Re: Trip Report: Idar-Oberstein
Re: Trip Report: Idar-Oberstein -- floorkasp Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: floorkasp Mail author
07/26/2015, 03:22:31

Some pictures of what the stone cutting used to be like: on big wheels, driven by water wheels, laying on a wooden bench, holding to stone up to the wheel. And the arrival of a whole bunch of agate from Brazil, ready to be picked over by the cutters.

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