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If I have time at the weekend I'll post a few blade pack pics (!) including some London Bridge, said to be made by Wilkinson Sword ...
Expand a little on your opinion that the different Chromium versions are not equal.
Ok, I will mention a couple thoughts on old Wilkinsons, murky as I am when it comes to certainties. I know I've shaved with at least three blades with 'chromium' associated with em in some way and they were all different. Matter of fact, I think Big G has some with Chromium+ on the blade that he likes a lot.
Maybe I can give you guys my take on the Light Brigades and what I think they are. There's three different packages loaded with the same blades in my arsenal and there are pics of two in this thread. Plus, NTS has some shots too. I am going by what's written on the front and back of the blade and there's no other ones I've seen with this particular pattern.
Go to the white 10 pack of the first 1959 patent date.....the chromium wrapper one. See how Made in England is off to the bottom left and Wilkinson Sword is printed up top? Should be just like that on the other side too.
Now look at The Blade 5 pack for 89 cents. That's gonna have the same exact looking blade I believe and also probably the same wrapper. Both shave me the same excellent way.
The other one is a sleeper. This dispenser actually says Super Sword Edge and uses no wrapper al a Gillette, but has that exact same blade (with no mention of Super Sword anywhere on the thing) loaded and shaves the same as the other two. I don't recall seeing any other blades looking exactly like those three versions and I have run across about a dozen variations.
Martin
Oh aye, forgot about those Chromium + blades!...
Chromium Plus? Huh? Never heard of nor seen that one. Is there a painting of the battle of Rorke's Drift on the card?
Ok, it's good that you posted this pic of what I believe to be the third Light Brigade blade packaging. Remember me saying something about the Wilkinson dispenser that used no wrappers similar to a Gillette blade. Blades just slide out on this and I have a 10 pack @$1.45 with exactly the same packaging and dispenser design. Only difference is on the bottom your blades say Super Sword Edge and mine don't. Once again I will mention that Light Brigade blades are unique looking and the ones I have say Made in England in that same offset bottom left spot as the other two versions mentioned earlier. Nothing with Super Sword Edge on either side of the blade, which is the piece of the Wilkinson puzzle being used for my reference.
This is the version most people aren't aware of and are what I look for. I will buy these all day long and have already gone through a pack over the years. Sleepers if ever there was one.
Martin