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pjgh said:
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Rare.
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@pjgh I know it sounds strange but why don't Gillette reproduce a razor exactly like this for mass sales? The shaving community would buy it and any new shavers tempted would at least have a mild starter razor. While there are obviously razors out there which take their designs or style from vintage stuff, it strikes me that a genuine Gillette reproduction would sell well yet it doesn't seem to occur...

Just a thought - I'm sure there are reasons I just haven't clocked yet... :rolleyes:
 
Mark12 said:
@pjgh I know it sounds strange but why don't Gillette reproduce a razor exactly like this for mass sales? The shaving community would buy it and any new shavers tempted would at least have a mild starter razor. While there are obviously razors out there which take their designs or style from vintage stuff, it strikes me that a genuine Gillette reproduction would sell well yet it doesn't seem to occur...

Just a thought - I'm sure there are reasons I just haven't clocked yet... :rolleyes:
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Wages, insurance, advertising, materials, distribution,... three hundred bucks a pop wouldn't be nearly enough.
 
Mark12 said:
@pjgh I know it sounds strange but why don't Gillette reproduce a razor exactly like this for mass sales? The shaving community would buy it and any new shavers tempted would at least have a mild starter razor. While there are obviously razors out there which take their designs or style from vintage stuff, it strikes me that a genuine Gillette reproduction would sell well yet it doesn't seem to occur...

Just a thought - I'm sure there are reasons I just haven't clocked yet... :rolleyes:
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Looks like a run-out.

The twin-slotted flat bottom was the thing in the 1940s and by the 1950s the diamond base was back.

In this thread: https://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/co...s-journey-of-the-british-gillette-tech.58219/ ... I proposed that the British Tech took a scenic route. The original 1930s Tech (A) had the diamond base and by the 1950s, OCD was restored for both British and American products (B/C in my diagram). The rest of the fun was had across the New-type and the Tech through the 1940s.

This example is one that fitted the 1950s cap to a 1940s design baseplate and had to make a couple of compromises - the raised middle and how the twin slots pushed through quite visibly though the thin baseplate. Guess it's a thing ... because they could.
 
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