Thread: Does this Escher need a slurry stone?

Originally Posted by JeffE

You know, I thought that because the hone doesn't have an Escher label and is in the same kind of box as a Thuringian, it must be (only) a Thuringian. Now you're saying that the color and wording of the label might identify it as an Escher.

Just to be clear, Escher & Co. boxed and distributed a lot of 5 x 1 thuringians in exactly this manner; glued into a nice wooden box with a hinge on one side and a clasp on the other, and a label on the inside of the lid. There is one company (not E. & Co.) which produced these with the words "The Genuine Thuringian Razor Hone" in an arc across the top of the lid. Maybe this is what you're thinking of when you say the one you bought is in "the same kind of box as a Thuringian"? At any rate yours, from what I can tell from the fuzzy photo, looks a lot like the E. & Co. ones.

I've had four of these. Two were E. & Co., one was a brand called Apex (with a very cool label of its own), and the fourth was generic. As far as I know (and I must stress that I only know so much about these stones, my knowledge isn't authoritative at all), only E. & Co. used the color-coded labels.

I'd say there's a fair chance that you bought exactly what you thought you bought, notwithstanding the shortcomings of the seller's character.