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"It was a romantic notion brought about in John Douglas’s novel, A Walk Down Summer Lane. “And any hard man would tell you it would be very difficult to get direction and power with a razor blade sewn into the soft part of a cap. He said: “As for the razor blades? They were only beginning to come in from the 1890s and were a luxury item, much too expensive for the Peaky Blinders to have used.

However, historian Carl Chinn and author of The Real Peaky Blinders told the Birmingham Mail, that the real Peaky Blinders would not have been able to afford the razor blades. “When they hit someone or headbutted someone on the nose while wearing one, it would cause their victim temporary blindness.” “They used their hats with razor blades sewn in so they were able to rob people. Historian David Cross, of the West Midlands Police Museum in Sparkhill, told the BBC: “If you think of your grandfather’s cap in those days, then it would have had a very hard peak.