I already posted this over @TSD but I alo wanted to share my haul with you guys
Guys and ladies, today I was unbelievably lucky. I was walking a shopping street in Passau (Bavaria), where I study, to get some Belgian chocolate for a friend and his wife who I'm gonna visit tomorrow. Next to the chocolate-store there was an old scissors and knives-shop that had closed down at the end of last year and I've never had a chance to shop there. It was OPEN for yesterday and today as the new owners were selling everything - old stock, furniture, machinery - everything! So I went in and asked for straight razors. They didn't have any so I was about to leave when they told me to have a look around the house. I had time, so that's what I did. I entered the workshop and was set back in time. There was sharpening machinery that looked like it was 150 years old at least. Big grinding stones, small buffing machines - everything. All the stuff had been turned upside down already, but then I saw a glimpse of what looked like razor-scales. Sure enough, a pair of scales it was. I began to search through the junk and found loads and loads of scales - some even still wrapped in paper! Then I found some benchstones and hones, but they were too coarse for my taste. I even found a big, old sharpening-machine like a Tormek but the fine stone rotated horizontally - wonderful. If I only could have taken it with me... I still have their number, maybe I'll give them a call and go get the machine. It'd really be wonderful for grinding out bigger chips or the sharpening of chisels and the likes...
Then I found NEW Henckels Friodur knife-blanks, well, basically finished knives but without the handles. Still wrapped in their plastic-holders. I took all 20 or so I could find. Maybe I can use them to make some custom knives some time in the future. As I was just about to leave I tripped over a box. I took a look at its contents. Coarse hones, again. Then one caught my attention, it looked to be really fine, but the light was bad. I took it with me anyway.
Back in the store I also took an old presentation-display-doohickey by Henckels with me, paid and left. No, I'm not gonna tell you how much I paid. But let me tell you so much: I didn't have much money on me as I only planned on purchasing chocolate
Back home I took a good look at what I had purchased. I even found razor pins and quite a few domed razor-washers, scales by Tennis and Dovo, wooden ones, plastic ones, horn ones, tortoise ones (most likely faux tortoise, but who cares), handles for knives and DE-blades. Then I cleaned up the big 26x5x2.5cm hone. After cleaning it looked yellow-greenish and gave a green-white slurry that smelled of chalk. The scope confirmed my suspicions: It's a yellow-green thuringian hone and a mighty fine one too.
Dang, I feel like a kid on christmas, easter and birthday combined
Oh happy day - oh lucky day!
Man, go back there a buy all the equipment you can.
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Maybe a few folks here in need of scales would be happy to reimburse you the mysterious but apparently tiny amount spent on this lovely haul. 
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