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Mystery hones... Let's see what you have

We're all in the same boat once we've been buying rocks long enough. We either mistake something unknown for something known due to sketchy images or encrusted filth... Or we buy huge lots and within them, occasionally there is some weird unidentified stone... Or we buy something at a flea market that was sourced who knows when from who knows where. Often times, many of them are hum drum or blah, but every once in awhile you find something so good you wish you could easily get another piece. Curious to see the mysteries other people have collected.
 
I will start. Got this over a year ago. It's stupidly hard, slightly porous but purges quickly, is not slow, looks wildly turbulent yet you feel none of it, and it makes a razor really ridiculously sharp.
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Here's and interesting one, on first look, you would default to maybe something belgian, but in hand, it's nothing like any belgian I have seen. Violet brown, incredibly intricate swirling and banding all over the place.
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Recent one, haven't done much with it yet. Big gray black brick. Tiny little surface features. I have a feeling it will be in that hum drum crop, but it may well surprise me.
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This thing is hard like novaculite and over the years has become insanely burnished. It came in this old paddle with homemade nails made from brass holding in two hand cut retaining plates to engage steps in the stone and hold it in the paddle. All sorts of matter in the matrix that is soft and does no harm. I have shaved a lot off of this thing over the years. Makes a really smooth edge.
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Fairly recent. No idea. Blobs on the surface have a bit of the 3d deal going around the edges. Hard stone. Behaves like a drunken cousin to the classic french finishers. Makes a really boosted edge.
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#3 I've had a few of those. Some guys thought they were silkstone, some thought SSofGR. I never figured it out.
#4 Those are the "Vosgienne" aka "Brown Escher" aka etc etc etc from ages ago. I think someone decided it is in fact a rare kind of BBW in the end, but who knows.
#7 I bet is a very hard and extinct vein coticule.
#8 I've got an 8x2" right here... it's exactly as you describe.
#9 Had one of those too... I agree, very similar to the french stones.


Damn tom, did you ever remove it from the paddle? Really curious what the backside of that stone looks like.
 
I have a few vosgiennes. This definitely isn't that. Idk, it's strange. As for the glittery one, maybe silkstone, but not sure. It's not a ssofgr, I have a lot of that material. It's not as porous as a special stone and the edge has a different quality to it.
 
Got this a few weeks ago. Someone went through a lot of trouble to make a very close fitting box. Purple static for a lot of the stone like snow on an old crt tv, with a grayish field at one end. Almost like a moughton that forgot to band but I don't think it's that as it literally has no hint of structure to the coloring.
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Ok here we go:

First an "Almond" stone. No clue. My guess is it's an Arkansas? Not sure. Never use it. Kinda just a collectible cause I've never known what it is.
 

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One I fought HARD for on eBay. Cost a freaking mint. Most people seem to think it's a Rouge Du Salm. Not sure myself.
 

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Wafer Thin stone that looks like a Schwedenstein, but shaves like a Pierre Du Sud Oust. Never had a Schwed I liked the shave off of... except maybe this one?
 

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I know someone I can ask about that almond. I will see what he says. He doesn't do the forum thing
 
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