Late 18th/Early 19th C. Sharpening Stone with Marvelously Carved, Monogrammed Cover metal teeth paper is bright and clean

paper is bright and clean

Text: 10 1/2" x 3 1/4

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Late 18th/Early 19th C. Sharpening Stone with Marvelously Carved, Monogrammed Cover metal teeth paper is bright and cleanMy favorite find of the week, in southern Maine I am completely charmed by this late 18th early 19th century American sharpening stone, singular in every way. Making use of a very irregularly shaped piece of stone, which dictated the form of everything else, it feels much akin to early fragment mirrors. The stone was fitted into a quarter sawn piece of wood (walnut?), with carved out recess to accommodate it, and then a cover was carved out with the