Thread: HAD PEOPLE LET'S resolve this challenge?

Looks a LOT like the stone that I couldn't afford in today's auction.

Same color, same type of dark "imperfections".

Here's a link:

Vintage Sharpening Stone in Wooden Case. - eBay (item 370217867793 end time Jun-29-09 15:20:48 PDT)

Am I wrong or is that a match?

Sham, is that sedimentary layering on the side view of the stone or just dirt? There was a well known novaculite (Arkansas stones are novaculites) stone called the Hindostan stone which was found primarily or possibly even exclusively in the state of Indiana.

Hindostan was used often as a whetstone even for razors and was also used to make gravestones.

Here are some pictures that will probably not help all that much that I found on the net:

Thick/thin edge banding on the side of a Hindostan stone

Hindostan Gravestones

If you scroll down on that same site, there are some links to history papers about the whetstone industry in Indiana in the early 1800's.

I doubt yours is a Hindostan, but the color seemed similar. If yours isn't, then......SOMEONE go to Orange County, Indiana and get us some Hindostan whetstone!!

Chris L

The more i read, the less likely it seems that your hone is yellow jasper, but here is a link with info...Jasper is essentially related to Arkansas stones/Novaculite.
The Jasper hone i have is quite small, multi-colored and i havent taken the time to completely lap it, due to its hardness...hence no razor tests on it yet. Sorry. :-(

jasper: Definition from Answers.com

Originally Posted by McWolf1969

The more i read, the less likely it seems that your hone is yellow jasper, but here is a link with info...Jasper is essentially related to Arkansas stones/Novaculite.
The Jasper hone i have is quite small, multi-colored and i havent taken the time to completely lap it, due to its hardness...hence no razor tests on it yet. Sorry. :-(

jasper: Definition from Answers.com

it is just one color what you see is crack most likely.

Could it be a White Escher ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Could it be a White Escher ?

Haven't seen white Escher .

Apologies for a slight hijack, I'd be as interested as the next man to find out where this stone came from but I have to ask, where the bloody hell do you people keep finding these mysterious and exotic stones? I've taken a chance on a couple of ebay unknown stone lots and ended up with real dogs, so please put me and a lot of others out of our misery and reveal the sources. I don't just mean the original poster, there are a few others here who seem to have a knack for finding special stones, surely one of you can help the rest of us out. Please? Pretty please?

Kindest regards,
Alex

Sham is for sure the king of finding a ridiculous amount of hones that turn out to be winners.

Not that you were serious, but I guess the fact that it's a very hard stone rules out Eschers/thuringians.

Is there any chance it's a huge chunk of those old "Kosjer" coticules, that apparently aren't really even coticules, that are supposedly really really good (like the one for sale in the classifieds right now toward the top)?

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Sham, is that sedimentary layering on the side view of the stone or just dirt?

Chris L

It is just dirt i didn't have time to clean sides yet. Chris check this stones edges see how it brakes down. looks like all stone in small peaces instead of all together. strange stone.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

used often as a whetstone even for razors and was also used to make gravestones.

Wow, so you can take them with you, brilliant!!!