timwcic
"Look what I found"
A boxed Escher Barbers Gem from B.T. Co. (Bösenberg Trinks & Co.) complete with rub stone. I think it a blue/green. Pictured with some varieties of the same flavor
Escher/Thuringian love. show of your rocks
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Just scored this for a bargain. Anyone seen this before?
A time or two, they're fairly rare.
Do you happen to know if it is a Thuringian? Its 30mm by 150mm. I grabbed it sight unseen off the bay as the price even if it was just a rock was too good too pass up.
Yes, they're Thuris. The Star label is pretty rare. I vaguely remember someone telling me they were marketed in Greece/Turkey? Under that label.
Thanks. I'm glade I grabbed it then, i have been wanting to try one for years and being in Australia haven't seen one around. I just happened to come across a stone for auction and thought I would search completed auctions and bingo. Contacted the seller who re-listed it for me.
timwcic
"Look what I found"
This stone was all alone and rescued today. Cold and lonely, lost its house, it’s rub buddy was nowhere to be found. I promised the seller I would give it a good home and lots of love. This B-Gem sized stone will have lots of Escher brothers to keep it company in its new home
Who just got a steal on that old Pike Escher?
its actually a trademark from Apex Schleifmittel, they appear in the Apex Catalog from 1936
The Star brand is mentioned in old Barbering textbooks.
what is the exact size of it?Just scored this for a bargain. Anyone seen this before?
30mm by 150mm
timwcic
"Look what I found"
My quest to deplete the wild of Escher hones continues. 80% of a set with 50% of the box. I call this a good day shopping at the Flea
Here go mine. Fairly rare in France, Ive only found 5 thuris over the years.
Dont use them much. Great stones, but they don't seem to find a place in my progressions. True I haven't spend months on end honing and shaving exclusively on them, so they may still hold surprises.
A 6" ligth green, not hard. Very very nice stone, love the texture honing on this one and is prety fast. I tend to favour big stones, so it is mostly used as a slurry stone for the other thuris or my Fnat.
I always liked the looks of those octogonal stones, and I was lucky enough to finally find one for almost nothing. A tad over 8", and 2 3/4. Very very hard, not as easy as the other two. Great solid edges, nice to hone on this stone, great feed back.
A 9" Escher. Another super lucky purchase. The seller even asked me why he got such a mountain of mail over a simple old stone. Didn't had the heart to explain him, nice guy. Should I feel guilty I was first? Tell him it was worth x100 what he asked? Sometimes I do genuinely feel bad...
Not hard not soft, fast, and easy to use. Nice shaves but I like sharper. As the above they may be able to go there if I spend the time...
Dont use them much. Great stones, but they don't seem to find a place in my progressions. True I haven't spend months on end honing and shaving exclusively on them, so they may still hold surprises.
A 6" ligth green, not hard. Very very nice stone, love the texture honing on this one and is prety fast. I tend to favour big stones, so it is mostly used as a slurry stone for the other thuris or my Fnat.
I always liked the looks of those octogonal stones, and I was lucky enough to finally find one for almost nothing. A tad over 8", and 2 3/4. Very very hard, not as easy as the other two. Great solid edges, nice to hone on this stone, great feed back.
A 9" Escher. Another super lucky purchase. The seller even asked me why he got such a mountain of mail over a simple old stone. Didn't had the heart to explain him, nice guy. Should I feel guilty I was first? Tell him it was worth x100 what he asked? Sometimes I do genuinely feel bad...
Not hard not soft, fast, and easy to use. Nice shaves but I like sharper. As the above they may be able to go there if I spend the time...
Tim, is that esher as black as it looks?
Nice find, they seem much more abundant on your side!
Nice find, they seem much more abundant on your side!
I've only seen a few in years of looking in Europe. They seem far more common in the USA than even Germany and Germany has other other slate producing areas. I have found a couple of wopper dark Thuris in Germany, but never a green, grey or yellow.
Britain seems to have a long long practice of using slate for sharpening, so not as much demand here, even though the average Thuri is almost certainly superior to the best UK slates.
Britain has so much stone... I drool over they Ebay listings, pages and pages. In France you are lucky to have 5 or 6 proper stones at any given time (a cheap thuri rigth now). Spain is even worse, great razors, barely any vintage hone.
Is kid of a mystery to me. So much razors, so much wood working tools, and barely any hone to be found. Humans don't change that much, if we we are very few straight razors users and need stones to shave, they were millions and needed stones to shave: Where are all those stones?
Is kid of a mystery to me. So much razors, so much wood working tools, and barely any hone to be found. Humans don't change that much, if we we are very few straight razors users and need stones to shave, they were millions and needed stones to shave: Where are all those stones?
Those are the other two (left). Old picture since I no longer have those.
I've seen a few of this small stones over the years. People call them coticules, lately PSDO. But once you use them and look under magnification, there are identical to thuris.
They do seem older and less modern than eschers and others. I like to imagine old time traders in horse pulled carts, travelling through the deep forests preceding our mecanised era, with a few of those precious german stones packed in straw...
I've never seen a more modern ligth green with yellow streaks, but they do appear very occasionally in this format arround here.
I've seen a few of this small stones over the years. People call them coticules, lately PSDO. But once you use them and look under magnification, there are identical to thuris.
They do seem older and less modern than eschers and others. I like to imagine old time traders in horse pulled carts, travelling through the deep forests preceding our mecanised era, with a few of those precious german stones packed in straw...
I've never seen a more modern ligth green with yellow streaks, but they do appear very occasionally in this format arround here.
