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Thread: Is this a Yellow/ Green Escher?
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10-26-2011, 03:08 PM #13
While what you say is true .... in the old price list that , IIRC, you posted some time back, the Y/G was the most expensive of the Eschers. Bringing way more than the Dark Blue for example. Was the pecking order of Y/G, light green, blue/green, and dark blue based on rarity of the harvest or on efficacy of the hones generating higher demand ? Hard to say. Tony Miller used to sell current Thuringans as well as vintage, Eschers among them.
He told me, when I asked which were the 'best', that he couldn't say for sure, but that the rabbis who came to him for stones for their kosher butchers were only interested in Y/G. I asked Lynn and Tim Zowada which they preferred and both liked the blue/green best. IME the Y/G is my favorite and I believe Sham also like the Y/G the best. I must say that I have a couple of blue/greens that are absolutely great so it is hard to say. I've also had a dark blue, that I sold, that was really a great hone. Slower than the Y/G or the B/G but left a really fine and keen edge. So perhaps it is best to say that they are all good. YMMV.Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.