I received this mystic razor from a friendly Italian collector. It´s a GoodWill with solid guard bar, like a Tech and comes with a fat Tech handle. Any ideas about this hybrid?
Brazil GoodWill / Tech Hybrid - any ideas?
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Wow Achim, just when we think we've seen everything. A Goodwill Tech is one for the books!
I need a friend in Italy.
Clueless here. If this stumps you, Achim, the others of us are helpless!
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Never seen anything like it.
Looks like a great find to me, though.
Looks like a great find to me, though.
Like you illustrate here with the Tech / NEW Achim.
Only I wonder if their inspiration was the Empire Set head.
Only I wonder if their inspiration was the Empire Set head.
This is a major find. A solid bar Goodwill?! Who would have thought it possible?
They made SC Goodwills exactly like that (OC obviously), with the same cap. It looks like for some reason, instead of milling the teeth they decided to punch lather slots
Probably one of the employees was bored?
EDIT : slots, not sloths ... damn phone
Probably one of the employees was bored?
EDIT : slots, not sloths ... damn phone
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I love that baseplate. What does the top look like?
I just snagged one with a black beauty on fleabay... for black beauty $$ likely because everyone thought it was just a crusty fat handle tech. Don't know if the case is correct, but that's what it was in.
Really like when looking at all the pics pays off!!!
Really like when looking at all the pics pays off!!!
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How’s it shave?
That's a really cool score, congratulations! The case looks to be from an Old Type.
Ok bare with this train of thought.
I would suggest it is 1942 or later in production. Sources seem unclear on when Gillette opened their first factory in Brazil
This source suggests that Gillette opened it's first factory in Brazil in 1931 The Gillette Company 75 years, 1901-1976 (low resolution) - https://www.calameo.com/read/000060773a595ad37134b (Page 15)
However I think that this was for blade production only initially.
This source claims 1943 for the opening of the Brazillian Gillette plant Gillette Company Timeline - Gillette Adjustable Razors - https://gilletteadjustable.com/gillette-company-timeline/ however the previous source states that the Brazilian operation was an extensive expansion of the pre-existing 1931 facility, completed in 1942-3
At least one of the sources state that a complete new build Argentinian plant was opened in 1942.
This would be borne out by this English made FBT made for the Argentine market in 1940
I suspect that similarly the 1942-3 Brazilian plant expansion was the first production lines for actual razors.
I have not come across an example of a 1930's Gillette design that has been made in Brazil, although that's just my cursory 'research' (read googling) I could certainly be wrong on that.
Also the use of the fat handle in all examples shown in this thread would date the models. I don't believe the FH had been developed in the heyday of the goodwills, i.e 1931-35. All Goodwills seem to use the common ball end handle of the period. They first seem to appear in 1938-9 with the appearance of the Tech.
So, as for dating I would theorise that they appear in the war years, maybe the first Brazilian Gillette razor. 1942-3.
It may have been easier in terms of production to mimic the Tech SB, which it seems clearly based on, while using the Goodwill top cap. Maybe the Tech and the Goodwill were the models that were capable of being produced with the earliest tooling, and some genius created this incredible hybrid.
Obviously they were in some quantity production.
Arguably its a member of the Tech family.
An incredible find.
All of this is just theory, so dear reader, show some kindness in responses. It's merely a hypothesis.
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So you are the one who sniped the auction!
It'll be
Who decides these things?
It'll be next up. Seems like Mr razor mentioned, some sort of Goodwill hybrid tech with the solid bar...Hybrid NEW?
Who decides these things?
I wasn't the only bidder. Just the one that went all in to be pleasantly surprised I got it for an eighth of what I expected... planned for the worst
Good eyes, and a nice find!
