Thread: A 10 inch old stock Old Rock

Originally Posted by doorsch

Here are more pics from Bushdoctor on Ilrasoio where some of the Coticules from the lot are shown....

The ones who took part at the meeting already had the nice possibility either to see those nice stones or buy them ;-)

Hopefully this is ok i post the link here for an exchange of information...

Ilrasoio.com • Leggi argomento - [Reportage] Henk Bos Memorial meeting

I am speechless!

Originally Posted by Piet

With 7 1/2" in length that's only a little brother

To be honest with some of the sample hones we were given it is more like slurry stone. Some were well over 20" long and 4" wide.
I would like to see Bushdoctor how he was getting them through the airport.

Drooling and slightly envious!

Just wanted to add it here because it fits well to some of the Old Rock stones....

Thats an extract from the Schleifmittel Aktiengesellschaft (SAG) from 1930. Here we have some prices of Old Rock stones glued or natural grown...even if they were sold in dozend (12 pieces) i think for 1930 the prices were already quite expensive for those Quality stones.

Here is the actual todays value based on the official calculation factor which is based on the year 2000:

1 Reichsmark (1924–1936) = 3,32 Euro (6,49 Deutsche Mark), is actually 6,65€ (2015)

12" stones = 800 RM : 12 pieces = 66,66RM
1 Piece 66,66 RM*6,65€ = 443€

And ohhh my gosh, check the 12inches with 6,5cm width....thats 2,41KG per Stone....

Originally Posted by doorsch

Just wanted to add it here because it fits well to some of the Old Rock stones....

Thats an extract from the Schleifmittel Aktiengesellschaft (SAG) from 1930. Here we have some prices of Old Rock stones glued or natural grown...even if they were sold in dozend (12 pieces) i think for 1930 the prices were already quite expensive for those Quality stones.

Here is the actual todays value based on the official calculation factor which is based on the year 2000:

1 Reichsmark (1924–1936) = 3,32 Euro (6,49 Deutsche Mark), is actually 6,65€ (2015)

12" stones = 800 RM : 12 pieces = 66,66RM
1 Piece 66,66 RM*6,65€ = 443€

And ohhh my gosh, check the 12inches with 6,5cm width....thats 2,41KG per Stone....

that is very interesting information, thank you!

i checked several sources and it seems that the average income in germany in the 30s was about 180 RM per month. 66 RM for such a stone was more than 1/3 of your month's salary!

regards,
hans

Originally Posted by hatzicho

When we met at Ardennes Coticules in memoriam of Henk Bos a few weeks ago, Maurice Celis took us by surprise, when he got three larger boxes with coticules from an old stock, that he had acquired only some days before. So fortunately the participants of the meeting had the chance to be the first to look at these great hones and to buy some from the lot. And even more fortunately for me personally, since I arrived one day earlier to organize the meeting together with Maurice, I was the first to look in these virgin boxes.
The hones came from an old stock of a store in Antwerp/ Belgium, which was closed some day in the 1930’s if I remember correct. Since this time the coticules had been holding out for their rediscovery and put into usage.

So here is one stone I immediately felt in love with and that was the first I acquired (wasn’t the only one over the whole loooong weekend… ).


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The remark “Old Rock” written on the stone by pencil is original from the old owner of the store, but also Maurice clearly identified the hone as a typical old rock hone. And if there is one person that can identify old rock hones, it would be Maurice Celis, since he had been working in the old rock mine for a certain time in the past.

The hone is yellow-ochre with some light red-brownish areas on the top (maybe some discoloration – but the typical old rock layer is not a La Grosse Blanche) and is quite hard. But it is a very fast stone, the slurry gets dark within a few strokes with a razor and it’s an absolute pleasure to hone on.

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Awesome Stone!!!! If you ever get rid of it let me know HAD is flaring up.. Sorry about posting to this old thread, just going through admiring..

Originally Posted by doorsch

Here is another brother of the stones already shown....natural grown beauty
It measures: 19x6x3cm

Wow beautiful!!! thanks for sharing.. you are killing my HAD... LOL..