Thread: New stone. Can this be a TOS?

Hello again gents, I won this today on Ebay, and I was wondering if is a TOS stone? Ebay : 320701611349.
Thank you again for your unlimited support.
Regards
Livio

Originally Posted by livio

Hello again gents, I won this today on Ebay, and I was wondering if is a TOS stone? Ebay : 320701611349.
Thank you again for your unlimited support.
Regards
Livio

this is thuringian stone. at the moment stone is dirty when you lap you will see better condition and color of the stone.
After checking the action i should add item missing top cover.Great buy enjoy

Thank you. What is missing? Is look it have all the covers.
Livio

It looks like it's all there. You will often find Thuringians in contraptions like these.

If it's a thuringian you have a better finisher than a tos...congrats.

Thank you all gents, like usual you are very promt with your answers. If is a thuringian like all
of you agree, is a very good buy, logicaly they have a finisher and a strop in this seting.But for 60$ shipped I think is a very good deal.And I want to thank Piet again for being a very nice person ,
despite our past messages.I will post more info when they arrive.
Warm regards
Livio

Tams were also known as "snakeskin" hones back in the old days. That because they have a speckled pattern that is quite distinct and does resemble a snake's skin. If your stone has that it may very well be a Tam but I think, as others have said, it is a Thuringan. You're a winner in either case. Speaking of cases, that dovetailed example posted by Piet is a beauty. An example of craftsmanship of bygone days.

Originally Posted by Piet

You will often find Thuringians in contraptions like these.

Sometimes, yes. But most of the hones I have seen in these strop and hone razor boxes aren't. They are more variegated than Thuringians and much more like the stones marketed as Schwedenstein hones.

Livio's single picture rules out TOS I think, but establishing any positive identification on the same basis would be rash. It may be a Thuringian or Hunsrücker, a Schwedenstein, or something else entirely different.

In any case: exciting - much looking forward to further pictures!

Thank you gents, I received the package today and is a fine thuringian, like you sugested. Is almost green in color, or maybe blue green, if something like this exist. It was very easy to lap, 5 min on DMT 320, even softer than my yellow green thuringian. Is 7 1/2 x 1 1/4, very very fast slurry release, and a nice sharp edge after a dilucot coticule. The box is amazing, really a work of art. Thank you again and warm regards until next stone. Here are some pictures as I promissed.

Green Thuringian on the left and NN to the right? Blue-Green Thuringians do exist, and blue-green was an Escher denomination too, but my best bet is still with the Schwedenstein-type. Below: a rather striped and a more uniform specimen in similar boxes.