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No Jerry,

The Salm coticule is found in an area called the Pays de Salm (or Pays de val de Salm), the "Old Rock" coticule came from there. The Salm name goes back to at least the 10th century -...

No - no inclusions. You will never be sure about that stone other than it is a purple slate - unless it learns to talk, of course! :)

Regards,
Neil

This might be of interest too - the list of holdings attributed to A B Salmen (Albert Berl Salmen, son of Samuel Salmen who was a founder of the Stepney Jewish School in London):-

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I no longer have the hone, but here are some pics of it:

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From what I remember it was not in the same league as the dark ones - more around 8 or 9k, possibly more...

I'm not at all sure that the non-purple stones came from the same quarry. I have had two of them and they seemed finer to me than the purple ones, with a very different feel to them. I remember...