Modest in size and affordable in price, these historic objects exhibit delightful artistry, relics of an age of swashbuckling mariners.
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