Sword accessories and Tsuba
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Wilhelm Weimar, Sword accessories and Tsuba, Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1902, glass negative.
Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
The glass negative was made by Wilhelm Weimar (1857 – 1917), a curator who was responsible for the inventory of the museum’s holdings. Weimar turned this rather dry activity into an art form of its own.