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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Oh, enough with the Magnum Bonum! You see it everywhere! You probably have dreams of them!
    Yeah, it doesn't say Magnum Bonum. It says 'PHRANK WILL BUY ME'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Oh, enough with the Magnum Bonum! You see it everywhere! You probably have dreams of them!
    Sorry sharptonn, just giving my opinion, the area along the spine looked liked it had some etching on it...that's it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voidmonster View Post
    Yeah, it doesn't say Magnum Bonum. It says 'PHRANK WILL BUY ME'.
    LOL - have two MB's, so no, and I like this one better!


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    In the photos in the auction you can make out that it once had Celebrated Hollow Ground For Barbers Use etched on the belly of the blade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattCB View Post
    A bit off topic, but is there a write up about the dating of the W&Bs? I don't remember running across one and searching for Wade and Butcher brings up way to many links to sort through.
    It's a tricky business without any hard, fast rules, unfortunately.

    If you're lucky enough to find one of the ones with a crown mark, you can date them to the monarch easily.

    GR (and the letters can be under or on either side of the crown) dates to 1820-1830. WR was 1830-1836, and VR is 1837 to... uh, some mysterious point well before Victoria died but well after 1837.

    For whatever reason, there aren't many Wade & Butcher razors (compared to other manufacturers) with the VR stamp. It's not because they weren't producing things, but just because they weren't producing them under the royal warrant. WR stamped razors are less common just because William IV wasn't king for very long at all.

    Beyond that it's all a convoluted mess. Unless you want to become a Wade & Butcher scholar, it's easier to just ask here on the forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
    LOL - have two MB's, so no, and I like this one better!

    Where does it say Magnum Bonum? What does that mean? Big-ass razor?
    "Don't be stubborn. You are missing out".
    I rest my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
    LOL - have two MB's, so no, and I like this one better!

    Suuuuure.

    I know how it is. Me and Joseph Elliot razors have the same problem. I'm all done collecting them. I can tell because I keep finding new ones in my mailbox.
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    Yeah...I am buying my last razor....one at a time!
    "Don't be stubborn. You are missing out".
    I rest my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    In the photos in the auction you can make out that it once had Celebrated Hollow Ground For Barbers Use etched on the belly of the blade.
    Thanks Jimmy...can see it now....yes, that razor was the Big Kahuna, Celebrated Hollow Ground, For Barbers Use, and is it the pic or does the edge look blued as well?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    Where does it say Magnum Bonum? What does that mean? Big-ass razor?
    LOL - the one in the pic is an FBU....the one in this pic is a Magnum Bonum, think it's just a marketing gimmic, stands for, great/good, awesome!. If you look at this pic, you can see the area along the spine with the MB etched, I have another where the etch is gone, which looked like the pic of the razor in question:


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