Rare Gillette (Maybe Prototype ?)

[TobyC]

With more than one out there ... we know it's "a thing". Rather than a one-off, a short run?

You know the way some people are when cleaning a used razor, harsh chemicals, abrasives, phasers,... could be the same one that someone "cleaned". It wouldn't be the first razor damaged by a numbskull.

 

[pjgh]

I'm going to make the assumption that the chap in this thread still has his quite immaculate looking one ... the other one is ... another one.

 

[Tommo]

With more than one out there ... we know it's "a thing". Rather than a one-off, a short run?

Knowing there is another makes it more interesting than if there was only the one.

You know the way some people are when cleaning a used razor, harsh chemicals, abrasives, phasers,... could be the same one that someone "cleaned". It wouldn't be the first razor damaged by a numbskull.

It's definitely a different one. It had years of dirt built up, took a fair bit of cleaning, I had to scrape a thick layer of dirt off the neck.

 

[TobyC]

I'm going to make the assumption that the chap in this thread still has his quite immaculate looking one ... the other one is ... another one.

Could be, he seems to have moved on though.

 

[Thorsten69]

fascinating

 

[Cearball]

Three.

I have a part of one of these apparently from the grandson who sold his granddad's razor collection (who used to work in the Gillette factory)

 

[TobyC]

Three.

I have a part of one of these apparently from the grandson who sold his granddad's razor collection (who used to work in the Gillette factory)View attachment 69819View attachment 69818View attachment 69817View attachment 69816View attachment 69820

Looks unused, never been in a head.

 

[Cearball]

Looks unused, never been in a head.

I may actually have the head separately.
I wonder if it's worth trying to put them together....
I assumed this wasn't from Gillette.
Why I don't know when everything else was but I didn't recognise it.

Is the head the same as the "knack"?

 

[Tommo]

This is brilliant. That whole pile looks very interesting. I'll get some photos of the head for you later.

 

[Cearball]

This is the original collection I got this with.

 

[Bogeyman]

Looks unused, never been in a head.

Just like your brain!!

 

[TobyC]

Cool Tech handle!

 

[TobyC]

Just like your brain!!

 

[TobyC]

I may actually have the head separately.
I wonder if it's worth trying to put them together....
I assumed this wasn't from Gillette.
Why I don't know when everything else was but I didn't recognise it.

Is the head the same as the "knack"?

Never had a knack.

 

[Cearball]

Cool Tech handle!

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You know I was just thinking that last night when I went hunting for the "prototype" handle & came across it.

Unfortunately it's completely hollow no thread to attach it anything.
The gold "HD" looking one to the left is similar & the base doesn't turn like a normal rocket TTO.
Makes you wonder what they were for..... Plastic mock ups for the knack? ‍

 

[pjgh]

Certainly two of these (this latest handle and the Sunbury Steve full razor) tell the story that they gear was previously owned by former Gillette employees. I was musing over that photograph of employees (hundreds of fellows) at the Wilkinson Sword factory doing their daily shaves and reporting back to the company as part of a widespread real-world R&D ...

Perhaps these were handed out to Gillette employees to shave with and see what they thought of the head. Pre-market R&D with employees?