Thread: New stones, please id

Hello, some new stones from Ebay.The big one is a 6x2x1/2 medium hard,green color , white slurry,mounted with in a box with a strop.The small one is
5 1/2x 1 1/4 x 3/4, very hard, raise some dark slurry and full of glitters, dry and wet. Both are natural and used with water IMO.Any toughts please?Thank you in advance.

They look like nice stones, the lower one is dished a little. I got no idea what they are from the pictures, no manufacturing id on them? The strop and stone all in one looks like an old idea, i thinks that's pretty cool. The glitter is probably the abrasive crystals but being able to see makes me wonder about the grit size...

I have no clue, are you sure they're natural?

Thank you, at least the small one is natural, like glass.the bigger one I am not sure , but also very fine, not like the small one but fine.

The staining on the top stone make me thing of a stone with an open structure what a lot of synthetics have but sandstones as well. Does the top stone have glitters? Does it show a pattern when wet?

The bottom stone does look natural, might be interesting to find out what it is.

the top one it not have glitters, and no patterns when wet,it may be manmade you are right. the small one I remember i use to have a La Luna, french stone similar like this.
Thank you again
Livio

The bottom one looks like some slate stones I've seen - very fine grained. I think they come from Scotland. The top one is very pretty and I'm impressed with the dovetail mounting. Someone loved that stone very much to go to all that trouble. Hard to say what it is though do to the light color green. I have seen Eschers which have that color but they're hard to find as lots of folks used to oil the eschers and that darkens them. Yours doesn't look oiled. Can you put up a picture with it en slurry? The slurry is a really good indicator of pedigree as it is what mineralogists call the "streak" or the true color of the stone.

Here are some slurry photos.