Thread: Wade and Butcher For Barbers Use WR - a rare one

This is the first one of these I have seen. I know Zak has an even earlier For Barbers Use (Barber John Barber), but this is the earliest explicit one that I have, coming from 1830-37. Stamped "Magnetic Razor"; indeed a magnet does stick to it, but so too to a number of other razors, so I'll assume for now it was just a gimmick. It's hard to tell from the pictures but obvious once in hand, that this razor has actually been reground; the job was fantastic and just left a little wave in the finish on both sides, but it is not quite the original undisturbed finish that I was hoping for. Well, I still can't say that I'm not 100% satisfied with this one though. An amazing piece.