Wade & Butcher DE Blades?

[ranwill]

I found a couple of unopened boxes of Wade & Butcher DE blades today. They have the same familiar W&B logo on the packages. I didn't know that Wade & Butcher made anything besides Straight Razors.

Has anyone else ever seen them? Any idea when they made them? I'm guessing it had to be around the same time as original Blue Blades.

Randy

 

[Seaforth!]

Randy, are they the "cleverly curved blades"? Wade and Butcher eventually merged with the Durham-Enders Razor Corp circa 1940. They did make a DE 3-hole blade that fit the Old Style Gillettes but I don't know happened to them after the merger. I had some Wade Butcher blades that fit the Durham Dorset DE razor (a real pretty Art Deco aluminum job) but have never seen the 3 hole blades. And that is about the extent of my knowledge on the subject. Cheers.

 

[ranwill]

The packages say Curved Blades - nothing about clever. I peeked in one of the packages and they do have 3 holes.

I thought I had my RAD under control but now I wonder if W & B made a DE razor to go with the blades?