Vintage Gillette Catalogs

[efsk]

To kick of this thread I'd like tot show you the first of my newly acquired set of ancient Gillette catalogs. It is stamped July 17, 1908, and shows Gillettes Single Ring offerings of the day.
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[efsk]

New Improved catalog. Early 1920s. Interesting that with the single ring above, shaving took 5 minutes even in a moving train or aboard a ship, yet with the New Improved a whopping 15 minutes!
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[sɐǝɹpu∀]

New Improved catalog. Early 1920s. Interesting that with the single ring above, shaving took 5 minutes even in a moving train or aboard a ship, yet with the New Improved a whopping 15 minutes!

Older razors are always better.

 

[TobyC]

New Improved catalog. Early 1920s. Interesting that with the single ring above, shaving took 5 minutes even in a moving train or aboard a ship, yet with the New Improved a whopping 15 minutes!
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I wouldn't mind finding one of those blue razor blade boxes.

 

[efsk]

1905 Double Ring catalog.
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[efsk]

August 1918. "How to recognise the rank of Uncle Sam's men afloat and ashore"
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[efsk]

This one's more recent: 1939. Not less interesting though: It has New, Tech, Valet AND Probak in one catalog.
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[sɐǝɹpu∀]

This one's more recent: 1939. Not less interesting though: It has New, Tech, Valet AND Probak in one catalog.

It's the dry shaver that I find most interesting... Especially:
"Elim-O-Stat" suppresses radio interference. I want to see a patent for that...

 

[efsk]

Well. There's work for you then ;-)

 

[efsk]

Double Ring catalog with a requiem for everything having to do with stropping. 1904, 1905 at the latest.
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[efsk]

Christmas 1918.
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