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    I have been straight shaving for about 8 months now and have been very pleased with it!!! Starting with my 5/8ths sway-back W&B going to a Bismarck, and now I am so excited I was able to pick up my first chopper at a VERY discounted rate in my opinion.
    I am very curious how long this razor has been around. There are 2 W&B 9/8'ths choppers in these pics and mine is the one w/o the barber’s notch. So the barber's notch razor belongs to one of the members here who provides restorations and was kind enough to lend me it for a trial run!!! (Stays nameless unless he would like to be know and can post on here). The ground on his is like a 1/4th hollow. The grind on mine is seemingly a full hollow. Don’t know if this is common for the choppers but I think this might be the first full hollow I have seen. The owner of the other razor was confused about the timeframe of mine because of the no barber’s notch? Thanks for your help in this matter.

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    If your razor has the word 'England' stamped at the tang, which it doesn't appear to, then it is post 1891. If not, then it is pre-1891.

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    Correct neither of them say Sheffield England just Sheffield

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    My guess is it used to have a barber notch and someone just decided they didn't like it I've never seen one like that before.

    Both of these razors are mid-late 1800s. 1860-1880, my guess. As for hollow grinds.. ehh, I wouldn't necessarily call that a full hollow grind, maybe more like a 1/2 hollow. as the years past grinds got more and more hollow... by 1900 almost all razors being manufactured were full hollow.

    edit: I'd be interested to see a pic of the blade closed. how much of a gap between end of blade and wedge?

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    Yeah, it looks to me as if the top one has been shortened just a little bit, removing the notch, for whatever reason.

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    The non-Barber's Notch blade in your photos even appears to have been shortened a bit. I have a few like that that don't seem to me to have been shortened and extended fully into their scales. I'll have to give them a better look, not to mention measuring them, to see whether they have been, in fact, shortened. One lives and learns.

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    From what I can see, the top one is a Celebrated Hollow ground, but does not have Barber's use on the blade. I have seen these in 1 inch before, sans notch and a bit shorter. The scales are always the same, though, making the things seem short. I think it is possible it is not a Barber's use, but a different model altogether?
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    As for the Gap I would say its 1/8 closed but the point almost hits the wedge as it closes. No where on the razor dose it say "for barber's use" Didn't have any idea that W&B made blades that big unless it was for the barber crew. For the grind I guess I just figured that about 1/2 of a 9/8's blade was full hollow but I am still new to terminology . I also figured mine was older because the shoulder is smaller and the place where W&B Sheffield stamp is, is much smaller as well as opposed to the blade w/ the notch.

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    I feel a smaller tang is indicative of a non "barber's use"as well. Sweet razor, for certain! If you were to measure from the stabilizer to the inside of the notch on the bottom blade, and from the stabilizer to the end of the blade on the top one it would be telling!
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    If that is the case that it is not a barber's razor. It would be the first i have seen that is of this size. Woohoo I have a 1 of a kind!!!

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