Hello all;
Please see the attached pics of Escher / thuringia stones that are brown. These are very fine finishers... REVEL in the HAD. Enjoy.
Mike:)
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Hello all;
Please see the attached pics of Escher / thuringia stones that are brown. These are very fine finishers... REVEL in the HAD. Enjoy.
Mike:)
The ones with the blue spots are known to be radioactive and can cause all sorts of diseases. PM me for my address as I have the proper method available for disposing of these safely. :deal: Send it down and you don't owe me anything ... just doing it out of concern for your safety and the goodness of my heart. :w
I see a big problem here - you have two, I have none. This ought to be rectified! :)
I have a y/g Escher on the way and now you show me this!!!! Thanks!:rant::matrix:
These fox hones look very nice.
Actually I had a request from a fellow SRPer to show some pics by popular demand. Sorry Sonny Jim you have enough Eschers. LOL
Mike
which are the eschers?
those are very hone-looking rocks. congrats on your loot :)
I thought part of the instructions from Escher said to always keep the stones free of oil?
Either way, nice rocks.
I think you should send it to Jimmy, he lives only a few hours from me. As the Mods of the hones forum, We will evaluate for you, along with our fellow Mods, and get back in touch with you. Thank you for your cooperation.
The Mod Team....
P.S. Holli's correct. Escher's should be used with water, No Oil, and why do you think they are Escher's anyway? Curious...?
I've only seen the Y/G and B/G...
Two?
I could mebe, part with one of my Water of Ayre stones. One of my brown Charnley Forest rocks....
I have many of the stone flavors. Which strikes a chord?
Here are mine. I haven't been able to make proper pictures of these with correct colors. I just shot these now at night so they're not very clear.
The fox stone label says you can use them with water or oil. I don't think they're Eschers and they might not even come from Thuringia. Oldengaerde thinks they're from Vosgienne instead.
The inclusion in the big one looks green. The small one came in a Thuringian style box, so I assume that was a Fox/Goldfisch.
19.6 x 4.2 cm
15.2 x 3.5 cm
These old Fox hones have a label that reads in German and has words on it that look like they're related to the Escher Co.
On the label it says you can use oil though..
Under the new OBAMA plan it's called the redistribution of hones. If you are fortunate enough to have a few hones and there are some people that have none, we take your hones, no matter how hard you worked for them, and give them to the people that wanted them, but didn't want to have to work for them.See how fare that is. Now everyone that has more then one hone of a type, please P.M. me to sign up. I am the official hone redistributator.(?) If you do not, we have hone detection devices in orbit, and you WILL receive a visit by the HONE POLICE.:rofl2:
I have a Goldfisch. IMHO you cannot compare them with Eschers. It is a fine German natural hone but much harder.
The label says it can be used with oil or water.
DAYUMMMMMMMM!!!!! HAD KICKING IN...
Just as a point of information. The first person I recall posting about 'brown' Eschers was hi_bud_gl. A year or two ago. Shortly after that I spoke with two separate Escher collectors, not members of SRP, who, independently of each other, told me that they had one or more brown Eschers and that they were very good. The stones didn't have end color designation or Escher bottom labels though.
I haven't found anyone who has ever seen one with an Escher label, nor is that color represented on the only vintage Escher price list I've ever seen. The one brown I have is good and it resembles an Escher but for the brown color. It would be cool for a labeled brown to pop up. Maybe someday. :hmmm:
I know Sham told me to not go after one of these given that I have a Y/G Escher, but man I'd like a chance to play with a brown Escher :rofl2:
I don not know how you can justify calling a hone an Escher when it does not have an Escher label on it.
Seems that Eschers are so popular and pricey that every likes his German natural water hone to be an Escher.
I THOUGHT TO make separate thread then decide not to do so.
from left to righ
BARBER'S delight y/g
Barber's delight y/g
Yellow green regular size
light green 8 1/5
light green 10 inch
brown escher last on the line.
Top believe or not very similar to droescher stone but will do same quality job as y/g escher
bottom one
special stone only for good straight razor.
i hope you will like and and enjoy
i didn't include my everyday y/g escher. it has been used a lot and love that stone.
last picture show 's stamp on the brown escher.
Says very fine.
Never let someone with HAD house sit for you, Sham!
You have two barbers delights now?
I recently picked this one up and it has the greenish dots and I have been told it is one of these brown ones. It is shown next to a BBW and then a boxed Thurigian for comparison. What say you all?
The stone finishes just like an Thuringian or Esher, same type of slurry and a superb edge. So, yes I would think it is indeed a brown Escher hone. Thanks for all the input!
I guess you'd have to check the composition of the stone to see if it's really a Thurry, but you MUST HAVE an Escher lable for it to be an Escher. Going by look/feel/edge is really not enough for me to call a stone a Thurry (given that they are not a normal Thurry color) or an Escher.
As to the stone I can only magnify so much, no lab, but it sure slurries, looks and works like a Thurri. It also looks just like the other brownish ones referred to above. I was only following what I read here, but you are indeed correct, without a label it could not be an Escher.
Well, it could be, but it would be impossible to know. Given that Escher sold by color and someone (Jimmy?) has a price sheet with colors on it, and no one seems to have ever seen a brown stone labeled as an Escher, I think it is unlikely (but possible) that there are brown Eschers.
It is correct that the only reference, that I know of, to Eschers is the price sheet. I forget who first posted it but I thank them again. There is no reference to brown on the price sheet.
A couple of years ago I spoke with two Escher collectors who are not members of SRP. I did not ask them about brown eschers yet both said their best Eschers were brown and they do not know each other.
Doesn't mean there are brown eschers but it is interesting. I have one that I got from a very knowledgeable member here who knows his stones and he called it a 'brown escher.' I tend to agree with Dylan though, if it ain't got an original factory label there is no guarantee what it is. :thinking:
Jimmy, out of curiosity, do they have labeled brown Eschers, or Thuringian type hones that are brown that they call Eschers? I remember you'd posted about those guys before.
Now that I look at that price sheet, I don't see "Escher" on it. Is there 100% certainty that is for Eschers?
As I said in the above post. I've never seen a labeled Escher that was brown or an end label that denoted 'brown.' I believe the price list is for Eschers because, aside from separating the stones by the known end label colors, the list specifies prices for the "Barber's Choice" and the "Barber's Delight," both of which were Escher brand stones.
this may help. if not then i may end up making another pics.
label doesn't say Brown escher.
Most of them called thuringian and escher just one branch of it.
this stone doesn't have name lets say brown escher, thuringian etc.
but color is brown and as fine as escher ..
used with oil mostly.
in picture stone in the middle.
I guess it is best to be precise. I was being imprecise in keeping with the tone of the thread.
To be a Thurigian hone it would have to have been mined in that area of Germany. To be an Escher it needs a label.
I have been told these brown stones may have been mined in or around Vosgiennes(?) and were sold under the the names of Goldfisch Wetzstein and Fox Razor Hone. As best as I can tell, Vosgiennes refers to the Vosges mountain region in eastern France right near the German border and close to Strasbourg, southwest of the Thuriger area. In the picture hi bud gl posted above, there does seem to be a French stone shown and it looks brown. I am not sure if that is the one in the middle he is referring to or the one above it. Can't make the label out on that one.
If anyone has any more information, please share.
both middle stones does have exact label and on side of the stone says in English 'VERY FINE"(they are different colors brown and wet asphalt)
THE information above which comes from Vosges mountain is correct.(most likely)
I have to say this.
i am the person called them brown escher.
the reason i have done so is this.
when i got 1 stone(5 years ago) i did test the stone and it did perform same as escher or better.
color was brown,consistency similar to escher and label said very fine stamp on the side of the stone.
if you guys want to shoot me for this go head.PLEASE.
now rest of the information sorry i don't have it and cannot say.
hope this helps.
By the way if anyone knows exact name of that stone i would love to read it.
thank you
If it wasn't for the fact that everyone has Escher Madness, I wouldn't really care.
Being serious for a moment, to me, calling all Thuringians "Escher" is like calling all Sheffield razors "Wade & Butcher." They just aren't. Maybe we should call the brown stones Thuringian-like or something. After all, a corn razor is not a straight razor...