Thread: Escher green-yellow!

Does anybody know how to Date an escher hone?? id love to know a tighter timeframe on when it was produced

Originally Posted by Swifty2point0

Does anybody know how to Date an escher hone?? id love to know a tighter timeframe on when it was produced

I couldn't tell you exactly, but I think those were in the early part of the 20th century. Maybe 1900 - 1920 or '30s. Someone from Europe will probably be along with more accurate info.

Originally Posted by Swifty2point0

Does anybody know how to Date an escher hone?? id love to know a tighter timeframe on when it was produced

Yeah seems to be a Barbers Delight Quality Stone which was Sold from Escher & Co. New York. I would rate it something in between 1894 to 1925, as far as i remember during war times a economical ban on german products existed.....this happened on WWI and on WWII, so probably it was sold in the earlier timeframe up to 1914. However the first Quarter of the 20th Centuary is a well placed date....

Congrats to that find those are awesome stones you should never part with them ;-)

Those are my beauties:

Please consider sealing the label is something i would not recommend, in the End its your decision and it depends if you wanne use the stone or how you gonna use it....sealing for me personally is a destruction of the paper work which is in the end not reversible.

My approach totally comes from a collectors point of view here.....

Originally Posted by Grazor

Great hones, and that looks in very good condition. Mine has similar inclusions, don't affect the hone at all.

Yellow green qualities actually show these inclusions quite often, here is a fresh example i got last week its a real beauty just from the look

What a Score!!!!

I have been totally loving mine...comparing a couple of Escher's I have, the edge from the BD is noticeably better IMO, whereas the normal Eschers seem to be around 10-12k, I'd say the BD is around 15k...not as mellow as my others, little sharper feel to the edge, but just the right amount of mellow.

And you freakin' stole that...congrats on an epic stone....wow!

Beautiful stone! I love my Y/G barbers gem sized Escher. Where did you make this great find? I always think it's interesting where these come up in the wild.

Originally Posted by doorsch

Please consider sealing the label is something i would not recommend, in the End its your decision and it depends if you wanne use the stone or how you gonna use it....sealing for me personally is a destruction of the paper work which is in the end not reversible.

My approach totally comes from a collectors point of view here.....

Hey doorsch, why don't you recommend it? Picked up a crest water hone, the label started failing straight away as you can see on the right side. Gutted I was. Suspect it may be a thuri, can't find anything about it except one post here. Unusual in that it has been drilled like some of the barber hones were to prevent a wire edge.

Originally Posted by Matt1222

Beautiful stone! I love my Y/G barbers gem sized Escher. Where did you make this great find? I always think it's interesting where these come up in the wild.

I managed to find this one on kijiji! an older gent had it and said more than anything he wanted his old razor hone to go to a good home which is part of the reason he gave me such a good deal on it!

Originally Posted by Swifty2point0

I managed to find this one on kijiji! an older gent had it and said more than anything he wanted his old razor hone to go to a good home which is part of the reason he gave me such a good deal on it!

As mentioned, make sure you seal all the labels to preserve it's value and it's provenance.

Use some Artists Gloss (which I use to seal labels for example), and what I did was seal the entire box and all labels.

I had to do some repair on the box on mine, bu when complete, I applied at least 3 applications of Artists Gloss on all labels and the entire box, Even had to construct a new base for the box - everything got multiple treatments.

Don't know if you can see the sheen on the labels and box, but here's mine, and as you can also see, yours is in literally NOS condition - do what you can to preserve that beauty, and what a find.