Thread: Few IDs required

This one isn't a Coticule, it's artificial. Quite sure of that. With what I wrote above I just tried to indicate that the name does not (as Alex suggested) imply it was made from reconstituted hone matter (he's spot on with the rest, of course).

1 of them is Russian language and it says
Red side is course and yellow side is fine.
you have to use with water. rest couldn;'t read

There certainly exist synthetics designed to look like Belgian naturals, right down to the fake wavy seam. I know because I've had a couple. The ones I've had cut totally differently (and much more coarsely) than a Belgian; the yellow is too garish, and the blue or grey looks like asphalt more than slate; and they smell different. Synthetics smell like tarmac or a gas station; Belgians smell musty and earthy, like a combination of a greenhouse and a damp basement.

At any rate it shouldn't be too hard to tell once you've experimented a bit.

I agree that that one looks synthetic, but only the guy who has it in his hands can say for sure.

In my experience, BBWs all have a characteristic stippled surface that remind me of pigskin suede. It would be impossible to capture that signature in a synthetic. A close up of the blue side would help.