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Hi Ansichtskarte...
thanks for your addition to the thread!
Not really sure about your stone. The first impression - stone looks too clean...white... , spots are too symetrical and perfect for a...

Did you buy the stone in saxonia or from someone coming from saxonia?
We cannot finally really tell what stone it is. But from the backside it really looks more like an Ark. I Have not seen these...

Looks more like an Ark to me. The bottom with the splitted material is very typical for Arks glued on wood or in a box. The troutstones do have some red or brown spots most of the time, because of...

Hard to say from the pictures on the net, but some parts of the stone look clearly translucent. So I would tend to an Ark too.

Not really sure about your stone being a Saxonian oilstone Stilus. There are such stones without the typical trout-like spots that I have shown in my introducing post, but most of them are really...

@ henk
Interesting cataloque! The Schleifmittel AG was founded 1923 out of the Escher & Co, Bösenberg & Trinks, Pike & Escher and some other companies. They and the JGES company which was founded...

In another thread some month ago I reported on a special class of thuringian stones, which are harder than the well known soft thuringian hones like the Escher labeled waterwhetstones. These harder...