Are you looking your best?

Odd, my immediate response would been ‘Quick, look busy’…
Are you looking your best?
Odd, my immediate response would been ‘Quick, look busy’…
I guess it was good value…
Well, a 1919 dollar, that is. A bit more today, even second hand. Although I did inherent the one I have and use.
From the ’60s, as far as I can tell.
As regulars might know, the Robert K Waits Razor Compendium is a good resource – even if it is getting a little long in tooth by now. But it does have an entry for the Compax, with the collapsible handle we looked at a couple of days ago.
To quote Waits in full:
What I find interesting is that Waits says nothing at all about the collapsible handle. The list of British patents shown in one of the photos is… intriguing.
A travel razor usually either have a very tiny handle – like my, admittedly tiny all over, Laurel Ladies Boudoir Razor – or a handle in two parts – like my Merkur 985CL. But James Alex Denby Watt had a different idea. He patented a collapsible, hexagonal razor handle in 1930 – and it worked well enough to be part of a production razor.
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Come to think of it… does anyone have a user grade Type C they want to sell me?
“The best shave you ever had seems poor beside a Schick shave…”
Big words, but now that I own one, I can testify that the Schick Type B – as is shown in this 1929 advertisement, makes for a damn good shave.
And while I can get two weeks worth of shaves with a modern blade, Schick didn’t go overboard and overpromise on the 1929 blades – instead promising a mere four to ten shaves per blade. But with 20 blades in each clip, that was still a lot of shaves for just 75 cents.
With the unforgettable tagline “It’s a pleasure to shave now”, and the trademarked slogan “well that’s fine!!”