A Gift with a Purpose

An interesting angle on this one; using a safety razor would save you money! It might even been true in the days before Razor Acquisition Disorder…

The razors mentioned would peg this advertisement to the 1910’s, 1920’s, or thereabouts. One online resource – which didn’t mention sources – claims 1916 as the date. If that is correct, the claim of 40-50$ saved in a year equals about 950-1200$ today – not an insignificant amount by any stretch of the imagination.

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