Thread: Salmen Yellow Lake vintage

Originally Posted by eleblu05

Salmens Hone
As well as operating the Melynllyn Yellow Lake Hone Quarry, and being the UK's largest importer of Turkey Stones, this company also retailed a dark-blue slate hone under their own name. The label depicts the Salmen's logo of a fish and an S inside an inverted red triangle, underneath this there is a picture of Britannia and script stating "Made in England".
slate is easy to I.D when lapping it give off a distinctive smell. you wont be able to I.D german water hones with this slate hone they are different hones.

The stone arrived today, and you hit the nail on the head with the description for the slates stone, even the smell.
Being this is the slate version as you mentioned, does that mean this is not a yellow lake? Is there a particular name for the dark blue slate with their name?

I lapped one side and it is pretty fine, perhaps not as fine as the Escher, but not far behind. I will have to do some tests with the razor to get a better idea of it. So far I think it is a fine specimen for my collection.

slate is slate a fine grained rock a metamorphosis of clay , shale they all smell the same ime. thuringian/escher is quartz embedded in chalk