Thread: 1880 Wade & Butcher advertising card.

My thinking is the card states that genuine razors are marked with the Special Logo as well as the tang stamp of Sheffield England. We all know the tang stamp on the card is indicative of post 1891. Certainly the celluloid scaled Special is a 20th century razor.

The card itself might hold a clue as to the possible date.

I used to deal in military postcards, particularly those from the Great War, and this card has a lot of similarity with some of the postcards I used to sell. Its a type of chromolithographic process from the look of it. Although lithography was in use in the mid 1700s, a full colour lithographic print was unusual pre 1869-70, and at that time it consisted of slabs of colour. Later developments sought to make the process simpler and cheaper, breaking the flat washes of colour into dots, and this card looks like it uses that process. From various characteristics, I would imagine that the card is very late 1800s, possibly from the first two or three decades of the 1900s, so say 1890 - 1930.

My money is on a date around 1920.

Regards,
Neil