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A daisho
of a katana and a wakizashi, both with silk bound shagreen hilts, gilt bronze menuki modelled as insects on flowersprays, similar fuchi with flowers on nanako grounds, and plain black lacquer scabbards, lobed quatrefoil iron tsubas, the wakizashi with gilt bronze kozuka decorated with maple leaves on a nanako ground, the blades -- 24.7/8in. (63.2cm) and 15½in. (39.4cm) long respectively, both circa 1850, signed Katsu Tsuna. (2)
of a katana and a wakizashi, both with silk bound shagreen hilts, gilt bronze menuki modelled as insects on flowersprays, similar fuchi with flowers on nanako grounds, and plain black lacquer scabbards, lobed quatrefoil iron tsubas, the wakizashi with gilt bronze kozuka decorated with maple leaves on a nanako ground, the blades -- 24.7/8in. (63.2cm) and 15½in. (39.4cm) long respectively, both circa 1850, signed Katsu Tsuna. (2)