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  1. 04-20-2007, 12:54 PM #1
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    Default 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
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  2. 04-21-2007, 07:37 AM #2
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    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.
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  3. 04-22-2007, 08:43 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by rgdominguez View Post
    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?
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  4. 04-22-2007, 10:15 PM #4
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    Default Kees, sell me yours!!!

    Kees, sell me yours and get me out of my misery!!!
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  5. 04-22-2007, 10:18 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by rgdominguez View Post
    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
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  6. 04-22-2007, 10:34 PM #6
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    2 eh!!

    put me on the biding list

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    Still worth $415+ USD?
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  8. 04-23-2007, 03:30 PM #8
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    Heh, I guess it is worth as much - to some people

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    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
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  10. 04-23-2007, 04:34 PM #10
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    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!
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