Thread: Little Weirdo

.... but I never called you a little weirdo, Mark!

Now what turned that hone so yellow....
dig up your secret color charts please.

If it is a thuringian, thats the most yellow one Ive seen! I will have to ask Sham to look at this.

Interesting!

Patina on some old coticules looks like that, but you'd recognize it. There is also a type that oxidizes to this colour (Bart currently has pictures of one on his site I think) but lapping restores the familiar coticule cream. Some Charnley Forests are this olivey greenish brown, but they are much harder and once seen easily identified. 'Brown Eschers' (which I believe to be Vosgiennes) are of a more purple colour. Frankonians are (as far as I can judge from the pictures I've seen so far) decidedly warmer brown, also with a purple note to them, not this more greeny-yellowish hue.

Pyrite and clay remind of Thuringians. Some of them have streaks of brown running through, like the hone to the right in your pictures. I've got a small boxed one with light brown patches; if I can find it, I'll post pictures. Then again, these brown inclusions are without exception very thin. That is to say, until maybe now, I've never heard of or seen one entirely in that colour.

The variety of natural hones is remarkable. But whether to the collector that is a source for infinite joy or the cause of excruciating despair, I still don't know...

Originally Posted by Oldengaerde

Pyrite and clay remind of Thuringians. Some of them have streaks of brown running through, like the hone to the right in your pictures. I've got a small boxed one with light brown patches; if I can find it, I'll post pictures.

Here you go.

Originally Posted by Oldengaerde

Then again, these brown inclusions are without exception very thin. That is to say, until maybe now, I've never heard of or seen one entirely in that colour.

Hm. Maybe I have after all. I once bought a small paddled coticule from France, at least that's what I thought. When it got here, it didn't look like a coticule at all, nor like anything else I knew. About fineness and hardness I can't state anything as I have never lapped or used it yet. This thread made me remember that one. It does seem to have the same sort of colour.

As you can see there are spots and waves quite unlike (other) Thuringians.

A line-up of a dark blue labelled Escher, Vosgienne, said paddled mystery hone, an unmarked boxed vintage Thuringian with brown inclusions, an unlabelled Durham Thuringian, a labelled yellow green Escher marketed by Droescher, an unmarked dual layer Thuringian, another boxed Thuringian, and a boxed red labelled E&Co. All are dry. I corrected the white balance. The Durham measures 61.5 mm or 2 13/32'' in width.

Original size here.