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They’re standard older Sheffield razors: excellent if you like heavier, wedgier shavers.

They were made by the same workmen who made most stuff at that time, with the same techniques and...

While that book was published well after the fact (1858), I believe the quoted song is from The Goldfinch's Nest, which was published in George Packwood's lifetime.

Huh!

True 'nuff!

http://books.google.com/books?id=XA4HAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA312&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3USufssoIuSFS7jMH82fNDtjHk7w&ci=100%2C346%2C421%2C149&edge=0

Ah, I got sloppy with my possessive forms there. I didn't mean razors made for George Packwood, but razors with his name on them. I've never seen anything from close to before he died.

While it's...

You know, when I put together that chart, part of the point was to illustrate that tail-length isn't a great indicator. :)

In any event, I'd guess that EOD7's Packwood is probably late 1820's....