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The two most easily confused and most commonly wrongly identified SE razors on e-bay and other sale sites are the Ever Ready 1914, commonly known as the Little Lather Catcher and the Ever Ready 1924 often called The Shovelhead.
The ID problems generally occur because of how the razors have been photographed in respect of what view.
All 1914 Little lather Catchers have the words 'Lift Here' stamped on the top cover on either side where you need to put your finger and thumb to lift up the top cover.
1924 Shovelheads unlike other SE's (except one unusual and very rare model) open backwards to load the blade ie the top cover is hinged at the front of the razor frame (head) and opens away frrom the front.
When viewed from the back the 1924 Shovelhead has no lather catching shroud.
Like many SE razors ER's GEM's and Valets; different models used the same handle and there seemed to have been a practice in some of the factories of using up old handles on the next model and of exchanging parts between UK and USA and in some razors Canadian factories as they were all USA owned. The best advice regarding SE razor ID is to ignore the handle.
The differences are best illustrated by these photo's. In all photo's the 1914 Little Lather Catcher is on the left.
There are two very slightly different models of each of these razors but the differences are minor and do not affect the ID of the razors.
Regards
Dick. (PS Perhaps Big Ron would like to show us his rare and unusual Ever Ready):icon_razz:
The two most easily confused and most commonly wrongly identified SE razors on e-bay and other sale sites are the Ever Ready 1914, commonly known as the Little Lather Catcher and the Ever Ready 1924 often called The Shovelhead.
The ID problems generally occur because of how the razors have been photographed in respect of what view.
All 1914 Little lather Catchers have the words 'Lift Here' stamped on the top cover on either side where you need to put your finger and thumb to lift up the top cover.
1924 Shovelheads unlike other SE's (except one unusual and very rare model) open backwards to load the blade ie the top cover is hinged at the front of the razor frame (head) and opens away frrom the front.
When viewed from the back the 1924 Shovelhead has no lather catching shroud.
Like many SE razors ER's GEM's and Valets; different models used the same handle and there seemed to have been a practice in some of the factories of using up old handles on the next model and of exchanging parts between UK and USA and in some razors Canadian factories as they were all USA owned. The best advice regarding SE razor ID is to ignore the handle.
The differences are best illustrated by these photo's. In all photo's the 1914 Little Lather Catcher is on the left.
There are two very slightly different models of each of these razors but the differences are minor and do not affect the ID of the razors.
Regards
Dick. (PS Perhaps Big Ron would like to show us his rare and unusual Ever Ready):icon_razz:
