Kinai of Echizen

A pair of iron tsuba for a daisho set of long and short sword
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/early 19th century

A pair of iron tsuba for a daisho set of long and short sword
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/early 19th century
Each roughly circular, chiseled and pierced with two aoi hollyhock leaves enclosing the seppadai, each signed Echizen no ju Kinai saku (Made by Kinai of Echiizen [Province])
With a wood storage box
The larger tsuba 2 7/8in (7.4cm) high