Thread: Escher hone on eBay!

Well, a new Escher came up on eBay! Kees, I saw that you're sniffing around this one! Let's not get into a bidding war unless you're willing to pay an awful lot for the stone! The Rabbis will already be bidding it up enough! BTW, here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0224&rd=1&rd=1

Looks like a nice stone, but beyond my budget with more than 5 days to go and already at 182.5$.

I hope you get it Rich.

Originally Posted by rgdominguez

Well, a new Escher came up on eBay! Kees, I saw that you're sniffing around this one! Let's not get into a bidding war unless you're willing to pay an awful lot for the stone! The Rabbis will already be bidding it up enough! BTW, here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0224&rd=1&rd=1

I asked for the pictures to whet your appetite...

I have got one with rubbing stone, undamaged label and original box, so why would I pay over 200 bucks for this one?

Kees, sell me yours and get me out of my misery!!!

Originally Posted by rgdominguez

Kees, sell me yours and get me out of my misery!!!

I have two of the grey eschers!! PM me if you are interested Mr. Dominguez

2 eh!!

put me on the biding list

PuFF

Still worth $415+ USD?

Heh, I guess it is worth as much - to some people

Cheers
Ivo

The stone is now at US $414.99!!! Talk about a "Hone Rush"!!!

Hmmm, could be the photography, but it doesn't look "yellow green" to me...Do you think that people might be "forging" Eschers?????

Peeling the label off of a "real" Escher", then pasting it onto any old CHEAP soft grey stone....?????

I dunno, doesn't the Chinese water stone do pretty much the same job?

Just to torture you guys, I remember a million years ago, when I had a machine shop, I bought several old fine yellow green stones that I bought for $3, $4, $5 a piece I remember grumbling about paying $10 for the really large stone that I used for lapping lathe/milling machine ways/beds... I used the smaller ones for sharpening my lathe and milling machine bits...

I remember "bitching" about having to use them "wet" with a water slurry, and wishing I had the more "modern" man-made stones that used oil....

The guy who sold them to me figured that the stones had to be over 100 years old...

I remember they came in these ratty old cardboard boxes with fancy German labels, but I threw the boxes out and put them in "new" plastic containers..

I liked keeping my machine shop clean and neat, and I had no time for grubby old cardboard boxes with funny German labels... but I remember the name, "Escher"!!!

I figured that these stones weren't as good as the "newfangled" man-made stones, but since I didn't have the money to buy "new", I had to settled for this old "sh$t".....

If only I knew....

Tony

Tony, if only any of us knew not only about this but about many things! Like Wal-Mart stock, California and Hawaii land prices and a million other things!