Picked this up in a recent trade and have something else coming to replace it. Very cool knife I used a couple times. Burnt chestnut handle, comes with the usual heiji saya as well. Came with a very high grit mirror finish that I changed to an aoto finish the one time I sharpened the knife. It's not perfect, but doesn't look too bad imo. Asking $250 shipped and paypalled in the CONUS. The marks on the ferrule are part of the horn I believe as they are perfectly smooth even though they look like little tick marks. Let me know if you have any questions, thank you.