Coticule love... show off your rock

[Wid]

Very nice, Rick.

Thanks David

 

[Legion]

Got these two oldies in today. Beautiful old gals

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Nice boat bouts.

 

[Wid]

Nice boat bouts.

Thanks

 

[Matt O]

I was really really disappointed when I warmed this up in the mahogany base and popped it out to see a
9 5/8 x 1 3/4 x 3/4 natural yellow stone…figured it was just another PDSO.

BUT then I flipped it over and saw some black splotches, and after I cleaned it up…it appears to be just a big slab of coticule with no BBW backing.

I guess I’ll keep it…at least to try anyhow.

 

[Fillifan]

You may have lost at some point the shale piece, which, on that particular stone, was glued on. Here is the type where the two stones are naturally joined. This is a La Latneuses I believe. Note wavy join line. Harder than my coticule of the La Veinette sort.

 

[Matt O]

You may have lost at some point the shale piece, which, on that particular stone, was glued on. Here is the type where the two stones are naturally joined. This is a La Latneuses I believe. Note wavy join line. Harder than my coticule of the La Veinette sort.

That’s a beautiful coticule!

I suspect that this stone never had a glued on BBW. It came glued down in a very very old mahogany box.

 

[Legion]

That’s a beautiful coticule!

I suspect that this stone never had a glued on BBW. It came glued down in a very very old mahogany box.

Looks thick enough it wouldn’t have needed a backing.

 

[Matt O]

Looks thick enough it wouldn’t have needed a backing.

Yes Sir! I wouldn’t want to drop it but at .75 inches I am not too concerned. I have one other that I believe never had backing, but it isn’t nearly as big as this one. I haven’t seen one this size with no BBW.

 

[Legion]

Yes Sir! I wouldn’t want to drop it but at .75 inches I am not too concerned. I have one other that I believe never had backing, but it isn’t nearly as big as this one. I haven’t seen one this size with no BBW.

I have one in an old mahogany (I think) box with no backing. My stone predates it’s box, as it has a hole for suspension.

 

[captaincaed]

@Wid the blue swirls on the small boat are crazy cool. The spice is flowing in that one.

 

[SliceOfLife]

I'll be honest... 9"+, I'd PROBABLY prefer a PDSO, personally; but at least it's a pretty coti.

I do love those vintage unbacked coticules... My favorites are the brown waxy ones that are almost Novaculite they're so hard... but can't complain about a speckled manganese beauty either.

 

[Wid]

Sellers pics. Another old coffin shaped stone 8x1.5

 

[timwcic]

Triple R, rescue, repair, restore. Found both pieces in a box of Carbo’s and luckily neither was broken. Whipped up some neutral epoxy and rejoined to bring a 7x1.5 inch back to service

 

[Steve56]

Nice save!

 

[timwcic]

Nice save!

Thank You Steve

 

[kcb5150]

Something new. It seriously has some of the heaviest draw I have ever come across on a coticule. It seems to very very very faintly autoslurry on water but I am talking the barest fizz. Feedback is easy to read. Fairly dry feeling coti. End result is fairly typical

 

[carlosj]

 

[Wid]

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Nice stone. Is that a recently mined stone?

 

[carlosj]

Thanks. No, I bought it many years ago from the vault of coticule.be. It’s from La Dressante layer.

 

[Wid]

Thanks. No, I bought it many years ago from the vault of coticule.be. It’s from La Dressante layer.

It’s beautiful