Straight Razor with Celluloid Handle
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on one side of the blade of this straight razor read “CARBO MAGNETIC / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.” and “60 Griffon XX.” Those on the case reads “Griffon / XX” and “TRADE MARK.” The handle is celluloid.
label: Description
content: Alfred Lyman Silberstein (1866-1935) was born in Prussia, came to the U.S. as a young child, and established the Griffon Cutlery Works in New York in 1888. He introduced the term “Carbo-Magnetic” in 1895 and trademarked it in 1905. And he explained that “Fire heat is never uniform; electricity can be exactly measured and regulated as desired. That is why the electric tempering of the Carbo-Magnetic Razor Blade is absolutely uniform from end to end.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Griffon Cutlery Works advertisement in <i>McClures Magazine</i> 36 (1911): 64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dadie and Norman B. Perlov
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1598
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1598
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: straight razor
label: Object Name
content: straight razor with celluloid handle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (razor material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.2 cm x 2.9 cm x 1.5 cm; 6 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 1.74625 cm x 17.4625 cm x 3.175 cm