Thread: Please help me identify these hones!!! :D

I have been playing stamp on the third stone, changing the contrast, inverting it etc and this is what i have some up with, i don't know how correct it is...

Trademark The celebrated registered
Tam O Shanter Stone
XXXXXX cold, medai???
London International Exhibition 1835
For Excellence on quality of stone

I Think i found it on here: Vintage Tam O'Shanter Natural Hone Stone

"This is a good example of the finer type of Tam O'Shanter hones from Ayrshire in Scotland. Estimates of grit size for these hones (in reality grit size cannot be used for natural stones, but people estimate it as the means of comparing stones) vary from 6000 to 9000 grit (the lighter examples, especially the white ones, are of higher grit equivalence), and I would say that this particular stone is at the higher end of the scale. It is quite a quick cutter with good feedback and gives a good edge - followed by a chrome-oxide pasted strop it gives a decent shaving edge. Perhaps its greatest virtue is the way that it deals with blades that are prone to micro-nicks during honing - using one of these hones on such blades has always helped me effectively hone such blades. It can also be used with a slurry to promote quicker honing (note that it does not come with a slurry stone, however). I usually raise a slurry with a fine diamond lapping plate - it only needs a few laps."

If i can get 135 pound for it, its just paid for the lot and I'm laughing but i think i might keep this one!