Thread: Brown Thuringian?

I never mentioned brown Escher, only brown Thuringian. Just want clarify this thread a little, there is two differences! Escher is a name brand.

Originally Posted by ruday555

I never mentioned brown Escher, only brown Thuringian. Just want clarify this thread a little, there is two differences! Escher is a name brand.

No clarification needed, my friend! I was merely replying to the incidence of the 'brown escher' that Jimmy recalled to mind - my comments were directed at that, and not at anything you said!

FWIW I can buy a stone described as a 'brown thuringian' - no problem with that at all. Like you, I know that Escher was a brand name, and seeing as I have never seen brown hones listed by them I cannot swallow something being called a 'brown escher' unless there is documentary proof - in other words we are in complete agreement!

Regards,
Neil

Just to clarify what the sequence of events was ..... A former member of SRP was and is a hone maven. He always searches out more rocks to try out. He came upon a few brown hones that, in his educated opinion, were close enough in appearance and performance to qualify as possibly having been made by Escher. At the very least, if not actually Escher hones, thuringans. So he posted a thread that was more an attempt to reach out into the community for his own clarification than to proclaim his hones were indeed Eschers.

Another former member, who was also a hone collector, got into a dispute with him about the Escher name applied to these, since, as Neil pointed out, there were no labels to identify them. Not long after that our OP of the "brown escher" thread came upon the "Special Stone" label on yet another brown thuringan like hone. Turned out his brown hones were probably the La Lune mentioned in a previous post. So he wasn't willfully trying to deceive anyone, rather, he was suffering from a severe case of wishful thinking.

Originally Posted by ruday555

I never mentioned brown Escher, only brown Thuringian. Just want clarify this thread a little, there is two differences! Escher is a name brand.

There's actually no difference because I don't think either one exist

There are stones that were unintentionally referred to as being a brown Escher or a brown Thuringian at SRP:
Special Stone/La Lune - Vosgiennes, France
Fox/Goldfisch Wetzstein - Ardennes?, Belgium perhaps
Schwedenstein - Saxony?, Germany

I personnaly feel if a stone is not labeled then it goes to an educated or experienced person to recognize what it really is, that's why this site is great because of the knowlegeable people there are here.

Am I mistaken or didn't I once read that there is an area in Germany where the coticule vein carried through from Belgium ? Coticules were, maybe still are, harvested out of German territory ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Am I mistaken or didn't I once read that there is an area in Germany where the coticule vein carried through from Belgium ? Coticules were, maybe still are, harvested out of German territory ?

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...or-stones.html

Many thanks Piet, great old thread.

Maybe you have a brown Frankonian. I have one and it is simply superb. Check out some pics on Olivia's site.

I may be seing things but in this Olivias Site there is a brown Thuringian, go figure.