Thread: History of the "Magog Oilstone"

Originally Posted by adrspach

Have you ever made a hone from scratch?

When we get past post #4 - then we can worry about that lol.

Hmm thought so. At present I have few of them in different levels of being made and know that often quarry/mine being not open in one of smallest problems in the production.

Originally Posted by adrspach

Hmm thought so. At present I have few of them in different levels of being made and know that often quarry/mine being not open in one of smallest problems in the production.

I hear you, but if there was a large enough demand for them; I can see creating a situation with the right amount of investment, where economy's of scale would make short work of what would otherwise be a time-staking and arduous task.

Considering lots in that part of the world are in the > 1 Million dollar area... buying enough lots to have a quarry would be a serious barrier to entry. Never mind the fuss all the multi-millionaires in the area would create.

Sure would be fun though!! At least I would think so.

What stones are you having made?

Already been in few well known quarries and you would be surprised how small they are. For example Whittle Hill is about size of 10x25 metres. You can even avoid this part if you locate source of the original material. I am sure you heard about recycling toombstones made out of Hindostan.
Then how many there could be demanded. Then what technology to use to make it at least breaking even. And so on. For those reasons I keep those hones which I made or will make more like special present rather than objects of business.

More can be found here, i want to share further findings here:

http://books.google.de/books?id=aZBK...ed=0CDAQ6AEwAg

i think that will be the most interesting on this issue, do not know if this was found by anyone already,
the best is that it is not that old. Everybody interested in the issue should read this:

G. Drapeau - Geology of the Lake Memphremagog syncline
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand...pdf?sequence=1

Originally Posted by doorsch

G. Drapeau - Geology of the Lake Memphremagog syncline
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand...pdf?sequence=1

broken link, try this:

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand...pdf?sequence=1

Magog:
kind of historic document, taken from "Farmers Repository"
6th Dec. 1820, Wednesday...this seems to be the discovery of the magog

http://up.picr.de/17232819uj.jpg

Still to this day there are no Marked or labelled stone, and be aware of ebay sellers claiming to have one( more then likely Hindostan stone) without provenance.

Thanks martin i know just want to bring in some new information....

As you wrote most of the sold looked like hindostan...

A couple of months ago a labeled one was sold on an auction. The word "magog" wasn't written on the label, but "Canadian oilstone" or something like this. And indeed looked exactly like hindostan. Maybe a bit darker, but it could be from something else, like oil.