Thread: Prompt that for a stone?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

IMHO you were very lucky.

Maybe from some point of view .......

Way over my budget, I can hardly believe it!

716 euros it not small means too. But for me they had no value here.

Originally Posted by Bushdoctor

Maybe from some point of view .......

My maximum rate was $1500. All of us were lucky, probably.

Originally Posted by Ruslan

My maximum rate was $1500. All of us were lucky, probably.

It is a great collectors piece no doubt.
I am sure it will give you some great edges too.

You have to gives us more pictures later and tell us how it hones.

Crazy prices that some people are willing to pay for stones!!

If the old whetstone makers could see this today they might go crazy in a second.

1889 the price for a dozen hones in the size 10x2x1 inch yellow green was 11 German mark (around 7-8 $ today). 1912 the prices raised to fantastic 12.5 Mark a dozen! For that really hard work the whetstone makers had to do……….

Well but congrats to the stone Ruslan.

The label – not the stone itself maybe- is indeed something special. It indicates relatively exact in which time period the stone was sold.
When you look at the label you found two company names.
J.G. Escher Sohn and IGES. Whereas the second name seems to be only an acronym for the first one, there have been indeed two companies with this different names existed for a short time period.

The Escher company traded under the name J.G.Escher Sohn from around 1906 on. In the year 1927 the company was split into I.G. Escher Sohn and IGES – two companies which worked autonomous.
The company IGES moved from Sonneberg to the little town Unterlind, later Theuern. Firm owner at this time was a certain Rudolf Schwarz who was also the last owner until the company was dispossessed in 1953.

J.G. Escher Sohn went into bankruptcy in 1930 and was taken over by IGES again.

Since both company names are on the label, there is a high probability that the stone was sold somewhere around 1930.

Also this seems to be the prove for JimmyHad’s suggestion, that the 2 man barbers scene is newer than the 4 man barber scene- which is labeled Escher & Co.

For the stones with the Escher Sohn or IGES label themselfes, they came from other quarries than the older stones. Some literature sources stated that these ones didn’t have the same quality than the older stones (“… these mines have been opened to gain cheaper Whetstones….”) but this is not proven. Also this could of course be an older stone which is labeled and sold later.

So have fun and enjoy owning this great stone!

If can help here's label of mine, an old one, with german language.

I recently got my hone.

This BARBERS DELIGHT came this week.