Can someone provide some background for this Wade & butcher

This photo is of an ebay auction that ended and I was to buyer. I could not resist as this razor meets all of my features I wanted in my next razor and the price was perfectly within my budget.

So I would like and idea of the years this was produced if that's possible.

Any other background wold be nice too.

I tried doing searches but do not know where to look. All I know is that the seller called this a Wade & Butcher classic.


Here is the pic

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I think it is similar to the razor that gssixgun posted about here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...-re-grind.html, Which is a nice custom job by the way.

It's a great razor if you have a tough beard. The extra metal on the spine makes it stiffer than others. Here's some more background on this razor in particular: http://badgerandblade.com/reviews/sh...t=11942&cat=45

Dating Wade and Butchers is usually done based on the stamp. If it is missing the country after the word Sheffield, it means it's pre 1890. Otherwise you have to get lucky and find an old catalog with that razor advertized because W&B mass produced razors for many years.

Definitely a razor worth owning.

Hi Chopper - do you have any info on this W&B, haven't been able to find anything about it!?! In the Butcher shop sub-forum, found I think a pic of another one, but no info.

Any help would be appreciated, and apologies for the butt in:

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Thanks Chopper

And there is no country listed on the razor after Sheffield. So then this is pre 1890 then. Thanks for the link; I'll post pics when I get it

The country stamp is simply an "indicator" of age, and it only applies to razors that were imported into the US in that time frame.. Many razors had Sheffield England way before the 1890 date simply for "Pride in Advertising" or prestige, and if they were not destined for export to the US they didn't have the England stamp always, even after 1890.. Just a clue to age not a definite..

Here is some good reading on it

Also the Faux-Frameback is often said to be a Pre-Hollow grind solution, that simply isn't true, hollow grinding has been around on razors for longer then the Faux-frameback, which is also often called a Rattler razor whether accurately or not..
Hollow grinding simply became "More" hollow over the years...