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    Peter, that's a fact!
    I will find out in time what it does for me. At the moment I have not shaven yet on a finish produced by this actual stone, but I did finish some french pocket knives with it. It behaved like the other dark Thuringian I have, equally fast and maybe a slightly better result, but this may be because it is slightly bigger and therefore easier to use.
    I am pretty sure this hone is not another slate type, at least not the ones I came across.
    If there is no definite answer to whether it is an Escher or not, it will be so. At least we contributed a little to the knowledge base of Thuringian hones in general.
    Thanks guys, I hope we will some day be able to clarify the mystery.

    Greetings, Han

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    Hi Han, here a short Update to put that to this discussion. This is no proof or any direct finding, but this picture is an extract from an old Escher & Co. letter from 1913. The Medals the company earned or received from the World Trade fairs where put into the tree and the treeroots…probably as a proper ground of their business. Its a symbolic use of the tree….

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    Quote Originally Posted by doorsch View Post
    Hi Han, here a short Update to put that to this discussion. This is no proof or any direct finding, but this picture is an extract from an old Escher & Co. letter from 1913. The Medals the company earned or received from the World Trade fairs where put into the tree and the treeroots…probably as a proper ground of their business. Its a symbolic use of the tree….

    Thanks a lot! I think it indeed still does not proof my stone (the small one I have posted earlier (with the E S 'ash tree' trademark)) to be an Escher hone, but this image is a very nice addition to the discussions about Escher hones. My particular one hones like a dream. It is very fine gritted, like many Thuringians I have aqcuired since, but it leaves a very nice smooth finish to shave with, even better than some real Escher stones I have. I think I will never sell it again, because it turned out to be one of my best hones for personal use (next to an unlabeled chunk of dark green Thuringian that likely has been one of Hatzicho's once).
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