Quote Originally Posted by the wanderer View Post
I'm going to be marking my newbie-ness here, but what does this mean? It's on an ebay razor I'm thinking about bidding on.

Thanks all.
That is just a model from Joseph Allen and Sons. perhaps best pronounced as "none excel" while George Wostenholm trademarked "IXL", pronounced "I excel"

the Allen model has a very heavy grind... just shy of a wedge usually and they both are great shavers... i have several of each