(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.
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:
![[Image: img01.jpg]](https://razors.page/storagebox/shaving/Whilkinson-7day-GEM/img01.jpg)
![[Image: img07.jpg]](https://razors.page/storagebox/shaving/Whilkinson-7day-GEM/img07.jpg)
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)

