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A Japanese wakizashi with plain blade (42cm) with pierced cast iron tsuba and canvas bound shagreen hilt in red lacquered sheath 59cm long overall

A 19TH-CENTURY JAPANESE SWORD (KATANA) the bound sharkskin grip having rudimentary brass menuki and fuchi-kashira, with simple copper-alloy tsuba, the curved blade complete with hide-covered scabbard, 104cm, (41in) long

A Japanese aikuchi, the grip with silk braid bound shagreen, small tsuba with 10.5in. blade complete with black lacquered scabbard, 17in. long overall.

A Japanese katana with silk braid bound shark skin covered grip and brass tsuba and 26in. slightly curved blade complete with black leather covered field scabbard, 37in. long overall.

A Japanese katana with silk braid bound shagreen grip and brass tsuba slightly curved blade, 27in. long together with a leather covered field scabbard, 39in. long overall.

A Japanese officers katanathe the taped fish skin tsuka with pierced tsuba and metal lacquered sayer, blade 73cm.

An 18th Century Japanese Katana, with a pierced decorative tsuba, blade 73.5cm

A Japanese Tsuba

A Japanese Tsuba

A Japanese Bronzed Copper Tsuba, oval, inlaid with gold and silver, depicting warriors on and below a bridge confronted by a dragon rearing from foaming waves, five character inscription, Meiji period, circa 1890, (7cm)

A Katana, 69.6cm blade with one mekugi-ana, midare hamon, signed, in full military pattern mounts with iron sukashi tsuba, the kabuto-gane applied with a silver mon, Shin-Shinto.

A Handachi, 63.4cm blade with one mekugi-ana and full length hi, signed Katsumitsu, fully bound tsuka with shibuichi fuchi and kabuto-gane, engraved with clouds and applied with characters in gold, soft metal menuki, iron mokko shaped tsuba with brass inlaid decoration, in its black lacquered saya with shibuichi mounts decorated en-suite, Shinto. (See lot 311 for illustration).

A Katana, 79.5cm blade with two mekugi-ana, midare hamon, signed, fully bound tsuka with shakudo nanako fuchi and kabuto gane decorated with flowering branches with gold details, shakudo and gilt floral menuki, circular iron tsuba chiselled with a figure and a frog within a landscape, with soft metal details, in its striped black lacquered saya with leather combat cover, Shinto. (See lot 314 for illustration).

A Japanese bronze Tsuba decorated a horse resting in the shade of a tree with gold and silver foliage.

An iron and inlaid bushu style tsuba, 19th century, signed Masafusa, detail with ginko, oak, acorns and pine leaves, 3"

An iron and inlaid tsuba, 19th century, pierced and leaf incised borders, 3"

A Japanese officers Wakizashi with pierced bronze tsuba the metal sayer with leather sleeve, (tip broken), blade 68cm.

An Iron Tsuba the pierced design with a stylised dragon and foliage, and another decorated with an immortal and an inscription, 7.5cm.

An Iron tsuba decorated with a figure in a window and a sage with a staff, and inlaid with yellow metal foliage, 8cm.

An iron tsuba with symmetrical inlay and four other iron tsuba with simple chiselled and cast decoration. (5)

A Wakizashi with bronze? tsuba, fish skin tsuka (tape missing) in lacquered saya (blade signed), in need of restoration. Blade 45cm.

A pierced iron tsuba, heavily pierced with designs of foliage and vessels and another with a formalised kiku and an oak leaf. 7cm max.

A Japanese black lacquered low table, late 19th Century, the rectangular top decorated with red lacquered arthemisia leaf and gilt highlighting, within a heron and ho-ho bird surround, the frieze with passion fruit and tsuba trophies, raised on square section supports, 122cm diameter.

Eight Japanese tsuba, variously decorated with figures, birds, trees and scrolls, 18th and 19th century, 8.5cm. max. (8) Worn and rusty.

A Japanese wakizashi 44.5cm signed blade, the tsuka retaining a shahudo nanako fuchi with gold decoration, iron tsuba (def.), black lacquer saya (def.) together a military tsuka and a black lacquered saya with combat cover.

A Japanese wakizashi, 43cm signed and dated blade, the bound tsuka with iron fuchi kashira having gold decoration and soft metal menuki, an iron sukashi tsuba, black lacquered saya. See lot 439 for illustration.

A good Japanese tanto, 28.5cm unsigned blade, bound with shibuichi manako fuchi kashira decorated with dragons in clouds, iron tsuba, the rim decorated with gold foliage, the saya lacquered to imitate bark with three flies and mounted ensuite, complete with kodzuka and kogai of shakaudo namaka decorated in gold and silver with butterflies and prunus blossom. (late Edo period)

A Scottish Skean Dhu with short steel blade, the handle carved in plaited form and the terminal set with a brown stone, leather and plated metal covered scabbard, 7.75ins overall, a Japanese steel Tsuba, 2.75ins diameter, two tortoiseshell bladed paperknives with silvery metal mounted handles, 8.5ins and 10ins, and a plain ivory paperknife, 14.5ins (tip altered)

A Japanese Wakizashi with tape bound tsuka, iron tsuba and lacquered sayer, some damage, blade 46.5cm.

A Japanese Tanto with tape bound tsuka intricate pierced iron tsuba and lacquered sayer, blade, 76cm.

A Japanese Katana samurai sword with a gilt brass foliate moulded tsuba, white sharkskin handle, the scabbard with a leather cover, 102cm long overall.

A Japanese Miniature Tachi, the sheath, tsuba and handle carved in relief with small vignettes depicting Samurai and their retainers in mountainous settings with pine trees, Meiji period, circa 1890, (the blade 16cm long) (small restorations and gluing, the tsuba cracked)

An amber style bangle, a Japanese "tsuba", buckles, hat pins, etc.

A CIVILIAN KATANA. Three mekugi-ana in the un-named tang, shallow curve blade with some chipping to the edge. Lacking all hilt furniture except the fuchi. Iron Tsuba with flower/dragon etc decoration, saya with black lacquer finish, in need of repair.

A katana, with cast mounts, the cord-bound hilt with floral menuki and plain tsuba, the blade 62cm; with a black lacquered wood scabbard, WWII

A Japanese iron Tsuba, finely pierced with stylised tendrils and droplets in gold, 7.2cm, probably 18th century

A Japanese iron and gilt Tsuba pierced and cast with five ducks in flight within a gild diaper border, 7.6cm; and a plain iron Tsuba cast with three cranes, 7.5cm

A pair of Japanese iron Tsuba, finely cast and pierced with scaly dragons, signed Hiotsuyanagi Tomoyoshe at the age of 68, 8.2cm, 19th century

A WAKASASHI. Stylised saya with fluted end, of black laquer with floral design. Unsigned blade 15.75" (40cm), matching Fuchi and Kashira, dragon tsuba.

A circular iron 'Tsuba' carved with low relief of a farmer and bamboo plants, with traces of gold, 8cm diameter

A Japanese 28in Katana blade, with cast brass Tsuba, wicker bound shagreen grip, with floral Menuki, the scabbard with suspension ring, 40in long overall, Meiji period

A Japanese Sword Katana, the 27" blade stamped 50021, the brown enamelled, white metal repousse hilt simulating braid bound same and menuki, and with pierced brass tsuba, the grey enamelled scabbard also stamped 50021.

A Japanese sword with a lacquered scabbard, the blade and the tsuba rusted, 75cm wide.

A circular iron Tsuba, pierced and decorated in gold nunome to represent fans in Kenjo style, hitsu-ana plugged in shakudo, 8.5cm (3 1/2in) unsigned, 18th century

A brass Tsuba, of lobed mokko form, the centre with an ishime ground, the broad rim carved with a mokume design and applied with scattered cloisonne enamel devices, 8cm (3 1/4in) signed on one side Yamamoto Toshinobu, the other side inscribed Hirata Nariyuki,

A Yamagane Tsuba of octagonal form perforated with eight rectangular apertures inlaid with lines of blue enamel, the body scattered with cloisonne enamel emblems, 7.3cm (3in),early Hirata School work.

A pair of shakudo Tsuba, each of mokko form with broad rounded rim in nanako with dragons in gilt relief, the centre scrolls pierced with three flowering paulownia, details inlaid in gold, 7cm (3in) inscribed Omori Teruhide

A Goto School Tsuba: oval shibuichi nanako applied with a shakudo rim of bamboo form from which spring branches spreading towards the centre, 6.7cm (3in) signed on inlaid gold panels.

A Shoami School Tsuba: dark sentoku, the centre carved in relief with waves, the broad, flat, rounded rim inlaid with scrolling karakusa, the wave ground with a gilt kirimon, 7.5cm (3in) unsigned, 17th century.

A School of Ichijo Tsuba: shakudo of mokko form, decorated within the raised rim with irregularly stamped snow crystals, one side inlaid in copper and silver with plum blossom and a bird in flight, the reverse with two birds and snow crystals, 8cm (3 1/4in) inscribed Goto Hokyo Ichijo

A Hamano School copper Tsuba decorated in iro-e relief with a sage and a crane, all within a shakudo mimi, unsigned, 7cm (3in)

A pair of Mino Goto Tsuba, each in shakudo nanako of mokko form with raised rim, decorated in gold nunome on the nanako ground with a brocade pattern, the edges with dragons in relief and gilding, 7.5cm (3in) unsigned

A pair of iron Kenjo Shoami Tsuba pierced and carved with screens in marubori and inlaid with floral designs in gilding, 7.8cm (3in) signed Baishige with seal "Ryu"

A Shakudo Tsuba, decorated on one side with a stag and doe reclining amidst autumn grasses in kebori and katakiri with gilt inlay, 7.5cm (3in) signed Hogen Ichijo, the reverse similarly decorated with two bats amid clouds, signed Isshi Hashimoto.

A Shibuichi Tsuba, decorated with flute, tsuzumi, drumsticks and other musical instruments carved and inlaid in gold and copper hirazogan and honzogan and cloisonne enamels, 7cm (2 3/4in) signed Koryusai Somin.

A Shibuichi Tsuba, decorated on the ishime surface with a stag baying at the full moon, in silver, gold and cloisonne enamels, reverse inscribed with a poem, 6.8cm (2 3/4in) signed Haruaki Hogen.

A Shakudo Tsuba of circular form with pipe rim, the plate chased in kebori and katakiri with a cowherd playing his flute beside a stream as his ox rests beneath a cherry tree, 7.5cm (3in) signed Tomotsune.

A Shakudo Tsuba of tapered oval form with gold rim, decorated in kebori and katakiri with a Ho-o bird and kiri leaves, 8cm (3 1/4in) signed Yokoya Somin

A Shakudo nanako Tsuba of cruciform shape, chased in high relief with two dragons weaving through the plate, feelers inlaid in gold, 8cm (3 1/4in) signed Omori Terufusa with kakihan

A Mito School Tsuba, shakudo nanako plate with raised rim, chased in high relief and inlaid in gold with a dragon chasing a tama above waves, 8cm (3 1/4in) unsigned