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Gluing a bbw/coticule back together....

Emmanuel, you'd post them here, right? So, we can all see the pictures and read what Bart says?

Bart, it seems the first few pages of "L'Industrie de la pierre à rasoir dans la région de Sart-Lierneux" has English translation typed over (superimposed). Any chance of a full English translation?

(I meant a translation that is already available on the web somewhere - Emmanuelle seems to think I was asking for him to translate. Not so. I guess, if such a translation was there, a link would have appeared already next to the French version.)

Thanks.
 
vgeorge said:
Emmanuel, you'd post them here, right? So, we can all see the pictures and read what Bart says?

Bart, it seems the first few pages of "L'Industrie de la pierre à rasoir dans la région de Sart-Lierneux" has English translation typed over (superimposed). Any chance of a full English translation?

Thanks.
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Yep ill do it.Ill try to nigh post the photos.I can read the booklet in french ,i speak french
because of my W.i.f.e.( washing,ironing,fucking ,etc) that is Balgian but i am not strong to translate completely .That' should be performed by a belgian not a french or a canadian because containing words from local dialect.
 
The first small with the woodbox is the gfather coticule Dim:150mmx30mmx12mm

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The third one is one of my newbies collection but due to is a frends gift i dont know the layer so go ahead.





Your friend
Emmanuel
 
Sorry i forgot the dim of the third one:150mmx50mmx9mmcoti.
Also please advise if you can open the photos of the small gf coticule.Otherwise ill repost them .
Thanks
Emmanuel
 
Mate i am unique in my family.My son is waiting , but not yet mustache.
I am waiting Bart the spesialist for ID.
Emmanuel
 
Emmanuel,

Those are beautiful Coticules!

The one from your Grandfather looks unlike any I've ever seen. I've seen green Coticules and I've seen striped Coticules. But I've never seen Coticules with green stripes. Likely this one comes from a mine closed long time ago. A piece to cherrish, both for it's heirloom value, but also for its looks.

The one from your father has no doubt been a costly hone. In the old days, the more uniform and the paler a Coticule looked, the more expensive its price. The palest ones came from a specific layer out of a mine called Veille Roche. The mine was later owned by a Company that took over the name, but in English: Old Rock. They launched a Coticule brand with the same name, but not all "Old Rock" Coticules come from the veille rock. They bought pale rock from other mining companies as well. It was brilliant marketing avant la lettre, because the "Old Rock" name stille resonates today. I don't know if this one is an original Old Rock, but without doubt, it was one of the more expensive Coticules back in the days. One that made you mumble something when your wife asked about the price.:rolleyes:

The third one appears to me as a La Dressante -upper layer, natural combination hone.
It's attached to a BBW by nature, but it's not the BBW from the La Dressantes au Bleu. This is the BBW from the opposite side. I think I can see the typical faint black hairlines that are sometimes present in the Le Dressante upper layer (perhaps only in the most upper parts?) and that always indicates a fast stone, with a very nice feedback of finest abrassion.

Kind regards,
Bart.
 
Thank you very much Bart.
Your explanation is perfect ,so every member has been informed for the old vintage coticules.
One that i can say is both vintages are extra fine but no slow.You can compare them with an Escher as roughness but are meny times faster. I also have an Escher from my gfather but never
gave me a last and established edge as my coticules.I have in mind to post the different of Escher and coticules because many peoples believe that an Escher or a pure thuringer is the best finisher of the world, and they paid large amounts for them but is not the truth.The Queen
is a coticule.
Thanks again
Emmanuel
 
I have a La Dressante with thin black lines (and one or two brownish ones), but it's not terribly fast. It is slower or about the same as my La Grise on slurry (hard to tell since it's incredibly hard so doesn't release much slurry) and faster on water. Jarrod at The Superior Shave said it is one of the hardest stones he's lapped.
 
La Dressante is always tricky to assess just on sight. It's a broad layer, that encompasses almost the entire Coticule spectrum of properties. Here's a picture of one with many manganese hairlines (n°62 of the vault)
[img=900]http://www.coticule.be/tl_files/Coticule%20Vault/n%C2%B062.jpg[/img]

I really discern between hairlines and normal lines. When I see manganese lines, my heart rate goes up 10 BPM. When I see one with hairlines, it goes up with 25 BPM. :)


Caleb (where is Caleb?) once posted prices out of an old Sears catalog from 1902:
Coticules______________________________Value
"A very good belgian razor hone" 2x6 ----25c
"A Superfine Belgian razor hone" 2x6 ----50c
"Extra Superfine Belgian razor hone" 2x6 75c
"Barbers Special Razor hone" 5x2.5" -----$1.75


Small Swaty 49c
Large Swaty $1.10

Thuringian dark blue 7" length with slurry stone 20c
Barbers Gem Thuringian 5x2.5" with slurry stone 50c
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These were priced for the US market. The most expensive Thuringian (Barbers Gem) cost 50 cent. The most expensive Coticule cost 1$75cent. That's more than thrice the amount. :)
The world has changed a lot since than, hasn't it? :D

Kind regards,
Bart.
 
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