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Your description of it sounds very like an old Norton Soft Ark; they're far finer than a lot of modern Soft Arks with the colours/patterns.

Here's a picture of a 30s/40s era Norton Soft that I...

Many thanks for this Steve, and actually looking back at the catalogue your pics do tell me what I wanted to know...

You can see in the picture below from a 1935 Catalogue, that the No.1 appears...

Do you have the top of the box of that stone? And if so... might I see a picture of it?

(I'm trying to get a complete set of Norton natural stones from that era, in the cardboard boxes with...

It's unlikely to be a Washita; it doesn't looks that much like one, and the thickness is off, they didn't come that thin really. It could be one that's been heavily worn and then flattened, but I...