$500 I know that a lot people on this site are always looking far a 56 so I thought I would post this link to an add I just saw today. hope nobody minds?
ksl.com - Ad Listing


Josh

 

I WOULD JUMP ON THAT....but too far....and i now have too many as it is....haha

 

You know you're out in the country when a person is willing to trade for guns and atv. What's up with the samurai, though?

 

LOL. ya your right! That is pretty funny.....
i actually seem to see quite a few adds dealing with the samurais. If I lived in the sticks i would have one too....!

 

Authentic Japanese Samurai Swords taken as trophies during WWII are worth a tremendous amount of money to the families of the IJA officers that carried them. So, they have become quite a collectors trade here in the US. Newer versions and reproductions have also started to becoe big items to Militaria Collectors. **** German items are getting big too! Since a lot of these things were brought home by service men then stuck up in attics and forgotten, many are being rediscovered by families as our WWII heros start to pass on. And subsequently are up for sale. Many Japanese family members will actually fly from Japan to the US to retrieve and "Escort" home these "Sacred" tokens.

 

So I guess I am stuck in the sticks... heck Boise is big town from where I live. Man I miss the city (I didn't always live here you know, lol)

At that price he isn't going to trade to anything authentic, even if completely trashed. There worth well into the thousands. Even a ninhoto (newly made sword from Japan, you can actually only take in a sword to Japan if it was made in Japan) is worth at least a grand before you even get into the art end it.

I'd escort my family sword back too, for one customs is crazy dumb with them (my dojo got a ninhoto in once that had blood stains on it from the customs guy cutting himself!), and they are a very rare sight in Japan outside of a museum, everyone and there mother comes over to see them.

Ah how I love being a blacksmith...

 

LOL at me. I grew up in Custer SD so I know about the sticks. I also honestly though he meant samauri like a 4X4 samauri ! Now I'm not sure LOL
josh