A tanto with grooved steel blade, the shagreen hilt mounted with iron fittings decorated with mon and foliage, the gilt-bronze menuki modelled as coiled dragons, and brown lacquer scabbard with similar mounts fitted with iron kozuka decorated in silver and gilt with a crane among bamboo, witha carved lacquer sword stand decorated in gold hiramakie with dragon roundels and Tokugawa mon -- the blade 14½.in.long, signed, the stand 21¼.in.long. (2)

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A tanto with grooved steel blade, the shagreen hilt mounted with iron fittings decorated with mon and foliage, the gilt-bronze menuki modelled as coiled dragons, and brown lacquer scabbard with similar mounts fitted with iron kozuka decorated in silver and gilt with a crane among bamboo, witha carved lacquer sword stand decorated in gold hiramakie with dragon roundels and Tokugawa mon -- the blade 14½.in.long, signed, the stand 21¼.in.long. (2)

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