Hi, all. I'm trying to sort out a discrepancy over how long the Gillette OLD type razor was in production. The wiki here lists it as ending in 1929, as does the discussion on this thread, yet the Razor Emporium guy talks about Old types (ball end, thick cap, gold color, no serial numbers) being produced all through the 1930s as well.
The early '30s were weird times for lots of reasons, in the country and in the company, but it makes some sense to me that they would churn out a few OLDs, given they had just ended the New Improved line. That left them with no proven seller to carry forward and only NEWs (and new deluxes) to sell until they figured out TTOs a few years later.
So: did they keep manufacturing OLD types into the 1930s? And, if no, did they have enough stockpiled before the crash to sell OLD types through the 1930s, even though they weren't making new ones any longer?
The early '30s were weird times for lots of reasons, in the country and in the company, but it makes some sense to me that they would churn out a few OLDs, given they had just ended the New Improved line. That left them with no proven seller to carry forward and only NEWs (and new deluxes) to sell until they figured out TTOs a few years later.
So: did they keep manufacturing OLD types into the 1930s? And, if no, did they have enough stockpiled before the crash to sell OLD types through the 1930s, even though they weren't making new ones any longer?