I often wonder how much of that edge damage was done by the original owners, and how much was done by our younger counterparts trying to figure it out with no guidance.
While it is true our parents and grandparents may have only had one stone, more often than not that one stone was a black Arkansas, a coticule, escher, Charnley forest, Tam O'Shanter...the same hones we seek out today. And my grandfather likely put better edges on his pocket knives and razors by accident than I do mine on purpose.