Found a Military Gillette

[archi77]

Was browsing through a local antique mall (which is quite a chore in crutches, if anyone was thinking of doing so...) and ran across this!







It was marked $18, but the entire shop (it's a flea-market style store) was 50% off, so I got it for just under $10. Not bad, in my book...

I did a quick search and figured it's a WWI-era razor. Going to do some more research on it, for sure. And need to search through the forums to figure out the best way to clean this pup up, too! Thinking it'll make a great display piece.

 

[Morman Bridge]

Excellent score!! It's even got the mirror too! These razors shave great too. Good job.

 

[alex2363]

Was browsing through a local antique mall (which is quite a chore in crutches, if anyone was thinking of doing so...) and ran across this!

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It was marked $18, but the entire shop (it's a flea-market style store) was 50% off, so I got it for just under $10. Not bad, in my book...

I did a quick search and figured it's a WWI-era razor. Going to do some more research on it, for sure. And need to search through the forums to figure out the best way to clean this pup up, too! Thinking it'll make a great display piece.

Just use Dawn and toothbrush, then finish with a light metal polish like MAAS. What are the numbers on razor? If it has a letter J like this J-123455 then it is most likely a real Military set. http://wiki.badgerandblade.com/US_Gillette_Dating_Information

1916	C911807‑C999999 D1‑D516474			Joyce retires to California, dies shortly afterward leaving controlling shares to John E. Aldred.
1917	D516475‑D999999 E1‑E449207	Military Sets		Aldred reorganizes Gillette as a Delaware corporation. Annual sales exceed 1.1M razors.
1918	E449208‑E999999 F1‑F999999 G1‑G999999 H1‑H999999 J1‑J7344			All J Series are WWI production. Annual sales near 5M razors in 1918. "I" was not used as a serial number prefix

 

[Trek2100]

Congratulations on the find! It is so cool.

 

[archi77]

Just use Dawn and toothbrush, then finish with a light metal polish like MAAS. What are the numbers on razor? If it has a letter J like this J-123455 then it is most likely a real Military set.

Where should I be looking for numbers? Admittedly, there is a lot of buildup... 10 minutes of scrubbing barely put a dent in some of it, so it's soaking a little right now.

 

[alex2363]

Where should I be looking for numbers? Admittedly, there is a lot of buildup... 10 minutes of scrubbing barely put a dent in some of it, so it's soaking a little right now.

here

 

[archi77]

Oh. As you can see in my third picture, the plating on the top of that portion is completely worn off. If the stamp was only in the plating, it's gone... and if it should be in the base metal as well, then it's unstamped, because that area has nothing that I can distinguish.

So it's possible it's not an original razor. Oh well. It'll still look cool on the shelf.