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You're welcome, although I haven't identified the stone for you. I didn't mean to suggest it was a Welsh purple slate, just wanted to say that I like the latter stone as a finisher. Other Welsh...

By the way, a new thread has started, with a pretty good pic of a Water of Ayer stone. So you can compare it with yours. Inclusions are very well defined and the overall surface is uniform.
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Thanks for the detailed images. I'm away from my labelled Water of Ayr / Tam-O-Shanter combo stone and haven't used it enough to have the WoA's characteristics graven on my memory, but I recall the...

Could be. A visual characteristic with the Water of Ayer is to have small comet-like inclusions on the surface. Yours seems to have some mottling that suggests it, but the sharpness of the images...

This being your first post, welcome to SRP.

I cannot say definitively what the stone is. But that narrow label on the inside reminds me of a celebrated water hone (blue Thuri) I have. The...