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Col Dean S. Hartley, Jr., USMC (ret.)

Oriental Art Collector

The picture below is from an early sword show.

The picture below is from the February 1993 Florida Token Kai Sword Show.

The pictures below are from the February 1995 Florida Token Kai Sword Show.

Troy Baxley & Col Hartley

Ruth Hartley, Janet Yang & Col Hartley

The pictures below are from the February 1999 Florida Token Kai Sword Show.

The pictures below are from the February 2001 Florida Token Kai Sword Show.

Carl Hall & Col Hartley	Carl Hall & Col Hartley
Carl Hall & Col Hartley

The pictures below are from the February 2003 Florida Token Kai Sword Show.

Col Hartley	Tanobe Michihiro, Andy Quirt, Col Hartley, & Troy Baxley
Bill Plantamura, Andy Quirt, Tanobe Michihiro, Troy Baxley, Keith Hostler, Col Hartley Pat Giacobbe, & Carl Hall

The pictures below are from the August 2004 Northern California Token Kai Sword Show.

Col Hartley & Fred LeMond	Regina & Joe Bott
Col Hartley & Andy Quirt
A. C. Freeman	Kit Mac Nabb
Kit Mac Nabb	Ed Marshall & Col Hartley
Ed Marshall	Col Hartley
Julie Duncan	Bob Haynes
Bob Benson	Regina & Joe Bott
Merlin David	Bruce Kirkpatrick

The pictures below are from the August 2005 Northern California Token Kai Sword Show.

Konno	Philip Vos Fellman
Bill Miller	Ralph Bell, John Berta & Robert Hughes
Ken Banks	Mike Quigley

Sam Oyama	Fred Weissberg
Al Bardi & Ralph Bell	Terry McCarthy
Hide Hinamoto	Susan Banks

Items that have been in Col Hartley's collections (of various types of items) are shown in his Virtual Museum. For much more on Japanese arms and armor, see the Nanka Token Kai catalog. For additional examples of oriental art, see the Masur Exhibit, in which are pictured a samurai doll, mirror, large lacquer box, statue, and Japanese armor. Also see Hartley's Artist page for some works in oriental style.

See also

• the Bushido Japanese Swords website [external link],
• the Florida Token Kai website [external link],
• the Japanese Sword Authentication Papers (Origami) website [external link],
• the Japanese Sword Museum website [external link],
• the Japanese Sword Society of Southern California (Nanka Token Kai) website [external link],
• the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kai (NBTHK) website [external link],
• the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (NTHK) website [external link],
• the Nihonto website [external link],
• the Northern California Japanese Sword Club website [external link], and
• George's website [external link].
• Bob Haynes on Tsuba [external link].

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