fccexpert - just a case of semantics, viewpoint and time - probably due to the collective lapse in our memories and thinking that everything new is ... well ... everything. It's true that silver steel - nowadays - is not the same as silver steel in Faraday's time. Modern silver-steel razors are not the same as the old razors.
Faraday's silver steel was used in razors - see the link.
I have definitely seen razors with "silver added" or "silver added to steel" on either the razor itself or the advertising blurb. The link to Faraday and silver steel also specifically refers to Sheffield. Just because it was an experiment, and the addition of silver didn't add anything, doesn't mean that all razors marketed as silver-steel have no silver in them. If anyone cares to look over the archive, there are references. The original had (according to which source you view) either 1% or 0.02% silver in it. This has now been replaced with chrome or molybdenum.
Blueprinciple is a senior member. He knows what the original silver-steel was, and that it had silver in it. Perhaps he will chime in. Why call it anything other than silver-steel? Think about it. Because it's bright? Ok, maybe - or perhaps "really bright steel" or "lovely shiny steel" - who knows? Facts are facts and guesses are anyones preserve.
I'm not saying that modern silver-steel has silver in it - don't get me wrong. But quoting stuff parrot-style and ignoring all that has gone before seems to me to be a great disservice to those early pioneers. Let's face it - a lot of us are working backwards to achieve just a small iota of what they already achieved.
Does it matter that the silver didn't help? That it wasn't as strong an alloy as it could have been? What matters is that someone of gargantuan intellectual proportions thought about it, made it real, and made razors out of it. Things change. 20th Century Fox still make pictures, don't they? :)
Regards,
Neil