Watch List notes:

Japanese tsuba, oval in shape (W74xH76xD5mm), cast in iron, kozuka at left of tang hole and kogai at right, voided pattern in four places, two at top and two at bottom, design featuring flowers and vines with two flowers on obverse and one on the reverse and rope pattern around edge and voided areas, this design in relief in brass, unsigned, together with an NTHK-NPO Kanteisho Koshirae origami (judgement certificate) and with the base of a kiri box. Very fine.

N(ihon) T(oken) H(ozon) K(ai) - NPO Kanteisho Koshirae origami (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword - Non Profit Organisation, Authentic Sword Fittings judgement certificate).
($450-500)