Quote Originally Posted by Toroblanco View Post
Story goes that there is many tons of them in some river in the UK. Uk goverment tossed them in the river because they believed they were from Hindustan, India not Hindostan Indiana. Something about some rebelion in that area in India.

Stone company almost went bankrupt because of it. They never compensated the company even though they were wrong in thowing them out.

So they are definately out in Europe.
Extremely cool story. Never heard that one before. I live in northern Indiana and had never heard of Hindustan Indiana and Hindustan stones until I got involved with straights. There is more lore available on the web. A story of a boom town, epidemic, floods and the city treasurer taking off with all the towns funds in silver and gold, never to be heard from again.

As I understand it, a lot of the sharpening stone inventory was shipped over seas to Europe and the big market for the stone in the US was for grave stones. Because of river borne shipping , I think I read they were popular in the New Orleans area.

The picture makes it look like a harder finer material than most........doesn't look as sand stoney.