Thread: Hone auction (strange attractive stone)

Great Purple Slate....they are nice ones ;-) ok other way around its not a Charnley if this helps in any way.....

Check here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...llyn-hone.html

Here is more on roofing slate:
https://roofingslate.files.wordpress...el-mundo03.jpg

For shure its impossible to determine where they are from, especially without any lable....but i like to name my as a "Yellow Lake" Stone, because the origin of mine f.ex. was UK and they work in ranges like "labelled" stones do...so i prefer to call them as is....

Would be lousy annoying to say i have 10 nice slates laying around, one is red the other black the third gray....

Originally Posted by RezDog

There is two threads on this same hone. The other has been responded to by a serious hone collector who has indicated it is most likely a yellow lake.

Originally Posted by stev

Thanks for the info RezDog, wasnt aware of the other threads, just found it to be a very charming hone.

Originally Posted by RezDog

oddly enough you both posted early this morning. Maybe you should both go buy lotto tickets.

Same poster, two different threads in two different forum sections, merged them both here in one place.

Just beacause some sellers decided to boost their sales of slate hones with known names do we have to feed this misinformation further? There used to be time when these were also called Thuringers, Bohemian Thuringers ...
Otherwise what is the difference in between this criticised seller naming it CF nad others naming it LM?

Originally Posted by doorsch

Great Purple Slate....they are nice ones ;-) ok other way around its not a Charnley if this helps in any way.....

Check here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...llyn-hone.html

Here is more on roofing slate:
https://roofingslate.files.wordpress...el-mundo03.jpg

For shure its impossible to determine where they are from, especially without any lable....but i like to name my as a "Yellow Lake" Stone, because the origin of mine f.ex. was UK and they work in ranges like "labelled" stones do...so i prefer to call them as is....

Would be lousy annoying to say i have 10 nice slates laying around, one is red the other black the third gray....

BTW it can still be a decent hone. You do not know untill you try.

Originally Posted by adrspach

Just beacause some sellers decided to boost their sales of slate hones with known names do we have to feed this misinformation further? There used to be time when these were also called Thuringers, Bohemian Thuringers ...
Otherwise what is the difference in between this criticised seller naming it CF nad others naming it LM?

Dont get me wrong, i totally get your point of view, and i can understand it....just wanted to be a bit
critic.... but i mentioned it on other discussions with other members before. If we would like to prove the 100%, a comparison would be needed to take samples and thin cuts (which could be also different) and you would also have to have the knowledge on all quarries beeing there in the past....which we obviously do not have in this detail...

I would like to make a comparison to the La Lune Stones, this is a trade name from FGBC (comparable to the Salmens Topic). We still do not know where the stones have been quarried and if we have several different quarries...if i find a comparable one i would name it a La Lune and not "a french hard ultra fine slate with sometimes green inclusions"....this on the basis of available indicators like sawmarks, coloration, surface structure, honing properties, etc.. If we are lucky you get one with a stamp, then its easy....

As far as i have checked SRP there have been Welsh Slate Stones packed as Salmens Stones in a purple color, as a reference your comment here
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...tml#post968607

So can you agree that the correct term for these stones is "A welsh Purple fine slate, sometimes with green inclusions" ? Wherever they have their origin in thinking of a quarry....

I really like to create a discusion on this, because it makes sense to do so....if we get a common understanding on this i would appreciate it for sure....

Regardless of the name, it is a unique looking hone!

That was kind of my thinking after i saw it too doorsch, simply to gain some knowledge for myself and create a discussion. Regarding the discussion on the fact it was labelled as CF? may be questionable practice to get views on an auction or it may be lack of knowledge on the part of the seller, either way, i doubt anyone actually scouring the auction sites for natural hones to buy or bid on would would even look twice and think is it? isn't it? simply, that's an interesting nat.