It does but here is the rub, I've seen at least 2 US made Aristocrats without the notches that have the same frankenrazor end caps on them. One that has the PAT NOS PACKAGE stamped on the head under the center bar and one without. I'd date one as a 41 and the other as a 46. I haven't come across any frankenrazors like this 48 or up thus far. I'm going with they produced a batch of heads with end caps like this in one of their factories kind of like the Otto Roth heads for whatever reasons until proven otherwise as my guess. I'd like to say this was strictly a transition thing in the head design which is already hard to do so since the Milord is a 46 and I've also seen examples of what is a 41 Aristocrat without the notches or PAT NOS ON PACKAGE and both end caps the newer style without the crease.
Alright I'm stumped on the frankenrazor thing. I've just spotted 2 more on a certain auction site that have the creased and solid end caps on 58 TV special super speeds. I seriously doubt they or the others I've seen were fixed by the customers and it throws out the Otto Roth end cap theory. edit Mystery solved, those solid end caps are just pressed on over the creased end caps. I had no idea! Occam's razor is most likely answer so jimjo1031 for the win. Knowing that using end caps to date or identify razors is not feasible except for those riveted open comb TTO razors Gillette made.
Upon opening the box of my latest (and greatest) eBay coup, I was truly stupefied that what I had though to be a nice razor, was indeed a NOS Ranger Tech. This just goes to show how important quality pictures are to a successful sale on Ebay, The seller chose not to present this beauty in its best light. I took a few moments and polished it up. The mechanism had that NOS squeaky quality of never having been used. I lubed it up with a few drops of mineral oil and took these glamour shots. I have been fortunate enough to have scored a NOS President and an Aristocrat, (both now in Australia) but this, I believe, is my luckiest score ever.
No kidding! I got this for over 40% under the asking price. Could've saved another 15% with that ebay coupon, but I didn't see it until I had already paid for this razor.
41 Ranger Tech Picked this one up in a lot. It was really rough prior to cleaning. You don't find too many of these in wild these days.
