1942 JOHN HOLAK ww2 razor
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by MR. RAZOR. Could someone please tell me why JOHN HOLAK'S name is attached to the description? Is it because he is the designer of this razor?
Why not send Achim a PM?
Pretty sure it's because that particular set was carried by John Holak during WWII.
I don´t know it. I´ve this information from the Krumholz book page 270
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Other soldiers must have carried it also, so who the hell was John Holak
That specific set. Not that type of set.
OK, I think I see what's happened here. John was a collector who served during WWII and was issued the set that's pictured in Krumholz's book. Here's the passage where Krumholz explains (from page 263-4):
I'm pleased to show a photo in this book of a Tech razor issued to and carried by razor collector John Holak of Texas during World War II. This Tech was issued in the little leatherette-covered metal "pocket edition" type of box that had become a staple for lower priced Gillette razor sets. The cap is cast non-ferrous metal, the head is plated steel, and the handle is a Bakelite material. Holak told me, "It is GI issue. I carried it from Camp Hood (now Ft. Hood), Texas in May of '44 to Camp Butner, North Carolina to Camp Lucky Strike (France) and all through Germany and Austria with the 89th Infantry, not knowing then that I would start collecting razors in 1972."
Achim, if that set that you've got isn't the same one that Krumholz pictured then it's got nothing to do with John Holak -- it's just the same type of set that he was issued during the war. On the other hand, if that is the same set that Krumholz pictured, then that's pretty darn sweet.
Mass-produced items do tend to do that. I've got one of these exact same sets myself. It definitely wasn't John Holak's though.
So what makes it a J Holack set? It doesn't seem to have a signature or any lettering.
Read the bit out of Krumholz's book that I quoted above again. Either Achim's got his set mislabeled or he acquired John's set. Some googling I did earlier seemed to suggest that John may have passed in the early 2000s, so I suppose either is possible.
I did :
Tech was issued in the little leatherette-covered metal "pocket edition" type of box that had become a staple for lower priced Gillette razor sets. The cap is cast non-ferrous metal, the head is plated steel, and the handle is a Bakelite material
so all of these 1942 type Techs were the John set?
NO. Read the whole thing. The set that was pictured in Krumholz's book belonged to a guy named John Holak. That set, and only that exact would be John Holak's razor set.
OH, i see, i thought it all series of sets was named after Holak since he was a collector....So why would MR razor have his mis-labeled since they look similar?
Or he might actually have John's set there. It sounds like he may have just misunderstood Krumholz's captioning of that photo, though.
Maybe Ahim may chime in, i know he is in Germany in different time zones. ( 445 am at this time)
Kind of like saying "General McArthur's razor". The chances of you getting THAT particular razor is slim but not impossible.
I´ve misunderstood it.
I´ve changed the information on my site now.
