Over the last 10 or so months I've been periodically buying various interesting-looking things on UK ebay, and getting them sent to my family there for when I was able to come back for a visit. Here's what I came back to, there are probably about 25 stones in there I guess, some of which I know, some of which are mysteries. So please chime in with any thoughts, as I clean them up and post over the next few days.
Here are a couple of Charnleys. First a little 115 x 42, which is kinda like a slip stone, though it doesn't really have much taper to it. So more just a small stone with rounded sides:
And a bigger one, which I don't intend to remove from it's quite nice box (has a top too). This is 210 x 40:
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And the first mystery stone. I got this from someone in Devon whose father apparently used it for razors, which it's probably fine enough for, but god knows how he did it with the stone so dished on one side, and with a huge gauge out of the other. This is a strange stone; it's a hard flinty-cherty-novaculitey affair with lots going on. I suspect may be some kind of funky Idwal / Grecian, but not entirely sure...
Here are a couple of Charnleys. First a little 115 x 42, which is kinda like a slip stone, though it doesn't really have much taper to it. So more just a small stone with rounded sides:
And a bigger one, which I don't intend to remove from it's quite nice box (has a top too). This is 210 x 40:
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And the first mystery stone. I got this from someone in Devon whose father apparently used it for razors, which it's probably fine enough for, but god knows how he did it with the stone so dished on one side, and with a huge gauge out of the other. This is a strange stone; it's a hard flinty-cherty-novaculitey affair with lots going on. I suspect may be some kind of funky Idwal / Grecian, but not entirely sure...