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What we don't know a whole heap about is the razor that we've come to call the 1909, which is for all intents and purposes a proto-1924. Also sold under the Yankee brand, which is a little unusual for a British branding ... unless that design was simply released in the US under that brand.
I suppose I'm coming to the proposal that some esoteric strand of Ever-Ready might well have existed alongside the more documented mainstream and that there may well have been some connection between the British wing and the Canadian wing. This 1914 is an early one.
Maybe not so much of an oddity and not so old. It turns out to be a Peerless set in an Ever Ready box and case but with the razor marked GEM Made in England. (I hope you can see from the very poor picture). Complete with instructions and 'holding tape'; possibly meant for the Canadian or Australian market?I'd still love to see @Geofnay's oddity GEM.
Maybe not so much of an oddity and not so old. It turns out to be a Peerless set in an Ever Ready box and case but with the razor marked GEM Made in England. (I hope you can see from the very poor picture). Complete with instructions and 'holding tape'; possibly meant for the Canadian or Australian market?
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No thoughts on the Canadian connection. I haven't looked much at Canadian patent applications because they are all bad-quality copies of typewriter documents. If I can't OCR it I stay away. Maybe there are some hints if one looks at Canadian patents of the time. I'm busy.Neat! Thank you for your thoughts on this chap.
Yeah, @riverrun is a member here. Hey! Andreas - what are your thoughts on this Canadian 1914? See a good few posts back.
I learned a lot of this stuff at Razors.Page, a wonderful site by a British fella nicked as Riverrun. (A member here?) Awesome job done on all sorts of razor stuff, and particularly digging info around this man, De Mesquita.
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