Razor
date: label: date made
content: 1912
name: label: maker
content: Auto Strop Safety Razor Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription in the lid of the case of this safety razor reads “VALET / Auto Strop Razor / MADE IN U.S.A.” That on the razor head reads “Patented / April 9, 1912 / Other patents pending.” Another reads “STAR SUPER. . .” The Autostrop Safety Razor Company, Inc. was established in 1906 by Henry J. Gaisman, R. E. Dwight, H. K. Stockton and Henry Audley in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: Full page ad for Valet Auto Strop Razor, “The World’s Fastest Shave,” in Popular Science Monthly (Oct. 1922), p. 81.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Delaware, Dover
title: label: Title
content: Valet AutoStrop Razor
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Removal
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0046.11
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0046.11
label: accession number
content: 2012.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: razor kit
label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 9.8425 cm x 4.445 cm