Thread: What do you think of this vintage coticule?

Hey,

I'm a total newb and had been thinking about getting a coticule as a finishing stone. The new ones are 70-80 bucks for the 6 inch by 1.5-2 inch variety, so I thought I'd try to get one on ebay. A fellow member of another forum pointed me to one that was selling on ebay and was supposedly a vintage coticule. It's about the same size as the 80 dollar ones. With shipping, it's gonna cost around that range. I'd heard vintage coticules tend to be better stones so I thought I'd bid and see what I could get.
Did I just get ripped off like an idiot, or is this actually a decent stone? The pictures aren't super clear, but thought they might be of some help.
Here's the link for the auction that just ended:

COTICULE-PIERRE A AIGUISER DE METIER DES ANNEES 50 - eBay (item 380182014337 end time Dec-06-09 08:57:14 PST)

Thanks

Hard to tell what you bought from those crappy pictures. It looks like a wooden box with a yellow label that says coticule. The stone seems to be blue which can't be a coticule unless a very dirty one however it may be the bottom of a vintage coticule which is usually a BBW.

Fingers crossed!

Hope so too. The color of the stone in the second picture looks similar to some of these so hopefully it's an actual coticule and not a BBW.
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that is great coticule. you are not ripped off

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

that is great coticule. you are not ripped off

+1 .... looks good to me too.

The second picture shows a labeled box (le caisson) if I'm not mistaken.

Originally Posted by Piet

The second picture shows a labeled box (le caisson) if I'm not mistaken.

Hmmmm you may be right. I thought the second photo was the stone taken out of the box with the yellow side up. As you said previously.... fingers crossed.