Hi guys, Im new here, I recently come across some shaving cream while cleaning out my grandmothers attic. I found a jar of shaving cream that has never been opened before, And i cant any info on it anywhere! It called: Stag Brushless Shaving Cream Langlois, Inc Net Wgt Boston 8 Ounces Any help or info would be deeply appreciated. Ive found products similar to this one but nothing on this one exactly. Thank you for taking the time to read this!!
Here are magazine and newspaper ads for Stag products from the mid-50's. There are occasionally Ebay auctions for the containers. As this is 50-60 year old New Old Stock, you might consider waiting to open it until you're able to find out an approximate value. I've never heard of it before, but who knows? There could be underground shave clubs where Stag NOS products are traded for their weight in gold.
Ive looked through all the ads on there yestersay, and i found 6 oz tubes, and aerosol shving creams from stag, but i cant find this one. I havent opened and i dont plan on it. I listed it on ebay to see if anyone could tell me the value of it or something but no luck on that either. And the underground clubs idea isnt bad. I didnt think of that one.. Thank you for the info. Ill keep on looking until i find it. Its been irking me cause i found it over a week ago, and im obsessed with finding answers on it. Lol
I actually saw your ad! I don't think anyone's going to bid on it. There's a NOS aftershave set from the 70's on there now and there was an empty container that ended a bit ago. Same sized product but different era of production, I'd guess.
Yeah I seen that too. I guess it was a limited quality or something? i honestly have no idea. Its seems like a earlier version of the one you posted, im not too sure. I wish there was a date or something on it. I been looking for shave cream collectors or something to see if they could shed any light on the shave cream. But everyone I have talked to has never seen it before either. Its weird.
I'd bet it was likely a regional brand that went away due to national competition. A lot of products have gone through this, and a lot of products died out in the 70's due to it. As national brands began taking over grocery and drug store stock, regional and local brands were pushed out and eventually went out of business.
Maybe, i have no idea honestly. Ill find out some day. Im just gonna hold onto it til then. Lol. I figurred they would have some remnants or something about it though. Im thinking of emailing corporate headquarters to stag right now and asking them about it. they might possibly be able to help out?
Stag was a Rexall Drug store house brand. I have restored several Stag brushes in the past and doing research on their backgrounds confirmed that.
Yeah ive seen that, but I am looking to find out more this container. I have never seen it before, and ive looked all over. I even emailed some vintage shave cream collectors, and they all tell me they've seen similar products, but never this one. So idk what to do about it. Im obsessed with finding answers though. Lol
The fact that you found it "while cleaning out my grandmothers attic" is a stronger reason for wanting to find an answer than simply someone buying an item and being interested in it. It has a link to you grandparents and that is very important. Langlois, was the parent company of United Drug (Rexall). "In 1902, Louis K. Liggett persuaded 40 independent drug stores to invest $4,000 in a retailers' cooperative called United Drug Stores, which sold products under the Rexall name. After World War I, the cooperative established a franchise arrangement whereby independently owned retail outlets adopted the Rexall trade name and sold Rexall products. The company was based in Boston, in an area now occupied by Northeastern University." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexall http://mycompanies.wikia.com/wiki/Rexall_Drug_Company Now the issue with looking up images is that United Drug used newspaper advertisements for a large number of products (drugs, shaving, cosmetics, etc.) and images would be hard to come by. If you subscribe to Newspapers.com you can have access to papers with the advertisements in them. Here is one lead that is from 1937 that was not in Newspapers.com. http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper ...rnal 1937/Syracuse NY Journal 1937 - 0848.pdf Stag Brushless Shaving Cream Jar 50 cents. See lower right section of the above link. I hope this helps.
I buy a lot of old soap, aftershave and cologne. Some old cologne has value, but the rest of the stuff is really down to the old chestnut "it's worth what someone will pay". I buy the stuff to use it, not because of any collectable value. I find it endlessly fascinating to open that tiny window into the past by using products that disappeared from shelves before I was born... Putting together a shave that my Great Grandfather would have been comfortable with never ceases to amaze me. Smelling lost combinations of manly aromas. So cool...but I am romantic that way. Bottom line, I find that most old product can be had in the ten dollar ballpark. Every time I have had to actually bid on something, $10 is about what I pay. I have paid more for some 'buy it now' stuff because I really wanted them, or it was a significant upgrade. And when dealing with near one of a kind, fifty year old plus items, sometimes it is jump or never see it again. I paid quite a bit for a nice Yardley set, then a month later, the same kind of set popped up for $9.99 and no one bid. It might still be listed. On the other hand I kept seeing Gillette Sun Up sets listed for $50 to $100. Then one came up for $9.99 with free shipping, and mine was the only bid. The bottom line is vintage toiletries is a niche within a niche. Within a niche.
