Thread: Escher Identification

Itza fake! Send it to me. I am building a doghouse from fake Eschers. Gonna take a bit......................

Originally Posted by Phrank

I should have been more specific, my apologies.

What I was trying to figure out was does the label itself identify it as a variation on a Barber's Delight or some other type of Escher stone since the actual name is not on it. And whether the label in particular identifies it's grade? Would the label potentially identify it as a Blue, yellow, Y/G etc., is more what I was after also in that I haven't found another using the search function with a similar looking label.

Hope this clarifies.

edited to add: wondered why I wasn't seeing any email notifications from threads I had clearly subscribed to, sure enough, somehow everything from SRP got tagged as, "Spam", crap, been missing a lot of good stuff the last three days!

Sorry popping up again....as mentioned it shows the Escher Cup, so it seems to be an Escher even if there is no further more clarification/information in form of the Company Name....

Concerning color it could be that also this one had a sidelabel with the color, due its missing and not too many of those appeared till now we cant say for shure.

Actually it doesnt seem to be a Barbers Delight, they had this label and were boxed in red boxes with black label and golden writing...


There have been stones for export market which were named "Barber Shop / Rasierstube" they also appeared on the german market, Hatzicho showed them here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=119606

Originally Posted by doorsch

Sorry popping up again....as mentioned it shows the Escher Cup, so it seems to be an Escher even if there is no further more clarification/information in form of the Company Name....

Concerning color it could be that also this one had a sidelabel with the color, due its missing and not too many of those appeared till now we cant say for shure.

Actually it doesnt seem to be a Barbers Delight, they had this label and were boxed in red boxes with black label and golden writing...


There have been stones for export market which were named "Barber Shop / Rasierstube" they also appeared on the german market, Hatzicho showed them here:

Thank-you again.

I have another Escher similar to the second one in your post.

The one I'm inquiring about is a much darker color, and the unique label on the stone is intriguing, I've done some searching, and have yet to find another similar labeled stone, let alone one with any information about it. The search will continue, going to give the stone a try this weekend.

Post a picture!

Originally Posted by eKretz

Post a picture!

If you asking for a pic of the one I'm inquiring about, there's pics in the first page of the thread.

Originally Posted by Phrank

The one I'm inquiring about is a much darker color, and the unique label on the stone is intriguing,

IME, with quite a few labeled stones ......... AFAIK I've had all of the colors at least once, a Y/G is not really yellow, and a B/G is not really blue. Light green is a slightly different hue from yellow green.

Photos can be deceiving. but with experience the various colors can be identified if you see them in person. They are all varying shades of grey.

The dark blue is the exception IMO. They are usually quite a bit darker than the grey stones, and do have a bluish tint to them.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

IME, with quite a few labeled stones ......... AFAIK I've had all of the colors at least once, a Y/G is not really yellow, and a B/G is not really blue. Light green is a slightly different hue from yellow green.

Photos can be deceiving. but with experience the various colors can be identified if you see them in person. They are all varying shades of grey.

The dark blue is the exception IMO. They are usually quite a bit darker than the grey stones, and do have a bluish tint to them.

Thanks Jimmy - that answers my question, comparing it to my other stone, which I thought was a dark blue/grey as you mention, this stone is in fact black/blue, very much darker than the other stone...going to give it a try this weekend...that's the only way to tell as they say, use the darn thing!

Interesting, was doing some looking around, and the label on this stone is the older label, before the Escher and Co red and white labels we usually see.

And from the website, "RazorandStone", there is a thread that I believe identifies this stone as a Black Escher with a question mark. Interesting, is there in fact a Black Escher? I've never heard of one before.

The same stone is in the second pic on the 27th post, which is hopefully linked here:

Testing Black an Escher stone - Page 3

Also a post here on SRP about the Black Escher, but I can't make out the label clearly enough:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ck-escher.html

There was a thread years ago on 'The Brown Escher', which turned out to be one of those La Lune French hones IIRC.

BTW, I've heard of brown Eschers from a collector, but I could never get him to come up with a label denoting that color.

Recently there was an Escher marked 'Grun' = Green ......... only one I ever saw, and it was end labelled.

AFAIK there hasn't been a labelled 'Black Escher' though Mike's was black, and my Hohenzollern was also black.

The bottom line is, as my grandma used to say, "Handsome is, as handsome does." So if it is a good hone the color is just icing on the cake.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

There was a thread years ago on 'The Brown Escher', which turned out to be one of those La Lune French hones IIRC.

BTW, I've heard of brown Eschers from a collector, but I could never get him to come up with a label denoting that color.

Recently there was an Escher marked 'Grun' = Green ......... only one I ever saw, and it was end labelled.

AFAIK there hasn't been a labelled 'Black Escher' though Mike's was black, and my Hohenzollern was also black.

The bottom line is, as my grandma used to say, "Handsome is, as handsome does." So if it is a good hone the color is just icing on the cake.

Going to try it this weekend, right after I stop trying to complicate simple things....again.