Space_Cadet
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My grandpa just gave me a few tucks of these Wilkinson Sword blades. I've never seen this exact packaging, it is similar to what is sold today, but not exactly the same.
What are these Wilkinson Swords?
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Do they have 'Made In' location on them? At one time they were made in England, and the few I've used were very nice. Current manufacturing is mostly German, but you see Brazil mentioned from time to time/
How nice of your grandfather. Is there any other information on the back side of the tuck or on the blade? I expect they are going to be magnificent blades!!!
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Space_Cadet
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There's no information on the tuck itself. Grandpa said they are good, I don't even know where he got them.
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Space_Cadet
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Here's the blade:
The packaging looks vintage
I think it is old, and probably English, but it doesn't look like any of mine. Old English left, new German Center, new Indian right.
lasta
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Never seen one quite like it. From the packaging/blade print, my guess is either English or Indian.
@Space_Cadet, is the first picture you posted of the tuck, or of the paper wrapper? The large circle R on the blade to the right of the Wilkinson logo causes me to suspect the blades are Indian made. I’m drawing that conclusion from the picture @helicopter posted. But my eyes are old not very knowledgeable.
Have you shaved with one yet? How was it?
Have you shaved with one yet? How was it?
I was wondering that after I posted my pic. Because of the grind number dashes. That isn't the sort of thing that facilities change regularly or when they swap blades, since it would be related to their QC processes.
Google lens doesn't have anything identical, but it does being up various packages. Most are English. I wish they had blade pictures.
There is red/black print for some of the older English US market blades on ebay:
This is a vintage English blade for the French market:
Here's one that is currently available in Brazil:
There is red/black print for some of the older English US market blades on ebay:
This is a vintage English blade for the French market:
Here's one that is currently available in Brazil:
An image search of the blade doesn't bring up anything that matches better than the Indian blade I posed in my own photo yesterday.
The cardboard is also consistent with an Indian blade. My full tucks of German and English blades are all plastic, and the ebay blades are all old steel banks or plastic tuck banks. I have only seen Indian cardboard tucks.
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Space_Cadet
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The picture is of the tuck. Haven't shaved with it yet.
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Space_Cadet
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How about a pic of the back of that cardboard tuck. Nothing there concerning Made in ... ?
I've never seen that graphic/color combo
I’m leaning toward an older Indian made blade or perhaps they outsourced them to Taiwan or China for other markets in the past. I know they were made in China around 2015 but I’m thinking these are older then that.
It’s also quite possibly fake since nobody here recognizes it and there’s no wording on the tucks about where it’s from. You’d think if it was a fake they’d copy the original design a little better though.
Something else as mentioned above these are in cardboard. All the English/German Wilkies I’ve seen have been in plastic. All of the Indian/Chinese/Brazilian ones are cardboard.
It’s also quite possibly fake since nobody here recognizes it and there’s no wording on the tucks about where it’s from. You’d think if it was a fake they’d copy the original design a little better though.
Something else as mentioned above these are in cardboard. All the English/German Wilkies I’ve seen have been in plastic. All of the Indian/Chinese/Brazilian ones are cardboard.
