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High Quality Thuri (Droescher) - Antique Store Find

I found this Thuri in an antique store yesterday. It appears NOS. I was told this could be an Escher. Either way, I’m really excited about adding this high quality finishing stone to my collection. I sealed the label as seen in the last pic.
 

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A truly epic find! If this old memory is correct, Droescher was an importer of Thuringian stones until about 1923. Yes, as far as I have read Escher mined the stones for SRD. I have one of the SRD larger stones, and a smaller marked Escher, and they are the same quality stones.
 
Thuri's are Thuri's. There's not a bad one out there. David had ONE that had inclusions he had to cut out... but of thousands I've seen, that's the only one I've ever even heard of being bad. Otherwise any (true, as they are faked constantly) Thuringian is going to be an excellent razor finishing hone.
 
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