I'm sure Ben had a picture of some 10 packs in one of the threads when he was selling them earlier this year. These blades have Annecy as the first address on the back and a V3 code on the blade itself, similar to the Q3 blades that Ben was selling. What was the verdict on those Q3 blades?
Yes, these will be be French packs. I had a couple of tens (indeed, a couple of twelves - two extra free promos). Shaved the same as the UK packs we know and love, if memory serves.
The package color design has not been associated to blades distributed to France in the shave forums I visited. If they are really, perhaps much more NOS that the recently gone extinct "swedes"? When was the last time they were sold in France?
To me it has always been a bit bother that the 5 blade packages of Gillette Platinum blades have had that "swede" label, since more appropriate the blue-white colors are closer associated to my country's flag color, though the blue is more dark. So it was always a minor insult to call them Swedes instead Finns, hehe.
Seamaster wrote:Yes, these will be be French packs. I had a couple of tens (indeed, a couple of twelves - two extra free promos). Shaved the same as the UK packs we know and love, if memory serves.
Mentioned (with pictures) in this post. The packs pictured there look older (judging by typography) than the packs mentioned in this thread.
I ordered a box of 100 of these Gillette Platinums. Should be interesting.
Was there ever a consensus on these "Annecy" Swedes? To thicken the plot, I've seen Annecy mentioned on two different Gillette Platinum packs. One was 5 blade dispenser, the other the 10 blade we see here.
Well these blades seem to be the same as the Stockholm and Surrey blades I have tried. It will be interesting to hear other opinions, I can't find anything about the Q3 blades that Ben found earlier this year.
I wrote to the seller, and this is what he replied:
"I have asked someone who uses these blades and apparently these are the gillette platinum blades that are now discontinued but are more commonly known as swedes."
I asked the seller how old they were and how much stock they had. The reply was "im not sure of the age of these blades and all i have left is what is listed, i have had quite a lot of these, they have been very popular but this is the last of them."
I wondered about that, as the packing looked oldish. The French made Gillette Platinums were excellent, IMO. I last saw them in the US some time in the late '80s I think it was.
Regards,
Gordon