Thread: W R Case & Sons

Originally Posted by redrover66

More info concerning Case. Not to get into an arguement with our friend in the UK(Neep) but he said "but So, in a nutshell, your razor was made between 1988 and 1990 by Parker, when he owned the brand name W R Case & Sons. But the razors and knives that were made during his ownership were not actually made in Bradford PA in the Case factory. Manufacturing was outsourced to Queen Cutlery and Solingen Germany, where your razor was made."
This is not correct. I own a Case German razor the paperwork in the box is dated 2001. So these razors were made after that. I Own one in the exact box with same blade etch only it is Item 20979 and description RAZ 415715SS and it is Chestnut Bone and it was packaged April 14, 2003 as per the bar code on the box.

So, what you have is a razor made by Parker, in Solingen, but using one of the W R Case trademarks which he didn't sell on when he sold the company. Really! It is not a pukka company made "W R Case & Sons" razor!

In addition to the Queen Reference, I doubt that. The razor is still wrapped in DOVO paper inside the box, thus, more likely made by Dovo. I doubt that Case would have to go via Queen to get DOVO to make razors.

Aplogies for my (sort of) misleading comment. I should have been more specific. Parker had knives made by Queen. Not razors.

So in a different nut shell, these Case razors were made no earlier than 2001, were most likely made by Dovo and during the ZIPPO ownership of Case.

Yes.... but...
By that time Zippo owned Case, but NOT all of the trademarks! That was the whole point of what I wrote above. Parker was naughty and hung on to those trademarks when he sold the company in 1990. Hence Parker was able to make knives and razors bearing some of the trademarked names. But really, they were nothing to do with the Case company (owned by Zippo). What I didn't know, is that Parker was still producing razors as late as 2002 with the W R Case & Sons trademarks, as he was with pen knives. But it doesn't surprise me.

There was a LOT of legal fuss about the whole thing at the time, and the trademarks were eventually sold to Case (Zippo).

Rod