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    Carl Bracher had a whetstone company (mainly a whetstone cutting service -don't know if the company rented thuringian quarries) at the beginning 20th century in Sonneberg/ Thuringia. Here is a promotion sheet from 1910:

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    In the 1930's there was a company Otto Brächer, also in Sonneberg. He rented some of the old thuringian mines between 1930 and the beginning of WW2.
    Haven't found out so far if this was the same company (same family name Bracher/ Brächer - maybe the son?) or a total different one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hatzicho View Post
    Well the interesting thing is Pike & Escher was a german company. I don't know if they also had a subsidiary or maybe the main place of business in the States- since there was Pike itself that did the business. Also I don't know why Pike and Escher had a separate company in Germany since Pike imported hones from Escher&Co long before that common company was set up.
    As written elsewhere Pike&Escher and Escher&Co were both absorbed together with 2 or 3 other companies by the Deutsche Schleifmittel AG in 1923.
    Thats what i could re-construate till now, as mentioned by Peter its quite difficult to get the whole stuff together. The source of this Information was taken out here:

    Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar, Thüringisches Finanzministerium Nr. 6248, Bl. 15r, this is a copy of a lease contract from Bösenberg, Trinks & Co. Sonneberg

    the letterhead shows the following information:

    8th August 1923:
    Deutsche Schleifmittelwerke (DSW)
    Bösenberg, Trinks & Co., Sonneberg S.M.
    Vormals Escher & Co. und Pike & Escher

    To this time the managers were the follwing:
    J.A. Pulvermann, Hamburg
    E.F.M. Pulvermann, Hamburg
    E.A. Louis Trinks, Sonneberg
    W.R.J. Bösenberg, Hamburg

    Eduard Pulvermann was also a member of the Boards of Pike & Escher.

    Eduard Pulvermann – Wikipedia

    https://books.google.de/books?id=JG7...ermann&f=false

    https://books.google.de/books?id=6Av...escher&f=false

    He died on the 9th April of the year 1944, as a result of his arrest in a german concentration camp.

    31th. July 1924:
    Schleifmittel Aktiengesellschaft (SAG), Hamburg und Sonneberg in Thüringen

    Named before:
    Escher & Co., Sonneberg, Pike Abrasive Co., Pike & Escher G.m.b.H., Hamburg
    J. P. Wohlert, H.H. Rieschmeyer & Co. Hamburg, Bösenberg, Trinks & Co. Sonneberg

    so The Schleifmittel Aktiengesellschaft had a subsidiary in Hamburg, due the letterhead they also had a storage location directly on the harbour of Hamburg. so this might explain the founding of a company directly in Hamburg. Because for the US export market it made sense to be directly on the harbour.

    Escher & Co. had a subsidiary there before in No. 148 Duane - Street, New York.
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    Very nice catch livio. Have you tried it out yet?

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    Yes, is a wonderful stone, easy to slurry, I used mostly with water, excellent thuringian edge.
    My favorite finisher by far.
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    Finally. There is one Escher on Ebay, with box and sticker on the stone it is a Escher Light Green. The dimensions are 6x2 1/2 same like my stone, and also have slurry stone. So it is a Escher Brand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by livio View Post
    Finally. There is one Escher on Ebay, with box and sticker on the stone it is a Escher Light Green. The dimensions are 6x2 1/2 same like my stone, and also have slurry stone. So it is a Escher Brand.
    Do you speak of the $1325.00 ridiculously priced stone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FAL View Post
    Do you speak of the $1325.00 ridiculously priced stone?
    Nah...the price isnt too bad ;-)
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Size:  25.4 KBI believe I have the same exact hone. I own some labeled and unlabeled thuris and this looks and feels just different that the rest. I have never handled a barbers delight so nothing to compare it to buy Definately doesn't feel like the average cut of thuri
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    Quote Originally Posted by livio View Post
    Finally. There is one Escher on Ebay, with box and sticker on the stone it is a Escher Light Green. The dimensions are 6x2 1/2 same like my stone, and also have slurry stone. So it is a Escher Brand.
    Were you thinking of this one?

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