You can see the open slot on the ends of the baseplate, should that be that way or were they slotless?
You're welcome Toby.
Hope your friend enjoys the razor!
It's a Goodwill #175 and the handle is not original. As you said, these came with ball end handles.
They didn't make many of these #175, and they were produced only in 1931.
Nice razor btw!
I think these weren't around in 1931 but I might be wrong. Porter will know for sure.
That said, in looking through some of my Goodwills and NEWs here this afternoon I noticed something that I hadn't caught before. I've got a standard long-comb NEW that's stamped with the older Goodwill patent numbers -- the ones that Gaisman held (US1633739 and US1639335) rather than the later Gillette ones (US1815745 and US1858316) -- along with the same "OTHER PATS. PEND." message that the Goodwills carry, and it came to me, at least, with a common bar handle on it.
I don't believe the bar handles were around quite that early either, and, while I've seen plenty of Goodwill heads matched up with bar handles, I've not seen any that were reliably original enough for me to be comfortable saying that they definitely came that way. However, this was an extremely turbulent time for Gillette as a company not to mention the economy as a whole, and with all the other mixing and matching they seemed to have done during this time it would be hard to definitively rule anything out.
That said, in looking through some of my Goodwills and NEWs here this afternoon I noticed something that I hadn't caught before. I've got a standard long-comb NEW that's stamped with the older Goodwill patent numbers -- the ones that Gaisman held (US1633739 and US1639335) rather than the later Gillette ones (US1815745 and US1858316) -- along with the same "OTHER PATS. PEND." message that the Goodwills carry, and it came to me, at least, with a common bar handle on it.
So does that make it a Goodwill? Ran out of razors to put in the Goodwill boxes and used a few NEWs to fill orders and get them out the door?
So does that make it a Goodwill? Ran out of razors to put in the Goodwill boxes and used a few NEWs to fill orders and get them out the door?
Sorry, I misunderstood.That was actually referring to Porter's "standard long-comb NEW that's stamped with the older Goodwill patent numbers".