Thread: This ain't an Escher

Appearances are deceptive. Picture inside box cover looks like that of an Escher. But the name Escher is nowhere to be found. The stone inside looks most like a coticule.

The outside of the box cover has the give away: Excelsior, Fienster Kuenstlicher Abziehstein, i.e. Excelsior, finest synthetic hone.

Take a good look:

SCARCE ESCHER EXCELSIOR COMBINATION STRAIGHT RAZOR HONE IN BOX | eBay

I did see that and marveled that people are bidding that much on a coticule in a box with a label. A week or two ago an 'escher' sold for big $ and the label didn't have the signature. It had the barber shop picture but not the signature. Some of the labels warn not to buy the stone if it doesn't have that signature. Whether it is still an escher without the sig is unknown to me. I'm not referring to "Celebrated" hones with the blue label and "E&Co". Those are known to be Eschers, but the stones with the labels that look like the barber shop scene but don't have the sig. Note the text on the left side of the label of the pictured escher.

Coticule in escher box thats all.

that was the 3rd time I have looked at that stone in the past 2 days I had 2 PM's asking about it...

The good news is at least some of the new guys are smart enough to ask first

Well I wasn't bidding, but....It did have me fooled. I thought it was a coticule. So according to the box it's a ceramic barber hone. Yikes! I hope those bidding want it just as a rarity then. Did anybody see the American Hone water hone that ended yesterday? I was supremely curious about that stone as well. Not 165 dollars curious...but still very curious.

There will be tears.

I asked the seller a few days ago what made him think that hone was an Escher since no where was the word "Escher" evident and I haven't received a reply.

Seems kinda straight forward to me.

Its a Belgian yellow.

Now I'm wondering how many people are reading Kees' post before commenting.

Pretty cool find, very deceptive ad. Id gladly pay that for a coticule in a cool original box like that though!