Thread: Is this A Super Rare Stone

I got this from a seller who said
i perty sure this clear grade oil was mined in england.
What would be the rarity level to this stone.
Cause it much different then my vintage clear arkansas stones.
I use for my razors.
Is soft enough to take well to water.

At the risk of being (shudder) wrong, it looks like an arkansas translucent to me.

+1 it is an ARkie and I have never been wrong! Well once I thought I made a mistake but I was mistaken.

Seller could be right. Do you have moreinformation about the stone, size, how hard to lap with comparison to translucent arkie, etc.

Originally Posted by jaswarb

+1 it is an ARkie and I have never been wrong! Well once I thought I made a mistake but I was mistaken.

I love when people agree with me.

it looks like a ark to me can you remove it from the box how hard is it to lap ? looking close at the stone i can see a small pressure flake so its a hard stone probably a translucent

it looks like the Translucent Arkansas stone in this photo, on the far right. it IS a translucent but has inclusions, I think they are pretty. the inclusions are a different grit, for a knife it doesn't matter so much, as that stone in the photo sharpens knives real well. I have a good number of translucents with inclusions that look similar to yours, some are also yellowish like yours.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I love when people agree with me.

You two aren't related are you, Jimmy?

Originally Posted by Suile

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What would be the rarity level to this stone.

At the chance of sounding facetious, as this is a Natural stone I can say with absolute certainty that it is the only one exactly like it in the entire world,, There might be a few mined and cut from right next to it that are close be that is a unique example

I also lean toward a Novaculite of some type