Hojas de Afeitar Argentinas

[efsk]

Author: Enrique Orschanski
Subject: Argentinian razorblades
Pages: 40
Edition: First edition
Date: 2005
Colors: Yes
Price at printing: Unkown

The great thing about hobbies is that somewhere someone has found a niche and is very knowledgeable about that niche. Then, such a person wants to share that knowledge. Who'd have thought a book could be written on Argentinian razorblades ...
Starting with a section on general shaving history, the book then has a section on brands and makers. It ends with a lot of color photos of all the different wrappers.

 

[Walid]

@efsk I am not sure if you know this but some Argentinian blades were sold north of 500 EUR.
Can you share a page or two with Italian blades sold solely on the Argentinian market?
Are there blades from the Mussolini era?

 

[efsk]

@efsk I am not sure if you know this but some Argentinian blades were sold north of 500 EUR.

I did not know that.
Will check if I can find Mussoliniblades in the book.

 

[Walid]

Just to be clear, the blades were made in Italy for the Argentinian market the same blades will have a different wrapper than the Italian market. Argentina at the time was supposed to become the next USA through waves of immigration a lot of companies tried to get hold of the Argentinian market first (including Gillette).
Unfortunately it didn't work out as expected and the immigrants chose to go to the United states.

 

[efsk]

No blades/brands of Italian origin can be found in this book.

 

[Walid]

No blades/brands of Italian origin can be found in this book.

Here they are. Maybe not in that book. The first one costs more than 500 euro.
The time stamp you see is coming from the chat App.
It's a conversation I had with the collector. He has over 30,000 blades and has been collecting for more than 25 years.