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I'm glad to hear it! It'll need more than cleaning up; it will inevitably need honing and stropping. If your first experience straight shaving is with a blade that isn't shave ready, you'll be really...

There are others here who know way more history about the blades, but I know enough to verify for you that this was not a civil-war era blade. Your suspicion of the 30s is probably pretty good.
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