A beautiful gold #19 Traveler set -- a golden gem from the 1930s -- for the real affluent gentleman. In a great leather case. With an unused boar bristle brush. Just like the rhodium-plated #16, but with 24 carat gold instead of rhodium
Hot dog that is a very nice set you have there. I bet that'd look even better on my display! Very nice.
Looks like Mr Razor calls this set a No. 3 Aristocrat set. Very interesting naming conventions Gillette created.
Whatever it's called, the set is rare and even rarer that it's gold-plated as you know the British Gillette's of this period were mostly rhodium-plated. Finding a gold-plated Gillette razor made in Britain is like finding a gold-plated Gillette "ABC" Empire Pocket Edition... it just don't happen often. Even on into the "modern" era such as the gold-plated flare-tip Rocket. They just didn't do many gold-plated razors across the pond. Hold on to that set. I'm envious. :biggrin:
Good point Jody regarding the infrequent use of gold for plating those Gillettes that were made in the UK. Wonder why -- was Rhodesia a British colony thus a source of inexpensive rhodium? Seems pretty likely, and the gold mines in the US. Interesting supply issue. And now?
I must say I do love me a TTO as well as loving me a OC. There are not too many TTO OC most are 2/3 piece and most TTO are not OC
