Thread: Wade & Bros razor? and non Boker bicycle?

There wasn't a Wade & Brothers in Sheffield.

There was a Wade, Wingfield & Rowbotham. I can see how the stamp could be incomplete in a way that it might look like Wade & Bros.

This thread has a picture of one.

They were not related to the Wade of Wade & Butcher.

The 'safety' bicycle was a huge fad. Safety in this case meant you weren't likely to fracture your skull just getting onto the thing

Before the safety bike, these were what you had to contend with:



The advent of the modern-style bike with a chain drive and smaller wheels (around 1890) brought on a new bicycle boom. They were very popular and so they showed up on all kinds of things. I'd expect there were many different bicycle etchings on razors from the era, and the way the German razor industry worked meant there weren't really 'exclusive' designs or etchings. It was surprisingly similar to the current Chinese electronics industry, which makes both the cheapest crap and the priciest luxury goods, sometimes in the same factory. The key difference is that German workers had workshops in their homes and didn't work on a factory floor.