Thread: This ain't an Escher

The box says Kuenslichter Abziehstein which means it isn't even a coticule but an artificial stone. If the stone of the listing is a coticule it is not the stone originally sold in that box.

No Sig on the label,no label on the stone,just one fantastic finisher

Ok, Mr fixed, now you're just gloating...

It's likely that the company purposely made their synthetic stone look like a coticule and made their label look like an Escher so as to capitalize on buyers that didn't know any better. The funny thing is that 100 years later, it seems to have worked.

i haven't been on the bay for about a month, but anyone think that the buyer just wanted the label? for reuse to "establish provenance" on a "thuringian"? sounds like a decent. i don't look very closely, but the label looks legit at first glance...

I was willing to make a case for simple seller ignorance in this case, but a look at seller feedback shows a lot of stone and razor activity. They have sold both cotis and apparent Eschers in the near past. Seems like a decent coticule but pricey at this point (now $177). I never buy anything on eBay that I'm not familiar with or willing to take a little gamble on. Caveat emptor.

It's not a Coticule guys, it's synthetic. The seller knows it's synthetic and put it in the description "Escher made combination straight razor hone". Also in his first answer it says "This hone is not a Coticule hone". The seller thinks it's an Escher label because the barber scene has an uncanny resemblance to the barber scene from an Escher label. The barber scene is the same except that every character and item is made to look slightly different.

So I agree with HSNB and I think the seller just mistook the barber scene as an Escher trademark.

If you look closely at the label,to me it looks like a modern,purposley aged repro,just sayin.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

No Sig on the label,no label on the stone,just one fantastic finisher

No sig on label but clearly marked Escher & co the OP stone has no such markings!

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

No Sig on the label,no label on the stone,just one fantastic finisher

Tell you something about that stone/label. The same seller, dpcollect, whose first name is Thomas, sold a NOS one just like yours to Blaireau (SRP member & stone collector) It was a gelbgrun and had the same label and box. It didn't have the end label but it did have the escher ink stamps, including 'gelbgrun' on the honing surface. Of course once you lap them they are gone. So if you got that stone from Rich (Blaireau) it is said to be an old one, and may be from before they started the signature warning. As far as he seller, he is in Germany and is always coming up with eschers and thuringans.