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History of the "Magog Oilstone"
Ive been somewhat very intrigue about this stone for a while, the main reason is i grew up in the region where the novaculite quarry
was way back when. The stones come from Lake Memphremagog, from an island on the lake, as a teen i did spend a lot of time on that lake a family friend had a camp where i would go often during the summers, we did boating water sking etc, i remember going by that island many times by boat. I was a downhill skier as well and you can see the lake from Sugar loaf VT, an Owl's Head, its an incredible view from way up in the mountains.
All the article posted are from very old Vermont magazines and old book early in the 1800's.
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There is definately a relation with the Magog and razors for sure.
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Roman Fyler started adding these stone to his business of selling shaving boxes in the early 1800's the stone has been compare to Turkey oilstone and Charnley forest.
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There quite a bit of info on this stone, but to my knowledge no marked stone has been found, or one of Mr Fyler shaving boxes with the Magog stone.
Please share any information you have about this stone im definately interested, but dont reply telling me you saw on ebay and the seller told you it was a Magog without provenance.
History of the "Magog Oilstone"
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
History of the "Magog Oilstone"
@vasilis: please read the informations and links i posted before as martin wrote there is no doubt about it...
The problem was also that the stones could only be quarried in a certain period because in other times the water would have been to high...
The quarry was in this thinking under the waterline in certain periods thru the year....sorry no source for this at the moment i will check and post if i found it...
History of the "Magog Oilstone"
Something more to add on Information of the Magog Oilstone, i havent seen it posted before and doing a couple of hours research back the last half year it might be Interesting for those who are Interested in the History of the Magog Oilstone and Roman Fyler....
More about the Stone and its Name/Quality, this was taken from here. I marked some interesting passages...
https://archive.org/stream/handbookf...0dixj_djvu.txt
John Ross Dix - A Handbook for Lake Memphremamog
"Near the Entrance of the East Bay there is a Island called "Whetstone or Fitch's Island" - (the latter named after a man who once claimed to own it). This Island is remarkable for a quarry of Novaculite, which maybe seen as a yellow line near the waters edge in its western side. Of this Novaculite, capital Whetstones can be made; indeed some years ago, the quarry was workedby a company from Burke, who disposed of many tons of it anually. So excellent was it, that it almost drove the famous turkey oilstone out of the market, and were beeing amply remunerated when from some cause or other, the British Government put a stop for the quarrying; not however in order to monopolize the trade itself, for since the Burke Company were driven of the Novaculite has remained undisturbed."
History of the "Magog Oilstone"
More on Roman Fyler can be found in some documents available to the public, the first text is from a "National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet" from the 1. April 2008:
http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NR...t/07001345.pdf
thats whats written down about Fyler:
"Roman Fyler (1768-1828) emigrated in September 1800, from Winsted in Litchfielf County, Conneticut with his Wife and four Children to Burke Green. In 1801 Burke built the towns first saw mill and grist mill on a small stream in Burke Hollow that came to be known as Fylers Mill Stream. Unfortunately that first saw mill burned, but it was replaced by Fyler the next year. The Village of Burke Hollow grew up around the Industry of Fylers Water Power Mills."
So that really Interesting, as it is well visible which important Role Mr. Fyler has played in the Region around Burke....