(12-04-2022, 10:46 PM)Whiterook Wrote: I have that set too, Jim.  I have modified a Gem blade to use on mine.

(12-04-2022, 11:35 PM)Jayaruh Wrote:

(12-04-2022, 09:41 PM)riverrun Wrote: The Empire was sold from 1930 to 1953.
The patent is here: https://razors.page/patents/GB321115/
I'm not an expert and can't narrow it down.
I ended up with three (by-catch or dirt cheap at a car boot sale), but not a single salvageable blade.
I'm looking for a 7-day set or just a bunch of decent blades.
Not urgently. On my watch list for years... one day... It needs to be cheap... but with perfect blades...
I can wait...

I hope you get your seven day set. At least you are in the right country. HA! Looks like mine will arrive tomorrow. I can hardly wait.

(12-05-2022, 06:25 PM)riverrun Wrote:

(12-04-2022, 11:35 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: I hope you get your seven day set. At least you are in the right country. HA! Looks like mine will arrive tomorrow. I can hardly wait.

Weirdest stuff. After looking for two years or so, the following shows up on eBay today:
Wilkinson 7-day Empire Set with 6 blades in a nice condition case.
Buy it now for £15 - yet nobody is interested. Have a look why:




Yes, it's not a Wilkinson Empire at all, but a GEM 1912.
I already have three Wilkinson Empire razors, but no 7-day-set box and no usable blades.
The blades are worth a gamble. No good images of them.
I also have no GEM branded 1912.
If the blades are good... £5 each - absolute minimum. The 1912 £5 minimum, more in the UK, the box looks very good... £10 surely... 
That's even with buy-them-all discount well more than twice what I paid.

And all that just pops into existence a day after I mention it? Magic!
(And no - I didn't start looking harder yesterday. Just one of my usual daily eBay email search alerts - which usually just wash overpriced flotsam and jetsam into my mailbox)

(12-05-2022, 10:59 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: You get the case and some blades. Plus a 1912 Gem.

(12-06-2022, 02:08 AM)Jayaruh Wrote: Well, it made it. I took pictures and cleaned it up. It has one hollow ground blade and four spined WS blades. The spined blades are partially rusted.
My computer is with a computer guy who is replacing a noisy fan and hopefully recovering some files for me. So, I can't do the photo things until I get it back.
Going to the dermatologist tomorrow for work on my left side of neck. I will post pics when I get my laptop back.

(12-06-2022, 05:27 PM)riverrun Wrote:

(12-05-2022, 10:59 PM)Jayaruh Wrote: You get the case and some blades. Plus a 1912 Gem.

Seems like a good deal for the money. The Empire razor is not very valuable in the UK. Common as muck. Try selling one without a nice case...

(12-06-2022, 02:08 AM)Jayaruh Wrote: Well, it made it. I took pictures and cleaned it up. It has one hollow ground blade and four spined WS blades. The spined blades are partially rusted.
My computer is with a computer guy who is replacing a noisy fan and hopefully recovering some files for me. So, I can't do the photo things until I get it back.
Going to the dermatologist tomorrow for work on my left side of neck. I will post pics when I get my laptop back.

Of the neck or the razor?

SCNR