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Interesting. I know one vendor told me years ago, that Shochets were always in the market for the "kosher" coticules, or yellow/green eschers. Whether they would have referred to the stones as...

A Jewish 'Shochet' is a meat cutter who is required to use Kosher tools to fulfill his purpose. Since the Kosher designation requires 'without blemish' for the meat, the same is required of the...

AFAIK they were all mined from a relatively small area in Belgium. So who knows which mine it was. In the hey day of straight razors, barbers using them on customers, the coticule was their go to...

IIRC 'Selected' denotes a hone with no blemishes, inclusions. I forget what they call the lesser coticules at Ardennes, the only current mine harvesting and distributing them. But whatever it is,...