Vintage DE Blades - Showroom

[Boru62]

Great how they could not get enough slogans on that box: "British wages - democratic price", "Made by - for Britons", "The last ounce in value...", "faultless blade... - fair price".

... and that atomic edge still had grease on it, thus.

They didn't pull any punches with their sloganeering

 

[McKinney]

Their razor was quite elegant.

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[McKinney]

I wonder if today "taiwanese" or "chinese wages" would be understood as any kind of reassurance for quality. Not to speak of anything concerning democracy.

 

[Boru62]

Name: Souplex
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Country: Morecambe, England
Company: Souplex
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Name: The Double Six
Label: The Double Six
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Country: Morecambe, England
Company: Souplex
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Looks like the guess about the advice to "dip blades in hot water", was to remove oil, was a good one.

Souplex was a UK company, located in Morecambe, Lancashire, England with offices in Sheffield and London. The company formed in 1926 and made razors and blades from at least 1932 to 1948, by which time the company also offered "plastic mouldings and pressed steel products". Souplex razors were often sold in bakelite cases, and the company also sold other products such as toothbrushes.

Brand names used by Souplex probably included BigBen and Paragon, and Double Six. Souplex also made shaving products for women under the Nymph label.

In 1960 the company was registered as company number 00667297, SOUPLEX LIMITED. Abandoning the shaving market around the same time, Souplex became a specialized manufacturer of plastics. In 1999 it was acquired by a USA company and re-registered as MOLL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, then dissolved in 2006.

 

[Boru62]

Their razor was quite elegant.

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Shaved with one yesterday, pretty good and pretty aggressive. I think they made the head aggressive to counteract the lack of weight

 

[McKinney]

I would not have expected it to be an aggressive razor.

I did see a Souplex razor once. Nice slim & elegant, art deco like was the description.

It looks like 606 on the Double Six razor blade.

 

[Boru62]

I would not have expected it to be an aggressive razor.

I did see a Souplex razor once. Nice slim & elegant, art deco like was the description.

It looks like 606 on the Double Six razor blade.

I used both the Knockout and the Souplex Minor in the same shave, to compare them.
They're both aggressive but I found the Souplex smoother.
I thought it looked like 606 as well, which is a football phone in show on BBC 5 Live radio

 

[Boru62]

It looks like 606 on the Double Six razor blade.

I opened one to see how it looked:

 

[McKinney]

Name: Puritan
Label:
Thickness: Extra Thin
Country: USA
Company: Puritan Chemical Co., Atlanta, GA
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No thick blades for the Puritan. No, no.

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[McKinney]

Name: Cavalier
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The well-tempered gentleman.

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[Boru62]

Name: Thin Blade
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Country: Britain
Company: Delmos
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Made from Watch Spring Steel (Great gimmick)

 

[Boru62]

Name: Damaskeene
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Country: New York, U.S.A
Company: Gem Cutlery Co. Inc.
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[Floid_Maniac]

Name: Matador
Label: Rostfri - Swedish Stainless Steel
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Country: Sweden
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[McKinney]

Name: Star - Double Edge
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Country: USA
Company: Star Division, American Safety Razor Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Period of production:

6NX Process - Famous since 1880
(interesting form of cut out)​

Star = Rats



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[McKinney]

Name: Gillette
Label:
Thickness: paper
Country: USA
Company: Gillette Safety Razor Company, Boston
Period of production:

Use Gillette Blades Only

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[McKinney]

Name: Gillette Blue Blade
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Country: USA
Company: Gillette Safety Razor Company, Boston
Period of production: Oct-Dec 1944

Kind of a blue classic

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