My boyfriend and I checked out the local flea market, and picked up a couple new additions. The first two are the ones I already had, the Lady Gillette, and I'm not quite sure what the second one is. I got both of them off ebay, the Lady Gillette was around 45 with shipping, and the little travel one was arund 13. Not too bad, the lady was a little steep I thought, but it came with a case, and it looked in good shape.
These next two we just acquired today for my boyfriend, they were the only ones we could find in the hour we were there. Both of them were 5 bucks, not bad I thought. The first one I was able to look up, 1960's Gillette Super Speed, date code G1. I'm having trouble finding consistent data on the second one, I think it's a Gillette Norfolk, the patent date is Jan 13, 1920, there's a serial number 811660A.
There's some considerable tarnish and cheesiness that I have to clean off. Any cleaning and sanitization suggestions would be appreciated, as any information on the types of razors these are. As you can see from the last two pictures, I accidentally found out that the handle can be pulled off, not sure what use that would have, and it's pretty gross in there. The last two are for my boyfriend, and he's never wetshaved before, so I'm kind of introducing him to it from whatever I can find out on here and the internet in general. Since I've never seen steel tarnish, is the Norfolk a silver razor? That's going to affect how I clean it, so I was just wondering. It has a more metallic smell than the super speed, but that might just be because it's older. Please send any comments my way, I'm pretty clueless!
These next two we just acquired today for my boyfriend, they were the only ones we could find in the hour we were there. Both of them were 5 bucks, not bad I thought. The first one I was able to look up, 1960's Gillette Super Speed, date code G1. I'm having trouble finding consistent data on the second one, I think it's a Gillette Norfolk, the patent date is Jan 13, 1920, there's a serial number 811660A.
There's some considerable tarnish and cheesiness that I have to clean off. Any cleaning and sanitization suggestions would be appreciated, as any information on the types of razors these are. As you can see from the last two pictures, I accidentally found out that the handle can be pulled off, not sure what use that would have, and it's pretty gross in there. The last two are for my boyfriend, and he's never wetshaved before, so I'm kind of introducing him to it from whatever I can find out on here and the internet in general. Since I've never seen steel tarnish, is the Norfolk a silver razor? That's going to affect how I clean it, so I was just wondering. It has a more metallic smell than the super speed, but that might just be because it's older. Please send any comments my way, I'm pretty clueless!
