Thread: check this one out ?

is label original?
ANTIQUE QUALITY GERMAN STRAIGHT RAZOR HONE!ULTRA FINE!! - eBay (item 110537027281 end time May-30-10 09:18:53 PDT)

Interesting, one I've never seen before.

Has the exact same verbage as my escher..

I Agree exact words i wish we could see your escher's stamp. i think it has different picture in the middle.
What makes me worry is condition of the label. Most labels as yours looks like old but that one is seems like very nice condition.
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i wonder

I have two that are for sure vintage and pristine mint. The more familiar labels but pristine in their boxes nonetheless.

just buy it, you know you want to, plus nobody hones on the label

This label is new to me too. The wording is familiar (it occurs, sometimes with slight variations, on all sorts of labels by Escher as well as other brands) but the picture is unlike any other I've seen so far. The pictures on Escher labels come in three varieties:

1) an escutcheon with a E&Co on a goblet above two crossed hammers. This is what would have been in the centre of Undream's logo.


2) a picture of two gentlemen, one honing a razor, the other holding up a razor.





3) a picture of a barber shop with a customer about to be shaved.

I think I must be missing something ... if the label doesn't say Escher, then it isn't an Escher. That label doesn't say Escher, the listing doesn't say its an Escher. It may be equivalent to the type of thuringian stone that Escher & Co used, but that doesn't make it an Escher - Escher is a trademarked name, not a type of honing slate.

The only isue I can see is whether the label is genuine or not ... or am I going wrong somewhere?

Regards,
Neil

I don't think anyone was saying its an escher, I was merely pointing out that the same exact phrases appear on eschers, therefore it is likely a similar quality stone, possibly mined and sold to a different company who distributed them.

Oldengaerde was further showing that it likely was not an escher based on the fact that the picture does not match known escher logos.

That is interesting. I would bet having the stone in hand that it would be easy to tell whether it was a fake label if viewed under modest magnification. Laser printing for sure would be easy to spot.

This is just my opinion not being an Escher expert, but I considered the labeled dark blue I had to be fine, but ultra fine........semantics I guess.

Chris L