I've been noticing on many vintage razors that there is a small space between the end of the blade and the wedge; for example, my "new" Droescher has about a 2/8 gap and same with my Antoni Tadross.

Is this something that was common at any point? Obviously new blades and customs seem to close almost perfectly near the wedge.

Does this, in most cases, mean there has been some sort of work done to the blade or a rescale? In my cases I would never think this, the toes look perfect and they seem to be in original scales.