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17th June 2020, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: France
Posts: 181
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Thanks ! This is coming from a rather poor, mountainous region, so I guess people just decided to reuse that nice, but otherwise useless, metal plate to fancy up their furniture. I had never seen anything like this before though !
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22nd June 2020, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Posts: 89
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Indeed this is a worthy thread, but....
If this "guard" was found in East Asia, it would be classified as a a "Namban tsuba" of some kind. Peter |
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