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I would guess late 60s just by the graphics, nice find !Anyone know how old these blades might be? My guess is late 60's to early 70's, is this about right?
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@Bizzyberry - mate, I am intrigued by this. I'm not sure I can help you date them but last year I was gifted a full unopened retail pack of 100 blades - n.o.s - marked Star Personna - platinum coated. Made in Great Britain. They were given to me by my neighbour - Mr Ahmed. When he sold up his corner shop - and retired - the blades were kept by him until he passed them to me. The blade wrapping is slightly different to yours - the outer wrapper is opaque white paper - with different branding, the inner wrapping is translucent - as yours have - but has no branding on it. Most importantly - the outer wrapper has the words - Made under licence (correct - sic) of Philip Morris Inc - Owners of the Registered Trademark Personna UK. From what little I have been able to find out online Philip Morris - yes, the tobacco company - sold on the Personna brand in 1961. Hope this helps - I'm very interested in the mention of Glasgow though - on the wrappers - the city where I live. I.Anyone know how old these blades might be? My guess is late 60's to early 70's, is this about right?
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...After making a few stainless blades in the US in 1962-63, most Personna DE production for the US market was done from Scotland in the UK until about 1967-68 or so...
...Looking at some of the chatter about these blades on the US forums, they are revered far more over there than here:
https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/personna-super-stainless-blades.478598/
http://shavenook.com/showthread.php?tid=25654
Not by this Yank!! I think Personna was still fiddling with their blade formulas and Gillette & Schick were eating their lunch. I have even used the lauded Great Britain version from that era and they were a major fail on my mug as were the U.S. Glydex versions. I am one of those who don't worship at the temple of the legendary Personna 74 as well. The Gillette Super Stainless ("Spoiler"), Platinum Plus and the Schick Krona-Chrome (renamed Super Chromium after takeover) & Plus Platinum were IMO flat out better blades. Of course, that's merely my opinion with which one dollar you can get a cheap cup of coffee to boot.
Not by this Yank!! I think Personna was still fiddling with their blade formulas and Gillette & Schick were eating their lunch. I am one of those who don't worship at the temple of the legendary Personna 74 as well. The Gillette Super Stainless ("Spoiler"), Platinum Plus and the Schick Krona-Chrome (renamed Super Chromium after takeover) & Plus Platinum were IMO flat out better blades. Of course, that's merely my opinion
Oh, a Yanker eh?
Certainly everyone's entitled to their opinion about blades and I just wanted to mention that yours is wrong. No big deal...no offense meant of course, just saying...