Wade & Butcher razor with Wellington on their butts
Hello everybody!
My name is Miguel and I'm writing from Salamanca (Spain). It is the first time I post in a forum and moreover I don't know anyting about razors therefore I trust you can apologise if I'm not proceeding in the right way.
I'm really an scholar on Napolenic Wars, mainly devoted to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Salamanca. The question is that some years ago a friend of mine found a Wade&Butcher razor with a figure of Wellington carved on one of its carey butts when he was refurnishing an old house in Ciudad Rodrigo. On the butts you can also see a man drinking a beer and the motto "Good all times", the name "Wellington", a drum and a two regimental colours, a crown of laurel...
I don't know how to attach a picture but I can send it to somebody in the forum and he might like to do it for me.
The question is that I've seen on the Internet that Wade&Butcher was working between 1818 and 1890. He tought this razor was left behind by a British soldier fighting with Wellington in the Iberian peninsula between 1808 and 1813 but this doesn't fit with the manufacturer. Could you confirm me those dates about W&B?
The razor was together with a pot full of human teeth and a French gold coin of the XVIII century.
Thanks in advance