CurvFit, The Woman's Razor
date: label: patent date
content: 1924-02-26
label: patent date
content: 1913-10-21
notes: label: Description
content: Two piece cardboard box covered in gold-colored paper on the exterior and blue-colored on the interior sides. Deco-style design and lettering on top of box, "CURVFIT / THE / WOMAN'S / RAZOR," and an illustration of a woman in exotic robe shaving her armpit. Box contains a gold-finished metal safety razor with a curved head. "'CURVFIT'" / REG.U.S.PAT.OFF. imprinted on head of razor, and "PAT. FEB. 26 - 24 / OCT. 21 - 13" imprinted on inside of head. A small orange and black box of extra blades is included. An image of the woman shaving is on one side and an image of a woman in a bathing suit is on the other. The box has been opened but the cellophane wrapper remains. Four of the five original blades are present; each is individually wrapped and all are in a paper envelope labelled: CURVFIT / THE WOMAN'S RAZOR / 5--BLADES / Curvfit Sales Corp., 119 W. 23rd St., N.Y. The label on the inside cover of the razor box includes another image of the woman shaving with the text "Curved to Fit" below, along with an illustration of the razor. Text includes: "'Every Woman Tells Another,'" and "Nickel $1.50 / with / 5 extra blades." Directions are printed on the bottom inside of the box along with a plug for shaving cream: "Important / CURVFIT De Lux / SHAVING CREAM--Anti-/ septic--Softens the Hair."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Darrell G. O'Neill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2024.0047.01
label: catalog number
content: 2024.0047.01
label: accession number
content: 2024.0047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: razor, women's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard; paper; cellophane (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (razor and blades material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (box): 2.4 cm x 6 cm x 8.6 cm; 15/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: razor: 7.3 cm x 4.8 cm x 1.5 cm; 2 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 19/32 in