Thread: Question about eschers

well from looking at this post my stone looks like its a combo of according to tim zowadas stones from left to right 1, 2 and 4 I think plus a mini inclusion of brown.

Hi Memorael, that seems a nice stone you have!

It is difficult to tell exactly from your pics what it is. At first sight, it reminds me of a Rozsutec. These usually have a greenish grey base colour with lots of possible other shades mixed in. (See of pic of a possible R here. That one is disputed as Escher too).

Some observations that might help:

The convention is I think that boxed/labelled Eschers are Eschers.
The same stones unlabelled are Thuringians; an Escher is a specific Thuringian.
Thuringians can be vintage, NOS, or new.
Thuringians are finer than Rozsutecs.
R's have intermixed colours; T's have more clearly defined layers.
R's have a finely speckled/mottled appearance; T's appearance is very uniform.
Lapped T's display a mirror reflection at very small angle; R's don't.
T's are usually cut in faily symmetrical rectangles; R's can vary a lot.
(yours seems thicker on one end - but that might be just the pic)
Vintage T's usually have rough cut marks on the sides; new ones are more 'refined'.


Some pics of a bi-coloured Thuringian a member was kind enough to sell:

funny enough the shades in that thuringian look similar to the ones on my stone.

Here's an interresting keeper. Kind of yellow/Green on one side and a darker mottled reverse. You can see the transition.

Originally Posted by Memorael

Picasa Web Albums - rael - ESCHER???
Link to photos, any help highly apreciated.

Gawd, that looks like one of those fabled "brown" eschers.

Whatever this stone is I must be on some sort of triple color stone curse cause I just got a coticule that has a greenish yellowish color on the top then it fades to pink and then to blue... I know weird huh?