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Collapsible travel razor

Open comb travel razor – possibly German, and perhaps a good 50 years old.

 

Although it does shave well, I bought it as a toy. Frankly I love the way you can pull the metal case from a shirt or jacket pocket, pull apart the nestling two-part handle and flip the parts over so they screw in together, and you are good to go!

 

There’s no maker’s mark, but it looks German-made to me, but I’m no expert on these things but it looks suspiciously like a Hoffritz.

 

I don’t think it’s a Gillette, but it shaves like an Old Type single ring, although possibly not quite as smooth. (It might be less smooth because it’s a little lighter.)

 

You could use this every day, unlike the plastic junk sold today as travel razors. Hmm. . . I was born in the wrong era, wasn’t I?

 

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Uploaded on April 13, 2012
Taken on April 1, 2012