Thread: C.V. Heljestrand No. 10 with KB-extra mark

Neal, I'd've been sceptical too if I were you.
When I first saw the one they sell on Gents a couple years ago I tried to dig up some info on the model but couldn't find anything until last fall when I saw one on Tradera(pretty much swedish ebay) that used to belong to some guy's relative(I think he might've been a barber), it was the "Excellens" model and it had the same notch.
I think that it would be a very strange coincidence if all these identical notches on the same model were accidental.

Shadows are funny indeed, but I think this was caused by the angle of the light.

The MK marking doesn't stand for Magnus Kindal, actually, I used to think that too.
It's a quality marking and it's short for "Mästerlig kvalitet"(masterly quality), "BK" is short for "Bästa kvalitet"(Best quality).
This still doesn't explain why the razor would come in a 'MK' marked sleeve, since the 'excellens' razor isn't an 'MK' marked razor but we see mismatched packaging for razors all the time so it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.

I agree with everyone who pointed out that it seems stupid to have a notch there, maybe it was some kind of gimmick that was unsuccessful but what do I know?

Kind regards,
Max