The "Not Gillette" Vintage DE Thread

[mountainsea]

And the beat goes on ... here is my vintage French Jarville. Obviously a knock-off of the Gillette DR (with a fuzzy picture and a vague description, I could probably make $100 on the 'Bay with this thing!). Cha-wing posted another Jarville a few pages back, but his looks more like a Single Ring, so this is still kinda-sorta new to this thread.
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...-quot-Vintage-DE-Thread?p=5416762#post5416762
The first picture is mine. The second picture was swiped from the Googles (to show what it would look like if I were lucky enough to have the case).

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I have a similar Double ring with no makers name on it at all - so I guess it is a knock off of a Jarville - which is a knock off of a Gillette

 

[DrAwkward]

I have a similar Double ring with no makers name on it at all - so I guess it is a knock off of a Jarville - which is a knock off of a Gillette



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I believe we are both Jarville owners. Mine also does not have a maker name stamped into it. I did a bunch of research before concluding that this French DR knock-off is a Jarville.
Take it for a spin -- it's a bit milder than a real DR.

 

[mountainsea]

I have just seen an old newspaper advert for a French double ring look alike - it is on the bay BIN so hopefully ok to post. I would have just added their picture - but they have copyrighted it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PUBLICITE...JG_Collections_Publicites&hash=item5d4004f093

Has this razor been discussed before? - if so can you point me in the right direction so that I can read the thread

 

[Cha-wing!!]

Luna ? I don't believe it has been posted yet, and I don't know any more than what's written on the ad. Here is the picture you wrote about :

 

[syngent]

very early double ring clone by the looks of it

 

[ThreeHoleBlade]

 

[syngent]

wow that case looks very gillette in style

 

[Cha-wing!!]

Oh ok ! I believe Luna became "Mond", which was then bought by Rotbart, which was then bought by Gillette... I'm not the expert here, but I asked for some info about a "Mond-Extra" set that I have, thread here :

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...ink-Would-love-to-have-more-info-!?highlight=

and the members helped me with some pictures as well, on which we can see the same "Moon Guy" as Luna's, under the "Mond-Extra" brand. Don't hesitate to have a look-see, here is a peek (which I forgot to post here on this very thread !) :

 

[syngent]

wow incredible set there

 

[Cha-wing!!]

Thanks ^^ But it's hard t ofind the original brush ='(

Here are 2 other ads for "Luna" :

 

[Cornishman]

Not sure what this is, but I purchased it on Ebay for about £10 delivered from someone in Istanbul, Turkey.
Solid brass handle though, and it's kind of pretty.

 

[syngent]

looks like a nice shave, thanks for sharing.

 

[nuclearblast]

Looks really nice, congrats!

 

[chambo68]

Here's a Darwin 'two piece' that was inside a leather travel set along with another locally made Gillette copy(Sheffield);

 

[syngent]

Darwin's are cool no doubt i got to use one of Connie's once

 

[BSAGuy]

These are all cool posts. Vey interesting to see all the companies that have competed for shavers' dollars in the past.

 

[chambo68]

Here's the other Razor that was in the same set as the Darwin, it appears unused;

Here's the two cases before renovation, both needed a good polish with Autosol

 

[syngent]

wow that's shiny

 

[ButchersHook]

Being relatively new to wet shaving, I am fascinated by this thread. I started collecting vintage razors to experiment shaving with but I do not have that big of a collection.

I did not see this razor in this thread so I thought I would share it. I have yet to clean it up so it looks a bit dull right now.

My reason for purchasing this razor was simply that I had not seen anything like it before and I thought it would go well in a collection.

Does anyone know anything about this Dixi Razor? I was told it dates to 1910 but no one I have spoken to really knows anything about it.

Anyway, here is an interesting Dixi Safety Razor.


I hope this does justice to some of the beautiful razors I have seen here.

 

[Cha-wing!!]

Don't worry, it does !! Thanks for sharing !