"beacon" printed on a gillette original shipper ?

[hutchster]

Hey guys and gals, I picked up a gold plated smooth case with a gold plated old type ball end inside and luckily it included the original cardboard shipper.

It is made in canada, and has the word "Beacon" in bold above the arrow logo on each end of the shipper.

Does it pertain to anything specific ?

Sorry for the fuzzy pics, I ended up using my S3, they looked nice on the phone but so blurry in real life, every time I try and read the bottom one I go cross eyed

 

[elmerwood]

Are there any blades in the case?

 

[Ace McCool]

The Beacon set was the Ararat Temple Old Type set. Your set is interesting because it isn't the Ararat Temple set, but it does have the different style blade case so I believe it is correct.

 

[hutchster]

Are there any blades in the case?

Nada

As to the shriners set, that was literally the only reply that I got back when I searched for "beacon" in the forum.

Perhaps, someone replaced the original razor with a standard set at some point ?

 

[MacDaddy]

Definitely curious... I've only ever seen the "Beacon" name used on the post-patent leatherette covered Pocket Edition sets like the Ararat Temple gift set that Ace mentioned above. But from what I can make out on the front of your carton there it looks like it shows the $6 price that the gold-plated Pocket Edition set that you've got there would have cost before patents expired and the Old Type sets became the low-cost range.

Does your razor have a serial number on the top of the guard plate? I don't see a hint of a patent inscription on the handle in that one shot, but that may just be the angle. If your razor isn't serialed and doesn't have the patent date inscription on the handle then maybe it was from very, very early in the post-patent period when they were still clearing out old inventory and the cartons still carried the $6 price tag (assuming that I did read that correctly). That still wouldn't explain the "Beacon" name, though, since I would expect the Pocket Editions to have just carried their set number designation on the carton like this one:

 

[hutchster]

You are correct, the price tag does read $6.00 and there is no serial, and also no patent info on handle, all the cap has is "made in canada" and the diamond logo with gillette in the middle saddled from left to right by "trade" and "mark".

The sticker on the front that reads "this set contains six blades" actually fell off when I handled the case to take pics, underneath it states it includes 12 blades and so forth.

 

[Ace McCool]

Porter,

Have you seen that style of blade case anywhere else besides the Shriner set? The fact that it has that style of blade case but engraved with Gillette instead of Shriner stuff is interesting.

 

[elmerwood]

I have this style of blade case as well. I believe Porter had one as well.

 

[MacDaddy]

Yes, I've got a set somewhere with the same blade case. It's in the leatherette sort of case, IIRC. I've only seen a few of them and they've all been Canadian.