Thread: thrift store find id help please

Found this at the local thrift store the other day and the price was right. But what is it? Pretty sure we're in the slate category...


Pretty neglected..


Bottom to top (wet) dark blue thuri, ?, 'Black' mottled thuri



? and mottled turi


? and dark blue thuri



all three (dry)


Help's greatly appreciated (as always)

Kind regards

You done good!!
With reddish swirls, could be a Swedenstone. Or a British hone..
Hopefully you get a better opinion.

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Originally Posted by Geezer

You done good!!
With reddish swirls, could be a Swedenstone. Or a British hone..
Hopefully you get a better opinion.

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Thanks! There are no reddish swirls. British hone is a good guess (I think).

Touched up a razor with it today and it seems to be one the finer end.

Maybe this picture could give a clue about what it might, and might not be. The stone seems to have taken a fall at some point or maybe it is a tailpiece. Does the fracture tell anything about which type of stone it is?

Looks to be a slate of some type.

Slawman

After plowing through A LOT of posts here the pics in this thread seem to be a pretty close match. So maybe a YL of some kind...

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ake-brand.html

Does anybody here have a YL as well as a Water of Ayr, would be interested in seeing comparison pictures.

Regards