Were Gillette blades date coded?

[nemo]

I posted this photo earlier in another forum and noticed the blade I used as a prop had N4 written on it.

Is that a 1968 blade? I knew they dated the razors, but the blades too?

--Doug

 

[RichGem]

IIRC, some of the early(earlier) blades were indeed date coded.

 

[luvmysuper]

Have you seen Achims site?
A virtual playground of incredible information in visual format. Thanks Mr. Razor

http://www.j-duwe.de/Rasierklingen/Rasierklingen.htm

According to his site, the N was indeed 1968

 

[nemo]

Have you seen Achims site?
A virtual playground of incredible information in visual format. Thanks Mr. Razor

http://www.j-duwe.de/Rasierklingen/Rasierklingen.htm

According to his site, the N was indeed 1968

Yeah, thanks luvmysuper. I've been to his site many times but I guess I just never clicked on the blades. More stuff to look at than I have time! What a wealth of info.

Again, thanks mr-razor

--Doug