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My pleasure :)

http://straightrazorpalace.com/attachments/hones/231381d1457888417-french-hones-gilot-hone-2.jpg

"1- Put on the Gillot stone "a" a thin layer of dry soap. Pass the blade on the stone several times...

Charlie found a reference on googlebooks :

198886

198887

Thanks a lot !! They indeed look like much ours !

I'll share the information on our forum. :chapeau

The stones were shown to Bart and M. Lessuise from Ardennes Coticule and both agreed to say the stones were not coticules.

Antoine indeed often find those stones on flea markets and jumble sales...

Here are the pictures you asked for :

http://nsa33.casimages.com/img/2015/01/05/150105075303793450.png

http://nsa33.casimages.com/img/2015/01/05/150105075304772901.png
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Thanks for the video :)

There were stones I didn't even (french myself) know..

Here is another undocumented stone, from the south-west (as far as we know) of France :
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I used the "f" because the exact form of the antic "s" in the middle of words is no longer available.

On the other hand, you can see that the "s" placed at the end of words is of normal form.
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It's indeed a little dropped out, but still understandable by every french people :)

Like in your example Neil "nourriffoient" & "difoit-il" is now "nourrissaient" & "disait-il". Your exemple is...

Most of them are french so I posted here :shrug:

Update of my rotation of stones :

At the very left you can see a Pyrénée under a DMT, several edgepro's synthetic, possibly a LaLune on a sponge, a coticule inside a woodbox, a finishing slate, a...

I allowed myself to quote you and translate you.

Your post is truly really interesting, thanks.

Mine :

Two vintage combo coticule / BBW and one BBW

http://nsa33.casimages.com/img/2014/05/17/140517064621838887.png

http://nsa34.casimages.com/img/2014/05/17/14051706463563304.png

First...

It looked like a finish stone, but they were too small so I didn't keep those stones.

Yes the second one is a vintage combo coticule - BBW, and I hope that the first is a La Lune or an Escher :hmmm:

Got those two hones, I'm wishing very hard waiting for the postman :angel:

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I would say "brevet contrôlé" or "breveté certifié".

This hone is in a stunning state ! Félicitations !

This stone :

http://img98.xooimage.com/files/4/d/c/img_3006-42c92b4.gif

Looks like a lot the cambrian green stone I got in a set of slurry stones, from aj_1001.

He said it grit was 10.000...