Numerous United States museums have netsuke collections, but they usually exhibit just a few at a time. The British Museum in London also has a permanent exhibition of netsuke from the A.H. Grundy collection. No, there are many great unsigned netsuke. In fact, the netsuke considered by many experts to be the greatest of all is unsigned. Some collectors prefer unsigned works, since they avoid the controversy of whether the work is by a famous artist, or just a copy.
Today there are a wealth of good books, with beautiful illustrations, on netsuke.
Two good works for beginners, both by Raymond Bushell, are An Introduction to Netsuke and The Wonderful World of Netsuke . Two volumes, which provide a comprehensive look at netsuke, are Netsuke by Neil K. Davey and Collectors' Netsuke also by Bushell. Raymond Bushell has also adapted the most basic work in Japanese on netsuke, The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi . Finally, for those collectors interested in reading signatures, there is Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read their Signatures by George Lazarnick. Three Asian art book dealers have Web sites.