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Just thought I'd jump in and add some comments about these old Gillette razors. The orginal razors were brass (check with a magnet) and heavily silver plated. If they have not been polished (most are not) by now they are black and collectors leave them that way. A nice even black is great! If the si...

Barbasol, ca. 1930s

Gold plated 1910 Gillette Pocket Edition No. 500. Had a inspection tag dated Sept. 6, 1910. Serial No. on razor - B688913. With cloth pouch.

Gillette used the Aristocrat trademark starting in August 1914 for a variety of razor sets continuing into at least 1951. There were gold and silver plated with round handles, some with flared ends. Before 1939 they had teeth and after 1939 they were Tech (bar guard) or twist-to-open one-piece razor...

You are right. It seems that the Red&Black case was first used for the Brownie and then for the Gillette shown in the orginal posted picture. The Brownie is the second type of razor that Gillette made, it has a knurled handle with a small knob on the end. See Krumholz, p. 158, botom of p. 204 an...

The case looks like the Gillette Red and Black Special sold in 1939. But the examples I have seen have a Brownie razor with the comb (toothed) guard. Is the razor a mite long for the case?

The Sha-Ve-Zee razor trademark belonged to the International Safety Razor Corp., of Bloomfield, N.J. in 1939 and and first used 14 Dec 1916 by Joseph Molkenthin & Sons, Newark, N.J. As far as I know, the blades are no longer available exept as collector items. The Sha-Ve-Zee 1917 patent is No. 1...

See my posting: Robert-00. Send PM if interested.
Thanks!
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