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For your information none of this is news to me - I have been a member here for considerably longer than yourself, so the teaching grandma to suck eggs tone is completely wasted on me.

I just dont...

I only made reference to the colour of the wrapper, and that I qualified by mentioning that the silkstone box had writing on three sides.

All the other info re silkstones was just to correct wrong...

Nope!

Had many, all thicker. They came in pretty standard sizes, providing they had not been damaged and lapped. I suppose it is in the bounds of posxibility that one could have split...

There is some earlier info I and others posted here around 2011. At that time I had only used 8 or so Silkstones - since then I have used many more and yes, I confirm that the edge is somewhat...

That's the same colour wrapper (buff or biege card) that the 6 penny silkstones used to come in - they are like a fine thuri. The box had writing on three sides, though...