Authentic Fine Antique! Japanese Tanto Circa 1550 AD

Selling a nice tanto blade , Mei/signature : Mihara ju Masaie( AD 1532-1554)  so around 470 years old....

Very fine little tanto with 23cm edge length and 33cm overall length, weighs around 1 lb, very nicely polished by professional polisher (not your average garage grinder)

scarbbard material is laquered wood, buffalo horn and metal. 

Habaki was wrapped with a thick layer of pure gold (see testing machine)

Middle Picture is showing both sides , only one blade not 2

• “Mihara-jū Masai-e” (三原住正家) is a swordsmith (or lineage of swordsmiths) of the Mihara school in Bingo Province (備後国, now part of Hiroshima Prefecture).
• The “Mihara school” (三原派, Mihara-ha) is a group of swordsmiths active from the late Kamakura period through the Muromachi and into the Sengoku era, centered around the Mihara / Bingo region.

Not interested in trade other than quality Colt/Remington/Smith Wesson antique revolvers 

ASking $2399 shipped Canada wide