Wilkinson French Blades

[FrenchBlade]

As I've mentioned in another post, blades selection in french shops are very limited, I can get Gillette Bleue everywhere, but anything else is just mission impossible.
Until today, when my my blade selection just multiplied by 2..

I found these:

The packet says made in UK by WS, the blades are wrapped in WS paper, but the strange thing, no brand markings at all on the blades, is this standard for WS?
The only small things on the blade is a "10" and a "B"

Price, 1,72 euro for 12 (1,41 GBP) that's 12p a blade.

I bought them just to try, not sure if they're any good...

FB.

edit: pic with markings

 

[hunnymonster]

The 'standard' WS blades have printing on. Not sure where those are made in the UK either - definitely not at the WS factory - <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/184274.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/184274.stm</a><!-- m --> - it's long gone.

Try them and see - may be a revelation to you, or perhaps not.

 

[FrenchBlade]

Next time I'm up that way shopwise (it's a bit further than my usual shop) I'll get a couple of packets to PIF if anyone is interested...
The packet says they're "stainless steel, triple treatment" (not sure if that's the right translation) Also has some arabic writing on it.
Probably meant for the north african market, since they speak french/arabic, and I presume DE razors are more widespread there.

FB.