Was browsing my local antique mall today, and found 4 packs of these, $2.50 each. Anyone heard of them? Searching here and with the assistance of google didn't get me much...
"Twenty Grand"
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Sorry I can't help you with any further information about the blades, but that's a cool piece of advertising art. I like the caption at the bottom; "Your Lucky Strike in Razor Blades". Lucky Strikes were a very popular brand of cigarettes in the 50s. They were distributed free to WW II GI's who then adopted them after the war. Was the blade manufacturing company trying to capitalize on the popularity of the cigarettes? Or maybe the companies were interrelated?.
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Well, I found some more information. Apparently, the guy that founded this company, or it's parent, is the guy behind ALL of the counter card advertising of that era....
"Two pioneers companies in Owen county were H. B. Laymon's World's Products and Spencer Wood Products. Laymon's was once the largest distributor of counter display cards in the country and employed over one hundred and twenty-five local people during the depression, as well as hundreds of salesmen."
"H.B Laymon, in the depression years, began buying aspirin tablets in bulk, putting them in coin envelopes which he stapled onto cardboard sheets to be set on counters in stores, service stations, restaurants. Thus began what later became the biggest distributor of what was known as "counter carded merchandise" in the world. The business is no longer in operation. Laymon's two most famous products were Laymon's Aspirin and Twenty Grand razor blades. The firm was Laymon's World's Products Company, which at its peak had dealers even in several foreign countries."
Having found that, I've found absolutely 0, zip, zilch, nada on the blades, other than some auctions for the counter card pictured above. I'm not sure $10 for 16 blades is a good use of my slush fund.
"Two pioneers companies in Owen county were H. B. Laymon's World's Products and Spencer Wood Products. Laymon's was once the largest distributor of counter display cards in the country and employed over one hundred and twenty-five local people during the depression, as well as hundreds of salesmen."
"H.B Laymon, in the depression years, began buying aspirin tablets in bulk, putting them in coin envelopes which he stapled onto cardboard sheets to be set on counters in stores, service stations, restaurants. Thus began what later became the biggest distributor of what was known as "counter carded merchandise" in the world. The business is no longer in operation. Laymon's two most famous products were Laymon's Aspirin and Twenty Grand razor blades. The firm was Laymon's World's Products Company, which at its peak had dealers even in several foreign countries."
Having found that, I've found absolutely 0, zip, zilch, nada on the blades, other than some auctions for the counter card pictured above. I'm not sure $10 for 16 blades is a good use of my slush fund.
If the packs you found in that antique mall are like those on the advertising, there are 5 blades to a pack. So that would make 20 blades for $10. It sounds like maybe a blade collector would be interested and you could arrange a trade. Any blade collectors reading this post?
