01-07-2021, 04:41 PM
(01-07-2021, 04:23 PM)Mouser Wrote: Nice score Shaun, I'm envious.Yes: I am even a little envious of myself!
Importantly, today I found some more important information concerning the marketing and chromium content of the Wilkinson "New".
This makes interesting reading, and significantly adds to the now much stronger claim that the "New" (later changed to simply "5" on the card) was/is the SAME blade as the much-vaunted "Light Brigade", marketed in the USA. Acknowledged resource: The Chemist and Druggist, UK, 1969. Note the reference to the addition of Chromium to the edge of the blade:
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01-10-2021, 11:42 PM
Blades arrived today. Some pictorial details. Blade is stamped the same on both sides. Note the blue print on blade wrapper. The original “New” from 1969/70 looked a bit different, but when Wilkinson couldn’t reasonably continue to say the were “New”, the packaging and blade stamp were changed to what you see below, and were sold from around 1971 to 1973.
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![[Image: TF4fOVJ.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/TF4fOVJ.jpg)
![[Image: 2tCrMtw.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/2tCrMtw.jpg)
![[Image: IaPzyHP.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/IaPzyHP.jpg)
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01-11-2021, 11:16 PM
(01-11-2021, 06:59 PM)chazt Wrote: Shaun, thank you for posting the newspaper article. Pieces like this help us to understand how shaving turned from a chore to a hobby. Researchers like you and Hans are much appreciated by the community.
Oh, not at all. I am very appreciative of a response. I sometimes wonder if I’m not just clogging up disk space, but there is at least a useful archive of these things others can access and read about. That’s certainly one of my intentions!
01-15-2021, 10:59 PM
Lest there be any doubt that the New and the slightly later packs with the “5” are the same blade (despite the stamp on the blade itself being different) a pillar of New recently sold (20 packs of 3: thank you for alerting me, John) upon which we see the same sword image used. Wilkinson Sword always used a different sword on the different products; here we see it is the same sword. Below you will see the pillar of New with tucks of 3 (blades also in a wrapper with blue print) and under that the the pillar in which my tucks of 5 arrived.
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![[Image: 88b5ea8c-523c-486b-bdb7-385b24151ef4-jpeg.83869]](https://www.atgshaving.com/attachments/88b5ea8c-523c-486b-bdb7-385b24151ef4-jpeg.83869/)
Here we see the ‘early’ New, noting the blue wrapper writing:
Here we see the ‘early’ New, noting the blue wrapper writing:
01-21-2021, 07:12 PM
(01-21-2021, 07:03 PM)Ols67 Wrote: Shaun,
This is pretty neat...thanks for posting. I purchased 120 of these “New” blades today based off of this thread, and posted the advertisement in some threads on a different forum. Great little piece of history relating to some of the best blades in existence.
Vr
Matt
Very good!
Let me know (and everyone else here) know how you get on with them!
01-22-2021, 01:29 PM
There is no doubt. They are the same blade. They were manufactured at the same time exactly as the LB, and were sold in the UK, the Continent and the USA (and in Australia and parts of South-East Asia) some marketed differently, that's all. The ones you have above I have seen in pictures only. I think I have seen them in French advertising from around 1970.
Looks like you have a lot of these blades now, whoa! I used one just earlier in my Hoffritz slant and it was a quite remarkable shave, I really must say. London Bridge of the right vintage are also considered the same blade. I use them; they are a very good blade indeed! I cannot attest to the newer release of the London Bridge Made in China. Mine are the Made in England by Wilkinson Sword.
Looks like you have a lot of these blades now, whoa! I used one just earlier in my Hoffritz slant and it was a quite remarkable shave, I really must say. London Bridge of the right vintage are also considered the same blade. I use them; they are a very good blade indeed! I cannot attest to the newer release of the London Bridge Made in China. Mine are the Made in England by Wilkinson Sword.
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