and also strops?
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and also strops?
Eye candy, a Y/G barber's delight natural combo. The blue green side has the complete back label and I use the yellow green side. The end label is marked y/g.
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More Escher eye candy, a blue green and a yellow green. The b/g came in the blue box and y/g in the red box. Both 5x2 1/2 + slurry stones. Both have the same label on the front of the box. The blue box has W.F. Crosby 81-88 Fulton Street New York ink stamped on the back side. The seller told me he researched the name and address and W.F. Crosby was last in business in 1905. The y/b stone has the Escher label with no signature imprinted. The blue green stone has the label with the signature warning to only buy stones with the signature label. I am presuming the blue is a later stone. Both have the end labels in German .... Blau-grun and gelb-grun.
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You can all keep your travel back in time thoughts to buy some eschers or similar. If I had that opportunity I'd be in Japan checking out the quarries.
Paraphrasing what I've read - I think that while it was easy to get excellent thuri razor stones back when these were available, getting back to japan in those days and getting to the quarries or their products may have been significantly more difficult.
I could be wrong, though, 100 years ago maybe someone would've just needed to ask around there (vs. earlier years when you had to be higher class to even have the right to pay for such a thing).
All of these thuri posts almost make me want to try more thuris.
Boy those were the days, when every stone under the sun was easily available( although sometimes pricey) to experiment with.