Matthew Wild
Gillette "Brownie" from the 1920s
The roaring twenties – the jazz age, prohibition, first transatlantic flight and, ultimately, the Great Depression.
There is something about the period from the First World War to the build-up to World War II that calls me in a way I just can’t explain.
Which is why I picked up this Gillette “Brownie.” It was made sometime in the 1920s – it doesn’t have a date code, but I know these “Brownie” box sets were only made in that era. It has to be between 80 and 90 years old.
These old Gillettes are the best shavers you can get your hands on. It’s funny that for all the technology and marketing we have now, modern cartridge razors are terrible. I would not be parted from my seventy and eighty year old razors for all the tea in China.
I took this shot outdoors in diffused sunlight. It was a day of high level thin cloud. I put a sheet of white paper down on a low table, propped up against a pile of books, and started shooting.
You can see reflections of the trees in my backyard in this shot. Maybe that sounds lazy, but I like shots that make you want to look out of the picture.
Reach me at Wild West Communications if you want to use my photography, or talk about my communications work.
Gillette "Brownie" from the 1920s
The roaring twenties – the jazz age, prohibition, first transatlantic flight and, ultimately, the Great Depression.
There is something about the period from the First World War to the build-up to World War II that calls me in a way I just can’t explain.
Which is why I picked up this Gillette “Brownie.” It was made sometime in the 1920s – it doesn’t have a date code, but I know these “Brownie” box sets were only made in that era. It has to be between 80 and 90 years old.
These old Gillettes are the best shavers you can get your hands on. It’s funny that for all the technology and marketing we have now, modern cartridge razors are terrible. I would not be parted from my seventy and eighty year old razors for all the tea in China.
I took this shot outdoors in diffused sunlight. It was a day of high level thin cloud. I put a sheet of white paper down on a low table, propped up against a pile of books, and started shooting.
You can see reflections of the trees in my backyard in this shot. Maybe that sounds lazy, but I like shots that make you want to look out of the picture.
Reach me at Wild West Communications if you want to use my photography, or talk about my communications work.