What are you waiting on to arrive...?

I don't know but the pencil would make a great handle.

 

So I’m waiting on this curious looking “Gillette”. I posted about it asking for assistance on identifying it but there has been no consensus on what it is. At $30 I decided to gamble and buy it anyway. Here are the buyers pics



If anyone figures out what I purchased please let me know.

 

Seeing everything, I'm still thinking prototype that didn't work out. Maybe @mr-razor might have an idea to what it is.

 

I’m thinking goodwill. Over the years I’ve heard that goodwill razors were left over runs that they put together to give out. I’m thinking that this was an unfinished run put together and thrown out there. Lol or it could be some generic low end razor.

 

If it is, then I'd say that it's some half step on the way to the Tech.

 

Reminds me of when Gillette took over Probak and made the Goodwill razors.

 

Or Probak-Autostrop took over Gillette more accurately.

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i thought it could be an empire set..

 

Maybe a Goodwill inspired Tech.

 

BINGO!!!!!

 

I have seen something that looked like that, but not a US model.

 

Possibly Rotbart? I had one with a very similar handle.

 

I’m really trying to remember.

 

Could be. There's a real oddball Brazilian (Argentine?) one- New SC with safety bars and Goodwill posts.

This one looks like they started with a New LC blank, punched out for the Goodwill studs, but went with a standard OT/NI cap instead. Part of me wonders if it is a prototype Tech similar to the US New LC-based one that was on auction a few months back. I'm really thinking that there was this weird period in the 30s where Gillette's major plants were tooling to convert the New assembly lines from OC to SB. As I said then, it would make sense, especially if you saw the Goodwill as a way of clearing OC razors out of the warehouse. Going down that line of thinking, the English FB and RFB Techs are probably the legacy of that move. In the US and Canada, however, these razors were more of an evolutionary dead-end since management skipped straight to a variation on the stamped production process used in the TTOs.

 

2 palmolive shave sticks and an omega 81064 boar brush..

 

Awesome brush. Used it this morning myself.

 

if i remember correctly it was your pic that inspired the purchase sir..

 

An Acqua and an Aqua and COMPLETELY different juices.

 

Yesterday I ordered from PAA Pineapple Bay Rum CK6 shave soap & aftershave, Solar Flare brush and travel shave soap mentholated.

 

I am waiting on a Le Grelot 14 with snakewood scales and an unassuming Widerstrahl 718 6/8