Some of you may have noticed that I like GEM Lather Catchers.
Over the past few months I have collected a few of them and thought it
might be nice to get them all together for a family portrait, so here it is,
with some closeups.
I typically shave with a straight now-a-days but still enjoy a GEM shave once
or twice a week. The one I use is the one with the brown wooden handle.
That's why it has a blade in it. It was in really good shape when I got it but
the finish on the wood was pretty much gone so I gave it three coats of
minwax high-gloss oil-based clear polyurethane. It also had the cleanest
head of any of them so I swapped it out with another just so I wouldn't
worry about messing up my best one.
It turns out that the 2nd black-handled razor is unusable because one of the
little tab stops that hold the blade is broken or worn off.
I really like
the wooden box it came in.
The last two pictures are of a head-only. It got cut out of the family portrait.
It has two clamps on the side having no bar between them.
All razors have 1900/1901 patents except the one with the wooden box. It
has three patent dates: Dec 27 98, Aug 28 00, and US+Eng Nov 5 01.
Oh yes, the one in the round tin simply says Pat. Pend.
Over the past few months I have collected a few of them and thought it
might be nice to get them all together for a family portrait, so here it is,
with some closeups.
I typically shave with a straight now-a-days but still enjoy a GEM shave once
or twice a week. The one I use is the one with the brown wooden handle.
That's why it has a blade in it. It was in really good shape when I got it but
the finish on the wood was pretty much gone so I gave it three coats of
minwax high-gloss oil-based clear polyurethane. It also had the cleanest
head of any of them so I swapped it out with another just so I wouldn't
worry about messing up my best one.
It turns out that the 2nd black-handled razor is unusable because one of the
little tab stops that hold the blade is broken or worn off.
I really likethe wooden box it came in.
The last two pictures are of a head-only. It got cut out of the family portrait.
It has two clamps on the side having no bar between them.
All razors have 1900/1901 patents except the one with the wooden box. It
has three patent dates: Dec 27 98, Aug 28 00, and US+Eng Nov 5 01.
Oh yes, the one in the round tin simply says Pat. Pend.
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