Thread: Wood Box Escher with blue label

Hey Piet, that looks like the PHIG I sold you last month,,,,,,Whats up ???

You'll love that little hone. I am regretful that I sold mine!!

I have one of those little suckers,just forgot where I put it

Just want to confirm what Piet already said. There is no correlation between colour of the label and colour of the stone. If Escher stated the colour on the stones they always did it with a special label at the end of the stones. You can find a lot of examples for this here at SRP. Normally there is no information about colour on the main label.

The only Thuringian company that -according to my present knowledge- stated the coulor of the stones as a quality sign directly on the main label, was C.F. Luthardt. Here is one example for a "blue" stated quality:

Are the wooden boxes different from different makers / resellers?
Could an unmarked box be used to ID a stone?

I have one of those small, boxed E&Co stones. I'm sure it's a great stone in its own right, but I never really got used to using such a small stone. The biggest issue for me was it being glued into the box, so I put mine in the oven on about 200 degrees for 10 minutes which was just enough time for the glue to release enough to allow me to pop the stone out. That made it easier to use, but the feedback wasn't great since the stone was so small. I eventually found a good deal on a larger dark blue E&Co stone, and I now just use the smaller one as a slurry stone.

As for color, mine is very dark blue. In fact, it's a lot darker blue than my larger E&Co (which is labeled as being dark blue). I'll take a pic of them side-by-side at lunch today and post so you can compare once you receive yours.

Originally Posted by Lemur

Are the wooden boxes different from different makers / resellers?
Could an unmarked box be used to ID a stone?

Yeah, that would be great if we could identify the unlabeled stones this way. Great idea! I have not yet compared the single boxes. There are indeed some distinguishing parts like the locking device of the boxes, the wood itself or the way it is assembled, thickness of walls, etc.

I have read in the literature that some companies produced the boxes by themselfs. But of course also boxes were produced by local cabinet makers in the thuringian area, especially Sonneberg and Steinach for different companies.

So I think this would be really difficult to distinguish. But maybe there is a special identifying feature for a company. I will have a look on this in the future!

Thanks for the idea.

Originally Posted by Lemur

Are the wooden boxes different from different makers / resellers?
Could an unmarked box be used to ID a stone?

From the pictures I have seen they all look really similar

Originally Posted by hatzicho

There are indeed some distinguishing parts like the locking device of the boxes, the wood itself or the way it is assembled, thickness of walls, etc.

I have read in the literature that some companies produced the boxes by themselfs. But of course also boxes were produced by local cabinet makers in the thuringian area, especially Sonneberg and Steinach for different companies.

I think that may be the case more often than not, that they were made by similar sources.