Thread: 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.

There is definately a relation with the Magog and razors for sure.

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.



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.