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These are in a lab that was sectioning botanical specimens embedded in wax, I was surprised to find them as there was no microtome in there, just a whole heap of accessories.

Well sadly there were no other stones in there and no sign of a strop, there are a lot of blades though.

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Not being a man that needs much convincing to become obsessed with things I am...

Just got home and tried for a couple more photos. Not too sure what you look for in photos of a stone though.


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Thanks for all the replies to this one, its fascinating...

I should probably have put something in the photo for scale, the actual stone is about 9" long and about 2.5 wide.

I will take a look tomorrow and see if there are any other stones or anything...

I got the chance at work today to have a look round a lab that is being cleared out and it seems they used to do some microtome work in there. I found this in one of the drawers of junk and it got me...