Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
Your pic of the Escher on the bottom, I have one that looks exactly the same, only have the bottom half of the box - it's blue, same as yours, could the one in my pic be a Barber's Delight? Unless you have the actual box cover, how can you tell?

The other stone in my pic is very yellow, as you can see....

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The labelling "Barbers Delight" belongs to the speial size of 6x2 inch thuringians and a selected quality. I have only seen it so far used by the company Escher&Co and the other companies, that end up in the 1920ths in the Deutsche Schleifmittel AG (DSAG), which were BTC (Bösenberg, Trinks), Pike&Escher and others. Also some Solingen companies that were delivered by Escher&Co or DSAG took over this wording. I have not seen it at any stone or in any cataloque of the Escher&Son company so far. As pointed out elsewhere, Escher&Co and Escher&Son have been total different companies from the mid 19th century on.