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The Lorraine hones coming from the coticule quarries in Belgium. The Lorraine is a seperate layer within the quarries, not a coticule, not a BBW, a special layer. They are normaly a bit faster then...

I will take care of his stones so that he has the time to engage in his real profession. :)

Great video Sebastian! You should immediately start a film business.....:deal:

Very interesting stones Guillaume,

thanks for sharing. You have mentioned exactly the place in France from where the stones are. Have you personally been at the quarries or do you mean the places...

It is interesting what detailed information you can find about a special topic if you only get the right keywords!

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Well Sebastian,

you are getting more and more professional presentating your beautiful hones. Maybe you should think about becomming a video artist! :chapeau

Anyway great hones that you dig out...

Nice stone! The sticker was glued to the wrong side of the stone (the good side with chamfered edges instead of the back side). So the previus owner had to get rid of it.......:banghead:

Summarizing Piet and Margeja we may have a simple formular here that would fit for most (not all!) stones of this kind:
Fox hone = Goldfisch Wetzstein = Lorraine stone = Special BBW Layer ! Agreed?

Looks quite like the one I have posted on side 1 of this thread. If the stones are not lapped they look quite rough. But the appearance as well as the saw marks on the side seem that you really have...

Posted some pictures here http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones/97590-purple-hone-id.html
a while ago, where you can see the color differences.

Well its really hard to say from the pictures. To be honest, I am not totally convinced that this is a La Lune like Piet and Rockabillyhelge say. It could be of course, but I also got some new Yellow...

Found this great example some month ago. Really looks like Mike's Fox hone.

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The stone has a perfect size for honing of 5.7 x 3.2 ''.

Henk: It's really getting time now to solve...

Mike, the grain and texture of this fox stones really seem to look similar to the Lorraine stone I have posted. Can you post some more detailed pictures of the fox.

Here are some more detailed...

Well I have had a first try today honing the Lorraine stone and I have to admit that I am deeply impressed by its performance.
I took an old Heinrich Böker Edelweiss razor that I didn’t hone before...

I have lapped it, but didn't hone a razor with it yet.
It is indeed a very fine stone, so I suppose it is usable for straight razor honing. To which extend, I will report as soon as I have tested...

That's very interesting, thanks a lot for the comment.
I didn't know the literature you mentioned but found some remarks on the Lorraine stones in the "Traité de Mineralogie" from 1837.

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Purchased some French hones a while ago.

One is a purple stone with a beautiful structure mounted in a wooden box.

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The label says “Pierre de Lorraine Rouge”. I have read...