Thread: What natural hone is this?

Hi gents,

I've been lucky to acquire some antique barber items today and some hones (2 coticule and 2 other hones).
This hone feels very smooth and fine. It measures 16,5 cm x 5 cm x 1.7 cm. To my feeling it has a greyish-greenish color.
What hone could this be?

Looks like a vintage Thuringian, a fine German hone. You should enjoy using it as a final finisher. It may even be an Escher (a former brand of vintage Thurigian) but you'll never know for certain without labels or a box. What are the sizes?

Raise a slurry. If it's a Thuri the slurry will be light greyish. Better pictures of the ends and sides please.

Some pictures of the slurry and the sides.

Looks like Thuri slurry to me. Can't really make out the ends in your photos still, need more light - your lighting is casting shadows on the ends. The saw marks usually have a characteristic look to them, but looking at the slurry I'd say you have a Thuri even without seeing the saw marks.

I going to agree, looks thuri (ish) to me too.

If the colors are correct, this looks like light green Thuri.

Yes! Blue-green or blue at worst/best. I feel a nice Thuringian. Good thing to have. The Top, IMO.
I just love these finishers!

Indeed looks pretty much like a Thuri. Put the slurry onto a black background (piece of paper, i.e) than we may better evaluate what color/ layer it could be.

Not much to add then...yihaaah Thuri :-) Often the cross cutted slurry stones are a indicator that the main
stone could be a thuringian stone, but not always...so be careful

This time i have been fooled :-)



Turned out to be a ToS (Tam o Shanter), but the slurry stone was a thuringian stone: