Thread: Escher Droescher label similarities

Originally Posted by doorsch

Yeah can agree on that there might have been different qualities...this just due the different time frames stones have quarried and we have to know that the stones also had different origins in concerns of different quarries and different layers....

And for sure Jimmy we cant reconstruate how it really was...as mentioned this were only my two cents...another one has different two cents...

This is something that has always interested me. Before we realized that the naturals are all 'ancient' no matter if they were quarried 100 years ago, or yesterday, people used to say that the 'old' ones were better.

I've suspected that they may have been better, simply because there was more to choose from. More veins and more quarries. As the supply was used up, less and less to choose from. OTOH, maybe some veins we dig up now are better than those quarried in the past ........

I agree with Doorsch in that the ones that are marked with ES are certainly IMO from Escher, and also that there are always going to be differences in feel and performance. After all these are Natural Stones. I have a Pike, Droescher, and Rochestor Extra Choice, that are just like my labeled Eschers. Different but performance is comparable in all of them. My favorite is my blue green Barber's Gem...