Thread: Opinions on what kind of stones these were?

I didn't win.
I didn't really try because I wasn't sure what they were.

I know the one was originally glued to something and figured the other for carborundum.

Problem with the glue one is that it could have been the slate off a coticule !!

Ideas? anyone?

2 Vintage/Antique Sharpening Stones/Hones~1940's~Lg&Sm - eBay (item 390053635542 end time May-27-09 17:28:46 PDT)

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Could the smaller one be an escher? Looks like the remains of a label on the back and the lenght and width are about right, but it also looks a little thin.

if you invert the colors you can clearly see a hex pattern, or what looks like one.
I've heard mention of beeswax being used to glue stuff like coticules.

Maybe place a thin bit between the stones while hot-ish?

I'm sure it had been glued to something.
Question is WHAT ???

Ah, if it looks like it's been glued then it might be a belgian blue. I had a blue that had glue on one side, but it didn't come with the coticule either.

the small one is belgian blue for sure, the large one i have no idea

ok so belgian blue

I was worried it was the slate of a coticule LOL

I think the other was carborundum.

CASE SOLVED
and the medal goes to Gugi !!!

Though I agree Gugi deserves medals, in this instance I beg to differ.

To me it looks too dark and too regular for a BBW. Moreover, BBW were not commonly used as hones and originally usually thicker when used as backing for Coticule.

The size, colour, and appearance reminds me of hones that were used on razor and strop cases. The ones I've seen were mostly Thuringian or Hunsrück. Below pics of a few of mine:

hmm, yeah i may not deserve the medal, forgot about these strop/hone/boxes things which it could've come from. The coticules w/ blue were quite common and I've seen quite a few in this size and they always come apart because the glue was waterbased, plus on my monitor it looks a whole lot more like blue than like slate. I've gotten pieces of blue previously glued to yellow that a barber has used for honing in sets with barber belongings.

In any case you should have it very soon and you'll know right away. the blue makes purple slurry and you can't mistake the texture, the thuringians are also very easy to tell apart. I should take a picture one of these days of the strop/hone/box I have - the hone is fairly strange, slate color with purplish inclusions, which makes me think it may be the chnarly forest or whatever you guys call them.

I didn't win because I didn't tr because I didn't know what it was.
how is that for a sentence?

Oldengaerde
what are the dimensions of that hone exactly?