Another nostalgic shave; the brush is the brush I got when i bought a starter kit back in 2010…
From the ’60s, as far as I can tell.
February already? New month, new week, old razor 🙂
And just like that, January is over…
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 nostalgic Wednesday shave.
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.
Continue readingAnother week, another vintage razor. What is not to like?
