Razor Blades
name: label: maker
content: Schick Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard package with inscriptions that read “EVERSHARP / SCHICK” and “magazine / razor / blades / not for use / in injector / razors” and “6 / cartridges.” The package contains two metal cylinders.
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content: Jacob Schick, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, established the Magazine Repeating Razor Co., in Newark, N.J., in 1923. Within a few years, he had filed for patents, and begun producing the injector razor. Eversharp, a firm know for its pens, acquired the firm in 1946, and renamed it the Schick Safety Razor Division of Eversharp, Inc.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacob Schick, “Safety Razor,” U.S. Patent 1,724,969 (Aug. 20, 1929).
label: Description
content: Ad for Schick Repeating Razor in Life 92 (Nov. 16, 1928): 39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0460.238
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0460.238
label: accession number
content: 1985.0460
objectType: label: Object Name
content: razor blades
label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
label: Object Type
content: Personal Hygiene Products
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.5875 cm