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Description:* 23-piece vintage Gillette razor blade collection
* Roughly 70 years of Gillette packaging and blade technology in one lot
* Great starter collection, or an easy way to fill gaps in an existing Gillette collection
* Also great period-correct display pieces to pair with vintage Gillette razorsWhat’s included:* 13 paper blade tucks
* 6 blade dispensers
* 3 injector magazines
* 1 Gillette Techmatic cartridge
* 5 NOS pieces total (photos 19, 24)
* 4 paper tucks are NOS, never opened (photo 19)
* Gillette Twinjector is also NOS in its original retail packaging (photo 24)
* 14 additional tucks/dispensers still contain blades but are partially used
* Remaining pieces used, empty or display-only
* Techmatic is used and at the end of its bandApproximately oldest to newest:* 2x ornate King C. Gillette portrait blade tucks, c. 1910s-1920s
* Gillette Blue Blade portrait tuck with NRA marking, 1933-1935, NOS (photo 12)
* 2x early red/black Thin Gillette Blades tucks, c. late 1930s-1940s, NOS
* Gillette Blue Blades 5-blade tuck, c. 1940s-1950s
* 2x later red/black Thin Gillette blade tucks, c. 1950s-early 1960s
* 3x white/red/black Thin Gillette tucks, c. late 1950s-1960s
* Gillette Super Blue 10-blade dispenser, c. 1959-early 1960s
* Gillette Super Blue 15-blade dispenser, c. early 1960s
* Gillette Stainless Steel Blade tuck with red V logo, c. 1963-mid-1960s, NOS
* Later white Gillette Thin Blades tuck, c. mid-1960s-1970s
* Gillette Techmatic early issue non-adjustable razor-band cartridge, c. 1965-1967
* Gillette Platinum-Plus injector magazine, c. late 1960s-1970s
* Gillette Platinum-Plus DE blade dispenser, c. 1970s
* 3x Gillette Super Stainless “The Spoiler” dispensers, c. 1970s-early 1980s
* Gillette Trac II 5 twin injector blade magazine, c. 1970s
* Gillette Twinjector 5 twin injector blades, original retail package, c. mid-late 1970s, NOSA couple things I especially like about this group:* The NRA-marked Blue Blade tuck is still unopened NOS (photo 12)
* NRA here is Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, which gives that package a 1933-1935 Depression-era date
* You can follow both the packaging changes and Gillette’s blade technology through the collection
* Buy one lot and you’ve got alot of the Gillette blade family tree covered in one shot* Excellent way to fill those gaps in your vintage razor sets collection.Vintage collectibles being sold as pictured. Please use the photos for exact condition and contents. Dates are approximate based on the individual products and package styles.
