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These days, advertisement posters and signs are cheap, cheerful, and on paper. Here today, gone tomorrow. Use and discard. Back in the days however, signs promoting wares could be more durable. Meant to last a long time....
As some of y’all are hurtling towards an election, lets examine a political conundrum from the 1896 election…...
The Great War – which gave us such things as the ComfyKit,^1^ the smooth shaven soldier, and body shaming the ladies – ended in November 1918. Interestingly enough, that almost immediately prompted a change in how razors were marketed. As an example, I have two advertisements for the GEM khaki kit for you today. One from...
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Over the years I’ve talked about a lot of patents for brushes, soap cups, and razors. What I’ve talked less about are cabinets, cases, racks, apparatuses, and containers for putting your shave gear in. And of the ones I have mentioned, King Tut’ankhamūn’s razor-box is the oldest by far. Harry T Petters’ shaving case...
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The origin of the term ‘safety razor’ is a little unclear. As documented over at razors.click, the term did not originate with the Kampfe brothers as so often claimed. But no matter who came up with it, or when, it was in common enough use by 1887 that Gustavus Rein explicitly used it both as the title and in the body of his...
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